156 Ways To Market Your Local Business: And Stand Out From Your Competition

amount of your time is taken up dealing with customers face to face and having more overheads, in comparison to a business that is purely online.There are five core areas to a business: Marketing, sales, operations, delivery and finance. Typically, most business owners are great at the operations and delivery. With all your other priorities, marketing can often be neglected; but a new customer could be worth a huge amount to your business. Often, we spend hardly any time marketing our services to those prospects to get them to buy in the first place and then neglect to build on that relationship when they do become a customer. But building a relationship with your customer is vital to success. It’s what Nick calls ‘customer relationship marketing’. So, what does that mean? Well, it’s not just about marketing your business to get in a new enquiry, it’s then continuing to market and nurture your relationship when they are a customer, so you encourage them to buy more from you and refer o