Are You Really Exhausting Your Options?

July 29, 2019

When you’re an entrepreneur, it’s so important that you can put yourself out there. Self-promotion can often feel a bit vain, self-indulgent or even creepy. But it’s something that you absolutely need to if you want things to work out for you. Sure, some companies get picked up in their own ways and things really take off. But that’s never a guarantee. You have to really work for what you want. This is why it’s really important for you to believe in yourself.  Then, you’ve got a much better shot at pushing yourself, working on ways to grow what you’re doing and making things happen. But what if you’re not sure of the options you have to do this? Let’s take a look.

Paid Social

Now, you know that you’re going to be using social media. That much is true. But what kind of results are you getting here? If they’re not quite where you want them to be, you may find that you can really boost your results by launching paid social campaigns. Sometimes, you can really get in front of the right audience and build your customer base this way.

Paid Search

As a step on from that, we now also have paid search to think about. Yes, it’s safe to say that you’ll be working on SEO and making it a priority – but it may not be all that you want to do. You may want to complement that and doing paid search options with it too. Sometimes, you can really boost your appearance in searches when you’re doing paid search options along with just SEO.

PR

Next up there’s PR. If you really want to be able to create a big media buzz about what you’re doing, then you’ll want to create a PR campaign that will allow you to do that. Think about what you want to generate interest about – the kind of stories, and look to get your brand in the media in order to create more interest.

Events

But then also, there’s the idea of attending events and putting on your own. In this day and age, it’s easy to think that the only way you’ll be able to find success is to do things online. But that’s definitely not the case. If you want to be able to connect deeper with your audience, then going to and attending events can work. You can look at this website for resources you need, or work with a professional company. But working to do this, can allow you to target your audience in a new way.

Word Of Mouth

Finally, you’re also going to want to make sure that you’re harnessing the power of word-of-mouth and any recommendations too. Because some of the best kind of marketing you can get is through word of mouth. If you look at your customers and clients, and you aim to make them happy, they’ll love to recommend you too. So why not think about how you can encourage your customers to refer you, to really work with the power of this tactic.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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