Lead generating strategies that work !
Each strategy has had excellent results for a particular type of business. Your challenge( and I can help you ) is to identify which strategies would work best for your business, in your industry, at your stage of the business growth cycle.
Lead Generating Strategy topics
- Newspaper advertising – Local, West Australian or Sunday Times
- Internet, web, social media marketing – Google/Facebook/Twitter advertising
- Directory advertising
- Yellow pages hard copy or web format
- Television advertising
- Industry journals
- Industry newsletters hard copy and email format
- Magazine Advertising
- School newsletters
- Newspaper, magazine and newsletter inserts
- Radio Advertising
- Letter box flyer drops
- Press releases
- Public relations strategies, sponsorship and promotions
- Flyer handouts in busy floor traffic locations
- Catalogues
- Brochures
- White pages
- Business networking via associations, local business, trade etc…
- Barter trade exchanges or groups
- Buy and market to specific data bases of your target customers
- Direct mail
- You Invoice out / have others, invoice out, additional offers to your customers and theirs
- Tender providers or lists, networks and regular sources of tender opportunities (hard copies and web based)
- Fax prospects
- Billboards, bus stops, bin, vending machine; poster advertising
- Shopping dockets
- Taxi backs
- Cinema advertising
- Sponsorships
- Post card advertising
- Building signage
- Car signage
- Is store, side walk signage
- Window displays
- Passing trade
- Point of sale display of product or advertising
- Shopping centre promotions
- Industry newsletters
- Stickers, pens, fridge magnets
- Branded promotional gifts
- Competitions
- Surveys
- Blimps, balloons, sky writing
- Party plans
- Trade expos
- Fundraising campaigns
- Telemarketing
- Retrain your sales team or get better at selling yourself
- Business cards
- Name badges, uniforms
- Create strategic alliances with businesses that complement your goods or services
- Introduce a referral system
- Conduct valued seminars or events
- Replicate what you are doing in your immediate patch and do it all over Perth, WA, Nationally or Globally.
- Continually talk to your target market and ask them what they want
- The list of lead generating activities is only limited by your imagination, knowledge or budget.
As you can see the list is extensive, but certainly not exhausted. The trick is to focus on the lead generating strategies that will deliver you’re the highest “return on your investment”, be that time, money, resources or all of the above.
If you would like more detailed information on one or more of these topics or activities, we are more than happy to assist you further…
Please review the many services available for you to engage at ABC Business Improvement or just call me.
ABC Business Improvement, simple as ABC !
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“Through ABC’s simple marketing techniques, I see that I can generate additional sales of $240,000, through my business. This is the most exciting thing I have done in years!”
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“Through innovative marketing techniques, David showed me how to increase my sales by 30 %, my net profit by 40 %, systemize my business to allow me to take holidays as often as I like… I have been able to set the business up as a saleable ongoing concern, without David’s mentoring, this would not have been possible”
Peter Holton – Supreme Coffee
“ABC Business Improvement have shown me how to market some of the most effective and efficient ways possible. I was able to fill my restaurant, on the quietest night of the week, 2 ½ times over, from just 1 letter box drop...talk about getting a return on my marketing investment!”
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