Posts Tagged ‘Discounts’
10 Ways to Market Your Small Business on a Shoestring Budget
These ten, inexpensive marketing strategies will help you engage customers, build relationships, and ultimately keep your brand top-of-mind.
Read More When is a Reward NOT a Reward?
Converting a reward program to a marketing program is a violation of your customers’ trust. Losing their trust is one of the quickest ways to drive your customers to your competitors.
Read More Of Price and Profits
How is it that businesses consistently fail to see the relationship between price and profits? What I suspect is that many businesses believe that it’s easier to compete on price than to differentiate.
Read More Want to Sell More Stuff? Raise Your Prices
Nearly every small business wants to sell more stuff— stuff being whatever your product or service is. After all, your business can’t survive if you aren’t selling stuff and generating revenue. But not all sales are the same, and selling the wrong way can ultimately hurt your small business.
Read More If Customers Can Own Our Brand, They Can Also Own Our Business
Is a customer loyalty program really a loyalty program? Does the typical customer enrolled in the program feel some sort of connection beyond the rewards, points or discounts they receive?
Read More The Loyal Bird Catches the Worm: Rewarding Your Repeat Customers
The great thing about being a small business owner is getting to know your customers. The folks who come into your shop frequently or contact you on a regular basis are the ones whose stories you remember and whose favorite brand of leather boots you keep in stock.
Read More What is Happening to Loyalty?
In difficult economic times price becomes a significant variable. However, customers know value and understand the implications of good customer service versus poor customer service.
Read More SMB Promotional Coupon Marketing Boo Boos to Avoid
Many small and medium-sized businesses have conducted promotional marketing campaigns on sites like Groupon and Living Social and in direct mail coupon value packs. You’d think these coupon deals would be bringing in new and repeat customers like crazy. But are they?
Read More How to Test Prices without Irritating Buyers
The right price is something of a moving target for many companies. You may need to change the tag on a given product multiple times during the period of time you offer it and the more detail you can offer on the decisions to do so, the happier your customers will be.
Read More Guide to Smart Pricing: What Are You Really Worth?
Getting your pricing just right is tricky. There are big downsides to keeping your prices too low. But it’s easy to raise them too high for people to buy anything anymore.
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