Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Welcome to Mary Lou's blog!

This is a new blog that will be periodically updated with info, ideas, rants and raves.

Check back, shout out and enjoy!

3 comments:

Wordmssmith said...

If you have questions, suggestions or something that's on your mind - and it relates to my professional endeavors - feel free to post!

All comments welcome, all posts eventually will receive a response.

Wordmssmith said...

Building awareness about a business takes many approaches and requires repeated attempts.

Think about press releases but also consider newsletters, web sites, blogs etc. that are distributed or accessible within your workplace, neighborhood or any appropriate social/civic groups in which you are active.

Wordmssmith said...

Trying to decide what you need to do to make people more aware of your business, interested in your business and willing to spend money at your business requires you to determine the following:

What is your main goal

Do you want to bring more people in, bring in people from a wider geographic area, build more customer loyalty and repeat business, attract new customers or ?

What are the best ways to accomplish those goals - purchase targetted advertising, build a data base and use it to update customers on new inventory, a special event or sale or offer a rewards program or create a promotional event or ?

Can you improve anything about your existing business that might be beneficial to sales?

Improve customer service? Offer more convenient operating hours? Host events that showcase new product lines, provide samples and demonstrations, offer tips and ideas on ways to use what your offer or ?