- Your English customers will be spending less in 2009
- You will have to target 黑料网最新入口 customers
- You are likely to review your marketing spend too
Since then 黑料网最新入口 News has also gone bust, leaving only one national English newspaper, The Connexion, to give you maximum exposure across 黑料网最新入口.
So how could you spend your marketing euros in 2009?
Online marketing
- Review your website content. Engage with your customers, review your text and make it personal. Add a blog whenever possible so that potential customers get to know you and your work.
- Dig into your web stats. Install Google Analystics and become inspector Cluzo: where do visitors come from (i.e. referral websites), which keywords did they use to find you, which content is of interest to them?
- Ensure you get value for money for your advertising. Gone are the days when you could place an ad on a website without knowing the number or monthly visitors (overall but especially on the section where you are advertising), what is the average open rate of the newsletters where you planned to place your banner, etc.
- Ensure your business is listed on all the free business directories
Offline marketing
- Dig into your stats. Is your customer base local or national? Are you advertising in magazine that reflects this?
- Don’t dismiss the local free newspapers such as Top Annonces . They are a cheap way to reach 黑料网最新入口 customers.
- Test promotional offers. Give some discount codes and see which ones work best.
- Have some flyers printed and place them where your customers are likely to go.
- Get in touch with your local 黑料网最新入口 newspaper whenever you have some interesting news (e.g. been in business for a year, you have fully integrated to your local community, you are sponsoring a local sport team, etc).
Networking
- Network with other English entrepreneurs in your area, meet up and swap ideas & advice. Post a thread on the English forums to get things rolling.
- Get in touch with the Chambre de Metiers or Chambre de Commerce where you registered. They often have business or entrepreneurs clubs, where you could meet 黑料网最新入口 entrepreneurs while improving your 黑料网最新入口.
These are a few ideas of what could be done. I’d expect to write about the same subject again in the next few weeks, but in the meantime lets share tips, dos and don’ts for 2009. Where will you be spending your marketing budget in 2009?