Top Seven Marketing Tips For Startups

Idea Girl Media
November 15, 2018
If you’re looking for effective marketing strategies for startups, we have a list of top seven marketing tips for startups…...
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If you're looking for effective marketing strategies for startups, we have a list of top seven marketing tips for startups to help small business owners and big business professionals in both the B2B and B2C sectors...

Marketing Tips For Startups That Lead To Profits And Industry Leadership

Apart from the few lucky ones who secure a good financial plan to invest in their startups, most people start their businesses with limited finances. This creates challenges to any startup because many resources have to be put into the business for it to thrive, especially in the marketing sector. 

Digital Agency London provided their top seven marketing tips for startups. New businesses should consider these as well as digital marketing tips for startups, specifically, to take their businesses to the next level. 

This article will bring clarity on:

  • Sales and marketing strategy for startups
  • Sales and marketing tips and tricks
  • Content marketing tips for startups

This is a good set of marketing tips for small business owners...

1. Have A Solid Brand

Having a solid impression regarding your business is essential. Have a clear picture of why your business exists and the goals you want to achieve. It's one of the first steps when laying a marketing strategy for your business. By understanding who you are, you stand a better chance of positioning your business and yourself ahead in the industry.

Determine the factors that make you unique from your competitors. Research your customers and come up with unique ways of meeting their needs.

2. Categorize Your Goals And How You Want To Achieve Them

By categorizing and understanding your goals, you can measure the degree of success or failure in the business. Secondly, you will be in a better position to make more conscious decisions.

Try this process:

  • List your business goals
  • List what it will take to achieve each goal
  • Group the goals by category such as operations, marketing, customer service, etc.

Also take an inventory for each goal and category of assistance or investment of resources needed.  Keep this in a safe place with your business and marketing plans.

3. Govern Your Budget

Since you already know your business position and your goals, you can now comfortably determine your budget. This requires you to calculate the amount of money and time you can afford to devote to market your business.

Remember, you will need to invest both time and money. Many startups mess up at this step because they do not consider the two aspects above together. 

4. Have A Market Niche

Many business owners think that simply having a product that is appealing to the masses is good for their business. However, that concept may not connect with a significant issue when it comes to marketing the business.

The larger the audience you anticipate reaching, the more money you will require to finance your startup. Therefore, it is advisable to choose a niche around your potential clients and focus on them - Their interests and pain points. This will, in turn, reduce your marketing expenses.

5. Keep A Close Relationship With Your Audience On Social Media

Through digital marketing platforms such as Facebook, you can interact with your customers and also get direct feedback regarding your business.

Invest in delivering quality content on these platforms to increase your audience interaction. Also prioritize responding to comments and direct messages on all of your business social media accounts. This is where the relationship evolves online, and how you nurture the know/like/trust factor.

6. Start Marketing Your Business Or Product Before It's Ready

When you consider how to promote a startup, you do not have to wait until you are fully into business to execute marketing campaigns. Start as early as possible. Use all of the PR options available to you to: 

  • Tease
  • Inform
  • Sample
  • Engage

On up to launch. By so doing you will have increased the brand awareness about your business.

7. Be Open To Potential Business Partners

One of the best things you an do is establish relationships with experts in your industry. Offline and online. An easy place to start is commenting on their blog and social media pages, and by sharing their content.

By doing this you ignite a positive energy, and hopefully create a relationship, which paves the way to an opportunity to collaborate. The goal here is to increase your chances of being exposed to a broader audience. 

Marketing For Startups

You have seven marketing tips for startups above to get you started. Staying aware of quality sources to read and stay updated would be wise. Be careful only to implement what can be useful for your team, avoiding duplication of strategies used by others because it worked for them.

Each business is unique, and so every marketing strategy should be as well.

 

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33 Replies

  1. Chad Thomas Gravatar

    By Chad Thomas on

    I’ve been in the startup game for a while now, and these marketing tips are spot-on. Prioritizing customer engagement and embracing data-driven decision-making have been game-changers for my business. It’s refreshing to see such comprehensive advice laid out in one place.

    Reply to Chad

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Hello Chad, Glad you feel this article on marketing tips for startups is a good one! Customer engagement and data-driven decisions are important … more so each day, as you pointed out. Thank you for visiting my blog, and adding value to our conversation here, ~Keri

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  2. nagpur soft tech Gravatar

    By nagpur soft tech on

    hanks for sharing this wonderful idea its really help me a lot keep posting such amazing ideas

    Reply to nagpur

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Hi there, Thank you for visiting my blog and checking out our post on marketing tips for startups. Happy you find it helpful – Hope we’ll see you here again, ~Keri

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  3. Selina Gravatar

    By Selina on

    Impressive reading and got some wise tips with different points! I have pleased to read the entirety of the post as mentioned above in detail. Especially, “Keep A Close Relationship With Your Audience On Social Media” is the most important part to follow to grow any business. By the way, I appreciate the readings.

    Reply to Selina

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Selina, Glad you liked this article and felt the tips within can help you and others! 🙂 Nurturing customer relationships through social media is important, and people that follow this plan will grow their businesses for the long-term. I appreciate your sharing your thoughts – thank you, ~Keri

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  4. Taylor Gravatar

    By Taylor on

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful idea its really help me a lot keep posting such amazing ideas

    Reply to Taylor

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Taylor, Happy to know this article is helpful for you. Thank you for your kind words, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  5. Digital Blocs Gravatar

    By Digital Blocs on

    Digital Marketing is the new era of marketing with proper analytics. Great content thanks for sharing.

    Reply to Digital

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Hi there, As you suggest, much happens online these days. Strategies that include both digital marketing and traditional marketing will be most successful. Thank you for your comment, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  6. Staffing and Co Gravatar

    By Staffing and Co on

    Crafting a winning marketing strategy for a startup is possible, though not easy. One thing to note is developing a fan base and niche market, bringing a product that appeals to a specific target market will definitely set up a business for success. Once you have gained the market trust, you can easily roll in more product.

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  7. Sales Outsourcing Gravatar

    By Sales Outsourcing on

    If you’re looking for effective marketing strategies for startups, in this blog you get a list of top seven marketing tips for startups to help small business owners and big business professionals in both the B2B and B2C sectors. Very useful blog for startups.

    Reply to Sales

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Rodrick, Thank you for your kind words, and feeling that this blog would be helpful for business owners and professionals in both the B2B and B2C sectors. We do try to be a resource for startups, business owners, mobile entrepreneurs, marketing managers and social media marketing enthusiasts. Thanks for visiting our blog and giving it a read! ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  8. Alina Ahmed Gravatar

    By Alina Ahmed on

    Because there are op Legal Issues for Startups these days that must be considered by every startup.

    Reply to Alina

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Alina, Yes, startups, especially, should consider their legal position. Thanks for your comment. ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Robert, Glad you liked this article! As you said, customer experience is everything. Thank you for your comment, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  9. Startup High Gravatar

    By Startup High on

    7 is the best of all. This all reinforces that together we always go further, it is always great to be accompanied. I really needed to read that article today. Congratulations.

    Reply to Startup

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Contato, Collaboration, if approached with discussion and mutual interests, can be a magical thing for all involved. With more hands comes more progress … usually. 🙂 Glad you found this article helpful. Thanks for your comment, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  10. Edwin Chang Gravatar

    By Edwin Chang on

    Great tips. Thanks for Sharing. I would like to add that in order to have a solid brand, one must take into consideration on managing their Intellectual (IP) portfolio well. Starting with the registration of their brand name and logo and other unique assets. This will give them recognition as they build their brand with their marketing activities. Cheers

    Reply to Edwin

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Edwin, Glad you felt this article offered helpful information. Managing intellectual property is important for brand management and for the security of online brand assets, as you say. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  11. stevek Gravatar

    By stevek on

    I like the idea of creating campaigns of your new business even when it’s not fully launched. It helps create awareness to your potential target customers who might be willing to test your product/service once you start operating. Having a budget for marketing is also Ideal but unfortunately many startups fail to set aside enough cash for marketing campaigns. Thank you for sharing these tips!!

    Reply to stevek

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Steve, We largely agree. Budget should be set for marketing from the very first step, just as business planning. Now that social media can be used for marketing, it is almost essential that social media marketing campaigns preluding a business launch be done – For the reasons that you mentioned. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  12. Richard Ford Gravatar

    By Richard Ford on

    There are many startup companies making blunders while doing marketing. They always follow cheap and wrong strategies to establish their brand which really affects the trust factor. Thanks for sharing valuable points. This will help them to understand that proper planning is needed before making a startup company.

    Reply to Richard

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Richard, You are correct that some startups try to cut corners, and this can negatively affect their marketing results, and in turn, their trust factor. Planning is very important, and follow-up the most important step in the process. I’m glad you liked this article! 🙂 Thank you for your comment, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  13. JKO Consulting Gravatar

    By JKO Consulting on

    Your article is very informative. I think the toughest part is goal setting and planning for it because a perfect plan at the outset never happens, it all evolves with the time after numerous mistakes and attempts, and all the while keeping the fire of persistence alive is the biggest challenge.

    Reply to JKO

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Hi there, Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you liked this article. It is true, for new business owners, there is a learning curve and a period of gaining insight from trial and error. Even if there is a plan and strategy, there are usually adjustments. There is indeed something to be said for persistence! 🙂 Thanks for your comment, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  14. Zar Santos Gravatar

    By Zar Santos on

    I totally agree, especially with having a market niche. Having a target market makes marketing more focused and more targeted than just having to target the “general public”. It could also increase the chance of the marketing strategy to be more effective because it caters to a certain group of people.

    Reply to Zar

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Zar, Indeed, the more targeted your marketing campaigns, the more effective they will be! 🙂 Thank you for your comment, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

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