2 Advanced Strategies That Will Help You Grow Your Small Business Audience

Keri Jaehnig
June 2, 2018
Are you an entrepreneur or business owner trying to attract a small business audience on a budget with a small…...
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Are you an entrepreneur or business owner trying to attract a small business audience on a budget with a small team? Get the smart owners' how to right here!

Guest post by Bill Acholla 

How To Grow Your Small Business Audience

What is business audience? 

How to grow it?

Get the 'how to' right here!

Small Business Audience - In The Beginning...

A lot of consumer websites fail because the owners do not have a clue about how search engines work.

I learned this lesson the hard way when I started my small business. Yes, people will eventually find your website in five to ten years time.  But why waste your time if you can drive the audience to your site using just four steps?

You can grow your website’s audience and subsequently build your enterprise into a large business. You can use the strategies outlined here to reach your target customer even with no money involved.

2 advanced strategies that will help you grow your small business audience are outlined below:

Host A Webinar

Bill Acholla recommends you Host A Webinar To Attract Your Small Business Audience via Idea Girl Media

A webinar is a marketing toolkit that has been around since the early 90s. This is one of the creative ways to include a little more excitement into your content marketing strategy. Fortunately, hosting a useful webinar for a small business audience doesn’t require a huge budget.

Here are some tips on how I successfully hosted a virtual event and how I got more from my webinar to grow my business:

Start with finding affordable webinar software.

Do a search and find an option best for your budget and marketing needs. One great platform I use is at Bigmarker.com. It offers various packages without compromising functions and features.

Brainstorm for as many topics that you can reasonably cover.

Choose relevant issues to your that wouldn’t require lavish materials such as animations, videos, and graphic design. Ultimately, you want your topics to be compelling enough to catch the attention of your target customer.

Partner with an influencer.  

This is an excellent way to increase the exposure of your webinar. Although using expert interviews or partnering with an influencer who owns a small business or company might mean spending money, that isn’t always the case.

Find an expert in your industry who is willing to show up and collaborate.

Reach out to various people who share the same interest and who can provide valuable information. In doing so, your business exposure and his exposure will increase. 

Use CRM Software To Automate Your Marketing

Bill Acholla explains how to Use CRM Software To Automate Your Marketing And Attract Your Small Business Audience at Idea Girl MediaUsing a CRM or Customer Relationship Management software can improve your marketing campaignsWithout a CRM strategy to automate your marketing campaigns, you are likely to make mistakes and spend a lot of time dealing with tedious tasks. 

On the other hand, running a CRM will help you avoid most common mistakes and challenges faced by small business owners. Implementation will improve the response rate from your campaign - increasing ROI and conversion rates.

Still, you might be wondering:

“Do I need to automate my marketing?

Can’t I do this all in a spreadsheet?”

Sure, but... Manually tracking your transactions is doable if you only have two to ten customers. In the long run, this process isn’t sustainable, and you’ll not be able to adequately scale your growth.

For Jennifer Rutledge, a Communications Program Manager at Microsoft: 

While there are CRM solutions that are presented as one size fits all products and services, the best choices are actually those that are flexible and can be customized to provide solutions for the needs of smaller mom-and-pop shops, bigger conglomerate companies, and all other sizes in between.

Essentially, CRM can help you collect consumer information and understand market requirements that will increase your sales and attract your small business audience so you can eventually grow it. Automating your marketing strategies through CRM systems will make your business efficient and improve client satisfaction.

Another consideration:

CRM software like Zoho CRM includes good sales management tools you can use to keep your campaigns on track. You can quickly view the status of contacts and initiate follow-ups to help you keep up with the marketing schedule.

Having such a system will keep all your activities, relevant information, and prospect interactions consistent and easy to piece together.

Wrapping It Up

Wrapping It Up - Attracting A Small Business Audience as explained by Bill Acholla at Idea Girl Media

Everything boils down to these two questions: “Can I?” and “Do I?”

“Can I effectively relay information about this niche?”

and

“Do I need to invest in marketing tools to make my business efficient and customer-friendly?

Those are just two of the questions you need to ask yourself when creating content for your small business’ website

Ultimately, you need to figure out the topics you can cover in any form of creative content such as webinar and content curation. You also need to take into consideration using appropriate

  • Sales management tools
  • PR tools
  • Experts for collaboration in your industry

Doing this will improve your visibility online and attract the right small business audience - your target customers.

These 2-step strategies are doable with little to no money. You don’t have to hire a huge manpower to get started. You can immediately begin increasing the traffic to your website even as a one-man team.

Over To You

I’d love to hear thoughts from other entrepreneurs and small business owners who have different strategies on how to grow a small business audience at the website.

What other ways have you seen small businesses can increase traffic and conversion rate? 

 

Bill Acholla, guest author on Small Business Audience at Idea Girl MediaAbout The Author

Bill Acholla is a digital entrepreneur helping small business owners build their brand through content marketing and actionable marketing tips billacholla.com. He helps entrepreneurs, bloggers, and small business owners on how to generate more traffic and sales online.  Connect with him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

 

 

10 Replies

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Sunil, Always happy to share helpful information — Especially about growing small businesses! 🙂 Thank you for sharing your thoughts, ~Keri

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  1. Johan Gravatar

    By Johan on

    Great information! Thanks for sharing. If you’re in the business of selling anything, chances are you’ll need a customer relationship management (CRM) solution.

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    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Johan, Glad you liked this article and feel it is helpful on the topic. I’m sure our guest author appreciates your positive comments as well. As you suggest, if sales is involved, a customer relationship management (CRM) solution is needed! Thanks for your comment, ~Keri

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  2. Vernon M Gravatar

    By Vernon M on

    I always read your article because your article are very informative and useful. So thanks for sharing this content….

    Reply to Vernon

    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Vernon, Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your thoughts. I’m sure our guest author is also appreciative. We aim for high quality and value in all of our articles … no matter who the author is. 🙂 Thanks for your comment, ~Keri

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  3. Flor Dimassi Gravatar

    By Flor Dimassi on

    Great info! Thanks for sharing! Your website is an amazing resource for bloggers, work at home moms, and other Internet entrepreneurs.

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    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Flor, Thank you for your kind words – Glad you found this article helpful. We aim to also be a resource for startup professionals and business owners of all sizes. Looks like you may fit into those categories as well. 🙂 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ~Keri

      Reply to Keri

  4. Erika Ann Gravatar

    By Erika Ann on

    Hi Bill! Hosting a webinar looks like pretty challenging as you can’t expect to have a big audience immediately. Then I read the part that you mentioned to partner with an influencer and I thought that it was the perfect idea. Any tips on how to get influecers or someone more renowned in the industry to participate and help you out? I think its hard to outreach these people especially if you’re looking to get them for free.

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    • Keri Jaehnig Gravatar

      By Keri Jaehnig on

      Hello Erika Ann, Hosting a webinar can seem daunting if you have not done it before. But after taking notes on successfully done webinars and hosting one or two, and it is easier. Partnering on webinars is a great way to gain exposure and confidence. Also gets your feet wet in a more friendly atmosphere. Typically, no influencer will do a webinar completely for free. But they will partner on purpose and result. So, offer to share the email list with them, and consider teaming up on an up-sell to webinar attendees so there is an opportunity to earn. The latter may be easier to arrange with those you know or where you have some familiarity. I’m happy to partner on a webinar with you. Let me know if that is of interest. Thanks for your comment, ~Keri

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