Turn Your Business Cards Into Hardworking Little Salesmen!
Turn Your Business Cards Into Hardworking Little Salesmen! To market and Sell Your Crafts or Services for Greater Profits.
Marketing and promoting your crafts can be just as fun as making them, and it doesn't make any difference how unique and special your handmade treasures are if no one knows you are in business. What is so fun about marketing and promoting your crafts, home-small biz, is that you use the same creativity that you bring to your command when you make your crafts.
Most of us home and small biz crafters do not have a blank check, to whatever amount we like advertising budget, so we need to come up with cost-saving ideas. There are many advertising and promotion companies out there competing for your advertising dollars, and some are better than others, and most of them are expensive.
Ads that tie up your advertising dollars and may not be in print for a few months or more, or expensive coupon advertising, can deplete your advertising budget with one advertising campaign and not return all that many new leads or customers. If a costly advertising campaign doesn't deliver, you don't get your money back. Following, I have included some:
- Quick! Low-Cost Ways to Turn Your Business Cards into Hardworking Little Salesmen!
- Many people in business don't use these to their most significant potential, even though most biz people do have them printed up. Business cards are your hardworking little salesmen, and they are your mini billboards. They work for you 24 hrs a day, without pay!…
1. Hand them out! Always have some on hand when you go out, and hand them out! This sounds obvious, and it is, but business cards are often left at home, and they cant be promoting your biz, left at home or in the car.
2. Use your biz cards as note cards…If someone needs your home address, and your biz is home biz, hand them your biz card. Or write your home address on the back of your biz card. The same goes for your telephone no, and this gives another person a reason to have your biz card.
3. Do a Business Card Exchange! Do a local mailing to businesses that are complementary to your business. For example, if you make candles, send a letter introducing your biz, to local beauty shops with5 or six biz cards included and offer a biz card exchange. You will hand out biz cards for them if they hand out yours.
4. Make Your Cards Do Double Duty As Price Tags… Make your biz card into a hanger that you attach to your handmade items or other products, with the price on the back of the card. Use a hole punch to punch a hole in the corner of your biz card, run a piece of string or small satin ribbon through the hole, and attach it to your product.
5. Double-sided Biz Cards… These business cards may cost a little more, but you can make them work even more challenging for you. Instead of having blank dead space on the back of your cards, you can have that working for you. On the back of the biz card, you could offer a special discount for a first purchase, which will motivate people to hang onto your biz card.
6. Mini Billboards… if you have a website and e-mail, always make your business cards mini billboards for your online marketing. Always include your website and e-mail address on your biz cards. This can be a great way to utilize double-sided biz cards also. The back of the card could be a short, attention-grabbing ad for your website.
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As you can see, your business cards can be tireless hardworking salesmen for your products and services. I hope the suggestions presented above have sparked more ideas on how you could use your biz cards to promote your products and services.
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