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Marketing Small Business – 5 P’s – Promotion

November 15th, 2010 Posted in Marketing Principles, Your Business | No Comments »

How do you build awareness of your product to your chosen market?  This area can be broken up into 5 smaller areas; advertising, sales promotion, public relations, personal selling and direct marketing; all these areas combined is known as the promotion mix. I wont be going into these areas specifically, instead I would like to take an overview of Promoting the business and the product / service. BestBuyI have to talk about the ...

Marketing Small Business – 5P’s – Price

November 10th, 2010 Posted in Marketing Principles, Your Business | 4 Comments »

pricingPricing your goods and services can be difficult to do especially if you make a product or provide a service where a simple percentage mark up is not applicable; it is a delicate process setting your pricing, too cheap will either not cover your costs or could de-value your product or service leading to misconceptions regarding value or quality.  Too expensive and you could price your product or service out of the ...

Marketing Small Business – 5 P’s – Place

November 1st, 2010 Posted in Marketing Principles, Your Business | No Comments »

CustomerThis is almost as important as the design and making of the product itself, where do you place  the product, who is your target market?  Take a minute and think of your best customer at present, you know the one, they always buy your product / service, they always pay on time and often recommend your business to other.  No ask yourself this; how good would my business be if ...