Comments on: How to bring more customers to your store http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/ Editors from FSB magazine answer your pressing small-business questions. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Brian Lidgard, Naples, FL CFO RT Design Group, LLC. www.rtdesigngroup.com http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-804 Brian Lidgard, Naples, FL CFO RT Design Group, LLC. www.rtdesigngroup.com Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:11:24 +0000 http://askfsb.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-804 How about business networking in your local market? Understanding niches are important, tracking your customers, fashion tips, marketing campaigns, but don't forget good ole "word of mouth referrals". What is hotter than an enthusiastic word of mouth referral? The Go To Network is a nationwide professional business networking group which spawned from the South West Florida area. You would be able to brand your business and yourself through local area network meetings and through the network’s resource rich website 24/7/365 as your friend posted above. www.thegotonetwork.com How about business networking in your local market? Understanding niches are important, tracking your customers, fashion tips, marketing campaigns, but don't forget good ole "word of mouth referrals". What is hotter than an enthusiastic word of mouth referral? The Go To Network is a nationwide professional business networking group which spawned from the South West Florida area. You would be able to brand your business and yourself through local area network meetings and through the network’s resource rich website 24/7/365 as your friend posted above. http://www.thegotonetwork.com

]]> By: Jerry Gelsomino, Indianapolis, IN http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-387 Jerry Gelsomino, Indianapolis, IN Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:28:37 +0000 http://askfsb.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-387 Stand out from the crowded marketplace by being extremely different. Use promotions, event, PR, book signings, parking lot barbeques, etc. to really set yourself off from every other business Checkout voodoodonut.com to see how this one-of-a-kind shop created a buzz by being different, and having fun. Stand out from the crowded marketplace by being extremely different. Use promotions, event, PR, book signings, parking lot barbeques, etc. to really set yourself off from every other business Checkout voodoodonut.com to see how this one-of-a-kind shop created a buzz by being different, and having fun.

]]> By: Javier, Reading, PA http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-385 Javier, Reading, PA Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:30:42 +0000 http://askfsb.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-385 I have found the following list a worthwhile DIY ways to promote your business, but I do not recommend you do item #41 though. I've tried twice to posted it here but the script discriminates against it. Please contact me directly, and I'll provide it for you: <a href="http://www.takeoffzone.com/resources/contact.html" rel="nofollow">Javier A Garcia</a> | <a href="http://www.takeoffzone.com" rel="nofollow">workonline</a>. I have found the following list a worthwhile DIY ways to promote your business, but I do not recommend you do item #41 though. I've tried twice to posted it here but the script discriminates against it. Please contact me directly, and I'll provide it for you: Javier A Garcia | workonline.

]]> By: Javier, Reading, PA http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-382 Javier, Reading, PA Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:13:54 +0000 http://askfsb.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-382 I have found the following list a worthwhile DIY ways to promote your business, but I do not recommend you do item #41 though: <a href="http://www.work-at-home-business.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1027" rel="nofollow">57 Ways To Promote Your Business Free Or Inexpensively</a>. - Javier is <a href="http://www.takeoffzone.com" rel="nofollow">working from home</a>. I have found the following list a worthwhile DIY ways to promote your business, but I do not recommend you do item #41 though: 57 Ways To Promote Your Business Free Or Inexpensively. – Javier is working from home.

]]> By: Gleb Esman, Ottawa http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-381 Gleb Esman, Ottawa Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:41:29 +0000 http://askfsb.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/02/06/how-to-bring-more-customers-to-your-store/#comment-381 Consider opening online store for your merchandise! It would be opened 24/7/365, it would be ready to present your quality merchandise to any potential customer nationwide, it would not require for people to remove their slippers to make a purchase, it would cost you 100 times less to operate and it could as well supplement your revenues. Online shoppers are real people with real money who are shopping for real quality goods to buy. Beautiful photos of your stock items, rich descriptions, welcoming attitude, online coupons for discount in-store purchases, fashion trends e-mail newsletter, online reviews of the latest designer shows, online color pattern matching for your color of eyes, and so on.... There are so many interesting and creative ways to captivate people, attract new prospects and share you vision with a wide audience that physical retail stores are just not capable of. Gleb Esman, SEO Expert for <a href="http://www.mensk.com/" rel="nofollow">MENSK Technologies</a> gesman@mensk.com Consider opening online store for your merchandise!
It would be opened 24/7/365, it would be ready to present your quality merchandise to any potential customer nationwide, it would not require for people to remove their slippers to make a purchase, it would cost you 100 times less to operate and it could as well supplement your revenues.
Online shoppers are real people with real money who are shopping for real quality goods to buy. Beautiful photos of your stock items, rich descriptions, welcoming attitude, online coupons for discount in-store purchases, fashion trends e-mail newsletter, online reviews of the latest designer shows, online color pattern matching for your color of eyes, and so on…. There are so many interesting and creative ways to captivate people, attract new prospects and share you vision with a wide audience that physical retail stores are just not capable of.

Gleb Esman,
SEO Expert for MENSK Technologies
gesman@mensk.com

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