{"id":14,"date":"2013-01-20T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-04-13T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T21:07:30","slug":"10-simple-marketing-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/10-simple-marketing-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Simple Marketing Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 SIMPLE MARKETING IDEAS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Increase prices &#8211; don&#8217;t lower unless its a special<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Interact with customers after first sale &#8211; keep in touch &#8211; resell other items or services &#8211; get referrals &#8211; get their email addresses<br \/>\n<strong>3. <\/strong>Network with other businesses in your sector<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> Go to some events were you can promote your biz e.g. social groups or clubs, biz organisations<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> Cut your traditional advertising budget on print adverts<br \/>\n<strong>6.<\/strong> Get free PR &#8211; send articles and tips to newspapers radio etc websites<br \/>\n<strong>7. <\/strong>Upselling &#8211; try and get people to take the next item up or sell them something in addition to the item they want &#8211; get new products to sell to them<br \/>\n<strong>8. <\/strong>Have a sales programme for all staff &#8211; see the art of selling by tom hopkins for example<br \/>\n<strong>9. <\/strong>Email marketing to past customers and new customers &#8211; get email addresses from people who visit your site<br \/>\n<strong>10.<\/strong> Get into joint biz ventures with other people in your line of business &#8211; share leads, offer each others services, do an advert page on each others sites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 SIMPLE MARKETING IDEAS 1. Increase prices &#8211; don&#8217;t lower unless its a special 2. Interact with customers after first sale &#8211; keep in touch &#8211; resell other items or services &#8211; get referrals &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imadscotland.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}