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THINK OUTSIDE THE SQUARE WITH YOUR BUSINESS MARKETING

Should you decide you want to get involved in event marketing it would pay to sit down and write up some of the criteria that would make a successful promotion for you. It may be that there needs to be X number of people attend an event, there needs to be support from X number of other activities, it needs to be run in spring when the weather is perfect, and so on. Make a list of the requirements that would make it a successful marketing promotion for you.

If you run a competition of some sort you may be able to get the local paper to take a photo and run it in the community section which will give you free advertising as well.

Put your thinking cap on, have a look at what other larger businesses are doing and emulate their strategies. Plan it carefully, cost it effectively (they can actually be quite cheap to run) and have fun.

Small business operators can learn a lot from larger businesses but they just need to make sure that their marketing budget is right and that they are staying within their marketing plan.

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