Don't Forget to Make Time for Marketing
It's very very easy to get caught up in the ins and outs of
actually running your home based business. Whether you are selling a product or
putting together a service, there are people to talk to, clients to work with,
and things to do. That's in addition to all the other hats you have
to put on--accountant, IT person, office janitor... It's easy to get caught up
in a feast or famine cycle. You market market market market and you're
suddenly awash in more business than you can handle, so you focus on the
business.
Then the need is over, the paycheck comes, you look
around and suddenly you have no idea where the next month's revenue is coming
from. This is especially true for home based consultants, web designers,
writers, administrative, media and sales professionals who have to actively get
clients. It may be less true for people involved in direct sales or
network marketing as the product doesn't ever go away and the sale ends
reasonably quickly.
There are advertising and media consultants who set
up people's web pages, Twitter presences, and marketing pieces every single day
and who forget, every single day, to make time to set up their own. If you want
to have a lucrative home based business, though, you can't do this.
Marketing has to be a significant arm of your day. You might get
away with a few days of "pushing" on projects where marketing goes by the
wayside, but marketing, in order to be truly effective, needs to be a daily
process.
It has to be added into your time management or to do
list. Or, you have to outsource someone to take care of it for you.
However you get it accomplished, it's vital that you get it done. You can
be the very best at everything you do, but if you don't take the time to market
and to devote time to learning to market better, nobody will ever know.
Marketing doesn't have to be scary and it doesn't have to be evil.
At its most basic, marketing means you are "getting the word out," helping
those who would otherwise never find out about you learn who you are and what
you do. If you're in direct sales, of course, marketing and sales are pretty
much the extent of what you do. They become your job. The challenge
ends up on the opposite end of the spectrum--you run the risk of becoming
someone who does nothing but shove marketing messages in people's face all day
long, whether you want them or not--that's when you get back to the idea that
you are here to teach and provide value to others. There is, of course, one
barrier to marketing that has nothing to do with time.
Fear.
For
many of us, fears of marketing can be very pervasive and leave us physically
ill. We might have fears of:
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