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8 Best Ways To Attract Customers To Your Business And Increase Sales by Amaechi5(m): 11:17am On Feb 26, 2017
Attracting customers to your new business might not be an easy task than you think, as other business men and women are still struggling with their own. A steady stream of new customers allows you to grow your business and fulfill your dream.


There's one thing you should always bear in mind that no matter how great your product or service, your business will not make any money unless customers are willing to buy them. No customers, no business.

To get customers you must try and make your business known to people, create the awareness, make people know that such business do exist in such location and this is what today's article is all about. How to attract customers to your new business and increase sales.


8 Best Ways To Attract Customers To Your Business And Increase Sales


1. How Well Do You Know The Business You Are Into
Starting a business is not just what one will venture into as you should know the business to an extent cause that will make people have trust and believe in you, that you have a knowledge of what you are doing.

2. Who is Your Ideal Customer
Before starting a business, you have to first know your ideal customers for your business. You have to target your customers and their wants to which you will try and satisfy it just to make them happy.

3. Locate The Environment Where Your Customers Are In

We fail woefully when it comes to this aspect in our country. You see someone selling stationery in a street where there's no school around that environment, someone selling female clothes or accessories in an area more of men or you have a barbing salon in a street mostly occupied by females, there's no way you will make it because of bad location or environment.

4. Focus On a Specific Customer
This sometimes happens to us, you are into selling of provisions and foodstuff and your neighbor sells all types of drinks(beer and minerals/soft drinks), your neighbors store is always filled with customers while yours is at times scanty. You felt that selling of drinks sells more than the provision into which you are in, you includes drinks in your business. Many a time this don't work out which you might get frustrated.

5. Do Social Media Advertising

Social media advertising can get you tons of customers especially if you have a good review of the product you are advertising. Not everyone advertise their products or business on social media, but i tell you it will help a lot to attract new customers. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can help you with that.

6. Email Marketing
Email marketing is the targeting of consumers through electronic mail (email). All those mails you receive on your email account is email marketing which mostly didn't subscribe to it. With email marketing, you reach to your customers about your new products or any latest development and you as well will use this to retain your customers and same time get new customers.

7. Build Customers Relationship And Retain Your Customers

This is very important if you want to attract customers to your business. According to Study.com, customer relations is the process and manner by which a business develops, establishes, and maintains relationships with its customers.

To build a good customer relationship you must have good communication with your customers. Try and understand what they are saying, ask them questions if they are satisfied with your services. You can build customer relationship by being honest and truthful in your dealings with them. If there is any new changes in your business, try and talk to them, be honest and make them understand about the new changes.

8. Reward your loyal customer and you will in turn get your reward from them mostly through your customers talking good about you and your business.

There are many other ways and if you have more tips please share it here for all thanks.
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Re: 8 Best Ways To Attract Customers To Your Business And Increase Sales by eezeribe(m): 11:18am On Feb 26, 2017
Thanks op,for your wonderful write up.
I DEDICATE this FTC to All owners of small and medium scale businesses...
Do not despise the days of humble beginning.
Study the history of KFC and some other multinationals today,
There were once "one man businesses".
In the final words of Winston Churchill,Former British prime minister...
"Never never never never give up ".
Happy Sunday to you all.
Re: 8 Best Ways To Attract Customers To Your Business And Increase Sales by ggoldmine: 11:35am On Feb 26, 2017
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