Small Business Growth and Inventory Management Too!

Growing your Small Business | Online Inventory Management | Tools and Tips

When you're faced with a plateau in business, what can you do to turn things around. There's a number of activities that can help with this problem. But first, you have to WANT to grow. In order to do this, you should make sure you've set aside enough marketing dollars to reach a larger audience. To do this, you need to become very efficient in the way you run your business. For example, if expiring or lost inventory is eating away at your bottom line, then try an online inventory management system. With streamlined inventory management processes, you can better track your goods to be sure you're using them efficiently. We have to make room to grow both from a marketing spend perspective and in how we operate our small business. That said, now we need to focus in on growth tactics.

There are many ways to grow your small business, but you have to make sure the tactic you employ is going to create a win-win for both your customers and you. The changes you make should benefit your customers and allow you to profit at the same time. Otherwise, you run the risk of losing customers or going broke. Let's review a few of these tactics now and then discuss your thoughts in the comment section below.

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  • Create a Unique Selling Proposition
  • Leverage Local Internet Marketing
  • Determine your Marketing Spend Across Mediums
  • Create a Diversified Marketing Campaign to Generate New Business
  • Focus on Delivering Quality
  • Create Retention through Service
  • [/list]

    While it's very important to attract new customers, you must also hold onto them for the long run. There's no real secret here. Treat them as important and apply the same precepts to your current loyal patrons. If you can retain most every customer (or a large percentage), then growth will happen. If you don't retain your client base through the growth spurt, you're probably worse off than you would have been to start with. Remember, it's about gaining the attention of a new audience and keeping your existing customers happy. For now, that's about it. If you're serious about growth, get your business operations in order. Streamline processes to be efficient (like we mentioned in the inventory management example above) and use those savings to attract new clients. Last and most important, keep the business you had while you're in growth mode. In the end, you'll be much better off than before because the new clients won't cost as much to keep happy. And now you're more focused on them thanks to the efficiency you've gained through the process. Save in operations. Spend in to reach a new audience. Retain the new and the old.

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