Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
This section provides helpful guides and tips on how to find and sell to customers as a small business. Find expert advice on a variety of strategies to attract customers plus ideas on client retention and selling techniques. If you are looking to acquire new business or expand your existing customer base, these pages provide invaluable information to help you on your way. Want to know how to get more clients? Read on…!
When consumers are considering which product or service to spend their money on, an obvious consideration is price. Christian Nellemann offers some advice to small businesses looking to compete on price.
Finding and selling to customers
Finding and selling to customers
Building a reputation and customer base for your business can be difficult and time consuming.
Finding and selling to customers
What price you charge is a tricky proposition. Should you go for dirt cheap or reassuringly expensive? This short guide will help.
Finding and selling to customers
Your new business is up and running, it has a great product that people will love, but nobody has heard of it. Now is the time to shout your message from the rooftops.
Finding and selling to customers
Many people regard salespeople as liars, cheats and commercial vultures. Some salespeople may be like this; while others can be more successful by being honest and responsible. Either way, you will have to become a salesperson if your business is to survive.
Finding and selling to customers
This guide will help to get you thinking about who will want to buy your product or service, why they will buy, and, perhaps most importantly, how much they are willing to pay.
Finding and selling to customers
The first step in gaining sales is to plan and organise.
Finding and selling to customers
If you are looking to set up a mail order business, there are several issues you need to be aware of, such as legislation that applies to distance selling, delivery of goods and returns and data protection.
Finding and selling to customers
The first step in gaining sales is to plan and organise.
Finding and selling to customers
If you are looking to set up a mail order business, there are several issues you need to be aware of, such as legislation that applies to distance selling, delivery of goods and returns and data protection.
Finding and selling to customers
It's no secret that it costs a lot more to acquire new customers than to retain the ones you've got.
Finding and selling to customers
Many business ideas never get off the ground if that first sale can't be achieved.
Finding and selling to customers
The focus in this article is on winning new business. Tony Wilford of Plan-it UK asked for tips on becoming a preferred supplier.
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