Grow Your Small Business With These Five DIY Marketing Ideas

Small business owners spend a huge portion of their time marketing their products and services. Your small business marketing goals are to create a memorable logo, create a recognizable brand, and create a solid market position. DIY marketing can help you meet all those goals. To enhance the success of your DIY marketing ideas, use them liberally, but strategically. In other words, find out where your ideal consumers spend their time and be visibly present in those places.

Our DIY design tool makes it easy and affordable to create a successful, cohesive, custom marketing campaign. Choose the marketing products you need from the list below, then use our customization features to design products that capture attention and compel action. These five DIY marketing ideas help you get the word out about your business.

Identify your ideal strategic partner. A strategic partner is a fellow business owner who comes into regular contact with your target market without being your competition. As a team, you and your strategic partner can cross-promote each other’s businesses. Refer customers to each other with double-sided marketing postcards that feature coupons, discounts, and bundled sales campaigns.

Create practical giveaways. Customers love freebies. Keep a supply of promo pieces on hand in your retail store, at live events, and during tradeshows. The key is to create promotional items that are targeted to your ideal consumer and have a practical use that ensures they see your brand on a regular – hopefully, daily – basis. Branded mousepads are ideal for computer and electronics businesses while custom bottle openers are perfect for a craft brewery or music festival.

Create your own customer loyalty program. It costs less to upsell to an existing customer than to sell a new customer. There are two easy ways to do that:

• Create a business card that lets consumers receive a punch or stamp with each purchase that entitles them to a freebie after a predetermined number of purchases.
• Create a VIP customer base with a branded key fob that entitles your VIP to perks and privileges, exclusive discounts, and product previews.

Turn delighted customers into influencers for your brand. Equip customers with marketing business cards and postcards. Similar to traditional business cards and postcards, these should feature a client testimonial, purchase URLs, complete contact info, social media icons, product features and benefits, and new customer purchase incentives.

Tell customers what you’re passionate about. Design posters and wall art that promotes the charitable, environmental, and societal causes you support. This is one of those DIY marketing ideas that has two points of impact. It encourages the organizations you support to do the same for you. It also draws like-minded consumers to do business with you.

WHAT DIY MARKETING STRATEGIES WILL YOU USE TO GROW YOUR SMALL BUSINESS?

Small business marketing means different things to each business owner but has one important common goal – to capture the attention of your target market without breaking the bank. At MYDPRINT, we understand the importance of marketing materials that set you apart from the crowd. The products you design and order are professionally printed and fabricated from the highest quality materials and delivered to your door fast. The DIY marketing ideas above will help you tell your target market who you are, what you offer, and what problems you solve for them. Your goal is to get the word out. Our goal is to make getting the word out easy and affordable.