How to Do a Successful, Low Cost, Small Business Promotion

Promotions can be profitable or costly. Here’s how to do it right

Tom Egelhoff

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Table of Contents

What Makes a Promotion Work?
How Long Have You Been in Business?
Aren’t Promotions Expensive?
It Doesn’t Take Much to Attract Attention
Who Needs Help in Your Community?
Make Sure You’re Prepared To Promote
Some Things Are Real and Some Are Not
What If It Bombs?
The Last Word On Low Cost Promotion

Marketing, advertising, and promotion. So alike in some ways and so different in others.

Each will absorb all the finances you want to throw at them and still ask for more.

Before we start, just so there’s no misunderstanding, let’s define promotion.

My definition of promotion is the use of any means that places your business in a more noticeable position for a period of time.

Usually a short period of time. For years promoters have filled baseball stadiums with fans…right? Wrong.

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Tom Egelhoff
Tom Egelhoff

Written by Tom Egelhoff

Top Writer on Government, Entrepreneur, Radio Talk Show Host, Subscribe to my FREE Small Town Business Newsletter on Substack https://tomegelhoff.substack.com/

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