{"id":7488,"date":"2016-07-22T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.accurants.com\/2016\/07\/22\/grow-your-business\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:47:40","slug":"grow-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/22\/grow-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Grow Your Business For FREE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to grow your business can take a lot of your energy and you don\u2019t always get the immediate results you\u2019re looking for. It can be frustrating to spend a lot of effort without seeing your customer base grow that much. You might wonder if there are ways to grow your business without spending all of your company\u2019s capital on it. If you\u2019re willing to think outside the box you\u2019ll find that there are many possibilities to help you grow your business, completely free of cost. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a01: Advertise smartly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advertising can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. The most expensive advertising methods aren\u2019t always the most effective. For example, you might have a car or truck that you can use as a driving billboard. The more miles you make, the more people will learn about your company.<\/p>\n

The story of Richard Roy is a great example of this method\u2019s effectiveness. He\u2019s the owner of a company called Dr. Pooper Scooper<\/a> and is specialized in the removal of dog waste. He\u2019s turned his truck into an oversized Dalmatian with his company name and contact information clearly visible. Everyone who\u2019s seen his truck passing on the streets will think of him when they need to have some dog waste removed.<\/p>\n

\u00a02: Advertise to your existing customers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finding new customers is great but advertising to people that already like your products, can be much more effective. Your\u00a0existing customers will be easier to sell to than someone who isn\u2019t yet familiar with your company.<\/p>\n

A good way to advertise to your\u00a0existing customers is to offer them a two for the price of one type of promotion. They already love your products so they\u2019re not going to waste an opportunity like this.<\/p>\n

\u00a03: Give products away for FREE<\/strong><\/p>\n

People enjoy free products more than anything. Whatever your company is selling, you\u2019ll make a lot of people happy by giving some of it away for free<\/a>. This will get the word out about your company\u2019s products and builds relationships.<\/p>\n

If your company provides a service, it will only cost you a bit of time when you give it away for free. In this case you could also offer free consultation meetings to show what you can do for your clients.<\/p>\n

When your company produces tangible products you could donate them to popular events that take place in your neighborhood, which improves brand recognition. You can also start a promotion in which you give away prizes to people sharing your content on social media.<\/p>\n

At accurants, we give our entire software FREE to all non-profits\/not for profit\/Non-Governmental Organizations\u00a0as part of our obligation to give back to the community.<\/p>\n

\u00a04: Get listed on Google Local<\/strong><\/p>\n

People generally don\u2019t want to travel a long distance to get that product they\u2019re looking for. They\u2019ll just type the name of the product into Google and visit the first nearby shop that pops up. It doesn\u2019t cost you anything to make your company come up first in local online searches like this.<\/p>\n

By going to the Google My Business page<\/a>, you can list your company with all of its contact information for free. It\u2019s the best way to reach the customers in your neighborhood. If you don\u2019t grab this opportunity your competitors will.<\/p>\n

\u00a05: Use\u00a0FREE online tools<\/strong><\/p>\n

The amount of available online tools that can help your company is astonishing. Many of them can be used totally free of charge<\/a>. Although paid versions of programs offer a lot more functionality, free programs can definitely take your company in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Social media channels are free for you to post & interact with your prospects & customers.\u00a0 Most websites\u00a0publish blog articles and also send out newsletters for free that contain an amazing amount of beneficial and actionable information.<\/p>\n

accurants is a complete small business management software suite that will empower you to run your entire business.\u00a0 We give our software for FREE for 30-days (try accurants free for 30 days<\/span><\/span><\/a>).\u00a0 During this period you could use all features – Invoicing, Time Tracking, Project Management, Expense Tracking, Mileage Log, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Accounting, and Taxes without any restrictions.<\/p>\n

There are a plethora of tools available for FREE to help you grow your small businesses.\u00a0 Given the choices, it will be very helpful to know which tools are best for you.\u00a0 Please do check out our blog and social media channels as we post many articles on how to grow your business for FREE.<\/p>\n

Photo Credits: Grow \/ Photo by Caleb Roenigk<\/a> \/ <\/strong>CC BY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Trying to grow your business can take a lot of your energy and you don\u2019t always get the immediate results you\u2019re looking for. It can be frustrating to spend a lot of effort without seeing your customer base grow that much. You might wonder if there are ways to grow your business without spending all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,62,63,64,67,68],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-grow-a-business-with-no-money","tag-grow-your-business","tag-grow-your-business-free","tag-grow-your-business-online","tag-how-to-grow-business-fast","tag-how-to-grow-business-tips","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/Grow-Your-Business.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accurants.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}