Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Team Up With Vendors

Every vendor has the potential to be an ally. In some cases, it requires creative thinking, but there is always one thing in common. You both want more business – not less. We’ve done this in many ways, for example: cross promoting with the person who caters your coffee and snacks – we feature them in the salon for discounts on our catering and they keep flyers in their store.

Danny LeClaire, Owner - Studio DNA

5 comments:

  1. This can also work extremly well when you team up with another business nearby that offers complimenting services, you can do combined offers in way of email blasts or postacard direct mailouts. In addition to this you should offer the employees of the other business free services so they can speak about how good your services are to their clients; this works a gem.

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  2. The great thing about these cross-promotions is they require little financial investment, but can yield very high returns. They are an easy ways to get your brand name out there, and build relationships with other players in the business.

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  3. Wow, this is a great tip! Everybody is always looking for a way to promote themselves for as little $$ as possible, especially in the current economic climate.

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  4. Never under estimate the power of creativity. Super cool tip!

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  5. we also partner with clients that have a strategic value for us. We promote them on our web site's concierge page, and they promote us in their business.

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