- Avoid Tax Penalties
- Watch the Deadlines
- Pre-sort your work before the bookkeeper receives the material
- Keep All Relevant Receipts
- Log Your Business Milege
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Ideas & Tips
5 Ways to Save Your Money
Top 44 Business Promotion Ideas
- Advertise in the classified advertising section of your community newspaper
- Advertise in the Yellow Pages
- Advertise on a grocery buggy
- Approach your prospective customers over the phone
- Approach your prospective customers in person
- Approach your prospective customers through the mail
- Be a guest speaker at seminars and present on your area of expertise
- Be a guest speaker on a radio talk shows
- Build and maintain a customer mailing and contact list on database software
- Design a brochure that best explains the benefits of your services
- Design a small order campaign
- Design a point of purchase display for your product
- Design a telemarketing campaign
- Design an image building logo for your company
- Design and distribute a quarterly newsletter or an industry update announcement
- Design and distribute company calendars, mugs, pens, note pads, or other advertising specialties
- displaying your company name and logo
- Design and distribute a free “how to do it” handout related to your industry (e.g. Tips for conserving energy in your home)
- Design buttons, decals, and bumper stickers or balloons with your company name, logo or slogan
- Design t-shirts displaying your company name and logo
- Explore the costs of advertising costs using magazines, on radio television, billboards, bus shelters and benches.
- Refer to the publication “Canadian Advertising Rates and Data” (CARD) for some of this information
- Explore ways to share your advertising costs using cooperative advertising
- Follow up with customer purchases with a thank you letter
- Follow up customer purchases with Christmas or birthday cards
- Have your company profiled in a magazine or newspaper that is read by prospective customers
- Hire an advertising agency or public relations firm
- Hold a promotional contest
- Hold a seminar on your services, product or industry
- Include promotional material with your invoices
- Look for prospective customers at trade shows related to your industry
- Look for prospective customers in associations related to your industry
- Look for prospective customers in seminars related to your industry
- Look for prospective customers in magazines and newspaper related to your industry
- Package your brochure, price lists and letter in a folder for your customers
- Place a sidewalk sign outside your store or office
- Place flyers on bulletin boards and car windshields
- Place promotional notes on your envelopes, mailing labels
- Place signs or paint logos on your company vehicle(s)
- Prepare a list of product features and benefits to help you plan your advertising and promotional campaigns
- Prepare proposals offering solutions to your customers needs
- Provide free samples of your product or service
- Provide public tours of your operation
- Sponsor a charity event
- Sponsor an amateur sports team
- Sponsor a cultural event through a community arts organization
