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Celebrating Entrepreneurship Week
Small Business Saturday
The Small Business Saturday is back! BBSA is proud to be a supporter of the 5th edition of the Small Business Saturday initiative. We also are offering a 10% discount on all the Startup Marketing Plans bought from 24 November to 2 December 2017. This initiative encourages UK businesses to thrive – big and small.
Remembrance Day
Win a Marketing Plan Competition
Here’s the chance to win a bespoke Marketing Plan, written by our award-winning marketing experts. To enter the prize draw click here. Good luck!
Festival Female Entrepreneurs
Join us in Bristol (UK) on 20 October. On its sixth year, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs brings together some of the UK’s most influential female entrepreneurs, business leaders, and brightest start-ups to provide detailed insight for you to start and scale your business. Registrations will close soon, to book your ticket: https://www.enterprisenation.com/festival
BBSA Notice: Happy Labor Day From The Beach
We Are Turning 4!
The Best Strategies for Small Businesses
Small businesses seem to continue to be struggling with marketing, as it is not seen as a luxury item, but more as an essential to their business. They wonder what works and what doesn’t. Here are do’s and don’t according to Infusion Soft’s 2015 report:
- Word of mouth remains to be king of marketing and the most effective strategy
- E-marketing follows the lead of word of mouth with a 34% success rate
- Social media (23%), and networking (25%)
- Search engine marketing (14%), and last but not least content marketing (13%).
- Television and radio advertising are the least effective with only 2% of small businesses ranking them in the top 3.
Being Right Is Not Enough
If you run a business knowing what is right is not enough – you need to know where the challenges lie ahead. According to the report here are some the most challenging techniques and where you probably need to focus on:
- Generating quality leads – the 37% of small companies struggle with that and hire marketing agencies and consultancies to help them with
- 31% struggle in converting leads into customers
- Marketing expenses: marketing is essential but does not come cheap. The 30% of small companies struggle in accessing the funds required running marketing campaigns.
King of Struggle
55% stated that, aside from not knowing exactly what do in marketing, they also don’t have the time to get everything done; which explain the popularity of outsourced marketing department and packages.
The report was based on data of a survey from 408 small businesses from Infusion Soft customers. 50% were B2C focused, and 28% were B2B. The remaining 22% were of a mixed structure.
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BBSA Associates Marketing is a full-service agency that provides marketing support to SMEs that are keen to move forward and develop their marketing activities but lack the resources, time or know-how to do it themselves. We support a whole range of B2B and B2C companies; from enabling you to manage your own Outsourced Marketing Department to helping out with a single solution for projects. Find out more
BBSA Opens Branch in New York
The US client base is on the hike which makes the United States a key focus for Marketing and as a matter of fact, we are lending our expertise in assisting you in this regards. We are willing to become the one stop marketing solution for the companies in the UK and help their business to grow in the US and vice versa.
BBSA is proud to announce that we are looking forward to assisting all sorts of business irrespective of their size. Big businesses, small and medium business as well as start-up, everyone is welcomed here.
E-managing is what we are focusing on as it is more efficient and uses up less time as well as resources. Along with efficient management, you will be getting top-notch quality
Management, as well as technical know-how, are very important because it is the structure that a company is founded on. Statistical analysis reveals that 25% of the new companies do not make it to their first five years due to the lack in the marketing sector.
The marketing sector is very competitive, and as an assuring statement, Marketing Expert, Anna Stella, Director of BBSA Associates states that: “This is the beginning of how future SME’s are shaped to be, and we are excited about the future. Our platform will continue to develop amongst marketing projects of all shapes and sizes, within the highest marketing standards that only a full-service marketing agency can offer.”
BBSA Associates Marketing is a full-service agency that provides marketing support to SMEs that are keen to move forward and develop their marketing activities but lack the resources, time or know-how to do it themselves. We support a whole range of B2B and B2C companies; from enabling you to manage your own Outsourced Marketing Department to helping out with a single solution for projects. Find out more