On Needing A Marketing Strategy

March 25th, 2009 by admin

I am a freelance wedding planner.  I’m not affiliated with any particular company in the wedding business.  I operate out of my home.  When I first started out, my marketing efforts were mostly word-of-mouth and passing out my business cards at wedding shows.  A year later I was struggling to get new business.  So I went to see a friend of mine who is a small business consultant.  She told me about internet marketing and said I needed a marketing strategy.  I told her I didn’t know where to begin.  She said the first thing I needed to do was put my own website on the Internet and make sure my web address was on my business card and in my phone book ad.