SCORE Denver Promoting Your Business Seminar 
Start Up #3 

This workshop  provides information for participants on promoting their business. Emphasis is on helping participants make choices for effective and efficient marketing and promotion of their product or service with the customer in mind!  Product, as used in all workshops, is a general term covering the "thing(s)" that a business sells - including goods and/or service.

Developing a Marketing Strategy: Analyzing Your Market and Developing a Marketing Plan
A session to introduce the basic concepts and techniques of market analysis and methods of conducting market research to determine the potential best customer for the small business owner's product/service.  The session will help participants with the development of a strategic marketing plan and focus on the purposes, types, uses and data needed to develop the marketing plan.  Focus is to help the participant's develop a description of their target market, competitors, and product or service to include the additional skills and techniques needed for basic selling strategies while determining the most effective methods of getting the small business product or service to the best potential customer.

Letting People Know About Your Business: Advertising/Promoting Your Business
A session to introduce and explore promotion and advertising strategies for a small business. Topics included: creating an identity, positioning for success, getting started with advertising plans, creating design that sells, and media choices/vehicles for the small business...All with the customer in mind.

Getting and Keeping Customers: What Customers Experience About Your Service
Business survival today is creating the positive experience necessary to make sure the customer will come back and spend money again.  Therefore, this session is to introduce participants to the importance of service, and the resulting experience for their customers.  Participants will understand that the positive/negative experience created when you do business is directly proportional to the repeat sale and their customer coming back.

The Internet and Your Business: Using the Internet and Computers in Your Business
A session to confirm the potential of the internet and computers for marketing, sales, prospecting, and advertising. In addition guidance is provided about setting up a web presence, targeting the customer and the decisions/directions necessary for the small business person to develop their web site as part of a total marketing strategy to include Social Media, Search Engine Optimization, Key Words, etc...for recognition by google.