How to get great marketing help for your startup business

At '245 days…' I like to look at the different ways in which you can get your startup ahead. It can be difficult to attend to every part of your business needs on your own with no support or training. You will know the results that you want to achieve but maybe not how to get there.

I am a big advocate of marketing. I read marketing books all the time and I think that a company that uses quality marketing techniques will always be on to a winner. In the modern world of social media, email marketing and other uses of the internet this needn't cost the earth.

But how do you get the knowledge and skills to do this properly? How do you get your startup ahead of the game?

There is a way to help your company to understand this area of your business and get better at it.

makersclass.com  gives you a training program that talks you through taking your existing marketing for your startup business to the next level. If you haven't started yet then it will get you started and on the road to successful marketing of your company and the products you offer.

If you start to understand the marketing messages you want to deliver, the audience you want to reach and where you can find that audience then you are well on the road to success. Makersclass.com will get you moving in completely the right direction with this. They offer you help with-

·         Branding

·         Website Design

·         Social media visual strategy

And include many extras like-

·         An exclusive website template

·         A collection of logo templates

·         Ready-to-use social media posts

·         Easy professional video making tutorial

Taking your marketing efforts step by step means that you won't miss a thing. The online course takes you through each of these topics in detail and gets your company firing on all cylinders when it comes to your marketing.

Once you start to learn and then master the basics of branding, the quality of your website and your social media marketing then you can take your business to the next level. This course gives you the knowledge, skills and confidence to apply your learning to your business. It puts you in control of the situation and allows you to produce marketing in these areas that gets results.

This isn't a course where you pay your fee and then hear nothing. This is a fully interactive course where you can get hold of the teacher. It is set up so it will never be over-subscribed. You can contact and receive a response whenever you need it. For platinum members there is the rate bonus of a one to one hourly session every single week. This means that you can have that face to face chat to ask questions, discuss strategy and move things along as quickly as possible.

If you are looking for help in this area and you want a supportive learning experience then this is a great way to learn and develop. It might just be the next step in making your company great - you wouldn't want to miss out.

What’s in a name? What difference does a name make? Can a name make a difference?

Marion Morrison changed his name to John Wayne. Norma Jean Baker changed hers to Marilyn Monroe. In Hollywood the right name means a great deal. In business it’s exactly the same. A catchy name, a catchy website is the difference between being noticed by the internet or being lost. A great website domain literally is the difference between potential riches and potential obscurity.

How do you go about finding a great name? What help is available? Where can I turn when I need a great domain name? A great name for my startup?

Traditionally you would trawl through a domain reseller and check out all the different words or combinations of words that suit your business. For example, if you are a startup that wants to sell luxury items for women you would try-

•          Luxury lady
•          Lady luxury
•          High end woman
•          Luxury
•          Luxury woman

And so on. This is time consuming, often completely fruitless and can sometimes be expensive. If you find the combination of words that you think you just must have and it’s already owned by someone else then you can end up hitting a brick wall or being quoted a ridiculous price.

The mass resellers don’t understand what you want from a domain name. They just register everything they can get their hands on and hope someone buys it, fast and cheap.

There is a solution emerging for the savvy startup that wants a name to reflect their company – not to reflect whatever was available at the time. It’s Name Perfection – brandable startup and company domain names. They have a series of domain names already secured, but it’s more than that. The names have been hand-selected to ensure that they are catchy and they are all the things that a quality brand name domain should be-

•          Great
•          Short
•          Pronounceable
•          Brandable
•          Pass the radio test

What is the radio test? I hear you ask. Well, it’s this-

The “radio test” for domain names is this: can a potential customer find a company website after listening to a commercial and hearing the company domain name mentioned?

Taking the example from above about a women’s luxury item domain name, you can see clearly from the site that herluxury.com is available, it’s catchy, it passes the radio test and can be obtained. This is the other advantage of using http://www.nameperfection.com/ - you aren’t searching high and low for domain names. You can see in a very short pace of time the domain names that are available, make your selection and then get on with your startup – taking away loads of lost time, fruitless searching and stress.

In my startup business venture I have just started on the road of domain name searches and I must admit that before I found http://www.nameperfection.com/ I was searching the wrong way. I spent hours just typing and retyping different word combinations to try to find something, anything that broadly described what I do. I now know that I was looking in the wrong place.

All in all, I recommend you using http://www.nameperfection.com/ because it puts you in a position of control and efficiency. Control because you are not at the beck and call of the mass domain resellers who have every domain name under the sun except those that are catchy. Efficient because you turn what could be a time-consuming process into a quick one by finding a quality domain name for your business that does everything you want it to do.