Okay, well these “new business opportunities” might not be that new, but I bet most of you haven’t used them in your business. Claiming they will double your sales is a big claim as well. I’ve seen it happen over and over again so don’t doubt it’s potential. These 3 hot spots are places where you can interact and mingle with other business owners. That’s right. I’m talking about setting up business to business marketing strategies to increase your business.

There really isn’t anything that can match joint ventures. No matter what happens to other areas of marketing as time passes, you will always get great results when working with other business owners. Google might bump your website down to the 3rd page…there went your search engine traffic. Your direct mail campaign or radio ad might swamp this year…ROI(return on investment) down the drain. But guess what, you can always go talk to your friendly non-competing business owners and agree upon a mutual relationship to help each other out. That will never go away.

So, what are these three hot spots to find the new business opportunities? Well, let’s start off with a simple one.

Your Local Phone Book

Yep. It’s as easy as that to find new business opportunities for you. Make a game plan of all the possible businesses that could benefit both you and themselves by both working together. Now, get on the phone or start visiting these businesses. It’s as simple as that to find new businesses to work with.

Check Your Local BNI

The BNI organization is a group designed for opening networking and referrals between small businesses in your local area. It’s a great way to meet other business owners looking to build their business. These are the type of people you want to look for. It won’t do you much good looking for a business owner that is striving for more.

Go to your local BNI meetings. More then likely you won’t get much of an opportunity to speak about your business in the first couple meetings. You will be able to mingle though. Get business cards. Pass out information about what you provide. Just make your name be known. When you find a business that you believe there can be a mutual agreement made, let the business owner know.

Meetup.com

Aww, meetup.com. My favorite place to find local business owners. This website is just great for setting up casual get togethers with like minded business owners. I’ve found more new business opportunities from this website than any other option. Get on there and create a luncheon meeting. It’s something simple and doesn’t take much time.

I’m telling you how to double your business in the next couple months. Do what I say and you will see the results. I can guarantee it.

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When being made redundant and looking to start a new business venture, do you worry about being one of the many new start ups who fail within the first few years? Do you wonder what action others’ have taken to ensure success?

Remember the secrets of success are not the same for everyone, and will depend on your own very individual set of circumstances. Take Linda for example, she has recently recovered from a long period of illness and rather than go back to paid employment, felt the time was right to start her own business. An old hobby of Linda’s was aromatherapy massage, so she took a refresher course to brush up on her skills and updated some of her equipment.

Linda started very slowly, initially working with a maximum of one or two clients per week, taking plenty of rest in between times and gradually building up her appointments. This was to ensure that the pressures of handling a new venture, in addition to very physically demanding work would not give her a relapse and make her ill again.

By working to one of her strengths – engaging people, Linda was able to generate business during these tough times. Linda is one of those people who is very good at talking to strangers as though they are long lost friends, and if you are with her in a wine bar or restaurant, she will have the waiter sit down and talk through the menu, whilst at the same time extracting his or her life story.

Linda had some leaflets and business cards printed, and spent a couple of days going around the local hairdressers and hotels in her area, telling people what she was doing and asking whether there was any way she could work with the establishments to their mutual benefit. Just two weeks of doing this and she had the offers of spaces in three different businesses, with invites to two trade fairs where she could set up a stall. Now six months later Linda has a thriving aromatherapy massage business and she is getting ready to diversify in to other areas.

Now this approach would not have suited everyone – it was only Linda’s natural flair for getting on with people that made this a success. For someone else, extensive advertising may have been the right route. Or getting a piece printed in a local paper. The point is that one of the keys to YOUR success is working to your strengths, and tailoring other success factors to your own individual set of circumstances.

Are you working to your strengths?

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