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Marketing Your Consulting Services.pdf - epiheirimatikotita.gr

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<strong>Your</strong> <strong>Marketing</strong> Plan<br />

Can You Market on a Shoestring Budget?<br />

As a consultant, you are most likely not on the Fortune 500 list.<br />

You are not a large business, but most likely a small entrepreneurial<br />

firm facing cash flow concerns, limited time availability, and<br />

a lack of marketing moxie. These issues can be viewed as insurmountable<br />

and the reason you cannot create a marketing plan or they<br />

can be viewed as the very impetus to create a marketing plan. Problem<br />

or opportunity? It’s all in how you view it. If you have given up,<br />

don’t read any further. Get back to the <strong>gr</strong>indstone. If you see this as<br />

an opportunity, let’s begin to plan for what you can do to keep sales<br />

flowing and <strong>gr</strong>owing.<br />

MARKETING PLAN PRELIMINARIES<br />

Let’s first alleviate your concerns of a lack of money, time, and marketing expertise.<br />

Then let’s examine the advantages you have as a small consulting organization.<br />

Then we will discuss a marketing plan that works. Finally, let’s identify some ideas<br />

that will make your marketing work for you.<br />

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