The Best Marketing Tip I Ever Learnt

Before me and my partner founded Simpleet, we were freelance for a good number of years. Like any new company in the website industry, the first concern is how do you get yourself known. When you are a freelancer, you’ll keep telling yourself you don’t know any bosses or managers. Well, here’s the the best damn marketing tip I ever learnt; business cards.

Everyone who asked me how I started or how I got clients, I’d tell them it was thanks to my business cards. The best damn advice which came with the best damn marketing tip was:

Give out your business cards like confetti…

Or, in a Malaysian slang I’d say, “give out your business cards like no tomorrow”. Believe me, business cards were (maybe still is) the best marketing tool you should have on-hand. And, if you didn’t know, even bloggers should have their own business cards!

So, stop asking how to get business and get designing then printing. Once you’ve got your 5-10 boxes of business cards, start handing them out like you really mean it. Also, you could start by passing them to your parents, siblings, relatives then friends and etc.

With Web 2.0 right now, you have basic solutions from email newsletters to Twitter, Facebook and more. So seriously, stop feeling helpless and go out and do it. I have faith in you too!

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