The potential growth of your business significantly relies on your ability to increase the number of your customers. While you may already have successful products and repeat business transactions, you still need to have a steady flow of new customers to sustain growth.
Here are effective ways on how to extend your customer reach:
Collaboration
Consider teaming up with another business to reach out to new prospective customers. Partnerships can provide a great venue to provide exposure to your business. It is important that you choose the right partner. It isn’t always a good idea to collaborate with a competitor.
Instead, go for partners that complement your business in some ways. It also helps if the two of you have target customers that are interested in both of what you offer. A business partner can also introduce you to a range of expertise that you lack, which can help improve your business operations.
Territory Expansions
You can extend your customer reach by expanding your territory. The idea is to market as well as sell the same products and services you already have to new customers with a different niche, demography, or location from those in your current customer base.
This form of expansions for retail or storefront businesses may involve opening stores in new locations. This move entails time and money investment, so it helps to conduct thorough market research first. This will give you an informed idea if there is indeed enough demand for your products or services in a particular area to justify the expansion.
New Distribution Channels
The internet can also provide you with new sales and delivery channels, sans the high cost. Many companies have now transformed themselves so they can effectively take advantage of online opportunities. Some of these businesses started as brick and mortar retailers but are now able to deliver products and services to customers who shop online.
Online advertisements and effective search engine optimization can help you become more visible to customers who do web searches for products and services that they. Online strategies that can help you get new customers include social media content marketing for manufacturers and email marketing.
New Products or Services
Having successful products and services should not stop you from bringing new ones to your customers. An effective way to introduce a new product to the market is to have a clear idea of what your customers want.
Make use of the data and reviews you collect from your current products and services, check feedback from your customers and conduct research to help you identify a new product or service that will likely be patronized by your clients.
When you introduce exciting new products and services, you also get people talking about them, which can generate attention from your existing customers and even prospective ones.
You also have the option to upgrade your existing products and services based on your customers’ usage habits and surveys on how satisfied your customers are with what you already offer to them.