Key Business Partners, LLC

My dear friend Heidi posted a comment to a post that was done on her Ryze group, HER Mastermind that was started by Leah Jackman-Wheitner for the Monday Morning Marketing.

The question was…if you only had 1 hour to market your business for a week, what would you do?

Heidi started the conversation by writing a example of how she went to her local ice cream store (Carvel) and while she was there exchanged business cards and information with the manager to do some cross promotion between the two businesses. See, she was already going to the store to pick up an ice cream cake for one of her employees’ children, so while she was there she took the time to do some marketing and in return expanded her exposure to 200+ possible new customers. You can read the details here.

I thought that was quite clever of Heidi to be proactive in her marketing for her florist business while she was running an errand. And the manager at the ice cream store was more than willing to do some cross promoting (adding business cards to new customers and sending flyers with new order).

However, I wanted to bring something else to the “table” so here is my idea. I have chosen to show my example. My suggestion is to take 1 hr per week and become involved in blogging and leaving comments on different blogs AND add value by showcasing helpful advice. My suggestion is to build a blog “community” of those blogs that share a similar audience and your readers will enjoy spending time reading about as well.

Another friend of mine, Katherine Reschke did a post about blog commenting this week as well.

And I think that Dr Leah asked a great question and I would love to hear your suggestions as well to this question, If you only had 1 hour for marketing for your business, how would you spend the hour?