When the economy is in rough shape, a primary considerations of business owners is to “cut back.” Cut back on expenses, cut back on staff, cut back in any way they can.

I’m here to tell you one area you must not cut back on:

Promotion!

The key to doing well when the economy goes sour is to promote like crazy. I’m not telling you to spend every dime on promotion, but you must promote with an even greater intensity than before.

Go back and look at all of the promotional actions you took that were successful. Put back in every one that’s feasible.

Cutting back on promotion is never a good solution. When the economy weakens, it is even more vital that you ignore the impulse to reduce your promotional output.

I’ve written a number of posts that give easily affordable and very effective promotional ideas. Here are two of them:

Reciprocal marketing

Customer Evangelism

An article I wrote some time ago - Blame It On the Economy and Watch Your Profits Sink - has been featured on many sites around the net. I strongly recommend you giving that a read.

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