2.Calculate your operational budget and determine how much you can afford to spend on an Ad campaign. Also, this is stage to decide your campaign mediums and effectiveness of different mediums of advertising as it applies to specific nature of your product and or services. It also helps to retain a percentage of your earnings towards future Ad campaign on an ongoing basis.

3.Since customers are life-blood of any business, be sure to develop a good rapport with your customers. To keep your customers visiting, buying and begging for more; let them know how much you appreciate their business. Do not spare any personal touch you can invest in relationship. It will pay for your time and effort tenfold. Create an Ezine to communicate with your customers and to generate new leads. This can be achieved by offering an opportunity to your visitors to subscribe to your ezine from your website or purchasing leads from a leads company.

4.Now, depending on your current position, you may not even have customers yet. If you are starting from scratch, your first order of business would be to start growing a customer base within your budget of course. Create or have a Strong Sales Copy done for your promotions. Consider targeted Ad campaigns through Google or other search engines. You may also consider some of other ‘Viral’ marketing Traffic Exchanges out there. Online campaigns consist of generating traffic to your website as this would improve your ranking with traffic exchanges. Your ultimate goal is to generate free traffic which comes from a high ranking in traffic exchanges. In other words, you need to generate traffic first and then you can work on converting traffic into buying customers or better yet, return customers.

5.Hire, rent, or buy a coach/mentor; and if you can not afford one, get some of informative ebooks and magazines out there. Your decision making prowess would be much better with this kind of backbone. Take note that even with all information you may acquire from books and magazines, nothing compares to experience. Now, if you have to go on your experience then you are setting yourself up to learn hard and costly way.

But many small or home-based business owners have neither time, knowledge or resources necessary to create proposals that properly relay pertinent information about company and its ability to provide requested services.

If mere thought of having to create a proposal is keeping you from bidding on jobs you know your business can handle, stop worrying! There are several proposal-building software products available that will help with this task.

Many are template-driven. All you have to do is select templates that are appropriate to include in proposal, use your word processor to add text that is specific to your type of business, then sit back and watch a professional-looking proposal emerge from your printer.

Read following tips for an idea of components that will help your proposals get attention they need.

Tip #1 – Identify Problem

A proposal must show that person or company submitting it clearly understands problem that prospective client is attempting to remedy. If proposal cannot show right away, in Executive Summary section, that you have a clear understanding of problem, those reviewing it won’t feel confident that your company will be capable of properly and effectively dealing with it. They’ll see no reason to read beyond Executive Summary section.

Tip #2 – Identify Proposed Solution