Which UK Business directories are the best to find a customer today?
You’re looking for customers’ right? So you go online and look for somewhere where they are lots of potential customers, it’s not your fault that’s the way your brain works, the way we were taught. So a UK business directory seems as good a place as any.
The top ten UK business directories that have lists of buyers:
1 Biz-find.co.uk
This UK business directory uses their marketing arm of the business; Netmediauk and Netmedia Asia to share their registered members pages to a massive Global social media reach. A few minutes after joining for free, the members can see over 20 clicks on their page care of a few thousand Twitter followers.
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Biz-find lead generation services
Their premium listings receive weekly sharing to over 500,000 on social media driving lots of targeted traffic back to them and then people can call them on their phone number; go to their Facebook page, see them on Twitter, and other ways to contact the listing owner all free. The site has a really good search feature and advanced options too and will show you blogs and news, as well as the companies from your search,
But the one thing that makes this UK Business directory so different from any one else is; they have a list of all the things the sites members are looking to buy; B2B Leads and B2C leads,
You as a seller, simply scroll down till you see your category of business, then you will see the details of what people are looking for in your arena. Then if it’s near where you are and you feel you can sell to that customer, you can request the phone number and name of the buyer.
2. Well sorry there was only one UK Business Directory that had a list of buyers, who are the decision makers, have the money and are ready to buy now, no go look at Alibaba see if you are able to find lists of buyers and what they want to buy, no? nor can we !
We were taught to go looking for customers…But the best sales people in the world create an environment where the business comes to them.
Instead of the traditional business plan outlining the ‘usual suspect’ activities that business has to do to find new buyers to sell to, some online platforms are making it easier to find new business.
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Netmedia online-marketing training
Content is King
Content marketing has of late been extolled by business leaders as the top new way to find new clients and develop your brand, this very blog is a testament to our belief it works, however there is a price tag attached to this activity and it says clearly
3-12 months regular work
Meaning the price you have to pay is have at least 3 months money saved because before you even start to be seen on search engines and consequently get a comment or two, or a buying question you will need around 12 blog posts which are well thought out, mean a lot to you, are SEO freindly, impart information useful to the reader, and are shared to a huge social media audience and using pay per click too. Sadly 95% of readers of your blogs won’t ever thank you for the advice you give them, but rest assured it works given enough time and patience
Again content marketing however good it is, needs around 6 months regular work before it’s effective. Many new businesses don’t have that kind of time, they want to hit the ground running.
Networking events have the same kind of price tag, but you also pay to go to these events on top of your time commitment. You will need around; 3-6 months of people getting to know you, listening to your pitch each week or meeting you again at another evening event to start to see you are trustworthy and knowledgeable enough to help them.
The worst activity for finding new customers has to be: cold calling from business databases bought online, which is now proven to be the least effective ways of new business generation.
Recent research at Baylor university revealed that even the top telemarketers in their field can only make so many appointments for their people over the phone, and the ratio came down to 7 hours’ time calling for one sale. Call it ten hours if you are doing it yourself.
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The death of cold calling
With the average decent call centre costs from the west at around $30 an hour plus set up costs your average order price better be over $300 or you will be struggling.
There is a gulf between what lead generation companies sell, and what a lead actually is. Is actually widening each day, everybody in business has one goal; more sales and the lead generation companies pray on this ‘itch’
It could be argued that the ‘lead generation’ companies like; the database companies, the web designers, the network event managers, the exhibition companies, online marketing companies, the telemarketing companies, all ‘sell’ the end result; the sale for you, but you have to do so many steps before you can actually receive a buying customer.
Steps, incidentally where they’re getting paid before you!
Why not visit Biz-find.co.uk and register your business, then click on the leads tab and see if we have not cut out a lot of expensive and time consuming steps your business takes and found you a customer already!
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