Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Can Lead Generation Companies Save Your Business?

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Can Lead Generation Companies Save Your Business?

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Can Lead Generation Companies Save Your Business?



Every day hundreds of new start- ups open for business somewhere in the country. Most are in our towns and cities but many are rural. Some have had help from a bank , some from a family member, some have used their own savings and some have had support from the local council in the shape of cheap business premises or nil tax rates. Only half of these hopefuls are still trading six months later and the number of disappointed owners keep on rising over the next three months.



Some official figures show a slightly brighter outcome with over half lasting the first couple of years of trading. These figures from the Small Business Administration show that just over half do not make it through the first crucial five years. This means that hundreds of small business owners fail in their intention every year and most of these fail because they didn't make their income grow at least adequate to cover the costs. What many of them are lacking are #links#.





What are the outgoings? Well there is the bills that are there if you run a business or not but the business will have its own costs, which depend on the type of business it is. These outgoings may be materials, telephone, services, building rent, online rentals, machine rentals, travel or postage costs and then of course, advertising.



If the business has borrowed money to get it through the lean years while it locates its customer base, Interest rates and dwindling resources may be its downfall. But there are as many reasons for failure as there are varieties of business, which includes lack of research into where the competitors are, suitability of where your business is sited or even, lack of passion for the business itself.



There is though plenty of business experience out there to learn from, both online or in short courses but also in your town's business community which can be there to help local Not only does a completely new business owner need knowledge of their own area of trade but also the many tricks of any business that can help beginners keep all those business balls in the air at the same time. A business network will also prevent the owner of a small start -up feeling isolated.



One of the basic must- dos of any business though is to keep the clients knocking on your door. Advertising can be costly and take up too much precious time. One way round this is to get another business to do this vital work for you. This is what Lead generation companies are set up specifically to do. They will do the tiresome phoning, emailing and initial talking to customers while you get on with the serious stuff of selling them what they want. www.epictelemarketing.co.uk/lead-generation-companies/

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