We don't all have infinite marketing budgets and so how do you generate new leads when your business comes from other businesses?

One way is to run a competition where you donate your time as the prize.

Even better is when you can get other businesses to donate their time too to make the prize 'value' even bigger...and that's precisely what i've has done recently!

In my role as marketing coordinator for Swansea 4N business networking club we are predominantly looking for leads from other businesses so I suggested we run a competition to attract new visitors. The result was we got together £5000 of prizes and the winner was local business.

I'm delighted to announce that the winner was Tony John from Cartridge World Swansea, among other prizes he won £600 worth of marketing support from Mogi Marketing to use to improve their digital and social media marketing campaigns.

Read the Press release here to find out a bit more.

Get in touch if your businesses needs more leads and we can help you create a competition to target and engage with your ideal business customer.

B2B clients regularly ask for my help to do their blogging for them and whilst I love it I also know that what is better is if they write it and then I tweak it for best SEO and engagement, then they let me share it! The advantage of this is we get the information directly from the people in the business, the disadvantage is it takes time.that people within a business just don't have.

Pulse from Linkedin, this is a blogging platform already linked to the most powerful business social networking tool, it's SEO friendly and very easy to do.

Take a look at the screenshot below of a recent Linkedin blog post i've done and click the image to view the full text:

This has all the features you could need such as adding videos, pictures and links and the sharing features allow it to get seen by a huge potential audience.

Give it a try by clicking the 'Publish a Post' button next time you're on Linkedin.