help with marketing a new business?

One of the personal chefs in Nashville started advertising their service at local day care centers. A flyer with information (and a great offer!) How can busy, working parents resist?

A few ideas:

1) Flyers & Business Cards - Who are your customers & where do they shop (e.g. grocery, home improvement stores, etc)? Post flyers where your customers frequent.

2) Advertise Locally -- Newspapers, Craigslist, Yahoo! Local

3) Word of Mouth -- Offer a great service & people will talk.

4) Mailers -- Send out coupons, specials, etc.

Associations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Word of mouth.

You could print leaflets or cards and post them through doors of areas where people who would use your service are likely to live (well to do areas), or leave them in stores where your customers are likely to shop, but there might be some waste there.

Optimize your site so that it come up top on search engines. This site is useful:

http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/free-marketin...

If you have any local services/community websites, you can get on them.

Yellow pages.

My advice is think about what people would do if they wanted a chef service. You could ask some people how they would go about finding one, then make sure you are there.

find yourself two or three old ladies that love to talk

make them a free meal and tell them its free as long as they tell all their friends about you!

This is called mavin marketing and let me tell you works a damn sight better than all the news paper ads and flyers you can think of. the trick is to find those chatty types in the first place....

more goods and services is learned about through word of mouth and anything else! I bet you've done it yourself.

"Hey you got to go to so&so's they have the best"????

just be honest and tell them out right your new and this is how you plan to expand and so they help you and you give them free eats! Win Win... I'll have lobster BTW...good luck

Word of mouth is #1. Whatever you do, do it well, do a a little extra, and always exceed expectations...

Buy ads in newpapers, bill boards, etc.

i like you "jhon the chef"