How To Market Your Business On A Shoestring

258 – How to market your business on a shoestring with Aydin Mirzaee

Ever feel constrained by having no dough to spend on marketing? Fear not … today’s guest was in that boat. I stress WAS. He got to the point of spending a million bucks a year on just one marketing channel. Then something very cool happened.

Today’s episode is all about how to market your business on a shoestring.

Aydin Mirzaee co-founded Fluidware, an online survey company that was recently purchased for an undisclosed sum by the 900-pound guerrilla of online survey companies, Survey Monkey. In Aydin’s first few years as a start-up, he had little or no marketing budget, so hustle he did, coming up with all sorts of clever, inexpensive ways to market his business. Clearly this proved successful, as the business grew to at one point being able to spend over one million dollars per year on online advertising alone!

Then came that call. “Hey Aydnin. It’s Survey Monkey. We want to buy you!”

Well, it wasn’t that simple, but you get the picture.

So sit back and discover some clever ways to market your business on a shoestring including:

A sneaky use of Twitter to get more clients
A Lunch & Learn Strategy
A launch strategy his wife used in her lingerie business
The importance of blogging
And plenty more

Plus I share some amazing feedback from a recent guest who’s been blown away by the response after appearing on my show; as well as a listener who’s also been blown away by the fantastic experience she had using 99Designs to get a logo she loves.

Yep. Another big show. Let’s do this!

EPISODE TIMELINE

00:35 Welcome & overview
02:51 Time for a check-in on the week
05:48 Insights in to Netregistry & 99Designs
08:10 Today’s guest introduction – Aydin Mirzaee
09:33 Interview with Aydin Mirzaee
37:23 My top 3 marketing learnings fro my chat with Aydin
39:37 A social media analogy using donuts … yep, donuts!
41:06 Great feedback from a guest who’s been blown away after appearing on this show
43:07 Wrap-up and insights in to next week’s guests

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RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED

Aydin Mirzaee on Twitter

Aydin Mirzaee’s curent website FluidReview

Aydin’s wife’s lingerie business Amanda May

Sneaky Tony’s – a very cool bar in Perth

The video testimonial from past guest David Warne:

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MY TOP 3 MARKETING TIPS FROM THIS EPISODE

Use Twitter to identify people who are using keywords relevant to your business in their tweets, then hit them up with offers to come across.
If you’re holding a launch party then invite someone of influence along – if they accept, then use that news in your media release (Oh, and real live lingerie models will help, as well ;0)
Blog. Just start blogging. Now!