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Planning a Cutting-Edge Business Strategy For Your Startup

You have an idea for a killer business strategy and when you try to implement it, capital issues or any demotivated issues get in your way. Sometimes both are the reason why your startup collapses. More often than not people fail at the first step that is, Starting a Startup. Here, we will discuss how to start your killer business startup with a killer business strategy. Let's look at each one by one.

By Armen BaghdasaryanPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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1. Search for employees

Once you have started a targeted startup, next thing is to hire employees. You don't need several hundreds of employees for your startup, but hire one during the initial days and scale up.

Now, the question arises. From where do I hire employees? There are several websites from where you can hire employees for a fixed rate. But the best would be to reach out to people. It's the best option for either an employer or an employee. Social media websites are the major players. Instagram, Linkedin, and many others. In order for your startup strategy to work, you have to connect to people.

2. Getting the word out

Only people from the same niche can get the word out to other people. It's the most important business strategy of all. This business strategy determines how much your startup will grow. The easiest way to reach people is by using paid ads. The easiest way to reach people organically is by providing value. No matter how much capital or revenue you have, without providing value to people, no startup can ever survive in the modern world. Social media websites are the way to reach potential employees and even consumers. These websites get millions of users every month and can be really useful to every startup.

Currently, Instagram is easier to reach people than other social media websites. Websites like Linkedin are also growing rapidly. You should check that too.

3. Knowing your target

Knowing your target is just as important as knowing your customers. Without defining your target, you only get so far. If you want to sustain, you must know your customers and target. Both are equally important. You never know when a social media website is gonna blow up. So keep an eye out. Also, your other major target should be to win the customer's trust. This not only includes monetary benefit but also emotional benefits for your startup. Gaining trust is a long-term process, so it cannot happen overnight.

4. Following and sometimes not following the trend

Following the trend can be a great way for any business startup to grow. But the problem is that there is just too much competition. You either adopt it early or wait for the next trend. Whatever the case may be, you have to be unique from all other competitors in the same niche. Do something that your competitors are not doing. Provide higher value to people than just making your startup grow.

Following the trend is not always healthy. It can lead to confusion and if you do not provide enough value to your consumers either through your products or services, this leaves a bad impression on your growing startup. The business startup should provide high by low costs. This can deeply enhance the customers into purchasing your products or services more and the investments they make, make them recurring payment assets.

5. Maintaining your brand value

Whatever you do, you have to keep on building your business startup brand. The higher the brand value, the higher is the chance of making a successful startup.

Now, the question is, how to increase brand value?

The answer may seem simple but is not. It takes years to get a decent brand value and with ever so increasing competition, your startup could just get lost in the void. So, maintaining the brand value is a big challenge. It can be maintained by providing more value to your customers than your competition, writing some good guest articles, launching video marketing campaigns using different video maker apps, implementing paid ads, and more. But above all, don't forget to be respectful. The other most important aspect in building a successful business startup with a successful business strategy is to have patience.

6. Using an exit-intent popup

This strategy is highly underrated. Although you can't use it in social media apps, exit-intent popup is basically a popup which you would have seen in a select few websites. These can deeply influence customers into buying a product, subscribing to a newsletter, you name it! This is one of the most beautiful business strategies for your startup. Exit intent popup is a boon to most startups, especially to an eCommerce startup.

Conclusion

Business strategies that enhance the customer's trust in the specifically intended startup are the most amazing way in growing a startup. If strategies like exit-intent popups are implemented well, a startup can last for decades.

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About the Creator

Armen Baghdasaryan

Armen Baghdasaryan is an experienced digital marketing specialist who is always keen to keep up with the latest updates in the industry and come up with the best marketing solutions.

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