There are many things to consider when starting a new business or company in Las Vegas and many things to consider if you want your business to be successful.  Business licenses, insurance, legal services, sourcing an office space, hiring and last but certainly not least, marketing materials to help market your new business.  Marketing is often an important factor that the beginning business person tends to overlook. Be aware that if you aren’t thinking about marketing from the beginning, your competitors throughout town already are.

Professionally designed and well-thought out marketing materials will give you instant credibility when searching for new customers and clients. Remember, your marketing materials are most likely a potential customers first impression for your new Las Vegas business, and as you know, first impressions are EVERYTHING.

Marketing Materials Your New Business Must Have:

Business Cards
A professionally designed business card, printed well, will be hugely important in helping establish credibility and market your company. Leave some sort of white space on the front or back of the card and make sure you can write on it with a pen without it smearing as potential customers sometimes write notes on your business card after meeting you.

Website
Many Las Vegas businesses often overlook the importance of a professional looking website, well written, well maintained. A website is as critical as having a business card. Potential clients will visit your website in researching your company. The key is to have it look and sound as professional as possible.

Stationery
Again, when corresponding with potential clients, a professional stationery including letterhead, envelopes and labels can really help your business credibility.

Brochure or Flyer
You also need some type of printed leave-behind when meeting with prospective clients. Some sort of trifold brochure or flyer that describes your company’s products and services and why they need to hire you to help them. Of course, they should be professionally designed.

All of the above marketing materials should be designed so that they all look like the come from the same company. This is known as corporate identity. A consistency across the board in using the same logo, fonts, colors and images creates a polished and professional corporate identity for your new Las Vegas business.

For more information or assistance with creating the above marketing materials, visit www.perkolate.com, my company’s website:

• Las Vegas Web Design Services
• Las Vegas Graphic Design Services
• Las Vegas Website Hosting and Domain Registration
• Las Vegas Marketing Services
• Las Vegas Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

I have been writing this free marketing blog in order to assist Las Vegas small businesses and Las Vegas companies with free articles, resources, tips and tricks for marketing their company or businesses. Just wanted to take a minute to shout out my own company, Perkolate Marketing and Design of Las Vegas, that can provide you with professional marketing, online marketing and design services in Las Vegas - just in case you can’t quite do everything yourself.

I started my company over 10 years ago in the heart of Silicon Valley (the internet epicenter back in the 1990’s) and have gained intensive in-depth knowledge about marketing, internet marketing and website design and development based on this experience to my Las Vegas Marketing and Design firm company, Perkolate.

If you have not already heard of Perkolate Marketing, please take a moment to review our website to find out more information on:

Las Vegas Marketing Services

Las Vegas Web Design and Website Master Services

Las Vegas Graphic Design Services

Las Vegas Powerpoint Presentations Design Services

Las Vegas Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Internet Marketing Services

Las Vegas Trade Show and Event Management

Las Vegas Pay-per-Click Advertising

Las Vegas Blog Design and Blog Marketing

Las Vegas Copywriting and Editing

Why should you hire a professional Las Vegas web design company?

There are some things in this the business world that you cannot live without. One of them is the fact that, if you wish to even survive on the Internet, you need to have a website for your Las Vegas business. Building a website could be a simple, especially considering the fact that so many resources are available on the Internet which will allow you to build a website for free or at a very low cost.

But is that what you really need? At the end of the day, your website is as important, if not more, than your business card, so wouldn’t you want a professionally custom designed website that completely fits your business and branding?

For this exact reason, you should be looking to hire a professional Las Vegas web design and development firm. Remember, building or designing a website from the scratch is no simple task, and is something that could add a few grey hairs!

Here are some reasons why you should hire a professional Las Vegas web design firm

• Technical knowledge – Writing website development on a piece of paper is one thing, and actually planning and executing one is another. 

• Content Integration along with the design of the site – The next time you see a website, observe howthe content is integrated and written. With each page, the content and links are strategically written and linked to one another. This is known as content integration, and requires an experienced web development company to do it professionally.

• Time is of essence – You may yet have a very good idea, and have an excellent network to launch a website for your company’s products or services, but do you really have the skills to develop a website, a professional marketing driven website? Even if you do, think of how much time you would be spending to design a website? By conservative estimates, all the development, coding and debugging would take you at least a week’s time. Would you rather develop your own website or free your time to do what YOU know how to do best?

• Cost-effective – Outsourcing this job of web development to a professional web development firm is always cost effective. This fact can be proven on two counts. Count 1 – Multiply the time to be spent by your company’s resources in building a website by the hourly cost. Count 2 – Add this time to the debugging and troubleshooting time for the website.

Think about these fact when considering hiring a local Las Vegas website design company? Remember, a local Las Vegas web design company knows the Las Vegas internet landscape and has the expertise to approach the design and development from a strategic perspective that is designed to help you gain website traffic and clients.

For more information, visit my company’s website (perkolate.com) for:

• Las Vegas Web & Graphic Design Services
• Las Vegas Website Development
• Las Vegas Marketing Services & Strategy
• Las Vegas SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Email marketing is a very cost effective form of marketing your Las Vegas products and services. There are various ways you can create an email campaign and various content options you can write about. Any way you look at it, email marketing can keep your company’s products and services in people’s minds and reminds people of your products and services and can lead to new leads and new business.

Where’s a good place to start?

There are many email marketing services available out on the internet. I’m most familiar with Constant Contact. Whether you’re looking to send an email newsletter, a high-impact email promotion, an email event invitation, an online survey, or build your email list, Constant Contact can help you get it done. 

Email Marketing and Online Surveys from Constant Contact make it easy and affordable for you to connect with your customers or members. Review their website for more information and details.

Where to find an Email list to market your email newsletter to?

A great place to start is with your current address book (from Microsoft Outlook or any comparable address book or email software). If you look in the help menu, there should be instructions on how to export your address book into a text delimited file that you can then import into your email marketing software, like Constant Contact.

You can also have a professional web developer put an email newsletter sign up form on your website’s home page in order to encourage visitors to sign up for your newsletter.  There are services online where you can also purchase email lists for marketing purposes.

What information can I include in my email newsletter?

• Helpful tips, tricks and inside information
• A special offer or discount
• Your full company information and contact information
• An article on a timely topic relevant to your business
• How you will solve your particular customer’s problems through using your services
• Special events or announcements

Everybody wants free advice and that’s why I started the MarketinginLasVegas website and blog, to give you free advice, resources, tips and tricks on marketing your Las Vegas business or Las Vegas company.  While you may not find a truly free online marketing consultant to work with (wouldn’t that be great?) there are so many marketing consultants who have written articles online and free websites with marketing advice and resources all available at your fingertips if you search on google.

Here are some great free resources for marketing and online marketing resources, strategies and tactics:

• Free Marketing Advice from whatsnextonline.com
• Small Business Marketing Advice - BusinessTown.com
• Small Business Marketing TIps - Internet Marketing Advice - Internet Marketing Guides
• Affiliate Marketing Suggestions and Advice - WebProNews.com
• Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Plans and Careers - About.com
• Marketing Online Resources at Education Index
• Business Marketing Strategy Essentials
• Examples of Marketing Strategies
• Free Internet Marketing Tips / Articles
• Top Ten Online Marketing Tactics
• Six Marketing Tactics Worth Paying For - Forbes.com
• Social Media Marketing Tactics & Resources
• Sample Marketing Plan - MoreBusiness.com
• How to Write a Marketing Plan, Samle Marketing Plans - KnowThis.com
• The Marketing Mix - The 4 P’s of Marketing
• Online Marketing Resource Center, Case Studies, Email Guides - eROI.com
• Internet Marketing Campaign - 5 Step Internet Marketing Plan

Email marketing for your Las Vegas company or business is a very cost effective form of marketing and advertising and can help you keep mindshare in your client’s minds and help find your business new leads.

A professional email marketing services company in Las Vegas can help assist you in desinging a template for your email marketing campaign, help you import your contacts and can train you on how to write your own newsletters, send them out to your database and track the results of your efforts.

In general, you can sign up with a company, like constantcontact.com, and starting at $25/month (cost depends on the size of your email database and the frequency you send emails out to that database), you can communicate directly with your clients and customers from your email database and inform them of:

• Latest company news
• Timely articles, tips and tricks
• Changes in your product and services offerings
• Key management changes
• Specials, promotions and bargains
• Keeps your company in your customer’s mindshare