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To survive in any form of an industry one needs to know to market his product well. It is absolutely important for a new set up to create his brand value in the market and that can be done only through ways of proper marketing. In order to market your brand you need to do some amount of spending. No marketing can be for free. You got to shell some amount of money behind the purpose and at times people spend a good chunk on it. But not every company can afford to spend a lot of money on marketing and therefore they have to fix a budget for that. There has to be a systematic planning to market your brand which also talks about how constructively you can set a cap on the marketing expenditure. It simply means that you can’t over budget your marketing expenses and if at all you got to do so then there should be a separate contingent plan available.

Construction business in particular has to be very cautious when it comes to marketing. You never know when the overall expenses reach the tilt and you gasp for more money. Therefore it is imperative for a construction business owner to frame a plan to market his business on a tight small budget. It may be a difficult task to market the construction business on a small budget but definitely not an impossible task. There are few ways and means that one can adopt if they want to market the business on a relatively small budget.

Promote your business online:-

Make a website of your own. Every company irrespective of whatever industry they belong to does have a website of their company. This is where the put all the information about their company and mentions the recent launches. Now what you need to do is try to make your website as attractive as you can but remember that it should not look awkward that people find it to be funny. Try to keep the professionalism of your company in place while you are designing your website. You got to mention about the existing projects and the one that is up your sleeves. You can also talk about the projects that you have completed and also the kind of projects that you work on. It is evident that not all construction houses take up any project that they get. They have their expertise and prefer to work in that domain.

Market it in social media:-

Social media has given you the option to market anything to a relatively larger section of the population and that too at a much lesser cost. You do not have to shell perhaps anything to reach out to people. All they need to do is like your website and all their friends can also get to see you. You have plenty of social media websites where you can promote your business by paying a meager sum of money.

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We are seeing an increase in the trend where people are promoting their businesses on social media like Facebook, Twitter and stuff. They find it to be a spectacular way to reach out to a good chunk of population at a shorter pace. You can simply calculate the number of people seeing your work if you have more than 600 friends in your list. Your work will also be seen by people who are your friend’s friend to whom you perhaps do not know in person. However, they also get the chance to see your business and if needed will hire your services.

These social media sites also play a major role in the growth of the heavy equipment and construction industry. For instance, you work for a heavy equipment company and are given the role to sell machines. You can easily place your ad on LinkedIn or Facebook and check the number of people who are interested to know more about it. Unlike Facebook, LinkedIn is used by people for professional requirements only. So it makes more sense to have a LinkedIn account and post the ads of the machines that you have to with you sell. You can also use the logo of your company so that the prospective buyers know in advance with whom they are dealing with. That also gives them a sense of security that they are in right hands and there is not any scam involved.

Other than this, if you want to recruit any operator or engineer, you can put your requirement out there and that gets passed like fire in the wild. You will soon get messages from people who are looking for the job and that gets your job done without you having to pay a single cent for it. There are millions of LinkedIn accounts and getting someone suitable for the job will not be that difficult. You can also make use of the website to hire technicians, managers for various roles etc. It may soon happen that these social networking websites may overtake job search engines or the job search engines have to work in tandem with these websites.

Now if you already have an account that you exclusively use for your business needs, it is very important that you keep that account professional. Avoid uploading any casual snaps or pictures that you have taken in some party. Your business account is not meant to accommodate those kinds of pictures. You can make use of your personal account for that purpose. You should put pictures of some new construction equipment that your company has launched in the market or if you have some news that you can share it in advance, you can put that story in your account.

Never overstate yourself in any social media website that you use for your business. If people get to know that you have overstated or exaggerated things it will give the impression that you are there to cheat. Be true to the readers as they will be your prospective clients.

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