Marketing can seem quite complicated to many business owners and often you will not find out what works and what doesn’t until you have tried it. With so many different ways of marketing and all companies giving you slightly different advise it often it a trial and error for a little while until you find what works.

When you are doing any sort of marketing it is important to be able to try and track the response it has had as much as possible. If you are doing leaflet drops for example, you may put a dedicated phone number on or a voucher code to find out how successful they have been.

If you are going to be doing web marketing such as Google Adwords then there are some great stats packages out there which will allow you to monitor the traffic to your site and see if they have been refer from another website or a search engine. It will also track visits you have had through social media websites such as Facebook or Twitter by showing you the link that was clicked on.

Always keep checking your response rate compared to your spend to ensure that that form of marketing is giving you a good return on your investment.