{"id":3401,"date":"2016-01-26T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T22:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2016-04-04T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:48:12","slug":"growing-your-business-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/blog\/growing-your-business-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Your Plumbing Business in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016 your customers live in a world of HGTV, Pinterest and Twitter. So many people are tied in to social media and home improvement messaging these days that it&#8217;s impossible to ignore the impact these media have on them &#8230; and on your business.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\">Mansfield Plumbing <\/a>on <strong>building your business in 2016<\/strong> by staying in touch with trending media:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip #1<\/strong> &#8211; Get a <strong>website<\/strong> for your business. Even a basic, no-frills website (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplesite.com\/\">HERE <\/a>for a free site that shows you how!) is better than none at all. Gone are the days when people find plumbers through the yellow pages. Today your potential customers will &#8220;search&#8221; online, review a website and then decide who to call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip #2<\/strong> &#8211; Have a strong, consistent presence on <strong>social media<\/strong>. Your company&#8217;s Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages should be updated at least twice a week. Learn how <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/marketing\/keep-up-with-latest-social-trends\">HERE<\/a>. And, you can get 25 fast tips from Forbes by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnrampton\/2014\/09\/29\/25-ways-to-grow-your-social-media-presence\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip #3<\/strong> &#8211; Talk <strong>new products<\/strong> to your customers. They&#8217;re already learning about new products on websites, in magazines and through e-mail marketing and social media, so take advantage of their interest to showcase the newest and best products available to them &#8230; and use this as an upsell opportunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016 your customers live in a world of HGTV, Pinterest and Twitter. So many people are tied in to social media and home improvement messaging these days that it&#8217;s impossible to ignore the impact these media have on them &#8230; and on your business. Here are some tips from Mansfield Plumbing on building your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-building-tips"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansfieldplumbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}