How do I increase business in difficult times?

Question

I am an estate agent starting out but due to ecnomic difficulties in South Africa business is really very slow. How do I increase business in these difficult times?

Answer 1

nothing you can do....

just wait til the end of the world with the rest of us.

Answer 2

You may use different strategy to promote your business

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Answer 3

Not much we can do in real estate now. However, you can find other business that complement to real estate business.. anything from ID, legal works, repairs jobs, plumbings ...that allow yourself to be the one stop centre for your customers.

Answer 4

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Not all web marketing needs to cost money. Aside from website submissions, there are a number of things that web marketers can do that are free, though they may be rather time-consuming. Other marketing tactics are relatively inexpensive, and are often well worth the investment.

Follow these basic steps to market your website and business.

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Answer 5

just inest in any feild

Answer 6

If you sure it is "cold" in your business line.

Change the assets to cash,

1. change the paper money to  Hard-money to avoid the devaluation

2. invest the money to world money exchange market:

    many Hot-money rush into china market ( from Feb.2008-Jul .2008) you just put money on bank and now you have increase 8% on your account. If you invest the money to estate.