What are the steps to Promote and advertise my Business and reach clients?

[John Ashtone]

What experience in this area do you have?

If none then you have an uphill struggle, most people who start businesses have some contacts within the trade to start with, and work from there.

What catering experience do you have, or what places or companies were you going to use, if you don't have these lined up already I suggest you go back to basics and write out a plan of action.

List the people you will need to call on, then do some googling and check out 192 and Yell, get a list of places and venues that are suitable for you to handle (so not the O2 arena lol) small venues, phone these up and ask what run in times you need, My Mum is having a birthday ~do~ in April and she booked the venue back in September.

Next Weddings are okay, but most are planned at least a year in advance, so you will have a long time to wait for cash, organising small venues for local small companies or birthday parties might be a good thing to look at.

What does your website say you handle, you do have a website don't you?

How much have you budgeted for a website, if you haven't, then you haven't done a business plan, which I suggest you do, your bank will supply you with some software to do this, this ids the link for HSBC, but all the major bnaks do business planning software.

http://www.business.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/start...iness-plan

I have found HSBC to be the better of a mixed bunch, when it comes to business banking, and I have found also that the longer you are with them the better they treat you.

Don't pay a fortune for a website, but also don't try doing it for free, because having other peoples adverts (and that is what happens with doing a website for free) detracts from the purpose of your site.

I used a web design called Weebly to set up mine, but I have now transferred to Wordpress for more versatility, however i would recomend Weebly to start with as the results are very professional, but you are limited to six pages, which in your case should be more than adequte.
http://www.weebly.com/

It is probably best to have a diferent web hosting company.
http://top10best.webhosting.co.uk/

For what it is worth I am with Just host that I find quite good.

I am not that good on social media, Faceache I find not very good, but Twitter works well.

If you want to get an advertising agency you need a small one to start out with, because the large agencies cost a fortune.

Beware I have just googled small local ad agenices in london, and BBH was the second on the list lol, Bogle Bartle and Hegarty (I am sure they choose odd names then decide to build an agency around the names) are one of the largest nad best ad agencies in the World?

And the first on the list was another global comapny.

I will let you search for a small agency, but this list might help
http://www.freeindex.co.uk/categories/ad..._agencies/