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Business Marketing Made Easy – 6 Tips For Your First Attempt At Business Marketing
By Mario R. Churchill
You’ve built a company based on the products or services that you sincerely believe have earning capabilities. Before you can start counting dollars, however, you need to make the market sit up and pay notice to what you’re selling first, and that, dear Watson, is not exactly an elementary thing to do.
6 Tips for Your First Attempt at Marketing
DON’T DELEGATE – Trust no one but yourself and your partners to build the marketing foundation of your company. Yes, you may have more than qualified employees working for you, but they still can’t know and love your as much as you do. You can ask for advice from experts, of course, and you can hire them to create a marketing plan, but make sure that you work with them and not just simply wait for the outcome.
THERE’S NO ROOM FOR TIMIDITY AND SHYNESS IN MARKETING – If you’re an introvert, this is one of the few times that you have no choice but to overcome your inhibitions and come out of your shell. If you really want to market your effectively, you need to personally speak up for it. You need to sound convincing and not shy as you expound on the many wonderful features
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and benefits of what you’re offering. You need to be assertive and not hesitant as you encourage people to avail of what you’re offering.
MAKE YOUR TARGET MARKET YOUR FAMILY – In normal circumstances, a family member is sure to be privy to ALL his family’s secrets – good and bad. Business-wise, however, you need to think of your target market as your family as well. You need to know everything about what they like and dislike. You need to know them so well that you can almost perfectly second guess how they’d react in a given situation. By making your target market your family, you’ll gradually learn which buttons to push to make your customers continue patronizing your company’s products or services.
USE ETHICAL MEANS IN MARKETING – Above all things, avoid using illegal or deceptive methods when marketing for your business. Don’t be tempted with the get-rich-quick-schemes because these won’t work for you in the long run and can easily cause your company to dissolve or go bankrupt. If you want your company to be successful, you need to love and respect your customers.
FOCUS ON BENEFITS AND NOT FEATURES – This is a rule of the thumb when marketing. If you’re creating an ad campaign or formulating a marketing strategy now, make sure that you remember to focus on the benefits and not the features of your product or service. Customers will always remember how their life – directly or indirectly – will be made easier by what you’re offering than how your product or service works or what hi-tech options it offers.
MONEY IS NOT ALL THAT MATTERS – Many owners make the mistake of thinking that a big and flashy marketing campaign is the best way to catch its market’s attention. And yes, of course, an expensive and ostentatious ad may capture your market’s notice – but the real question is will it be able to retain it long enough to convince them to buy what you’re offering?
Always remember that cost, although certainly important, is not the ultimate deciding factor when devising your marketing strategy.
Lastly, don’t forget to evaluate the results of your marketing strategy because there’s always something to learn from past success and failures.
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