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Marketing Strategies Most Businesses Never Think About
By Dan Lok
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Have you ever sat
down and wondered how you can build the core strength of your
business? You’re in business to make money. We all are. But step away
from images of cash and fat bank accounts for a moment.
Today you’ll learn 3
serious strategies you can start implementing right away. And if you
do it… you’ll discover a LOT about your business, your customers, and
you’ll have a clear path.
Business Building Strategy #1: Talk to your
customers
Effective marketing
begins with knowing about your customers. And there’s NO better way
than to simply talk to them. I don’t mean just put up a blog, post
some comments and see who replies.
I’ve seen way too
many established marketers who either don’t interact, or do it very
minimally, with their established and potential customers.
If you’ve
successfully branded your self, or want to, then realize that people
just don’t want to buy from you… they want YOU! So give them what they
want and in return you’ll get what you want.
People really do want
to tell you what they’re thinking, or what they want.
There are so many
questions you can ask them. Ask them about your business, how you’re
doing with products, your customer service, how could you make a
product better, did it satisfy their needs, if not… why not, on and on
and on. Ask them about their problems, their buying experience with
you.
You see? It’s so
simple.
You can learn SO much
from your customers and potential customers. And they’ll become even
more valuable to you. And…
Do not forget to
listen!
Business Building
Strategy #2: Organize your customers
You never market to
“the general public.” Got that?
It all depends on
your market. But who makes up your market? You have men, women,
teenagers, adults, younger and older adults, race and ethnicity,
geographic location, income, etc. And they ALL respond in different
ways to your marketing approaches.
So you need to
organize your target market into related groups. Then you learn the
most effective way to communicate with them. At that point you can
refine your marketing to each group based on what works best. You can
buy this kind of research, or start doing your very own testing. It’ll
be priceless testing.
You can organize your
market according to behaviors. Usually you will look at a particular
market group and divide them into practical categories. For example,
younger adults who are in college. Teenagers planning to attend
college. Older adults by professional status, hobbies, buying habits
between men and women.
It really depends on
what you’re marketing that will determine how you want to organize
your overall target market.
Business Building
Strategy #3: Business and product positioning
Very simply your
business/product positioning determines how your target market thinks
about you compared to your competition. Think about all the adjectives
businesses use to describe how great or unique their product,
business, or service is.
You have the
cheapest, least expensive, the freshest, the most exciting, the most
athletic, the classiest, the most masculine, or the most feminine. You
need to subtly, or not so subtly, compare what you offer in relation
to the alternatives.
And you have to do it
in a way that makes yours standout from the marketing roar.
There are several
considerations when you’re talking about positioning.
It’s typically based
on benefits or removing barriers. One effective way to find out what
benefits your market is looking for is to simply ask them. But we’ve
covered that. So there is just ONE benefit of talking to your
customers, or potential customers. And you must realize this… what you
think the benefits are might be different from what is matters to your
customers!
So there you have it.
The first place to
start thinking about is your target market. Do some serious thinking
and figure out EXACTLY who your market is. Then you know what needs to
be done.
A
former college dropout, Dan "The Man" Lok transformed himself from a
grocery bagger in a local supermarket to an internet
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