So many marketing consultants say that marketing is about understanding the reason you are in business, do you believe that is true? Many marketing consultants and experts debate on the number of impressions in the consumer or customer's mind that it takes for your business marketing message to stick. These consultants, marketing book authors and experts also argue often over which market methods to use and what is the best marketing method for each and every single industry, region and type of business there is. Is marketing really about understanding the reason your business? This reminds me of the reason many small business owners get frustrated with their marketing. Whenever you're making decisions on marketing and business development, think about small, measured bets before making big marketing bets so you can test things out, analyze all the results, track the number of inquiries and learn what happens to those inquiries. Perhaps you might consider spending three or four hours looking over all of your marketing material since the day you started your business and considering what worked and what did not and what is no longer working as well as it once did. This is why having a marketing mentor or good friend who is successful in business may be just the ticket you need. This is an excellent form of marketing for a business. A good marketing campaign will create word of mouth.
Effective marketing can make your business or organization almost a household word in your community. The success of your business depends on your ability to build marketing momentum. Easily missed then in this marketing free-for-all are the smaller or new businesses, after the usually costly process of setting up a business with its requisite equipment, possibly an office or other type of premises, there is usually little or no funds available for marketing or advertising. An ideal small business marketing strategy will encompass many of these types of tools, and have campaigns set up using select tools at different times throughout the year. Authentic self promotion reconciles values of service and integrity with the tools and practices of effective small business marketing. Despite the fact that I am not the target audience, I am a marketer and take notice of new marketing approaches so that I can try them out myself and share them with subscribers to my small business marketing newsletter. So, what exactly is this powerful marketing technique that single handily can unleash the value in your business plan? This one technique is the key to the ultimate success of your business plan and its ability to attract potential investors. And when you're consumed by the day-to-day running of your business, marketing often gets pushed to the back burner. It's the new age of marketing, and there's never been a better time for your offline small business to get into the game.
One gent, Stephen, told how a month before, he'd signed up his good friend and football buddy Tim, for a $1750 package.
Two weeks later, Tim called and told Stephen was quitting the business.
Tim related how he'd gone to two friends to make a presentation, and both had told him no thanks. They added that they really didn't think it was a good idea for him to be doing that sort of thing, and said please don't bring it up during any future get-togethers.
Ouch.
Stephen had joined the mastermind because he didn't want to quit. But he didn't know what he should do now so he stopped doing anything. His upline, also on the call, wasn't sure, either. They're all socially very active in their communities and don't want to be perceived as people to stay away from because they do "one of those things."
Anyway, I suggested to my man that he contact Tim, and show him some alternatives to what he had done. With the language to use and all. Just in case, you know?
Well lo and behold, Tim's back in the business today. Doing fine with people for whom his business IS the right thing to be doing. Stephen's a happy man with a new approach and rationale for his business.
What do you do when you aren't being successful the way you want or need, but you're not a quitter?
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created it." -Albert Einstein
What worked five or ten years ago doesn't work today. Selling "the dream" doesn't keep people in like before.
Neither does the old school pitch: money money money. Close close close. Recruit recruit recruit.
1. The market has changed. It's 80% women in the business. ?2. The average age of a rep is middle age - at Shaklee it's 65. ?3. MANY of the women in the business do NOT do it primarily for the money. ?4. 85% of everyone is part time. ?5. Customers have been rediscovered, after years of being neglected and ridiculed ("There's no money in customers. All the money is in the recruiting." That refrain is probably what's motivating the newly proposed FTC regulations for our business.)?6. Of the 2/3 Americans looking for something of their own today, 97% say money is NOT their main motivator, either. ?7. Transparency is in, lies and half truths are out (e.g. it's easy, fast money, product sells itself, all you have to do is talk to your friends, etc.,)
Einstein was right. "The same level of thinking" will not do in today's marketplace.
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