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[T390]The Complete Idiots Guide To Marketing
by Lynne Saarte, Lyn
Poster printing is a powerful tool indeed for marketing. Have you seen the movie posters being displayed these past few years? They have been getting better and better. When I see a great design of a poster, I immediately want to see or go to that event. If they have the time, money and energy to create a great poster, they must have a fine movie, event or other project worth going to. That is the kind of power a print poster has over people. So it pays to use this advantage in a marketing campaign. Poster printing will give you the exposure you need for a mass audience. All you need to know is how to maximize the use of your posters and get almost everyone to see it. In this simple guide, we will tell you the best places to put your various color posters. Remember them well so that you can exploit the power of poster printing.

Use large outdoor posters in high traffic areas
The first and the easiest way for a marketing campaign using posters is to use large sized posters in areas with very high traffic. They can be placed on display areas in main thoroughfares, and high traffic sidewalks. The sheer amount of people passing through these busy streets and sidewalks ensures the maximum impact of your outdoor poster. Be sure to ask your poster printing company for the best sizes for outdoor posters. Coupled with a unique design, you will have people studying it and passing along the word about your poster to other people. You can even have a whole advertising campaign just by using outdoor posters. If placed in high traffic areas, they will be repaying the money you spent for them in no time.

Use posters in indoor public places
You can also use your posters in indoor public places. Depending on your poster's content, you can place a poster at schools, churches, hospitals, shopping malls, sports stadiums, theatres and other buildings where the public gathers. Usually they have places reserved for displaying posters. Be sure to ask permission before placing your posters to avoid trouble. Usually, placing your poster is free but some places may charge you. Also, remember to take them down once finished as a since of respect for the administrators of that public place.

Place indoor posters near establishments where your target audience hang out.
For more particular marketing campaigns aiming for a specific target audience, you should try to post your custom full color posters inside or near establishments where their specific ?crowd? always gathers. For example, for a book launching and author signing event, a good practice is to provide bookstores with a free poster of the event to place at their counters. Most would welcome this move and since a lot of book readers loiter in bookstores, you will reach your target audience faster. Simply study where your target market usually goes to and place your poster near those places. You will have a direct line to them in no time.

Give posters as freebies or prizes
Lastly, you can give free copies of your posters to people. Anything free is welcome and people will usually grab at the opportunity, and print posters are not exempt from that. When you give your posters away, this actually means you are using a cheap and fast distribution system for your posters. People might display your poster in their rooms or at the office. This further increases the amount of people that will look at your posters, at no extra cost. This also applies if you give the posters as prizes.

Great! Those are the general tactics you can use for marketing using poster printing. Of course do not be limited by these ideas and try out a few of your own. These are just the tried and tested ideas that work. So remember these techniques as you go about your marketing.

In my introductory article I asked "Do you wish you had an Owner's Manual Guide to creating a successful business? An Owner's Manual Guide to Life? An Owner's Manual Guide that lays out in detail how to deal with some of life's most complex and challenging issues?

"The Owner's Manual Guide To: Marketing and Sales" is just such a resource for the business owner and entrepreneur during these challenging and opportunistic financial times.

I want to welcome you to the second article in a series of powerful articles that will give you insight, strategies, tips, and principals on Marketing and Sales. A word of caution - even though this series is about Marketing and Sales for business, these same principals can be used to improve all areas of your life!

The First Principal: Strategy.

"OMG" Quick User Guide

The Benefits of Strategy:

a) "Without strategy, you fail"
b) "Without strategy in a rapidly changing industry, you fail rapidly"
c) "Fail to plan?
d) "Plan to fail!"

Strategy, everybody has one, right? Wrong!

Try this on a friend. Ask them what their strategy is for their business. 9-times-out-of-10 they will give you a description about their product or service and why it is the best product and service in the market today and the niche it will serve - and that is why it will sell so well and they will become millionaires over night!

This is not a strategy.

Chances are they DO NOT have a fully thought out or planned strategy to get their product or service to market.

When we start out to launch a new product and/or service we are all excited about the prospects and have an idea in our head i) why it is so good, ii) where we will sell it, and iii) who we will sell it to.
This is a great start. I encourage you to always Dream big. But as a long-term strategy, the above is too vague.

However, there is a tried and true method to the lasting success of your product or service. The following are the same steps that the most successful companies have used when they first started out. Bill Gates used these same principals when he started Microsoft as a college dropout (OK -so the college was Harvard), still, Microsoft started out as most companies do - with an idea and a vision - but then a good strategy was laid out to make it one of the largest and most diverse corporations in the world (sort of an Owner's Manual Guide?).

I read the following statement about strategy that resonated for me:

"It is either your Strategy or someone else's. If you do not develop a Strategy of your own, you become part of someone else Strategy".

Truer words were never spoken. If you are too vague and/or have no plan at all - then you fall prey to the competition around you, especially to the toughest competitor and critic we have - the one that plays out in each of our heads.

OMG TIP! Keep this statistic in mind.

A full 50% of all businesses never formulate a strategy.

The Benefits of Strategy:

a) "Without strategy, you fail"
b) "Without strategy in a rapidly changing industry, you fail rapidly"
c) "Fail to plan?
d) "Plan to fail!"

Planning --
"The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of depression and worry."

In the next article on Strategic Planning we will cover specific action steps on:

- Mission and vision statements.

- Importance of Strategic Planning.

- Developing a vision, mission, core values and core competencies.

- Conduct strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis.

- Developing strategic goals, objectives, champions, action plans, due dates and metrics keyed to your vision.

Did you find this article helpful? Do you want to learn more? Then take a look at the step-by-step video tutorials here!

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