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Marketing Basics Even CEOs Don’t Know (But They’d Never Admit It)

Sometimes the most basic data is the best. Marketing is not complex if you know the basics- that’s true with anything by the style. Here are some implementations that are brilliantly simple and with them you really won’t have to sweat the smaller stuff.

Tip# 1) The more that your potential purchasers see your name in front of them, the most likely they are to call your number ( and not someone else’s) when they need the services that you offer.

Many marketing campaigns proceed unrewarded , not because they were off target but simply because they weren’t given enough of an opportunity to work. Showing your Ad one time on TV, running an ad in the paper once, or doing one mailing of post-cards is not enough to give and keep the audience’s attention.

Get your name out there, do it on a regular basis and people will remember you when they need person in your line of business. Actually, this specific tip cannot be stressed enough and failure to adhere to it is the # 1 reason brand-new businesses fail.

Tip# 2) Measure your Return On Investment( ROI) in terms of actual MONEY not response rate. A advertising campaign is working when the MONEY that it brings in has more value than the money and time that is spent on marketing. 

Don’t fall into the trap of becoming depressed by a small number of callers responding to a large number of pieces. If you waste several hundred dollars to be in front of a few thousand leads, it may merely take a few purchasers answering for you to make enough profit for this type of marketing to be valuable.  The usefulness of any advertising campaign can only be determined after the amount of income generated by the publicity has been calculated. If you waste 1/5 of what you attain or attain 5 times what you trash, your expedition was successful.

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Tip# 3) It is much easier to “sell” future prospects once you get them to call or to proceed through your marketing funnel. In 2-Step Marketing, step 1 is to get them interested; step 2 is having them speak to a representative to get all the details- and get “closed” by that representative.

Your design must be eye catching and informative, but don’t try to close the sale by clarifying all of the details in one piece of marketing. The details of a business transaction often attain many more statements to interpret than the central notion of what is being sold. All you are trying to do is prompt prospects or reiterate to the client to call to get the rest of the details once you have gotten their interest.

Marketing can be as simple as 1-2 -3 when you know the basics. By no means have I opened you all the basics now, but by learning and implementing these 3 sell fundamentals, you currently on your style to selling success.

Valuable Marketing Lessons Not Taught Anywhere Else

Let’s face it-advertising is expensive. You need to be an trained consumer these days if you want to be in control of your spending and your income. The problem is that most people don’t know what they don’t know- and the toughest thought about that is- how do you know exactly where to search when you don’t even know what you’re looking for ?? And to make things worse, countless business owners waste thousands of dollars in marketing and advertising, trusting so called ‘professionals’ merely to flunk- and then become firearm shy from advertising or marketing in the future. The reason for failing could be a multitude of things, but it has always come to simple facets that can be easily fixed.

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1 Comment

  • Cashen Smith
    Posted June 30, 2020 at 12:52 pm

    marketing made simple: get in front of the customers. Repetitive marketing to get in their heads.

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