What Kind of Customers Will YOU Attract?

Customer Acquisition, Marketing, Monday Marketing Minutes, Small Business Info
Your company’s brand values, marketing strategy and communication techniques all play a part in determining the kinds of customers you’re likely to attract, right? Well, this process is a two-way street. To attract a specific target audience, it is important that you establish the right brand values, using the right communication channels, in order to get that audience on your side. Get it wrong and your company can easily end up attracting the ‘wrong’ types of customers — those that cost you a lot of time and money, while doing little to help your business progress and grow. The effects of attracting these 'wrong' types can be: Customers make one-off purchases and never return, or purchase very infrequently You have few conversions (proportion of actual sales to something like your website…
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The Blog Blog!

The Blog Blog!

Monday Marketing Minutes, Small Business Info
Now that you've begun work on your 2013 marketing calendar, it’s time to start fine tuning the smaller ingredients of your overall marketing plan, such as your blog strategy. First off, writing a blog isn’t for every company. Make sure that putting out a blog fits in with the overall goals and standards of your brand. Also, if you have enough on your plate as it is, you may way to hold off on starting another project that requires a significant amount of time and effort. But if you feel like a blog would benefit your existing customers and help bring in new ones, then what are you waiting for? Consider these 5 simple steps in developing a blog strategy for 2013: 1.       (If you haven’t already) Choose a hosting site. Here…
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Plan Your Way to Success in 2013

Plan Your Way to Success in 2013

Monday Marketing Minutes, Small Business Info
Forget New Year’s resolutions, it’s time to put together your 2013 marketing calendar. With the new year less than 60 days away, do you have your marketing plans in place for next year? Many small businesses do not put together a yearly marketing calendar because they know they can’t predict everything that is going to happen, so they figure why try. That’s true, but it’s also a cop out. Just because you put together a plan, it doesn’t mean you can’t change the plan based on new information and real situations as you move through the year. Taking the time now to think through what you want to do next year will help you better focus on what you need to do to succeed. You can plan for the optimum…
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