February 21, 2010 | In: credit card
The Building Blocks of Effective Marketing

Whether you’re starting a new business or attempting to grow an existing one, it’s easy to spin your wheels when it comes to effective marketing. Often times, business owners will try to make a big splash by running a large ad in a local newspaper or a television commercial during the most expensive time slot. While these will probably be seen, they probably won’t have much impact because there is often no repetition. The business owner runs them once (or a few times) and then simply stops with the conclusion that advertising doesn’t work. In order to achieve results from any form of advertising, you need repetition of your message. This has always been true, but it’s even more important with the number of marketing messages that today’s consumers are presented each day.
If you’re ready to start marketing your business, begin with the basic building blocks to form your foundation and grow from there.
Network — many networking events can be found in just about any city or town. If you, like most business owners, are short on time, focus on the ones that are during the evening hours. In many cases, these events are free, so the only cost is your time. Networking is a great way to make face to face contact with prospects without the distractions you would normally face during the work day. All you need is a handful of business cards, a winning smile and a great attitude.
Business cards — Obviously, you’ll need them for networking and sales calls. Don’t forget all the other ways you can distribute them. Business cards a an easy and inexpensive way to generate exposure for your business.
Direct mail — You don’t need to mail to a list of 50,000 for direct mail to be effective, you just need to be consistent. You can have 1,000 postcards printed, affix postage and labels yourself, and mail out 50 or 100 to the same targeted list each week. As you begin to generate revenue from this, you can increase the size of your mailing list.
Web site — If you don’t have a web site, you are wrong. Plain and simple. Web sites aren’t just for e commerce, nor are they just for large companies. These days, people use the internet for comparing companies and without a web site, you’re out of the running. You don’t need all of the bells and whistles, but you do need an effective and professional web site.
There you have it. The basic building blocks you’ll need to effectively market your business. With these blocks in place, you can begin to add additional things, such as search engine optimization, television and radio advertising, or billboards. The idea is to build a foundation, and as you achieve results, add more to your marketing campaign.
Question about marketting
How we set the incentives for Marketting Excutivies?
Please define the term Marketting , Sales And Support.
What criteria we follow while setting the incentivies to Marketting excuvities.
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18 Responses to The Building Blocks of Effective Marketing
WPMixer
February 21st, 2010 at 8:40 am
Must be really good. I wish I could hear it. The sound is FUBAR. NO SOUND !!
universe
February 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am
It is not a good combination. The skills and talents required are entirely different.I can not see many successful technical person in advt. mktg.or media.
Wordpress
February 21st, 2010 at 9:41 am
I am having the same problem…I really would like it if the audio was synchronized with the video and didn’t break-up as bad as it does. To bad, this is valuable information from Perry…as usual.
Dhanesh P
February 21st, 2010 at 10:06 am
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Vithoba H
February 21st, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Usually, Incentive is a deffer ed payment of productive calls made by Marketing Executives, depending on quantum of Business booked by an Executive from the margin. You may give any thing between 10 to 15 % of your margin as an incentive to each Executive for additional Business i.e., beyond Target. Target too has to be fixed scientifically.
rr
February 21st, 2010 at 1:08 pm
You have to be a good speaker, salesperson, and work hard.
sharon
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:55 am
If you are not interested in MBA then go for a diploma in Maketing.
Try to find that in your city,which colleges provide such diploma's and other information like fees,duration etc.
Misanthropic
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:48 am
probably because his marketing strength is the younger wrestling fans. and since he is so over with them, why even bother to convert older male fans? the old saying is 'go with what brung you to the dance' and the younger fans definitely brought cena to the dance. screw em anyway he sux!
sh1zzared
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:04 am
Rather than a stunt, maybe go for effective.
Use direct mail.
You have an advantage here in that people respond to "food offers" more than any other kind of direct mail.
Most managers mistakingly believe that they lose money whenever they give discounts…..bzzzzt! wrong.
By getting people to respond to your insane direct mail offer, you will increase your revenue by creating sales from those customers in a time frame that would not have happened naturally.
In other words, you are getting that guy who, on his own accord comes in say, once a month, or you might see him every two months for like three days that week, to come through your doors twice a month. You are increasing the frequency of purchases.
If you send out a worthwhile offer, they will respond….over and over…and over.
If you have a lame offer….ya..they won't budge.
ask your customers what it would take…get some feedback….then create a nice professional looking piece or two….send them out….get feedback….tweek the thing, till it produces results consistently.
This is how smart companies use direct mail. ….you know…the ones who use it year after year….thwy do it because they've learned how to make it work for them.
Anonymous
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:14 am
I like his style. Perry this is great.
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Anonymous
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:59 pm
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Peter V
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
There are many good network marketing companies with great compensation plans. All will claim to be the best, yet the best one is the one that suits your interests. One may good for you and not good for another or vise versa. The key to success is enjoying what you do and building upon that. I am involved in the network marketing industry. I enjoy it. I enjoy being a solution to problems. That is where I choose to position myself. I also position my self in the health and wellness aspect. There are a lot of people who are looking for ways to improve their health. There are many who do not have good things to say about the network marketing industry. This is because of the statistics of failure and those who are out there hassling friends and family to join there bizz opp. If you don't find interest in what you do, how can you succeed? You also need to learn about your target market. I am not talking about warm market. Target marketing is positioning yourself in front of those looking for what you have to offer. I have been involved with programs that help you to know more about being a successful marketer. I suggest that you educate yourself as much as possible before going in blind. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have. I hope that this helps.
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emi
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Just learn japanese, german or chinese and you will be fine.
Anonymous
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Completely Agree. It is a big party
Blogger
February 24th, 2010 at 6:36 am
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WPBlog Shop
February 24th, 2010 at 7:29 am
Not sure if others are having this problem, but sound is really off from the video and then it breaks up so I can’t hear it at all.