Thursday, 5 June 2014

A Business Strategy For Great Advertising

By Christoper Law


Many factors make up a good business plan or strategy. In fact a good strategy can be made up of smaller ones. A good plan for marketing should have many thrusts and angles so as to make the most use of time and energy as well as money when the campaign begins. This article will look at some of the ingredients of a good business strategy for effective marketing that you can use in your business.

A simple and time tested kind of marketing that you should aim for is word of mouth marketing to be part of your overall plan. This kind of marketing is most effective when coming from a satisfied customer who is also credible. The best way to get this kind of marketing started is to keep you service or product at par with others or even better at a much lower cost.

The past few years have been seeing more small owners making their own presence on the internet with their own presence on the internet, with their own websites and pages. If at this point in time you shall do not have a presence on the internet in webpage or website then it might be a good idea to start on it right away. There are many ways you can get a website nowadays and most are free of charge for a limited time. It is quite simple to make one yourself with online instructions also.

Viral marketing should also be part of your agenda. Since almost everyone has a social media or network account, you may as well take advantage of it. Good articles and related posts that direct readers back to your business in a fun and different way should net you a few more customers. Just think of it as word of mouth marketing that you can control.

Do not underestimate old school methods of getting the word out. Should your pockets and time permit, do take out an ad in the paper and post flyers and posters out there to let people know that you exist. This is still a traditional method that works well in the modern world. Try to put these old school methods as part of your overall strategy to gain more customers for your needs.

Be realistic and within the reason when planning out your marketing strategy. Make sure that you do not have your head up in the clouds and plan something that cannot be done given a certain budget and time. Time should always be considered as a valuable resource alongside money.

As part of your overall strategy to make it in effective in terms of returns to cost, do marketing by segmentation and proper targeting. Do previous research on specifically which customers you want to attract by age, gender, status and so on. Knowing this will make the whole job of getting the right customers that much easier.

These are basically a few strategies that you can put together so as to get a comprehensive and unified marketing strategy for your business. There are of course other strategies out there you can also add to this list and for you to try out, however these are the most popular and time tested methods that may very well work for you if you give it a try.




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