The pressure to cut down the marketing investment is more now than ever before. The advertising on the channels like TV, radio, newspaper can get expensive.
What do you do to sustain and grow your business? Do what has worked for ever, use word of mouth. Cultivate relationships and support network. Build you credibility and reputation. Communicate effectively with your customers and partners.
How can you make it work for you?
Leverage the communication channels that are available to all – the search engines, the internet social media and mobile.
Develop content that fuels your marketing engine over these channels.
Content without conversation is dead. It doesn’t go anywhere. Conversation without content is mere networking. When you combine the two, you have a very powerful marketing tool to pull people to you.
Steps for Execution
Define your business goals. Look at your revenue targets, and define clearly your requirements for the business growth.
Segment your target market into different personas.
Find out what they are asking, searching for while shopping for the product or service. Where are they searching? You have so much market intelligence and competitive analysis at your finger tips now to make this assessment.
Make your content blue print – roadmap for creating content and also distributing it over different channels.
Implement the strategy for search engines, social media and mobile advertising.
Marketing is measuring. Put a system in place to measure results.