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Marketing Tips That Will Stand The Test Of Time

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Marketing Tips That Will Stand The Test Of Time

20 Marketing Tips

1. The most important order you ever get from a customer is the second order.

2. In direct mailing, spend 10% of your budget on testing.

3. Understanding and adapting to consumer motivation and behavior is not an option. It is an absolute necessity for competitive survival.

4. A well-designed catalog mailed to a qualified response list will probably bring a one percent response.

5. Processing and fulfillment costs incurred from the time an order arrives until it is shipped should be kept below $10 an order.

6. Know the power of repetition. Be sure your message is consistent.

7. The two most common mistakes companies make in using the phone is failing to track results and tracking the wrong thing.

8. Marketing activities should be designed to increase profits, not just sales.

9. It costs five times as much to sell a new customer as an existing customer.

10 Selling what your customers need, instead of what they want, can lead to failure.

11. Don’t think that product superiority, technology, innovation or company size will sell itself.

12. Don’t neglect or ignore your current customers while pursuing new ones.

13. People don’t buy products, they buy the benefits and solutions they believe the
products provide.

14. Any decent direct mail campaign will cost $1.25 per piece.

15. The average business never hears from 96% of its dissatisfied customers.

16. Fifty percent of those customers who complain would do business with the company again if their complaints were handled satisfactorily.

17. It is estimated that customers are twice as likely to talk about their bad experiences as their good ones.

18. Marketing is everyone’s business, regardless of title or position in the organization.

19. Exaggerated claims can produce inflated expectations that the product or service
cannot live up to, thereby resulting in dissatisfied customers.

20. Get to know your prime customers – the 20% of product users who account for 80% of the total consumption of that product class.

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Marketing Tips That Will Stand The Test Of Time

Email Marketing Solutions

Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Email Marketing Solutions

Guest Post: By Natalie Stanczyk

Leads_400Companies are still utilizing e-mail marketing to enhance their business. Pew Research Center recently reported that more than 90% of adults send and receive email, making it the most used online activity. Email marketing is effective to announce promotions, broadcast sales, follow up with leads, and publicize events to your customers.

Resurrecting Email Marketing – 4 steps to improve your e-mail marketing campaign:

Testing & Defining Metrics
An e-mail campaign should be approached similarly to buying a new car. Start with a test drive and track the:

  • title and subject line to see what gains the best response
  • date and time to determine successful delivery
  • appeal of the content to ensure the message is clear

Once testing has commenced you can target your sales efforts towards the response received. Through testing and metrics you will gain insight into best practices for your campaign and uncover your greatest customers.

Message Targeting
Relevance is the difference between an effective e-mail campaign and one flagged as spam. Targeting your e-mails towards your customers will increase relevancy and decrease the percentage of unopened or opted out e-mails. Customers have different interests and are at different points of involvement. Give them what they need for where they are in their journey. Your message should be an extension of your customers’ one-on-one experience.

Design
Don’t ignore the appearance of your e-mail, your customers won’t. Whether you choose a graphically engaging visual format, or a cleanly formatted, informative, text layout, demonstrating creativity could be a major factor in differentiating yourself from the rest.

Social Media
Social media has made a splash in the marketing world and can positively influence your e-mail campaign. It can provide another avenue to connect and add to your group of contacts. Social media also provides an opportunity to gain insight into your customers’ interests via ongoing conversations, further generating ideas for your next e-mail and increasing the opportunity to remain relevant in your message. Using social media’s viral nature to alert and build interest around your message will ensure the success of all your efforts.

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Natalie Stanczyk is a social media specialist at Starkmedia, a web design agency based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. If you would like to discover more innovative ideas that could enhance your business, please visit us at http://www.starkmedia.com or contact the author at nstanczyk@starkmedia.com

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