Showing posts with label brand marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brand marketing. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 November 2014

4 Sure Ways to Find the Right Customer



Aiming target sales at blank point is one of the most foolish things that any marketer could ever do to his business. In order to ensure that your business succeeds, you must be able to identify which customers would definitely bite your brand. You must aim for those customers who have higher chances of buying your products and services.
This strategy is one of the most practiced advertising mechanisms that brands use. For example, you’d see a lot of beer and car commercials on sports shows, since guys are the usual audience of these programs and guys usually like beer and cars. Female oriented shows like fashion shows have commercials of cosmetic products since females are more inclined in buying these types of brands. Brands understand the importance of finding the proper customer for the right brands.
Since the internet has its ways on determining which things will follow your likes (take Google’s algorithm and search engines as examples), finding the right audience won’t be that hard. For instance, Facebook ads use your likes and recent activities in order to “accurately” show you some advertisements that could possible fit your taste. Although this system might be useful, some other advertising fields do not have this kind of algorithm.
As a marketer, you must be able to figure out how you can find the right audience for your brand. But as a simple online marketer, how can you be able to target your audience with pure accuracy?
Have no fear because here are some answers to your queries!
  • Know your brand more - You can’t successfully identify your audience if you really don’t know the brand that you are selling. This is one of the most common errors that beginner articles make. Not knowing your brand’s real deal will only blur your aim.
  • Have a clear outline of your target audience – After knowing your brand’s goal, you must now have an idea of what possible audience could benefit from your brand. It is okay if you won’t be able to figure the perfect audience of your brand. By doing this, you will have a perfect goal which you can use in targeting your audience.
  • Use focused-niche websites in your advantage – What are these websites that focuses solely on specific niches? We have forums and threads and Question and Answer Websites for example. These websites have specific posts for specific niches. Advertising through these websites (by participating on knowledge sharing and the like) can not only build your brand’s reputation, but will also target specific kinds of audiences.
  • Use the proper keywords in creating articles – Let’s not simply forget how SEO can help you target your audience through organic results. Using the right keywords for your contents helps you attract more specific audience. Besides, using proper keywords can also help you rank well on search engine results pages (or simply SERPs).

Just like Nemo, finding someone (and in this case, you right audience) would could take a lot of time, effort and energy. But once you’ve found it, everything will be worth it. Your brand will benefit the most with the most conversion, garnering your business with high conversions and high generation of sales!

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Monday, 20 October 2014

What Is Your Big Idea?

What is your big idea by Charlie Page
But this is not a new problem by any means. Consider this …
  • In the 3rd century BC there were routine complaints about too many books being published. How was one to read them all?
  • Way back in 1964 the term “information overload” arrived on the scene, and then gained widespread popularity in 1970’s Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
It has been the catchphrase of many a haggard information worker ever since.
But here’s something interesting. In the years since 1964 huge brands have been born and prospered.
From Apple to Zappos, big brands have come into the market, prospered and employed many. Little companies have too.
What did they have in common?
One thing they had in common is that they had a big idea.
Do you have a big idea?
Do you have that one thing that you can say to customers that let them know what it is you offer, how they will benefit, and why they should buy from you?
To be clear, you don’t have to be an Apple to develop a big idea. You don’t even have to own a company to use a big idea.
Big ideas, clearly communicated, work for affiliate marketers, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes.
In today’s fast paced, information-addicted society, being able to clearly state what you offer, quickly, creates big benefits.
So how can you do that?
By developing a core message and then letting that core message run like a ribbon through everything you do.
  • Include it in your advertising.
  • Make it part of your logo.
  • Put it in your business name.
  • Tweet about it.
  • Pin images about it.
  • Include it in articles.
  • Add an email signature that reinforces your big idea.
You can’t go wrong being known for your big idea. And being identified by your big idea will help you sell more products to more people more easily.
And that’s a good thing.
So how do you develop your core idea? I can’t cover all of the steps in one article, but here’s a great place to start.
Write down what your business or product is all about. Do this using the fewest possible words.
“We help newbies succeed online” is better than “we provide tools and training designed to help beginners understand what they need to do to succeed in business.”
See the difference?
Here are a few ideas to get the juices flowing. What are you all about?
  • Sharing wisdom
  • Sharing research
  • Solving specific problems
  • Saving time
  • Saving money
  • Helping newbies
  • Working with experts
  • Making money
  • Increasing sales
  • Empowering change
  • Connecting people
What you are all about might not be on this list. But reviewing this list will help get the ideas flowing, and help lead you to that three or four word description that fits what you do best.
Once you have that three or four word description you will have your big idea in raw form.
Now continue on by refining and developing it into short sentences.
You will eventually come to the place where you have one short sentence that clearly summarizes what you are all about, and how customers will benefit from doing business with you.
When you have that you will have your core message. Then you can begin weaving that message into everything you do.
This is work. Hard work. Brain work. But if you do it you will develop something everyone will be attracted to, and that is congruency.
When your messages are congruent, when you are saying the same things over and over again, and supporting that with your actions, you will begin to build a brand.
And brands last a very long time indeed.

http://charliepage.com/what-is-your-big-idea/