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Creative Marketing Tips … “Simple Things You Can Use In Your Business To Attract More Clients”
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Get Results: Start with Your Marketing Message and Objective
Recently I was talking with a very bright traditional marketer
on the value of integrating Internet marketing into an
enterprise's marketing mix. Personally, I have witnessed
significant and measurable increases in the online results of an
enterprise when they include traditional marketing strategies
like direct mail, radio, television or publicity with their
internet marketing strategies.
Although he did not disagree with the concept, he re-focused the
discussion on the importance of an enterprise establishing their
marketing message and objective even BEFORE contemplating their
traditional or Internet marketing strategies. What an excellent
point! What about you...
* Have you created a clear and concise marketing message?
* Have you defined your customer benefits and integrated them
into your message?
* Have you established a measurable objective to determine your
success by?
Your Marketing Objective Defines Your Results
Business owners and marketers have a tendency to think in broad
terms about their marketing objective by focusing on ones such
as "generating traffic" or "designing a website." Instead, the
effectiveness of their internet marketing strategies should be
driven by specific marketing objectives established from the end
result required of the business to be economically sustainable.
For example, "generating traffic" is not directly tied to a
financial objective like "generating a cost per sale of $75."
The common misperception of "traffic equals sales" has wasted
tremendous amounts of business' capital on poor quality website
traffic. In addition some businesses have developed negative
attitudes towards Internet marketing by falsely associating poor
results to it instead of to a lack of an objective.
Recently a new client described his horror story of spending a
significant part of his budget on contracting with a paid search
service provider. The resulting paid search campaign was a major
failure in terms of satisfying the client management's net
profit objective. Actually, to be precise, the campaign caused a
massive negative net profit.
After asking further questions to understand why the situation
occurred, I discovered that the blame could not be attributed to
the service provider's failure to perform but instead to the
client's failure to define the correct marketing objective.
The client contracted with the service provider under an
objective of "generating traffic" versus "generating a positive
net profit." The goal of "generating a positive net profit"
involves a more strategic performance-centered setup and
management of a paid search campaign which this particular
service provider was not capable of delivering through their
business model.
Unfortunately, directed by the client's defined objective, the
service provider delivered massive volumes of paid search
"visitor traffic" which failed to satisfy the client's
non-communicated but expected
increase in positive net profit.
Your Marketing Objective is the Balance between Determining
Success and Failure.
By defining a measurable objective, an internet marketing
strategy is regulated by the resulting increase or decrease of
it. From this perspective, a simple "yes/no" decision is made as
to the success of a particular strategy: "Yes" it achieved the
marketing objective and should be maximized; or "No" it fell
short of achieving the marketing objective and should be dropped
or the message adjusted and tested again. Without a measurable
objective, the success of an internet marketing strategy is
determined by subjective means versus real data.
A Clear and Concise Marketing Message Ensures Achievement of
Your Objective
The marketing message is essential for generating performance
from your Internet marketing strategy. Rather on your website,
landing page, or paid search ad, the message attracts visitor
attention, qualifies the type of visitor and persuades the
visitor to complete your defined marketing objective.
An excellent book written by Doug Hall titled, "Jump Start Your
Business Brain" outlines three essential components every
effective marketing message should include. They are:
1. Overt Benefit: answers the customer-centric question of
"what's in it for me?" 2. Reason to Believe: what persuasive
credibility shows that you will do as you promise? 3. Dramatic
Difference: what is your uniqueness to the customer?
The rudimentary knowledge gained from these three essentials is
that you must focus on your visitor and answer their buying
questions. By satisfying your visitor's needs in a manner that
persuades them to buy, they will correspondingly satisfy your
needs.
Are You Satisfying Your Visitor's Needs?
An easy way to assess whether your marketing message is even
capable of satisfying your visitor's needs is to count the
number of times your website copy states "you or yours" versus
"we and us". Although primitive, this exercise will immediately
tune you in to where your marketing message is directed. If
you're talking more about "we" then about "you" then you're
focusing on the wrong message.
Instead of spending more time on developing a traffic generation
strategy, re-focus your time and thinking on developing an
effective marketing message with a measurable objective.
Ultimately your traffic generation strategy will achieve higher
returns and stronger results when you attract the most qualified
visitors through an effective marketing message and gain
"data-driven" insight from a measurable objective.
About the author:
Kevin Gold is CEO of Enhanced Concepts, specializing in turning
website visitors into leads or sales, co-editor of
WebSalesability.com and published writer. Get a free report, "12
Sure-fire Ways to Increase Your Website Sales" and an exclusive
5-day website conversion email course by visiting
www.enhancedconcepts.com.
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