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As some of you will know, I'm a marketing and business development consultant who specialises in speaking to business owners just before they embark on any kind of marketing activity, to make sure they base all of their decisions and activities on a sound strategy. As such, I speak to many hundreds of small business owners every year. If I could pinpoint one topic of conversation that gets clients thinking about marketing in the right way, more than any other topic, it's this.
Marketing is everything you do. There isn't a single thing you do in your business that shouldn't be thought of as marketing (or shouldn't at least be considered from a marketing perspective).
If you are struggling to understand exactly what marketing is or how it should be used, try thinking of it like this. It shouldn't take you long at all to have a much better understanding of what marketing is, and how you should be incorporating in into absolutely everything you do.
Marketing isn't another name for advertising, or a way in which you find clients (although obviously, if done well marketing will provide you with as many clients as you could ever need). Marketing is a process you use to tailor every part of your business to both meet the needs of your target market, and also to maximise your profits. Whilst I'm on the subject, it's also the way in which you choose who your target markets are in the first place, and also how you find out what their needs are.
I hope some of you find the above thought provoking.
As some of you will know, I'm a marketing and business development consultant who specialises in speaking to business owners just before they embark on any kind of marketing activity, to make sure they base all of their decisions and activities on a sound strategy. As such, I speak to many hundreds of small business owners every year. If I could pinpoint one topic of conversation that gets clients thinking about marketing in the right way, more than any other topic, it's this.
Marketing is everything you do. There isn't a single thing you do in your business that shouldn't be thought of as marketing (or shouldn't at least be considered from a marketing perspective).
If you are struggling to understand exactly what marketing is or how it should be used, try thinking of it like this. It shouldn't take you long at all to have a much better understanding of what marketing is, and how you should be incorporating in into absolutely everything you do.
Marketing isn't another name for advertising, or a way in which you find clients (although obviously, if done well marketing will provide you with as many clients as you could ever need). Marketing is a process you use to tailor every part of your business to both meet the needs of your target market, and also to maximise your profits. Whilst I'm on the subject, it's also the way in which you choose who your target markets are in the first place, and also how you find out what their needs are.
I hope some of you find the above thought provoking.
I think that the many arms of marketing include:
Public relations
Brand management
Market research
Marketing communications, which can be further divided into digital marketing, social media marketing, direct (mail) marketing, and traditional channels like print, radio, and billboards.
Sales
Customer service
Marketing is not sales. Yes, it leads to sales by getting the word out there through branding and advertising, via both the written word and images, and then luring prospective customers in, but a marketer is not the one to actually interact with the sales lead—that’s the job of the sales person in the sales department.
That's a good example of a business which need not do any advertising, but could certainly gain from thinking of many of the things it does from a marketing perspective. For example, when choosing which Ram to use, I'm sure they look for one which will give the offspring more desirable or 'marketable' characteristics.
I think you may be missing the point, unless the bald guy is buying it for someone else.Marketing is the promotion of products or services. According to me, marketing is one of the most important aspects of a business. Marketing has the power to sell a comb to a bald guy.
Good post.
The other thing is the underestimation many people and businesses have of the amount of effort marketing can take. There are innumerable threads on UKBF from people struggling to get sales but when questioned about how much makering they have done if often reduces to posing on facebook and tweeting.
Markering can be 90% of everything you do. The other 10% is processing the enquiries.
Then you've missed the point. Brand awareness is very very low down on the list of priorities for a small business.As a small business owner, I couldn't agree more. Successfully building brand awareness and recognition can be achieved through dedication to marketing activities.
Interesting, I've been saying this for years and you're one of the few people I've ever heard saying the same thing, not " we need to do some marketing", it's the same with "customer service", if I hear another person say "our customer service is the best" I'll scream, everything is customer service. Great to hearAs some of you will know, I'm a marketing and business development consultant who specialises in speaking to business owners just before they embark on any kind of marketing activity, to make sure they base all of their decisions and activities on a sound strategy. As such, I speak to many hundreds of small business owners every year. If I could pinpoint one topic of conversation that gets clients thinking about marketing in the right way, more than any other topic, it's this.
Marketing is everything you do. There isn't a single thing you do in your business that shouldn't be thought of as marketing (or shouldn't at least be considered from a marketing perspective).
If you are struggling to understand exactly what marketing is or how it should be used, try thinking of it like this. It shouldn't take you long at all to have a much better understanding of what marketing is, and how you should be incorporating in into absolutely everything you do.
Marketing isn't another name for advertising, or a way in which you find clients (although obviously, if done well marketing will provide you with as many clients as you could ever need). Marketing is a process you use to tailor every part of your business to both meet the needs of your target market, and also to maximise your profits. Whilst I'm on the subject, it's also the way in which you choose who your target markets are in the first place, and also how you find out what their needs are.
I hope some of you find the above thought-provoking.
One of the better answers. What textbook does it come from?Marketing is the art of defining your company goals, conducting internal and external analyses to identify opportunities and develop strategic objectives