samedi 26 octobre 2013

Understanding How Marketing Can Help Business

By Maryl Joop


Marketing is a key ingredient for the success of any startup business or organization. Marketing is likewise the lifeblood for a business that wishes to see growth, or, for that matter, longevity and sustained success.

The necessity of marketing to any business, whether that business is a startup or established business, can be seen in the history of successful verses unsuccessful companies. Those companies that can market their product or services to the general populous well have survived and thrived while those who have not be able to do so have withered and died on the vine.

There are several ways to go about building an industrial marketing strategy that will work to promote the products or services of a business, but the following few tips on how to appropriately build a marketing strategy should be helpful for those startup companies that have little to no knowledge of how to develop and implement a marketing campaign.

Startup companies who are looking to build up their clientele and promote their products or services should strive to build a competent and effective marketing strategy early on in the process of developing their business model so that the marketing aspect to their business model will be able to be implemented soon after launching the startup.

There are many various lists of the do's and do not's of marketing, but at least the most basic ideas and principles to adhere to or shy away from can be derived from looking at a few of the lists that others have published. Only a few of the most basic do and do not's of industrial marketing will appear here.

One of the main reasons why marketing is seen with a wary eye by most businesses is because it is viewed as a necessary expense, and expenses of any kind are more than frowned upon by most business people. At times, industrial marketing campaigns can be seen in a slightly greater light when they are labeled as investments, but this still implies the expenditure of capital, which is not an exciting prospect for companies of any industry.

Because there is more likely than not another product or service already on the market that is similar to a company's own product or service, a company will have to do their homework to see what the market for these similar products or services are and what prices are being rated by other companies for those services. By doing this, a company will be able to formulate their own plan on how to market their product that will be different (and therefore more visible) from the other company's marketing campaigns for their products or services.

A company should have a well-defined plan for their marketing campaign with a simple pitch that can deliver on any promises or specified features of the service or product. Not having these things is a huge marketing do not.

While performing their marketing research, a startup company will want to ask questions such as who is the target market, how big is that market, and what avenues could be pursued to expand the target market in the future?

While planning for expansion in the future is important, it should here be noted that one of the biggest mistakes startups make while building their marketing strategy is expanding their scope to too large of a market that ends up drowning them rather than including and building them.




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