Marketing
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If
there is one bit of advice I can ever give you, whether it be about
marketing or business success in general, it is a quote from Russell
Crowe in Gladiator: “On my mark, unleash hell.”
You know the line. Yes, you might have heard one or two other marketers
quoting this very same line. And with good reason. That one line
epitomizes the very core of what all marketing programs teach you.
Here’s a break down:
- Find your
target. Pick a market
that is favorable for approach. It doesn’t have to be the perfect idea,
just one that works on paper, and most importantly, something that you
know you can do while maintaining interest.
- Prepare your
approach. Mark out the main spots – what sort of advertising mediums
can you use? What is your budget? What is your exact strategy for each
medium? No need to go into excruciating details, but you should know,
for example, your allocated monthly budget for your PPC campaign, your
target keywords and the expected cost-per-click for each keyword. This
will at the very least help you monitor your advertising and tune it
based on the results.
- Intense
marketing. There are two
different approaches in this regard. Use the first one if you can
afford to spend a lot of money on traffic, use the second if most of
your advertising budget will be paid for by your business even at the
start. The first is all-out marketing, pulling out all the stops at
once complete blanketing of your target market. Then there is the slow
build-up, tackling different advertising mediums one by one, building
the crescendo effect where at the end you replicate the effect in the
'all-out marketing' technique.
Taken by itself, the term ‘unleash hell’ is also
used to describe
another valuable business lesson:
If
you have a product, or a business idea, or a service to sell, GET IT
OUT THERE! Take your business to the market first, worry about refining
and managing later. Essentially, don’t wait months to find the perfect
idea. Pick an idea that’s good enough, and launch your business. If you
are a resume writer and want to sell your services online, throw up a
website, put up your basic
contact and payment information and BEGIN PROMOTION.
Too
often, people wait too long until they have the ‘finished’ product
before starting their marketing campaigns. A newcomer shouldn’t waste
their time like that. The product will be developed along the way
through customer interaction anyway. On the other hand, there is no way
you’ll make any money without traffic. So go get that
traffic,
and ‘perfection’ will come in due time.
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