Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Gaining Confidence

December 12, 2010 by  
Filed under Small Business

As a Marketing Coach, everything I’ve learned over the last few years has been through trial and error: which pointed to one thing.

There has been a need for a “Marketing System”… That would eliminate the variables, and get not only me but everyone who understood the same results every time.

How many Business’s with whom I work have a massive Data Base or should I say “Gold Mine” and yet they do not to do anything with it. There could be hundreds or even thousands or past, present or possible future clients there and yet not much attention is directed there.

Did you know, it costs six times more to get a new client than it does to hold an existing client…”Wow”…now how valuable does your data base look!

It is not your fault…

I too have been guilty of this, it could be due to time, too busy working in the business, or could be a lack of understanding on how to manage all of this on line (that was my biggest challenge)

When you first went into business or sales, whether working for yourself or someone else, you probably thought “technical” knowledge about your product or service was all you really needed to be successful.

You may have had ideas in mind about “personal promotion,” or other image- building techniques. You believed you or your company really had a better mouse trap. That, with a few phone calls and some publicity, the world would pay attention and, indeed, beat a path to your door!

Am I right?

Let’s speak candidly.

Marketing is Everything!

This brings me to the most important point:

No matter what business you’re in, no matter what you sell, you’re not really in that business! “You’re in the marketing of that business and yourself.”

When you think about it, what are your customers really buying? When the competition is selling similar or same things, aren’t your customers really buying YOU and YOUR business?

Succeeding in Business means staying TOP OF MIND: TOP OF MIND means MARKETING

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