Marketing - The Most Powerful Process To Improve Your Sales And Image
Marketing is the most powerful
process to help your business increase sales and improve its brand image in
the marketplace.
Marketing is
such a huge field that it cannot adequately be explained in a page. But
essentially marketing works best to increase your sales using a 4-stage process involving these key components:
(1) Market Research involves finding
out what customers want from your business, how they perceive you now, and
how you can improve their satisfaction. It can also include asking potential
customers or prospects similar questions, as well as what it might take to
get them to consider another provider (e.g., your business). Lawrimore
provides so many market research services we have dedicated another page to
that - please click here for details.
(2) Marketing Planning creates an
overall marketing plan for your organization. It includes objectives, target
audiences, media, budget, schedule and responsibilities. A marketing plan is
typically done for a year and must be flexible to adapt to new opportunities
that arise. For details on our marketing planning
services, click here.
To learn more
about marketing strategy, check out this page.
For business-to-business or b-to-b marketing, get more information here.
(3) Marketing Communications involves all the different ways your organization communicates with
customers, prospects and other key groups. There are actually about 50 ways
to communicate, but for convenience we divide them into branding, websites, publications, public relations, and advertising. Click
here to learn more about communications.
(4) Evaluation and Measurement are
vital to make sure your money and resources are being used most effectively,
and to continuously improve. In a multi-dimensional marketing program, it's
essential to track where leads are coming from, and to evaluate the new
income generated in comparison to the cost it takes to get it. For more details on Evaluation and Measurement,
click here.
To discuss how marketing can help your business or
organization, please use our online contact form or call 704-332-4344. |