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Consultant in Marketing Design, Stephane Bertoux is a specialist in mass market consumer and retail, for which he was a consultant for twenty years (3M, BASF, Carrefour, Masterlock …).
It is also the author of iPhone application TheBrandGenerator.
http://www.thebrandgenerator.com

The Apple Store – 6 facts about marketing strategy for iPhone Apps.

The App Store (which sells application for iPhone and iTouch) is a great business model for Apple, of course, which holds a global distribution network, integrated, with no storage costs or purchases from suppliers software (Apple surrenders a percentage of amounts paid by buyers).

There is currently no verified models, each one launched their apps into the market a little groping, by changing its pricing practice and its strategy days after days.

A key question that arises is the use of free application, to attract consumers and then switch to full versions, paid. The other issue is the level of price elasticity with respect to what the consumer is willing to pay.

In response, the analogy of the Hypermarket, the Nescafé and China seems to be the best way to understand how this market works.

1- Fact 1. Not seen, not sold. The hypermarket’s rules applies to the AppleStore.
The Apple Store (80 000 references) is a large hypermarket. With shelves and products inside. The consumer comes through the door of the App Store, and then visits the various departments: Games, Business, Comics, Books, Education ….
At the entrance of each department, at the head of the shelves, the Best Sellers. In the department, we find first the good sellers. And after, the low sellers. The more sales declines, the more they go to the bottom of the shelves.

2- Fact 2. New market, new products, new consumers : new ways to buy.
An Hypermarket in China. Why in China? There, consuming is very recent. And our Chinese friends are like all of us in the Apple Store.
We are just walking there, we look, we discover, we buy a little. We take our time reading labels in the products. By discovering a whole bunch of stuff that we did not know before. Or things that we knew, but presented differently packaged. And many promotion girls, so pretty, giving us for free to test and to taste new food.

3- Fact 3. Promotion or not promotion, that’s the question !
And Nescafe? Coffee is a new product in China, which is marked by high statut level. I drink coffee, I am modern, as an American. Furthermore it is expensive, I can afford. And coffee is both virile and gives good health, it makes walking neurons more efficiently. Nescafe is experiencing a strong success in China, thanks to a very important advertising investment and a massive presence of facilitators in the stores to promote coffe.

You are therefore in a hypermarket in Shanghai in the aisle which passes the department of coffee. At the department entrance, a nice promotion girl of the Nescafe brand, white shirt, red vest, black skirt : she awaits behind his booth.

4- Fact 4. Promotion can be only brand communication. Are brands so important in the AppStore?
You walk past her, she offers a smile to taste a cup. If you have a bit hungry, time, or you’re stingy, you will take the cup and drink. That’s all. And you will buy the brand  you want and maybe even ground coffee.

If you are already a consumer of Nescafe (and you’re hungry, thirsty …), you take the cup. You will find it’s nice from your brand to give you a small unexpected gift, and to share with others my brand, and this gives you self-value (self-enhancement: “My brand gives gift to everyone, it’s really a nice brand, my brand”). Maybe you will think that there is not so much coffee at home and you will buy one. And if it was on the shopping list … you would have bought anyway.

And if you do not like coffee: zero effect.
You did not even saw the promoter.

5- Fact 5. Viral marketing and on store promotion : when the promotion kills the viral communication.
You are a Chinese countryman which has just arrived in town.
You learn plenty, you’ve never seen so many things, strange things which you had no idea. Yet it is written in Chinese, yet you do not understand well. You see the girl with her cup, coffee is written. What’s the coffee? Something for long-nose, certainly, it must be disgusting, it’s complicated, what’s the point? So complicated that you dare not even get close to the girl, you’re afraid of being thought a fool.

You get back into your construction camp, where 15 of your mates housed during construction. One of your neighbors offers you a of coffee, but before explaining you how to drink it, when, and why it’s good, and even it gives status! When you will hit your pay, you will buy it, and bring it back to the village, to show that you are not anymore a peasant.

If by cons you tasted the coffee offered by the demonstrator, because she was pretty, you would immediately spat out: “Bouah, what’s that thing wich stinks vomit? Another devilish long-nose thing ! ” And returned to barracks you have told your friend: “You drink this yucky stuff you? I tasted, it’s not for me!”

Nescafe is relatively expensive for a Chinese, but because it’s a good product and well done. There are now Chinese brands, although cheaper, certainly not so good (the consumer thinks as it’s cheaper, it’s worst). Nestlé can sell much cheaper, but they will have no longer the ressources to do so much communication. And the margin will  decline dramatically (this is not a linear curve).

6- Fact 6. Have an adapted strategy with the apps kinds.
All this applies perfectly to the App Store: to offer a free test is a good strategy, if the apps is a simple and know concept (a racing game), and if there is a strong competitive environment. Communication will help with offering consumers little more (tips, tutorial,…)
For a product more complicate, new for the consumer: it will not work, there is even a risk to kill the product by a negative buzz.

Having a low price is necessary if it is a staple stuff, with great competition. If the apps has some interesting functions or marketing differences, then the consumer will be willing to pay the price.

And the consumer will be a product ambassador, as he has paid a “good” price an application that he will use it, and being it’s own demonstrator.

Consultant in Marketing Design, Stephane Bertoux is a specialist in mass market consumer and retail, for which he was a consultant for twenty years (3M, BASF, Carrefour, Masterlock …).
It is also the author of iPhone application TheBrandGenerator.
http://www.thebrandgenerator.com
blog about brands : http://thebrandgenerator.blogspot.com

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Here are 10 simple to use tips and tricks to increase your Affiliate Earnings by using some of these CPA Marketing Techniques. I put these ideas together as a inspiration for your to develop your own successful marketing strategy, one of the best hints I´m able to give you is to be Innovative, so feel free to develop your own marketing tactics and techniques to maximize your Affiliate Comissions!

Now here now Some Ideas to Think about:

1. The “Spent A Lot” Spell
Tell your prospects that you have spent hundreds/thousands of dollars on different products but nothing ever worked this good. Your prospects most likely have spent tons of money on the same types of products too. That will help them relate to you and trust your judgment.

2. The “Biggest Benefit” Spell
Tell your prospects the best benefit that you have received from the product and how it improved your life. Your prospects might purchase the affiliate product if it’s the biggest benefit that they need or want.

3. The “Not The Only One” Spell
Tell your prospects that you are not the only one that recommends the product and have them check out what other customers are say about it. Your prospects will believe you quicker if other people who have used the product are saying the same thing.

4. The “Crazy Or Not” Spell
Tell your prospects they would be crazy not to purchase the product. Your prospects will think it must be a good product because you are calling them crazy if they don’t buy and you could lose money in the future insulting them that way.

4. The “Only My Opinion” Spell
Tell your prospects it’s only your opinion but the product is amazing. Your prospects will feel it’s less of a sales pitch because you are telling them itís only your opinion. They will let down their buying defenses when they aren’t being sold to.

5. The “Outdone Themselves” Spell
Tell your prospects that you knew the business put out quality products but that they’ve outdone themselves this time. Your prospects like to do business with people that over-deliver on their product. They especially will like it if they know how reliable the business is before they release the new product.

6. The “Percentage Bribe” Spell
Tell your prospects that you will give them a percentage of your affiliate commissions if they buy the product through your link. Your prospects will relate it to getting a rebate for buying the product.

7. The “Long Term” Spell
Tell your prospects specifically how long ago you purchased the product and all the long-term benefits you’ve gained and continue to receive. Your prospects will be influenced to purchase the affiliate product because of you telling them about all the long-term benefits that you have received from it.

8. The “Pays For Itself” Spell
Tell your prospects that the product will pay for itself fast. Your prospects will buy an affiliate product quicker if you can show proof of how it has paid you back. They will want to get the same payback as you.

9. The “One Word” Spell
Tell your prospects it only takes one word for you to describe the product, for example, ësuperb.í Your prospects won’t have to spend a lot of time reading your affiliate offer for them to get the point. Just make sure the word is really persuasive.

10. The “Told Loved Ones” Spell
Tell your prospects that you are not only recommending the product to them but to your family members and close friends. Your prospects will really trust your offer because you are even endorsing it to the people you really, really care about.

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Not sure what content marketing is? A quick definition:

Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action. (Source: Junta42)

Note the bold terms – relevant and valuable, clearly defined and understood target audience, profitable customer action.

These three areas are the most critical parts of content marketing, but are often not delved into deeply enough by BtoB marketing pros. During my initial discussions with clients about their content marketing strategy or a specific piece of content they want me to produce, most have a general idea of who they are marketing to, what is valuable, and what action they want the audience to take. But as we discuss these areas further and go into detail, many clients either can’t describe specifics or they make assumptions, both of which can lead to failure.

In order to succeed with content marketing, BtoB marketers should focus on those three key areas and avoid these 10 big mistakes:

Mistake #1: Not Developing Buyer Personas

Once you’ve determined the target audiences you want to influence, develop “buyer personas” for each target group. A buyer persona is a detailed profile of an example buyer that represents the real audience – their goals, concerns, preferences, and decision process that influence their choices. Developing buyer personas helps you understand exactly who you are marketing to, and therefore what content will be most valuable to them.

Mistake #2: Not Understanding the Needs of the Audience

If you want people to read your content it should be about them, not about you. If your content provides practical, helpful knowledge to the reader that they can use to solve a problem or make their lives better, they will continue to read it and recommend it to others.

However, if your content reads like an advertisement and lacks useful information they will leave and not come back. Rely on your buyer personas and free online ‘listening posts’ such as Google Alerts and Twitter to figure out what is (and is not) interesting and helpful.

Mistake #3: Failure to Plan
Plan out content in advance and you won’t have to rush to get content out. Set up an editorial calendar including topics, writing deadlines, publishing deadlines, promotion deadlines, who each piece of content is assigned to, and any other information that keeps the process organized and manageable.

Mistake #4: Lack of Focus on a Niche

With so much information freely available on the Internet, you need to stand out by focusing on a niche that interests your buyer personas. This enables you to demonstrate and share your unique knowledge and attract a dedicated audience.

Mistake #5: Not Keeping Content Fresh

Once or twice a year, do a “content audit” to determine what content is still relevant and up-to-date, and what videos, white papers, case studies, customer interviews, articles, and other information needs to be refreshed. You can also refine your content based on feedback from readers.

It’s also important to keep publishing new, original content on a regular basis in order to attract a dedicated audience.

Mistake #6: Not Asking for Help
Many companies rely solely on their internal marketing or PR staff to do everything involved with content marketing.  But based on my own experience while managing marketing and PR for a multiple B2B software companies, these people have many other responsibilities that often push developing content strategies and creating the content itself to the back burner and it can take weeks or months to accomplish one white paper or article. Almost all businesses can afford to partner with an independent consultant or writer that has expertise in content that is important to their audiences.

Mistake #7: Giving Up on Content Marketing Too Soon
It takes time to build a real relationship with your audiences and develop a loyal following.  Some companies start a blog, newsletter, or other tactic and expect to see fantastic results in three months.  It doesn’t usually work that way. But stay with it, and your patience will be rewarded!

Mistake #8: Not Integrating Content Marketing with Overall Marketing
In some companies, a corporate newsletter, magazine, articles contributed to other publications, and similar content are done separately from other marketing initiatives like the company website, blog, and events.  Integrating all of these initiatives so they support each other is extremely powerful.

Mistake #9: Forgetting Search Engine Optimization

Your content strategy really pays off when it appears in the first few pages of Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engine results. This will drive many more people to your content, at no additional cost. However, for this to happen you need to optimize your content and its landing pages so the search engines can find them and rank them. Receiving links from other websites and blogs to your content is also key to receiving high search engine rankings.

Mistake #10: Using Social Media as a Bullhorn Instead of a Two-Way Radio
Social media isn’t a medium for simply promoting your company and content, without interacting with others and sharing helpful information that you didn’t create but may help someone you’re connected to. If you use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media avenues simply to toot your own horn, you are missing an invaluable opportunity to get closer to your key audiences and begin to better understand their needs.

Kim Cornwall Malseed, principal at MarCom Ink, has over a decade of global marketing, public relations, analyst relations, and inside sales experience with Fortune 500 and startup high-tech companies. As the founder of MarCom Ink, Kim has worked with clients on marketing strategy and implementation that significantly increased lead generation and sales conversions, leading to improved revenue. Connect with Kim on Twitter and LinkedIn or check out the B2B Technology MarCom Blog for more practical advice on what works – and doesn’t – in B2B high-tech marketing.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard the buzz over the popular social networking site called Twitter. However, like many small business owners, you may be wondering just how to utilize Twitter to help grow your business. Luckily you don’t have to be a computer expert or a marketing guru to implement Twitter into your overall marketing strategy.

What is Twitter?  Twitter is a micro blogging/social networking site that is used to send brief messages (up to 140 characters) to acquaintances, family members, friends, and the general worldwide Internet community (your “followers”).

News, instant updates and communication with friends and family are just a few of the more common uses of Twitter. LA Firefighters use Twitter to keep the community abreast of potential fires and other emergencies. News agencies use Twitter to provide up-to-the-minute news updates. And companies and public services are beginning to utilize Twitter more and more. Most Twitter users “Tweet” to keep family and friends up-to-date on their own current activities.

Marketing Your Business with Twitter

If you own a business, Twitter can be used to publish news and updates about your specific business or products. The best way to post would be by having a clickable link to the full article or press release. Business owners should consider the overall value of the release to customers and allow them to “discover” the material via Twitter. Proper etiquette is essential to effective marketing on Twitter. Advertising and selling tends to alienate followers and will usually create bad feelings among potential consumers.

Twitter is a great place to promote sales or special events. For example, Schlotzsky’s Deli uses Twitter to keep customers updated on sandwich specials and new menu items. Many companies also subscribe to Twitter Alerts (much like Google Alerts) so that they are notified when anyone is tweeting about them – whether good or bad. When promoting your business it’s important to realize that the site is designed for conversation and timely news. Use a personal and conversational tone in your posts and avoid blatant advertising.

Twitter is a marvelous way to provide your brand name its own unique voice. To succeed at Twittering, you simply must reveal your specific personality and post text with a singular flair. This can make a considerable difference in your overall success and help increase your Twitter followers. Without followers, Twitter will not be a valuable marketing too for your business.

When you start Twittering you’ll discover that the site is mostly conversational. Twitter represents an opportunity for you to talk to your prospects and potential customers. If this doesn’t interest you, then you should probably refrain from incorporating Twitter into your overall marketing strategy. Make acquaintances, be an acquaintance and respond to your followers. Demonstrate to your following that you would like to engage with them. This sort of attitude tells your followers that you are a trustworthy, personable individual.

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In every marketing business, new good ideas and strategies should be developed in order for it to grow and become a successful one. This would also apply for the dental marketing business. In dental marketing, you have to have new good, high-quality dental marketing ideas and strategies in order for your business to become very successful. As you have developed those new ideas and strategies for dental marketing, putting them into practice will lead you to a fruitful and rewarding dental practice.

There are lots and lots of new dental marketing ideas for success out there. Most of them you get from people who have been in the dental marketing business for a long time and have developed strategies and techniques on making their business highly successful. You can also get many ideas through the Internet or the World Wide Web. Many sites can offer you great strategies to help you have a winning and rewarding dental marketing business.

As many new ideas as there are for dental marketing, you should take note of the most important among these ideas. First, conceive a plan on a good marketing idea. Second, always have your patients as one of your priorities. And third, make use of the Internet.

Idea #1: Conceive a plan on a good dental marketing idea!

For the first idea on dental marketing, you should be able to plan a good marketing strategy. Come up with a dental marketing gameplan! Whether you are new to the business or not, planning a good and efficient strategy or technique is a one of the top priorities, and it has to maintained. You can practice this by making an advertising campaign which would have a big impact on your target dental marketing business. You’ll want to set goals for:

a) How many new patients you want;

b) What type of patients you want to attract;

c) How many referrals you want to generate; and

d) How much you expect each patient to be worth.

Having a clear idea of what you want to do on the front end is the key to making your dental marketing work successfully!

Idea #2: Always have your patients as one of your priorities!

For the second idea, always put in mind that your patient plays a big part on your dental marketing business. Remember, without your patient there would be no business for you! What you do is you is that you make sure that your patients are comfortable with the services that you offer them. Keep in touch with your patients. Keeping in touch with them would make them feel that they are of great importance too. You can:

a) Give calls to patients who have not visited for a certain amount of time;

b) Offer patients a general check-up for their dental health; and

c) Give follow-up calls for patients before their scheduled appointments, so as to remind them of their schedule with the dentist.

Idea #3: Make use of the Internet!

For the third idea, make use of the advantages of the Internet. Attract a flood of dental patients using the it! Making use of the Internet in dental marketing means that you should create your own website. The reason being is that more and more patients are searching on-line for their dentistry. And as a lot of people use the Internet to find new dental practices, and they can become your potential patients! So if you are NOT on-line now, then this is a dental marketing idea that you MUST get in place immediately.

By taking note of these top ideas (and all of the other new ideas that you may get from people around you and the Internet as well), you are surely on your way for a successful dental marketing business!

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In a recession most business leaders will mentally accept that trading conditions are difficult and as a consequence lower expectations/goals. This mind set can then become self fulfilling as the mental state that creates this thinking will determine the actions of that individual. His reduced expectations are felt by employees and, guess what, standards slip, performance suffers and targets are not met but he accepts it all.

Many business owners will expect poor performance or even “freeze” become inert and incapable of making decisions.

If you think you’ll lose you will, if you believe you can win you very probably will.

If you are responsible for dictating budgets don’t cut the marketing budget, if you are responsible for marketing but don’t dictate the budget, fight to ensure it isn’t cut with reasoned argument and the proven factual arguments for maintaining spend

The key to success is to not cut your marketing budget and do nothing but to revise your marketing strategy. The following ideas are all crucial marketing activities in a recession and your strategy should be altered accordingly:

1. Hold back on any “test” marketing and concentrate on doing more of what you know already works.

2. Ensure you have an effective programme of keeping in touch with existing customers to ensure loyalty, using every means possible; e-mail, letter, newsletters, phone call, personal visit, make them feel wanted especially during a recession, if you have their confidence they’ll want to stay safe…with you.

3. Identify the element of your prospects and existing customer base least likely to be affected by a recession either through the nature of their business or their financial strength and concentrate your marketing strategy on them, seek successful vertical markets. Avoid marketing to sectors most affected they will prove to be less profitable and obviously more vulnerable.

Try to develop a “We are the experts” mentality in your marketing. In a recession customers want to stay safe with somebody who knows what they are doing….”the Authority” on a subject.

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In marketing, a niche refers to a service or a product that occupies a special area of demand.  It is that small corner in the market that accounts for a certain kind of specialty concerning an unmet customer need.  To be able to attract a strong, solid market, the choice of a niche product should ultimately complement the website one owns.  It is through this scheme that he is able to generate a specific market for the niche product he is trying to sell.

Niches are involved in niche marketing, the process of finding market segments that are small but potentially profitable nonetheless.  To maintain a profitable quantity of sales, this marketing strategy relies on increasing the loyalty of customers so that their corporate objectives will be met or surpassed.  Illustrative of this is the fact that the quality of the product or service sold will generate customer satisfaction and, consequently, customer loyalty.  The result is profitability garnered through a solid market base that trusts in the ability of the product or service to really deliver.

One of the great things about niche marketing is that it encourages those who indulge in it to be unique and one-of-a-kind.  Here one is not forced into the lion’s den and made to compete against established marketers.  He is made to occupy a strong and secure position that ultimately wins him a real place in the market.  Niche marketing differs from other online marketing strategies because this particular quality allows it to operate almost autonomously and without having to contend with corporate sharks that tear each other to pieces.

One of the most important things that should be thought over by those involved in this type of business is the niche business that is going to be involved in the process.  It is important to consider the type of business that one is going to work on to be able to ensure himself of the success that he hopes to have.  It is also important for him to know everything about the niche business at hand.  Learning the tricks of the trade in is one of the things that one could do to make a niche business prosper tremendously.

Being able to reach the niche market is another consideration to make.  In doing so, one should know the exact phrases that people are searching for.  The use of tools can help a lot in knowing the type of keywords that should be used to make the business profitable. Targeting the right keywords does a lot in making this type of business soar.

Those who engage in niche marketing know that determining the potential of a niche before doing everything else is a must if one wants to save all the time and effort that might be wasted if he plunges into everything head on.  Building a niche marketing site that proves to be profitable should be done after an unsatisfied customer demand is identified, and marketing the site appropriately by reaching out to customers the best possible way is what niche marketers should consider if they want their business to reach skyrocketing success.

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Having a good business plan is important and one of the weapons in your marketing arsenal should be a internet site for your business. You should not just have your one physical location; it should be able to be accessed on the web by those anywhere in the country and the world.

You may consider the use of promotional merchandise as only for tradeshows and conference, and not really useful for internet business. But these products make a great gift for your internet customers, and there are several such as mouse pads, promotional pens, and bumper stickers that are very light and small which makes mailing them very economical.

These gifts shipped along with their order is a way to say thank you to your customers. Not only is it a nice gesture it puts an item in front of them that’s imprinted with your business logo to remind them to continue using your business.

There are many small, lightweight type of promotional items that are nice gifts but are cheap to mail. Some of these are promotional mailers, magnets, and using promotional packaging supplies is an additional way to help further your marketing strategy. These things will all be seen by many people who hopefully will want to go online to see what your business does.

If you want your business to survive in the current economy then you must take your business global. Gaining world wide exposure can be much simpler using good SEO techniques as well as promotional product advertising. People can not ever have too much exposure to your business name and logo, so be sure to pass along some promotional items to your customers. It is a great way to help drive more business to your website and to keep your current customers returning again and again.

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When it comes to any corporate or company marketing strategy you would include plenty of social events to the list. When you add the social events into your marketing strategy, you are able to make contacts with many other associates and it will help your company or business flourish.

One of the biggest reasons why you include events in your marketing strategy is the fact that you make so many contacts. When you make contacts you are able to find new channels and ways to expand your business, as well as, make your business grow by reaching new markets. You never know what you can gain from having new associates.

Another reason to have events is to share the public that you give back to the community. This is a key point for businesses that are big in one area. They grow and find success in the community and should give back to the community. It gives the company more of a public edge.

Also, you should think about your competition. When you through parties and such, you will find the opportunity to mix and mingle with the competition. You can get a feeling for their next move through what the others have to say. You will find that everyone talks about everything at corporate events and you find out a lot about what people think of you and the business.

When you through a party or social event, you can also introduce a new product. You may find that a social event is the perfect time to show off your new investment or allow your guests to try out a new product. It’s kind of like a testing, but an unofficial one. You can get an idea of how it would sell on the market by giving it to your guests. Then you can release it or forget about it depending on your guests.

Another reason why you should through social events in your marketing is to keep your company name in the papers and on the minds of the community. When you do this type of marketing it is called reminder advertising. You are keeping the company and the products of the company in the minds of those who are in your target market and community.

You should also through social events so that the community and competition knows that your company is still in the good. If you can through huge social events for the company then it means that you must be making a profit, right? Well that’s what people are going to think. You should keep this in mind when it comes to any social event.

Also, companies should through events for the company just because it is a way to give back to the employees. They work hard all year long and a party every now and then will be a great benefit to being an employee. It will also make the company look better in the public eye. The community would be more supportive knowing that the company gives back to the community.

There are hundreds of reasons why a company should invest in their employees. The more active that the company is in the community and society, the more they are going to get supported if they ever wanted to expand and other things. With social events you know only gain the public’s interest, but their support as well. That could be one of the most important reasons why you would want to through an event.  Social events have a lot of benefits for any corporate or company’s marketing strategies. Planning an event can be time consuming, but it is worth it.

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Is your current business marketing strategy addressing the opportunities that exist even in the current economic downturn? When was the last time you reviewed your business objectives to insure they are aligned with the current market conditions? The economic impact of the current global recession has consumers curtailing their spending in many areas therefore this dictates a change in our own marketing direction.

Although consumers may be spending less money it is still being spent. It is up to marketers to make the necessary adjustments to determine what consumer are buying and why. Obviously a shift in priorities is at the root of this and this change needs to be identified and addressed. If done properly a more effective and appropriate marketing message can be developed to address the change.

Here are 3 key areas in which attention must be focused to make the changes necessary in order to capitalize on the current economic environment.

Get Inside Customers Head

Are you even marketing the right type of goods or services? We are dealing with more of a ’scarcity’ mindset than an ‘abundance’ mentality and this changes everything!

Current conditions have undoubtedly altered the thinking and priorities of today’s consumers. Re-examine profiles insofar as the needs, desires and problems customer wants to solve.

Priorities have changed, sometimes dramatically for many and as a result there has been a shift in the mindset of the consumer. What may have appealed to them formerly is likely no longer the case.

Reexamine Your Direction

What are you marketing and to whom? Could it be that your market has shrunk while another market has bloomed without you ‘really’ paying attention?

Is your current approach applicable in today’s market conditions? Does what you have to offer or the way it is presented to the consumer match up well with their current needs?

Your evaluation of the consumer’s current mindset will help you identify the necessary steps you need to take to better redirect your promotional efforts. The crowds are still out there they are just going elsewhere and not spending as much.

Implement Promotional Push

Get out in front of the public and/or consumer and get yourself noticed and don’t wait for them to find you. Now is not the time to decrease your marketing efforts but rather redirect them in accordance with the ’swing’ in the market demand.

Find out where the traffic is and target your efforts in this direction.

Social network marketing is likely the most applicable avenue to take in a down economy since people feel stronger need to ‘connect’ and network out. It also gives the customer a better chance to become familiar with marketers thereby boosting their confidence level in a time where their sense financial security has been shaken.

Your business marketing strategy requires periodic updating in order to adjust to ever changing market conditions. Now more then ever the current global economic downturn dictates a review of your current business objectives and marketing direction. The economic environment we face today necessitates a change to better reflect the current consumer mindset. Although the economic impact of the global recession has changed spending habits purchases are being made nonetheless. It is up to marketers to identify this shift in both consumer spending and their priorities to reflect a more appropriate marketing message. If done correctly the marketing community as a whole will better address consumer needs while maintaining their own profitability.

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TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.
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