General Marketing tips

Having some fresh marketing ideas and tips never hurt anyone. Is your marketing team doing enough? Is your marketing team struggling with certain aspects and succeeding in others? Let's discuss some marketing tips that may help your company.

Have a Systematic process
Every company has a process for how the business is run. It is no different for marketers. Marketers have a systematic approach on how they market and what works and doesn't work. Here are some marketing tips to help apply process, purpose and metrics:

• Develop your marketing plans to support and drive your CEO's business strategies


• - Set tangible goals that you can measure


• - Tie marketing campaigns to specific sales goals


• - Measure and continually refine to improve your results


• - Communicate outcomes in financial terms

Starting marketing tips
If you are just learning about marketing and needing some marketing ideas and tips, here are a few to start with.

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• What was the ROI of this campaign?


• - How much of the sales process do I own?


• - What's our most valuable market segment?


• - How much does my budget contribute to the company's bottom line?

Look at past marketing efforts and learn from them. It is sometimes a good plan to do repeat processes and it is sometimes the worst thing you can do for a company.

A whole new mind
If you are a rookie or an experienced veteran with marketing, a few marketing ideas and tips never hurt anyone. Let's look at a few new marketing tips:

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• Take on a new product


• - Look at online marketing


• - Look beyond the initial click


• - Legitimate e-mail campaigns

Showing your customers your company is capable of developing new products is a great way to gain the respect of your clients and gain new customers. Let's be honest, marketing a new product is a dream come true for many marketers. It's a time to explore new ways to marketing techniques that you haven't tried in the past.
Have you tapped into online marketing? Online retail is only going to keep on growing. Online advertising is a great way to meet many clients who perhaps will never even leave their houses to learn about your company and products. Let's hope you are doing a pay-per click campaign. Studies have reported that 3 out of 4 web searchers use search engines to find products or services they are looking for. If your only goal is to have potential clients click on the ad, then chances are, you're not going to get the sale. Online ads have an impact on buyers purchasing decisions long after they are viewed. If you don't have a good landing page to back up a great online ad, you better get re-vamping quickly. You want your customer to leave your website with a knowledge that they were impressed by what they saw. Sending out an e-mail campaign is tricky. Many times new customers flag your e-mail as spam and it never reaches anyone. They key is to make your e-mail campaign relevant and avoid sending out too many e-mails as this can be considered over-kill.

No matter what marketing tips you decide to try out, let's just hope they help. It's never a bad idea to talk to other marketers for new marketing ideas and tips. You can learn a lot from others mistakes and successes. Trying out new marketing tips are completely up to you and your budget. If you find that you don't want to spend money on new marketing tips, go ahead and just try out some free marketing strategies. You can list your website on the search engines for free and track how many people are viewing your website and what pages they are looking at. This will help you evaluate what pages are effective and what pages can use some work.