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... with you) and branding (positioning your company and differentiating it from the competition) . By building name recognition, you build customers. Public and media relations activities are key elements of a program for creating customers. Workshops and seminars are excellent opportunities for educating them. Newsletters, brochures, annual reports, sell sheets, and Web sites are other vehicles for telling your company story, promoting your services, and sharing valuable information that helps a prospect become a customer. Although activities that are kept up over a period of time can generate immediate sales and leads, they should be viewed as ways to build relationships and cultivate customers over the long term. In addition, many marketing communication activities (such as trade shows) are appropriate opportunities to achieve short- and long-term objectives. Trade show exhibitors, for example, have several goals: introducing a new product, building brand awareness, selling new products, building a database, compiling competitive information, and so forth. An exhibitor can walk away from a show having secured business from a batch of new customers and having made much progress in the customer-building process. A marketing communication program should be viewed as a process. It must consist of a variety of activities realistically scheduled over a period of time. As it creates interest and influences its intended audience, it will have an impact on the organizations you want to make your customers. And you will have sales. Richard Barry can be reached at Graham Communications, 40 Oval Road, Suite 2, Quincy, MA 02170, (800) 659-0069, fax (617) 471-1504 ...
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... . For example, remind hardware stores to suggest replacing batteries in smoke detectors or suggest that landscapers provide gardening recommendations. Develop creative fax cover sheets. Make your fax cover sheet a promotional tool to announce new products, new employees, or other developments. Use voice mail marketing. Make brief business announcements that callers will hear when they get your voice mail. Send hot prospects interesting articles. Go through business magazines and industry trade journals to find articles that would be of interest to your customers. Write a personal note and mail the articles. You can also download relevant articles from the Web and e-mail them to customers with a cover note. Visit local trade shows. Effective marketing can take place without renting costly exhibit space. Attend a trade show and work the floor. Introduce yourself to exhibitors and keep your eyes open for attendees to meet and greet. Set a goal to get leads and ideas. To make the most of these suggestions, pass this list around. Have each person select three ideas that they'd like to implement. Ask for weekly feedback on how these marketing efforts are working. Getting all employees focused and involved in low-budget marketing will improve morale — and increase sales! You can contact Emily Huling at Selling Strategies, Inc., P.O. Box 200, Terrell, NC 28682, (888) 309-8802 (toll free), fax (888) 309-7355, e-mail [email protected] , or Web site www.sellingstrategies.com . Login or Register (for FREE) to gain access to thousands of other great articles. Need more reasons to join? Need insurance for ...
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... many of the publications, but it is a good idea to check with several clients within each niche category to find out which periodicals they tend to read. Large markets may also have a radio station or two that cater strictly to business and financial news, and don't forget the cable companies. Build your relationships with each of these free publicity sources in the same manner we've already discussed. Unlike the other two categories, you must rely more heavily on press releases, since there usually aren't organizations or associations you can join. However, some of the associations catering to niche markets have auxiliary memberships available for vendors and suppliers to their members. It's worth investigating and possibly joining, but don't expect the involvement and exposure found in the other areas. Most such memberships are primarily designed to market exhibitor space in their annual conventions. Speaking of conventions, there's gold to be mined if you can get scheduled as a speaker. Not only will you have a captive audience, but you might also get picked up by the reporters covering such conventions for their trade papers. Whenever you have a speaking engagement (this applies to the other categories as well), send a press release indicating that you were a speaker at such and such a group, and then add a brief synopsis of your speech. A good way to open the release is with a quote attributed to yourself. Always include a picture. Another great method of building your Commercial public relations is with value-added seminars. Every year there are several hot topics within the insurance industry that apply to your Commercial accounts. Workers' ...
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... many of the publications, but it is a good idea to check with several clients within each niche category to find out which periodicals they tend to read. Large markets may also have a radio station or two that cater strictly to business and financial news, and don't forget the cable companies. Build your relationships with each of these free publicity sources in the same manner we've already discussed. Unlike the other two categories, you must rely more heavily on press releases, since there usually aren't organizations or associations you can join. However, some of the associations catering to niche markets have auxiliary memberships available for vendors and suppliers to their members. It's worth investigating and possibly joining, but don't expect the involvement and exposure found in the other areas. Most such memberships are primarily designed to market exhibitor space in their annual conventions. Speaking of conventions, there's gold to be mined if you can get scheduled as a speaker. Not only will you have a captive audience, but you might also get picked up by the reporters covering such conventions for their trade papers. Whenever you have a speaking engagement (this applies to the other categories as well), send a press release indicating that you were a speaker at such and such a group, and then add a brief synopsis of your speech. A good way to open the release is with a quote attributed to yourself. Always include a picture. Another great method of building your Commercial public relations is with value-added seminars. Every year there are several hot topics within the insurance industry that apply to your Commercial accounts. Workers' ...