Thursday, April 15, 2010

Marketing Agencies Role in Business

The sole objective of establishing Marketing Agencies is to assist a business in spreading its product base or service to the prospective customer. In any business, marketing is always the bottleneck. Many businesses, even though their products/services are fine, are falling by the wayside because of their lack of knowledge about the principles of marketing.

Marketing agencies conduct necessary research work, identify the target customers for a business, and then convert them into clients. To convert a prospective customer into a client, there are various strategies, in which they are experts. They have tenacity of purpose and perseverance in their approach. They rarely take no for an answer. They untiringly approach the prospective clients and virtually brainwash them to become clients.

The work of marketing agencies does not stop there. They also find ways to retain the clients once they are hooked. They cement their relationship further. They augment the turnover rate as well as the average statistical purchase value all the time keeping the target addresses well informed about new products, services, etc.

Having a clear definition of the jobs of Marketing Agencies, let us now analyze their activities by means of which they achieve their tasks successfully. They do it by: Direct Mail, Telemarketing. Database Marketing, List-broking, Unaddressed mail, Client/Customer Loyalty Program and Web Marketing.

Direct Mail - This is a directly personally addressed mail sent by post/courier, which is by and large self-explanatory, giving information about the product or service. Advertising matter in the form of shining printed text with or without images will also be sent by direct mail.

Telemarketing
All the above activities of direct mail are done through Telephone.

Database Marketing
This is a unidirectional marketing where databases of targeted audience are created and kept. It is easy to find out the category of customers for our business easily. For a client selling a particular product, database of clients using the same products is of great use. It is an ideal starting point of the business.

List broking
Some marketing agencies function as List-broker, which is a via media in the lease of databases.

Unaddressed Mail
Leaflets and brochures in the form of flashy fliers find their way into our mail-boxes. Their uses are debatable. But by sheer fluke they sometimes catch the eyes of relevant users.

Client/Customer loyalty Programs
Marketing Agencies also arrange client/customer loyalty programs, which cement the bond between them.

Web Marketing
Some Marketing Agencies design websites for their clients that are user friendly. Their specially designed websites help their clients in achieving clear and specific objectives.
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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Marketing

Twitter is one of the social media. It is pretty much a blog combined with a chat room, so, basically, it allows you a platform to get your ideas out before a group of people in real time.Before we get into the meat of my article, I want so share something amusing that happened as I was writing it: As I was dictating the title of my article, my dictation software spat out this sentence instead: "how to use torture as a marketing tool"

Back on topic: It might be helpful to briefly discuss how Twitter works: It is sort of like a walkie talkie in that only people who have switched on to your channel (by following you) can receive your messages. In the same way, you will only receive messages from those people whose channel you have switched on (by following them.)So, the first order of business, after you join, is to start adding people to your followers list. You will then be switched into their channel and be able to receive their messages.
Who should you follow? Anyone who is interested in your niche. So if you are promoting a make money offer, you should follow people who are interested in making money. If you are promoting a dog training book or technique, then people interested in dogs would be appropriate. Use the "find people" tool at the top right of your screen when you are logged into your Twitter account and type in keywords related to your niche. You will then pull up a list of Twitter accounts tagged with those keywords. Pick one or two accounts as a "base" account out of that list and start following people who are following that account.

I should insert a word of caution here: Twitter does have a follower limit: you may follow no more than 2000 at a time until 2000 or more people are following you. After that point, you may follow an additional number of people no greater than 110% of the number of people following you.Accordingly, you should be careful about whom you follow. Don't feel the need to follow someone just because they're following you. You want followers who will actually read your tweets, and are not just following you to increase their follower count.

Once people start following you, you will be able to send them messages. What should you "tweet" about? Well there's no hard and fast rule here, other than you should always aim to send no more than one promotional message for every three messages that you send out. The reason for this is that you want to give your followers a reason to keep following you, and constant promotional messages (like one after the other, all day long) is probably the fastest way to get "unfollowed" really quickly.If used judiciously, Twitter can be a great marketing resource. You can use it to build a list of followers highly interested in what you have to say. That, in Internet marketing terms, is like having money in the bank.
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