2 wild animals taught me marketing

Written by Christopher Kyalo


Watching wild animals in Africa hunting for food, is an extremely educative experience for marketers and those who want to dramatically increase their sales. The big cats are especially fascinating in their different hunting methods.

The lion usually has lots of difficulties hunting. This cat is built very big, strong and heavy. The result is that it is no match forrepparttar speed and agility ofrepparttar 120222 antelope, its’ favourite meal. Sorepparttar 120223 lion relies on stealth, surprise andrepparttar 120224 quick short dash – not unlike that of a well-built 100 metres sprinter. The lion’s advantage is in its’ strength which enables it to kill fairly large prey that would give smaller cats likerepparttar 120225 cheetah a lot of problems.

The cheetah has a totally different hunting method. This cat is light, agile and built for high speeds. No problems catching that small antelope inrepparttar 120226 herd scampering for safety. But unlikerepparttar 120227 lion,repparttar 120228 cheetah cannot go for bigger prey (more meat) likerepparttar 120229 zebra or even larger antelopes. You now fully understand whyrepparttar 120230 lion cannot wake up one morning and decide that since it admiresrepparttar 120231 cheetah’s sheer speed, it wants to hunt like a cheetah - or vice versa.

That should be obvious, should it not be?

Then why is it that businesses make this mistake every day?

The type of selling system (it’s actually a hunting system you know) you choose will depend a lot on what you are. Are you an agile, small young business with no bureaucracy or long-decision making process, not unlikerepparttar 120232 cheetah? Or are you that larger recently-prosperous-business struggling to maintain enough sales growth to sustain your cash-guzzling overheads, not unlikerepparttar 120233 lion? This lesson came down hard on me a few years ago when I created a selling system that surpassed all expectations and grew a small magazine from a circulation of less than 500 copies to 120,000 copies weekly, in a few short months. The simple system employedrepparttar 120234 use of teaser flyers.

The most powerful marketing weapon ever invented

Written by Christopher Kyalo


It was probably first discovered out there inrepparttar caves or wherever elserepparttar 120221 history of mankind begun. And yet this weapon has been used so sparingly overrepparttar 120222 centuries. It is so powerful that those surprisingly few who have stumbled on to it and appreciated and respected its power have ended up making untold fortunes.

Evenrepparttar 120223 greatest mail order marketer of them all, Joe Karbo, created a selling system that showed he fully understoodrepparttar 120224 power of this weapon. (More on that atrepparttar 120225 end of this article.)

I am sure you’re dying to hear what it is. Let me warn you, you may be disappointed because like most great ideas which have changedrepparttar 120226 course of history, it is simple. So simple that you may just brush it aside – and lose a real chance to change your fortunes forever. Well, you have been warned. Here it is. It’s a FREE SAMPLE. Let’s look at a real-life example that could happen in your neighbourhood corner right now.

Picture a small business selling doughnuts at a street corner. Potential clients in their hundreds pass by and ignorerepparttar 120227 seller’s smile and well displayed juicy-looking doughnuts. Atrepparttar 120228 end ofrepparttar 120229 day, he has barely sold a dozen.

Then a simple selling system involving tiny, miniature versions ofrepparttar 120230 doughnuts being given away for free to passersby is introduced. A few people stop to samplerepparttar 120231 free doughnuts, at least half of them end up purchasing a doughnut or two. The small business owner does some arithmetic atrepparttar 120232 end of a hectic day. The bill forrepparttar 120233 samples was high, but his cash box is bulging like it never has before andrepparttar 120234 sheer volumes of business has reducedrepparttar 120235 expense forrepparttar 120236 free samples to a tiny fraction of his takings.

No matter how complex your business is, it can benefit tremendously fromrepparttar 120237 power of a free sample. A few more examples;

An office cleaning concern wanted to expand its’ client base to restaurants but had a lot of difficulties making any head way until they came up with a simple selling system. They approached restaurants and offered to clean up free of charge,repparttar 120238 only condition was thatrepparttar 120239 owner seesrepparttar 120240 dirt that will be cleaned off their premises before it’s disposed of. (If you knowrepparttar 120241 right places to look, any premises will give you a load of dirt enough to make anybody sick.)

Well, almost anybody because only 80% ofrepparttar 120242 restaurants that were cleaned free of charge, signed up to haverepparttar 120243 firm clean up their premises on a regular basis. Not good enough forrepparttar 120244 city health inspectors but an unbelievably high percentage for any selling system. It naturally revolutionized this cleaning business. A media company was facing very stiff competition getting advertisements into their newspaper. They designed a simple system whererepparttar 120245 company sales representatives approached a carefully selected client list with samples of their advertisements re-designed and placed on a dummy page. The response rate? Well, 4 out of every 10 clients approached in this way signed up for advertising space onrepparttar 120246 spot.

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