Little Known Secrets About Credibility Marketing!Written by Glenn Dietzel
A key factor in successfully marketing your business is to establish credibility within your market. How, you might ask, is it possible to establish credibility quickly? This article is geared toward helping you understand importance of enhancing your credibility and how to leverage it in most efficient manner possible. This is somewhat of a contrarian view on how to utilize your credibility so that you can become a best selling author and make money quickly.If you really want to leverage your expertise to build your credibility, you must understand concept of leverage. The best way to leverage your credibility is for you to become an author. Don’t let that scare you. Authoring simply means to create. You must create something that other people want, especially if you want to make money. And that is what every successful business is all about. Now, most people automatically think traditional publishing when they think of authoring. However, I am not an advocate of this at all for a number of reasons. The main reason is that it keeps you from receiving cash flow immediately. My father taught me throughout my childhood that business cash flow is overriding determinant of a successful business. And he is definitely correct! It does not matter how many assets that a company has, if it cannot produce a steady cash flow, business will die. If you want to go traditionally published route at beginning, you will end up wasting too much time getting a book to market. Furthermore, in my experience, most people do not acquire necessary sales and marketing skills to fully leverage big publishing house model. From a business perspective, traditionally published model of authoring does not make good business sense. How do you explode into market place? You create a best selling eBook or digital product which your target market wants! In fact never has it been easier to become a best selling author, and you can do it in an afternoon. There are a number of ways to create a product quickly. The best way is to put together a questionnaire on a topic that you are passionate about and that has a great demand in market place. Read your outline or get someone else to interview you, and record this as an MP3 file. Then use a service like elance.com or idictate.com to transcribe it: e-publish it as an eBook using Adobe’s free service and presto you are a published eBook author! What makes this method so effective is that your product is digital, so you have instant access to a global market 24/7. No wonder Mark Victor Hansen, author of hugely successful Chicken Soup series, recently stated, “The Internet is best real estate today.” According to a recent eMarketer report, almost 50% of what was purchased on Internet in 2004 was purchased through this medium because this was only place where material could be purchased. And this trend is increasing consistently.
| | Using Marketing PR to Promote Your BusinessWritten by Michelle Payne-Gale
Public Relations is an important marketing tool, and should be considered carefully. It is a way of connecting with your customers, suppliers and distributors. The objectives of Marketing PR are to build awareness, raise your profile and build credibility, and encourage your staff. Here are five Marketing PR methods that you can use to promote your company.News It will be your responsibility to develop a concept for a story about your business, to research it fully and to write a press release (if you are not confident in your writing ability, consider passing this task to a copywriter). There needs to be a good relationship between your company, and editors of your chosen publications. Unless you are trained in Public Relations, it may be wise to seek services of a PR professional at this point. PR professionals are in best position for encouraging media to attend your press conferences and accept your editorials. They understand needs of editors and reporters, and as a result will be able to sell you appropriately to them. Publications There are a number of different types of publication that fall under umbrella of PR, and can be used separately or in conjunction with each other. Brochures advise customers about product, its uses, how it works, its benefits, and any extra features. Newsletters and magazines help build up company’s image, convey news and special offers, as well as marketing company in a variety of ways. Articles in local newspapers help to advertise and draw attention to company and its products. Multimedia methods are most expensive of publications, but have greatest impact. Many companies choose to create videos about themselves and their products, and use them for presentation purposes. Blogs and Internet are cheapest of publications, and have greatest coverage, without needing a large budget.
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