Highly effective marketing is accomplished when your marketing materials and marketing strategy work together to reliably move your prospects through your sales process.Have you ever caught a whiff of a tantalizing aroma wafting through
air as you walked down
street? With your senses suddenly alerted to something tasty nearby you notice
bakery on
corner. As you draw closer you see
storekeeper handing out free samples of
cake you smell. You happily try
sample and before you know it your standing on line waiting to buy a whole cake.
How did this happen? How did you go from going about your business to buying a cake you had no intention of buying when you left your house? The fact that you ended up waiting on a line to buy a cake is no accident. The proprietor of
bakery from which you bought your cake knows something about highly effective marketing.
Just what does he know?
He knows that he first needs to get his prospects attention to draw them to his shop. He accomplishes this step with particularly strong exhaust fans he uses to permeate
local air with
tantalizing aromas of his pastries. Once he has his prospects’ attention he demonstrates
value of his goods by giving away yummy free samples and offering a buy one get one free deal. It’s no wonder unsuspecting people wind up on line waiting to buy from him.
You can enjoy
same success marketing your business even if your product or service doesn’t have a wonderful odor you can use to generate interest in what you do. Instead, you can use your own version of
“smell, taste, buy” sales process to get
results you want.
Attract Your Prospects’ Attention (Smell)
If you sell motorcycles or provide legal services chances are you’re not going to attract too much attention to yourself with any particularly pleasing odor. Instead you can use an outstanding marketing message to get yourself noticed. A well written marketing message delivered to an appropriate target audience will help your business stand out in a crowd and draw your prospects to you.
A great marketing message will speak directly to your target market and identify
problems you solve and
results you provide. You can use your marketing message anywhere you advertise, including: search engines, newspapers, magazines, Ezines and newsletters.
When you use your marketing message make sure you include along with it a call to action. Once you have your prospects’ attention you want to be sure you tell them what you want them to do: visit your web site, stop by your store or request your catalog, for instance.