Vacation Marketing

Written by Shannan Hearne-Fortner


Does your marketing come to a screeching halt during your annual vacation pilgrimage? Do you cease to promote your company and your products or services? Does your company dwindle into a period of non-existence while you are away?

Success Promotions' Wizard of marketing has an alternative! Introducing Vacation Marketing!

Preparing for your vacation marketing begins with loading up your pockets, wallet, briefcase, swim bag, and suit case with business cards, flyers, samples, portfolio materials, magnets, pens, pencils, and anything else upon which you might have imprinted your business information. If your advertising budget allows for it, you can even have something special imprinted just forrepparttar occasion.

Some ideas for special items you might prepare would include toy sail boats, kites, beach balls or pool towels for a beach trip. Incidentally, if anyone sells a kite that looks like a wizard with perhaps stars onrepparttar 121329 tail, please email me! Walking sticks, canteens, t-shirts, water bottles would be appropriate for a mountain trip. Sunglasses, pencils, and notepads would be good for a trip to a metropolitan area.

Forrepparttar 121330 remainder of this article, I will cite examples specifically from my condo visit torepparttar 121331 islands offrepparttar 121332 coast of South Carolina.

Leaving behind refrigerator magnets, pens, and pencils with Success Promotions logo as well as client logos are a fantastic way to have an advertising imprint impact upon visitors week after week. If someone likes a magnet or is interested enough inrepparttar 121333 company that they take it home with them that is okay with me. Worse things could happen! Vacation facilities with kitchens are also great places to leave mugs, water bottles, etc. Not only is it great to have them remain atrepparttar 121334 condominium where continuous visitors might see them, it also doesn't hurt to have them taken home as souvenirs by visitors from all over these United States and beyond.

Today most condos and many hotels equip their rooms with not only a television but also a VCR. You can leave behind a video showingrepparttar 121335 process of weaving your baskets, firing your pottery, forming your soaps, or any other process that adds torepparttar 121336 intrinsic value ofrepparttar 121337 products you make available to consumers. The only problem withrepparttar 121338 video tapes is that they are less likely to be seen by everyone.

Vacation destinations are saturated with small and unique gift shops. If your product is something that would be a good item for them to resale, you might want to turn your vacation into a business venturing trip by visiting with a few shop keepers and finding people who might sell, re-sell, or consign your products.

Guerrilla Marketing Comes of Age

Written by Shannan Hearne-Fortner


When Jay Conrad Levinson first being writing and speaking about Guerrilla Marketing, he was part of a team developingrepparttar most successful ad campaign ever. The Marlboro Man. Whether you smoke or not, unless you've lived under a rock you are familiar with The Marlboro Man.

Guerrilla Marketing is in effectrepparttar 121328 use of wide and varied unconventional marketing tactics to achieverepparttar 121329 most conventional of business goals, which is profits. Back inrepparttar 121330 day when Levinson coinedrepparttar 121331 philosophy,repparttar 121332 internet age hadn't arrived. And still, he developed hundreds of guerrilla marketing tactics that millions of successful businesses used to grow and prosper.

Now thatrepparttar 121333 internet age is moving beyond its infancy, andrepparttar 121334 majority of homes have at least one PC with access torepparttar 121335 internet, guerrilla marketing is ready to come of age. The internet lends itself to guerrilla marketing because it makes optional so many low-cost, viral marketing alternatives.

Byrepparttar 121336 standards of a guerrilla, a successful business is one that is making a profit. Obviously, Amazon.com wouldn't have been considered successful by guerrillas even though they were growing by leaps and bounds.

Guerrilla marketing is perfect for small business working on shoestring budgets. As I've heard many a Success Promotions client say, "frayed and short shoestring budgets". According torepparttar 121337 original list of Guerrilla Marketing Arsenal Techniques (which included 100 weapons) sixty-two were free. Guerrilla marketing is incredibly useful to internet marketers because there are so many free and low cost advertising tools and tactics available viarepparttar 121338 internet.

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