Posts Tagged ‘target market’

Focusing Your Marketing Efforts for Bigger Impact

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Every small business requires marketing, but unlike larger companies with full on marketing and advertising sections who can afford to be everywhere at once, small business marketing requires focus. You`ll need to really pinpoint your efforts if you want to be successful.

Focused marketing means taking the time to identify one or two types of marketing that would be most useful to your company. You will also need to know precisely what your target market is so you don`t end up spending money to advertise to the wrong people.

By using focused marketing techniques to increase the amount of time and money you spend on a certain demographic, you should see more results. Most people only respond to a message after having seen it multiple times, so skipping from one ad campaign to the next won`t have much effect. However, giving them the same message over and over again is definitely a good thing.

Focused marketing is a must if you are a small business on a small budget.

Mobile Marketing: 3 Reasons to Try It

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

There are so many ways to market your small business that it is literally impossible to try them all. However when it comes to testing things, you should definitely think about mobile marketing.

Reason Number One: It`s New
Mobile marketing hasn`t been around that long and it certainly hasn`t been exploited to the extent that email has, which means people are more receptive to it still.

Reason Number Two: Mobile Marketing is Specific
You can target your market very specifically, so you are only reaching people who are interested in your industry. Targeted markets are the key to successful marketing.

Reason Number Three: It`s Cheap
Mobile marketing is still new and reasonably priced, making it the ideal type of marketing to try out. You can spend very little money while testing the method out.

Mobile marketing is still a great thing to get into and if your target market carried a cell phone or Blackberry (which is nearly every target market these days!), then you can try this technique to see if it suits you and your business.