Marketing
Marketing
is an activity that must integrate with sales activity and
be targeted at generating sales. Typically there are three
key elements within marketing:
- Customer and Market Feedback
- Image Building
- Lead Generation
Customer and Market Feedback
In order to keep competitive in the market place it is important
to constantly monitor the needs of the customers, the activities
of competitors, and the pricing position of your products
or services. This will allow you to feed good selling intelligence
to the sales department, and supply details of future needs
to development people. The feedback on customer satisfaction
is also vital to the growth of the business, as providing
a poor service will limit the growth prospects of any business.
To that end we carry out both customer satisfaction surveys
and "mystery shopper" campaigns, on behalf of clients.
Image Building
Building the image of your business is important in backing
up the sales process. It is far easier to sell to someone
who has heard of your business, than one who hasn't. We assist
clients to build this image within their industry by using
such foci as:
- Press Releases
- Expert articles in trade and non-trade publications
- Exhibitions
- Case studies
- Customer testimonials
- Professional literature
- Entries in directories
- Strategic partnerships
- Newsletters
- Proposal design and creation
- Effective presentations
In the majority of our clients we will also assist in developing
a "guru" campaign, where the company is used as
a source of keynote information on anything that is happening
within the industry.
Lead Generation
Whilst
it is important that sales people have the capability to cold-call
customers, using more hands-off forms of lead generation can
allow an expensive sales person more time in front of valuable
prospects. Lead generation is the responsibility of the marketing
department, and we can help to set up or outsource a wide
variety of lead generating techniques, such as:
- Telemarketing
- Emailshots
- Mailshots
- Web-marketing
- CRM
- Business networking
- Referrals programmes
In order to establish the most effective means of generating
leads for specific business, it is important to trial a number
of different possibilities, and we can help clients to carry
out these trials.
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