10 Packaging Tips That Will Make Consumers Buy Your Product (03 May 2007) The customer is king/queen. We have all heard this mantra. It's up to you, the supplier, to prove it so. With these ten tips you will be a lot closer to proving that you are on top of industry trends and technologies for the packaging industry.
Market Planning -- Getting the Word Out (03 May 2007) Market planning is the hands-on road map for growing your business. It's the "what, when, where, and to whom" of selling--the way to coordinate your career goals and business plan with your sales activities to be sure you're effective, efficient and profitable.
How Gratitude Works (03 May 2007) Want to know what the highest-impact, lowest-cost tool is in your marketing toolkit? First, here are ten reasons to start using this tool right away:
Whats Your Marketing Weak Link? (03 May 2007) Your marketing weak link could be undermining the rest of your marketing. It is vital that each link in your marketing system supports and builds upon the previous link. Each link must bring your customer closer to the next sale. Any link that takes the customer further away from the sale, makes your marketing program inefficient and causes you to lose money.
Be Prepared for Marketing (03 May 2007) For most businesses, making a sale is all important. However, despite the amount of effort and attention given to getting sales, there is often no attention given to developing and effectively implementing a systematic marketing process. There are many things that can go wrong between the point of the customer first developing an interest in your product or service and the time of making the sale. Despite knowing this, very few businesses actually take proactive steps to nurture the progress of a sale. In sales and marketing, as in life, preparation makes a world of difference.
Linking Features & Benefits (03 May 2007) By linking features and benefits, we give ourselves an opportunity to understand and construct effective messages, for both marketing and other purposes.
Trade Shows Are Not a Waste! (03 May 2007) According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (the trade association for trade shows), industry spends more than $60 billion annually on trade show participation, more than the expenditures for magazines, radio and outdoor billboards combined! And, trade shows are more cost-effective than direct selling when it comes to reaching new customers.
Catalogs are Selling Machines (03 May 2007) If you've got a mailbox, you're no doubt aware of the popularity of catalogs. People love to look through catalogs, and more important, they love to buy from catalogs. But mailing catalogs can be expensive. You've got to send a lot of them out, and many of them are going to non-productive destinations-- in other words, most mailings don't just go to sure-fire customers.
Neuromarketing: Smart Marketing Or Jedi Mind Control Trick? (03 May 2007) New research into the science called neuromarketing is beginning to shine a light on the mysterious workings of the neural processes behind snap decisions that consumers make.
Read Your Markets Mind - 3 Great Market Research Resources (03 May 2007) Starting a new online business, developing a new product,
launching a new marketing campaign, buying advertising
can all depend on how well you are able to research your
market. With these 3 killer market research resources, you
can read your market's mind.
Generational Marketing (03 May 2007) Having run a multi-state franchise company with multiple brands it became obvious to me early on that if one were to properly respond to the needs and desires of your customer base; you must indeed, understand generational marketing.
Client Attraction Technique #3: Study the Competition! (03 May 2007) One very powerful and cost-effective marketing strategy is to study the competition... How best they operate, what they lack and then how to capitalise on it!
Increase Your Sales By Following-Up (03 May 2007) The difference between a successful business and one that just gets by is that the business that is just getting by thinks that the marketing is over when the sale has been made. One of the main reasons customers stop buying from a business is because of apathy after the sale. You must have a follow-up program.
A Perfect Partnership for Business (03 May 2007) Socially Responsibility Marketing or sponsorship if you will, is a perfect collaboration in consdiering the similarities that entrpreneurs and non-profits have in common. Socially Responsiblity Marketing is value-driven, highly motivate, creative risk takers. It's a investment or partnership between two parties who work together for a mutual benefit.
Top Five Tips for Marketing that Gets Results (03 May 2007) Five crucial tips. Three key elements. Four critical marketing questions. Here is what is needed to get reults in today's world...
Making Your Mark With The Millennials (03 May 2007) The generational cohort spawned by the Baby Boomers is variously referred to by sociologists as "Generation Y," "Cyberboomers," the "Echo Boom" or the "Millennial Generation"---or more simply, "The Millennials." Weaned on digital technology in the midst of the information age (they could surf the Net before they could walk), these young folks are introspective, highly critical, and mighty independent (they make cold, calculating Gen-Xers seem warm and fuzzy by comparison).
