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    How do I market my business?

    Team Career PlanetBy Team Career Planet21 May 2019No Comments2 Mins Read

    10 common marketing mistakes and how you can fix them

    As a consultant, business growth strategist and results multiplier, I constantly encounter clients and prospects making one, some or all of the following common marketing mistakes:

    Mistake 1: Not testing all of your marketing ideas.
    Corrective action: Test and measure all of your marketing.

    Mistake 2: Small or medium-sized businesses who waste vast amounts of money on image and brand advertising.
    Corrective action: Run only Direct Response Advertising. Invest in advertising that highlights powerful benefits, a strong offer, providing powerful reasons why people must buy your products or services, plus supported by a clear-call-to-action. Your advertising must sell your products or services or you are wasting your money.  

    Mistake 3: Not articulating or demonstrating the differences that your business offers.
    Corrective action: Develop a powerful Unique Selling Proposition and use it in all your marketing.

    Mistake 4: Not understanding your customer and their needs and desires.
    Corrective action: Clearly determine and address the real needs of your clients and prospects.

    Mistake 5: Not making doing business with your company easy, appealing and even fun.
    Corrective action: Make doing business with your business easy, appealing and fun.

     Mistake 6: Stopping marketing campaigns that are still working. Corrective action: Don’t stop marketing campaigns that are still working just because you are tired of them. I assure you that you clients or prospects have not seen them as much as you.

     Mistake 7: Not capturing prospects’ addresses, email addresses as well as pertinent and valuable contact information.

    Corrective action: Capture everything on a prospect or client that you can in an organised and retrievable system.

     Mistake 8: Being stuck doing “what works.”

    Corrective action: Always be open to new ideas, innovations and be willing to change.

     Mistake 9: Not knowing and leveraging the lifetime value of a client.

    Corrective action: Always understand the lifetime value of your clients. This way you will understand and serve them better.

     Mistake 10: Not being strategic. 

    Corrective action: You MUST have a detailed, strategic marketing plan with specific performance growth expectations.

     In your marketing you have the greatest upside leverage environment imaginable. Improve your marketing and you will improve your profits. 

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