Marketing Success
Tips
If you are like me and used to be a good
Direct Mail or traditional Brick-and-Mortar marketing
professional than you may be offended by what I am about to
tell you. If you read this introduction with an open
mind, you may just find that what I am about to say is
true and has been for years.
There Are Two Types of
Marketing:
- Strategic Marketing
and
- Tactical Marketing
Strategic marketing has to do with What
you Say, How you Say it and Who you Say it To. In
other words, it's the content of your marketing
message.
Tactical marketing is the execution of
your strategic marketing plan as far as generating leads,
placing media, creating marketing tools and implementing a
follow-up system. In other words, it's the medium
your message is delivered in.
How Big Is The Distinction Between Strategic
and Tactical Marketing?
Most people mistakenly assume that when
you talk about marketing that you're
automatically talking about Tactical Marketing
such as:
- Placing ads
- Lead generation
- Creating brochures
- Sending out mailers
- Attending trade shows
- implementing a follow-up
system
They fail to realize that the strategic
side of the equation:
What you Say
How you Say it
Who you Say it To
is almost always more important than
the marketing medium where you say it. To succeed
as an Internet Marketer, a thorough understanding of
this difference is crucial.
The
Basic Definition of Good Communication
is:
- Have something good to
say
- Say it well
-
Say it
often
The best marketing and advertising in the world
can not make a bad company good. Oh it may
generate some attention and make some advertising agency
a lot of money or win them an award (Pets.com), but
saying something good about a company that can not
execute what it claims is a recipe for
failure.
A traditional advertising agency will
use the C&R method of marketing. Creativity and
Repetition tries to capitalize on some creative ad using
something that is unusual or exciting and then blast it all
over the world using TV, Bill boards, newspapers,
magazines, etc. in an attempt to build "Brand"
awareness.
It is my hope that by reviewing this
website and some of the articles you find here, you will
begin to realize that there is a very specific strategic
approach to internet marketing and begin to use some new
methods in the way you approach internet marketing.
After all, where else can you create a headline, and ad or
an offer and get feedback on its effectiveness within
hours?
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