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What It Takes To Win The Small Business Marketing Game

by Charlie Cook
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Marketing a business is like any game. If you know the rules you are much more likely to win. Are you spending your limited time and money on advertising, networking, making calls, mailings, meeting with prospects, yet only achieving middling results?

The problem isn’t that you don’t know your business or provide high quality products and services, it's that you don’t know the rules of the small business marketing game.

Think about it. Do you play bridge, golf, tennis or go bowling. How would you do if you didn't understand the rules. You'd spend a lot of effort but you'd wouldn't get the results you wanted. Sound familiar?

If you're not winning at marketing, if you're not attracting a steady stream of new clients, discover the rules to follow.

Marketing To Win
To win the marketing game, you need to know the rules. The key
rules to getting the clients you want are:

1. Market Solutions
2. Target Your Market
3. Demonstrate Value
4. Build Your Network
5. Stay in Touch

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1. Market Solutions
Most service professionals focus their marketing on their approach and the products and services they offer. While competence is a key to doing the work, most clients' primary concern is getting problems solved and having their spoken and unspoken needs met. Instead of marketing your credentials, your processes and methodology, focus on your prospects' problems, and market your knowledge - the solutions you provide.

Marketing is about making connections, specifically between a
client's unmet need and the solutions you provide. The best way
to impress clients is to show them you understand the problems
they are experiencing. If you want to leverage your credentials,
mention past clients when you provide examples of how you
solved similar problems.

2. Target Your Market
Are you getting a positive response to your marketing efforts? If not, then you may not have targeted your market and their specific needs and interests precisely enough. Independent professionals or small business owners often try to do the impossible and be everything to everybody. Instead define your niche market and get the attention of this group.

3. Demonstrate Value
Actions speak louder than words. If you want clients to be aware of the value of your products or services, you will need to give them a test drive. Open the door with newsletters, workshops, a free session or articles found on your web site. Over time demonstrating the value you provide will convince prospective clients of your ability to solve their problems and help position you as a trusted advisor.

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4. Build Your Network
The objective is to know who is interested in your products and services. Networking is a good idea because people like to buy products from people they know and trust. If they’ve met you or been referred to you they are more likely to trust you.

Depending on the business you are in, you can build your network of prospects through conventional networking or through your web site and email. Either way the more qualified prospects you have in your network the better.

5. Stay in Touch
Memories are short. Once we hit middle age most of us can't remember what we had for dinner two days ago, much less the host of services various firms provide. In most cases its safe to assume your target market has forgotten about the range of solutions you offer, if they remember you at all.

Stay in touch with your target market on a monthly or, at a minimum quarterly basis. When you contact people be clear about the action you want prospective, existing and past clients to take.

Become a Winner
Once you know the rules to marketing you'll win over more prospects, more clients and more business.

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