How To Become An Effective Marketer
The following contains four criteria that you want to adhere to, in order to become an effective marketer.
If you want your business to go to the next level, (or the first level if you are just getting started) you need to become an effective marketer; having the best product, the best profit margin, the highest quality, the best management, the best location, or the best personal education, can all be beat out by good marketing. In other words; if nobody knows what you have then nobody will buy it.
The process of becoming an effective marketer is simple, it is easy, but it does require some effort and some training. If your previous marketing experience is placing a classified ad in a newspaper to sell your car, that is a start, but if you’re getting into some serious marketing of your business and you do not receive some great training or education, be prepared to lose a lot of money.
The first criteria that you want to consider, is distinguishing what works from one does not work.
The second criteria that you want to consider, is distinguishing the cost of what works, so that you can fit the marketing that works into your financial budget.
The third criteria that you want to consider, is your time, you want to ensure that the time you are spending on your marketing is producing results.
The fourth criteria that you want to ensure is that you create and implement a plan to put it into effect and do it right the first time.
So, first things first.
The best way to distinguish what works from what does not work is to learn from people that are getting results doing what it is that you want to do. If you’re wanting to learn how to become an effective marketer find someone and learn from someone that is being an effective marketer. It is all about results.
For example, If you want to learn how to create a presence on the Internet, then you want to learn from somebody who has created a presence on the Internet. If you want to learn how to create a presence in newspaper advertising then you want to learn from somebody who has created a presence in newspaper advertising.
There are two ways that you can learn about marketing; the first way is trial and error, this can be very expensive! The second way you can learn about marketing, is to pay someone who has figured it out, so that you will save time and money.
On a side note, we’ve all heard the saying “time is money” well, that could not be any more wrong; time it is time and money is money. Think about it, if you run out of money you can always make more if you run out of time well, you’re out of time.
So pay people who have the knowledge to transfer their knowledge to you, so that you will create more time by putting their knowledge into action. This way, you will retain results that are better and you get your results faster, saving you both time and money.
To distinguish the cost of what works simply learn from your mentor where your costs should lineup. For example, there is a huge difference between the cost of writing a Blog and the cost of doing pay-per-click marketing on the Internet.
Ensuring that you have a good understanding of the cost of your marketing and how much it should cost you to obtain your individual leads, will ensure that you are not having false expectations and will keep you from becoming discouraged because you did not understand upfront what your results should be and how much they should cost.
After all, if you know what you’re getting into before you get into it and you know the results that you should obtain after you get into it, you will be much more relaxed and not surprised by the cost versus the result.
The third thing that you want to distinguish is the time you’re spending on creating your marketing. In marketing there is a basic rule of thumb; marketing will either cost you time, money, or combination of the two. Depending on your budget, you will determine how much time you spend, against how much money you spend.
For example if you have a lot of money and not a lot of time then learn about marketing that will produce results, when you just throw some money at it. To qualify the “throw some money at it” statement be sure that you are educated before you throw any money anywhere.
In contrast, if you do not have a lot of money but have some more time available, then learn marketing that is effective but very low cost.
I believe the best way is to develop a good balance; become well educated in all the effective marketing practices, this way you are both spending a bit of time and a bit of money and completely leveraging on the two methods of marketing.
The fourth thing, is putting together a plan of action. Once you’ve determined what works, figured out the cost and the amount of time that you have to apply to your marketing, it is time to put together your plan of action.
Your marketing plan of action has to be clearly defined, it has to be well planned and based on consistency over a period of months.
Make sure the plan you put into place is the plan that you see through, without constantly looking back at the results; consistent results only develop on consistent effort and application.
Chinese proverb - “Man that runs through forest, looking backwards, hits tree.”
When you choose to apply the four criteria mentioned in this article you will become an effective marketer.
In Your Service,
Greg Nicholls
The Author, Greg Nicholls, has a great amount of experience in many facets of marketing and advertising. “Having owned four businesses, I know that marketing and advertising are the most important components, next to a rock solid business plan and product.” - Greg Nicholls
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