1. Focus on organic social media. This is free/unpaid marketing online through creating great content, building a dedicated community, and consistently creating conversation & visibility
2. Email marketing. Create emails that keep your community clued up on your offering. Convert your subscribers to customers and create a database of their contact details for future marketing opportunities. This also helps you build a wait list for future product launch’s
3. Upsell your products or services. These are strategies that get people to buy more by offering discounts etc for the same product in different quantities or value propositions. Other strategies that can be used are bundling & cross selling.
4. Micro Influencer marketing. Great way to access high value niche markets through someone with a highly engaged community. Their reach is saturated & focused, they are relevant in their community, and they have trustworthy relationships with their community.
5. User generated content & reviews. This is how you validate the credibility of your offering through other people’s experience of your offering. A concept called social proof.
When users create content or communicate their experience of using your product it’s a form of digital word of mouth, that generates free marketing for your business. Collect as many reviews as possible
6. Shareable content or giveaways. Create content or competition giveaways that people find value in and want to share. This allows your brand to access communities that don’t follow your brand accounts and leverage on virality.
7. Customise your content to accommodate different languages & cultures. If your offering is for diverse communities like South Africa, you want to make sure that your content doesn’t exclude prospective customers or create miscommunication.
Find creative ways to adapt content for different languages , cultures, and needs.
8. Video advertising . Your online marketing strategy needs an element of video content that showcases your offering optimally and creates conversation or interest around your brand. Video advertising on Facebook, & Instagram, & TikTok spread your brand messaging successfully
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1. Focus on one social media platform.Choose social media that you can use consistently & that you have a decent understanding of. The key is to dominate the platform by using it well. Using too many SM platforms at one go can dilute your impact & focus if you’re not well versed
2. Audience
Each social media platform appeals to either B2B (business to business) or B2C (Business to customer). Make sure that your choice of social media reflect your objectives & the audience you’re trying to target.
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1.Tell a Story. Don’t lead with the offer, first tell a story. Remember you’re pitching to people, you have to establish an emotional connection before you pitch your offer.
Talk about something that your client can relate to, something that sparks their interest and leads to a conversation about your offering
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What is a marketing plan?
A marketing plan details the strategy that a company will use to market its products or services to customers. It’s an integral part of the Overall business plan.
What is the purpose of a marketing plan?
•Helps you set goals
•Gives you understanding of customers
• Helps you optimize the impact of your marketing campaigns/activities
• Gives you clarity in communicating your big ideas & strategy
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How does your brand compare to others? & How does your brand stay top of mind?
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Brand positioning is a strategic tool that marketers use to segment a specific space in the market for a brand, that communicates the brands value in relation to other offerings in the market.
Brand positioning is about how the brand is perceived by:
Customers
Competitors
The overall market place
Which helps a brand communicate it’s value, validate it’s pricing, & support other marketing mix decisions
What we learned about Marketing 2020: 1. Marketing is not advertising, sales, or public relations. 2. Pricing is a marketing strategy 3. Customer acquisition & retention, growth are all part of Marketing. 4. Strategy is in everything that works well.
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Marketing in 2020;
5. Social media & E-commerce can be revenue generating assets, brand building tools, community building tools, & customer acquisition & retention tools. 6. Marketing, at its core, is the process of adding value for the end user & all stakeholders involved.
What we learned about Marketing in 2020;
7. Technology should be an integral part of your marketing strategy 8. Features tell, benefits sell. 9. Continuous learning will give you a competitive advantage as a marketing professional