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Many organizations have no idea what marketing is. Some even resist marketing as contradicting their values. You can speed past these organizations by availing yourself of an education in marketing. Its easy to do with the many seminars, workshops, the internet, and the numerous volumes of marketing books published each year. Insights may come slowly, but rest assured, your real world experience and insatiable interest in marketing will yield practical applications that benefit your organization. “Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits” with Jay Conrad Levinson ,Frank Adkins & Chris Forbes. Pre-order now on Amazon: ow. ly in stores July 2nd.

Best Guerrilla Marketing idea submitted or campaign of the year, the company or organization with the most clever and successful guerrilla marketing tactic or social or campaign. Gold – Social Mention Silver – Bronze DoGood Headquarters – Ripple Adventure 2010 Bootstrap Awards hosted by exploring. org, ProfBruce, Bruce Firestone, Rob Woodbridge, OCRI, TIM, Ernst and Young, Brazeau Seller Talent Bridge, VAngent, Ottawa Chamber of Comerct, the Telfer School of Management, Algonquin College, Ottawa Business Journal and judged by: Bryan Haralovich, Michael Weiss, Lisa Larter

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Part 6 of the Austin Technology Council’s Sales & Marketing Strategy Session on Guerrilla Marketing. Event was held in Austin, Texas on April 3, 2008. Panel features (as seated, left to right): * Sam Decker, CMO, Bazaarvoice * Jay Hallberg, VP Marketing and Co-Founder, Spiceworks * Sarah Russ, Vice President & General Manager, Austin, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide * Tim Hayden, CEO, GamePlan Marketing & Events Moderated by Matthew Parente, Principal, Aperio Marketing Part 6 covers the question “What is ‘guerrilla marketing’ and how is it different than ‘viral’ or ‘buzz’ marketing?”

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www. GMarketingCoach. com led by Mitch Meyerson, founder of Guerrilla Marketing Coaching and author of nine books Marketing and Personal Growth

Practical lecture by Janet Naidenova: “Guerrilla Marketing: The marketing for your success.” 19th 06th 2009, Bourgas. Naidenova Janet is a Certified Master of Guerrilla Marketing Coach conducting consultation, training and coaching in Eastern Europe.

Hungry for real state business, this Realtor takes guerrilla marketing to the streets of Jacksonville Florida. With cardboard sign in hand he brings the message, “Will work hard for your business”.

Here are some quick clips from my Guerrilla Marketing workshop at the June meeting of Publishers & Writers of San Diego. For guerrilla book marketing tips and tools, visit: fulltimeauthor.com indiebookpromotion.com

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Taking marketing lessons from bottled water.

Have you seen that show on TV where there are hidden cameras inside a fancy restaurant hotel? They get a guy to pretend he is a “water steward” and he’s out on the floor offering the expensive bottled water. They all have labels from different mountains and springs; and they’re selling these 8, 9, $10 bottles of water and they are selling the story and getting feedback from the patrons. And of course the camera goes to the back of the room and there’s a guy with a water hose and he’s filling all the bottles with city water right out of the tap. Every bottle has the same thing in it.

The teaching point is that if hundreds of companies can figure out how to differentiate bottled water and sell it at premium prices then you can figure out of to make your personal injury practice stand out as well. It’s all about the character, the personality, the drama. Its the wrapper or the story of the journey from the springs in some far away mountain to your refrigerator.

What’s your story? What’s your reason for being in the market place. Please don’t make it “free consultations” or “we care.” Those aren’t unique stories.

There are many ways of choosing to market yourself in any media, the only challenge is finding a way that is different from everyone else’s. Check out the yellow pages in your area. Pretend you are a consumer. Is there any reason to call one lawyer over the other in the book in your town? I doubt it.

You can be in the consumer’s face (shout louder than everyone else), or you can be discreet in a way that makes them want to come to you. I like to think of this as guerrilla marketing. It’s like Nike going to the World Cup and not being a major sponsor of the event. Instead, they drive their vans up and hand out Nike hats and T-shirts. It’s the subtle message that nobody else is thinking about.

It doesn’t matter if you’re selling shoes or legal representation. All of this is transferable. The, the ideas are the same and, and what you may have a hard time getting over is that, I’m a lawyer and so my business is different. My profession is different. That’s not true.

Study the marketing of bottled water. If they can do it, so can you.

It can be difficult to build a successful seminar
marketing campaign when funds are limited. Take, for
example, a recent email I received from one of my
newsletter subscribers. The crux of the seminar
promoter’s dilemma was summed up in one sentence:

“I have stretched myself too far, and now face
reality of bills to pay without sufficient funds to
market the seminar that is to be my source of income.”

Ouch! That hurts. And even if you’ve never found
yourself in this exact position, you can still
understand the desire to maximize your registrations
while minimizing your expenses, right?

When I was going through the Guerrilla Marketing Coach
certification program, the rule I learned is that when
marketing, you need to invest your time, your money and
your creativity. At least two of the ingredients are
needed for a successful marketing campaign.

So … if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, you
plan on investing more of your time and creativity to
make your marketing work.

Here are a few ideas to consider:

1. Focus on your very best prospects and spend your
resources pursuing them.

2. Don’t be afraid to get a little zany to make your
marketing pieces stand out. Lumpy mail is a great
way to do this.

3. Use promotional tools that last a long time and
are cheap. For most seminar promoters, this means
creating an effective web site to sell seminar seats.

4. Leverage relationships with past and current clients,
colleagues, etc. Get them to help promote your event
to their list in exchange for a share of revenue.

5. Offer your seminar in a teleseminar or webinar format.
Virtual events can be easier to fill because (1) attendees
don’t have to travel and (2) typically, the events are
recorded, so attendees have the option of listening to
your material when it’s most convenient to them.

6. Pick up the phone and call people. I’m not a fan
of outbound telemarketing. But when money is tight,
picking up the phone and fine-tuning your sales skills
can be a smart investment of your time.

7. Secure one or more sponsors. Find organizations that
want to be in front of your attendees, then offer to
get their company name in front of attendees in exchange
for a fee to cover all or part of your event costs.

There are many ways you can have an effective seminar
campaign, even without loads of cash to back it up.  

So you’ve tried direct mail, advertising, you’ve got a web site, maybe you’ve even tried networking as a marketing strategy. These and many other marketing strategies are all good and if performed properly will most likely bring you favorable results. A word to the wise here though, some of them can run you a fortune in marketing costs. And in my experience, cost has a lot less bearing on effectiveness than one would like to believe. Now being a fan of Jay Conrad Levinson and his concept of “Guerrilla Marketing”, I am always on the lookout for innovative and inexpensive ways to market. And what I have for you here certainly fits that bill.

I believe Napoleon Hill in his 1930’s classic book “Think and Grow Rich” was the first person to coin the phrase “Master Mind” and he defined it as: “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

Hmmm… So basically it’s building a team that leverages their collective brains and brawn to help one another get what they want.

So let’s not beat around the bush here. Are you ready for the secret marketing strategy? Well here goes… It’s quite simple really… there is strength in numbers. Two minds are exponentially more capable than one mind alone. In this equation, one plus one does not equal two, it more closely resembles eleven. We’re talking about leverage here. The secret is simply to gain leverage by creating your own mastermind. Not just any mastermind though; One that specifically focuses on marketing – a “Marketing Mastermind” so to speak.

So my proposal to you is to take that exact concept of a mastermind as Napoleon Hill defined it, and niche it to focus primarily on marketing.

So real quick what should this mastermind look like? My suggestion would be 4 to 8 members from different, non-competing industries, meeting weekly to discuss how they can help each other market their respective businesses – Plain and simple.

Now it’s not my intention here to educate you in any detail on how to set up and effectively participate in a mastermind group, as there are plenty of resources out there already that can do that for you, it is simply to share with you what’s possible by leveraging this concept to support your marketing efforts.

Personally, I see this strategy as a phenomenal way for organizations, especially smaller ones with little spending money for marketing, to use the power of leverage to broaden their capability and effectiveness.

While the benefits of doing this could be endless, let me just share with you five of my favorites:

Plain and simple, it keeps you in the conversation of marketing.

It can provide you with unbiased feedback, brainstorming, and marketing advice based on experiences of what has worked, or hasn’t worked for your mastermind teammates.

You will significantly expand your reach and go beyond who you know and tap into who your teammates know. Now depending on what the group agrees to, you may gain access to the client list and/or mailing list of the other members. Additionally, you can explore the possibilities of joint marketing initiatives and joint venture arrangements where multiple parties share in the results.

You’ll be held accountable to get done what you say you will get done. This alone inspires people into action and action ultimately leads to results.
The list can go on and on and on however, best of all, masterminding is free!

So need I say more? I sincerely hope you’ll take this strategy on and try it on for a while. What do you got to lose? – It’s free. Remember, there’s power in numbers so build your “Marketing Mastermind” and reap the rewards today!

© 2006 Online Marketing Muscle — All Rights Reserved.

I have always felt that easy marketing promotions were broadly applied but not always very well thought out. Promotional marketing in some ways is generally a pretty good idea for a wide variety of things. You may hand out things like stickers, pens, or other little trinkets with your brand name on it. This is an ideal way to spend little money on an advertising campaign that will generate some degree of valuable name recognition. The question of how effective these easy promotional marketing campaigns are is open, however. If I open my pen drawer, I will find literally dozens of promotional pens and pencils in there, but I couldn’t name a single brand offhand. Unless you sell something like stationary which people associate with pens, these type of promotional giveaways are nothing but a waste of your money.

In my sincere opinion – and I always inform my clients of this – marketing promotions should only be done for special purposes. Guerrilla marketing can work remarkably well depending on what kind of product or service you sell, but this easy marketing promotion must be carefully tailored to ones needs. Just going out into a public square and holding a contest or giving away a product will not generate any business for you at all. You need to think, strategically.

One of my all time favorite places to do marketing promotions is at various clubs and bars. When people are drinking, they will do what they can to win anything. Whether you are giving away food, drink mixers, or banners, people will get excited about your marketing promotion. If they get to come home with a souvenir for their efforts, they will forever associate it with the fun of going out drinking with friends. This is what successful marketing promotions aim to do – create those kinds of positive associations around your product or brand name.

Warm summer afternoons are also a great time for marketing promotions. If you are willing to spend a few thousand dollars giving away free drinks in a crowded public thoroughfare, people will absolutely love you. Even if you are giving out something that doesn’t strictly go along with the weather – such as a salty or sweet snack – people will still be grateful as long as they get some water with it. If you can catch people at an unguarded moment, you can gain their brand loyalty before they even know what hit them. That is what successful marketing promotions are all about. Leave the brand-name pens at home!

What’s the first thing that pops into your mind with the mention of the word marketing? Do you get excited about all of the possibilities…or do you freeze at the thought of developing strategies and tactics?

90 percent of small business owners do not have a marketing plan, yet most know that it takes seven to 10 impressions to make an impact and inspire a prospect to take action. Repetition is critical, but what is the best way to proceed?

The surefire way to ensure success is to pre-determine your marketing and the action required to reach seven to 10 impressions. Here are 7 strategies to focus your efforts:

1. Be remarkable. Identify your goals, your strengths, and your target audience. Define ONE quality that sets you apart from your competition and turns your customers into loyalists buying from you again and again. What are you willing to stake a claim on? Focus on that ONE remarkable quality, develop a clear, consistent marketing message, and repeat that ONE marketing message in everything you do. If you repeatedly launch new marketing messages, you are starting all over each time and will be spinning your wheels for naught.

2. Maximize word of mouth. When you have a business identity or brand that inspires, fascinates, engages and rewards customers and employees, you are going to be talked about. There is no denying that the opinions of trusted family and friends play a key role in influencing the purchase behavior of others. Can you come up with a creative campaign that will get lots of people talking? Are you encouraging referrals? Do you have testimonials in your print, web and on-site displays that reflect the ONE remarkable quality that is the basis of your business and marketing?

3. Free Media. There’s a great big world of media available online and off, and a lot of it is free. If you provide newsworthy information, your news releases will be published or aired. So what’s your hook? Are you launching a new event, releasing a new book or announcing a new program? Is there newsworthy information to highlight about you, an employee or a customer? Think big, develop a hook, and reinforce your ONE marketing message along with the who, what, when, where and why of your news release. Distribute online and off.

4. Knock Your Socks-Off Service. Be sure you and your employees are delivering unbelievably great service under every circumstance. Answering the phone with enthusiasm, putting paperwork on the back burner to assist a customer, and listening to each customer should be a no-brainer, but sometimes a hectic day puts good intentions on hold. Focus on your ONE remarkable quality and give customers knock-your-socks-off service. They’ll likely have something very good to say about you to others.

5. Get in the Limelight. One of the best ways to spread your ONE marketing message is to speak to organizations, associations, clubs, and radio audiences. Keep in mind that Rotary Clubs, local business groups, school foundations, radio networks and other organizations are always looking for program ideas. Make their job easy by offering your expertise. Determine where your target audience spends his/her time, select an organization that’s a good fit, contact the program coordinator, and offer a presentation targeted to the audience. You’ll be positioning yourself as an expert while reaching new prospects.

6. Collaborate. Also called fusion marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson, the Father of Guerrilla Marketing, collaboration is a tool that many small business owners overlook. Yet research shows that working with others increases productivity, motivation and results. Collaborations combine the efforts of two or more entities to explode joint marketing efforts. The keys: Identify potential collaborations, determine what each of you brings to the table, and create a win-win situation where you can shout out your ONE marketing message.

7. Hire a marketing coach. If you are stuck, it may be that you are overwhelmed, at “a fork in the road” and unsure of your next step. Enlist support. Hire a professional coach and consultant to help you redefine your unmistakable brand identity, your ONE marketing message, and action steps to ensure success.

While there are many more ways to guarantee you will make an impact, these seven strategies will get you started with a solid foundation for strengthening your ONE marketing message. Be sure to put it all on paper so you have a map guiding your efforts and ensuring that you focus on the ONE quality that sets you apart from your competition and makes you truly remarkable in the eyes of your customers and prospects. Be consistent. Be clear. Be ready to skyrocket results.

An internet marketing online business was the 21st century’s shake up of the capitalist marketplace. Now the playing field has been levelled and perceptions have changed. The internet was a huge wrench within the sockets of the elite marketers of the old industrial – neo liberalist age. Anyone and everyone can use the internet for a platform to launch a marketing business and for years that will slowly turn into a decade, newer and more innovative methods of internet marketing have cropped up. So wait no longer, these are the 3 internet marketing online businesses revealed.

Blogging. Ever since someone decided to pen their thoughts in an easy reading format and a company decide to syndicate, nobody would have known the true potential of blogging as a viable internet marketing online business. Blogging is the multi-dimensional tool for anyone serious about selling online. A platform for several marketing tactics like content, search engine optimisation, PPC, guerrilla marketing and as a contact point to companies who use blogs as back links to their corporate site, the business of blogging is immense. With so much potential to generate interest and sales, its no wonder it is a business that has covered more than a quarter of the internet marketing online world.

Direct marketing is another huge online business that is generating people lots of money. With its many transmutations of email marketing, list building, digital fax marketing, viral marketing and the use of social network sites like Facebook or MySpace, direct marketing is a business that rewards the progressive performer. Over time and practice, you should be able to represent several products and services and work for a variety of networks and corporations. Opening up your revenue streams and picking the products you feel most comfortable in selling makes this an online business that is growing in popularity.

Affiliate marketing should be the end word of anyone worth his mint online. It is the best and easiest way (if done right) to open up multiple revenue streams; combining into a vast ocean of wealth. As a marketing tool, there is none other that is as flexible and able to cross platforms. It is also one of the few that utilises every possible channel on the internet to gain audience volume and drive traffic to where it matters the most. Unlike direct marketing, this is spreading out quality even over quantity and individuals and companies can engage an affiliate network to represent multiple products and services from various sources. Earning a few hundred thousand dollars a year is not unheard of and this is a bandwagon you should start running towards.

For each one, you have to learn the basics and know the ropes. With time you will be able to have a deft mouse hand scouring the internet for newer ways to market your products. These are the most popular methods in use now, the top 3 internet marketing online businesses. If you think you have what it takes and a nose for selling and a willing mind to learn, why not take the first plunge.

There are many ways in getting leads through online methods and here, I will give a brief introductory lesson before I went in-depth into the details.

First, you need to have set up your squeeze page. If you have been online sometime, you will probably have discovered there are many squeeze pages like those find on the picture on the right. In fact, some argue you need to have a long letter, but the proven method is short and straight to the point. Now, let me go with you in how to build your squeeze page.

In the squeeze page, you need to stir your prospect by giving urgency; in fact it is one strategy to pull your prospect into making a quick decision. Stirring the emotion is the starting point. Next, you will need a powerful headline. Now, creates a BOLD statement in your headline addressing the solution to a problem. This is done to create curiosity and attention to your target audience.

Instead of letting your prospect guessing what the content is, gave a preview of what your prospects will be expecting. This will make your prospect feel they are getting something valuable here. Look at the benefit statements as shown in the picture. Firstly, it stresses on the benefits you receive by opting into the newsletter. In addition, the author adds extra value by giving a bonus.

Lastly, you need an opt-in form to allow your prospects to opt into your newsletter which you can follow up later.

With that, let’s move on. The next thing is to set up your auto responder. It is a way of following up with your subscribers through emails. This helps to build relationship with your prospects. In fact, it is part of guerrilla marketing which I will cover on later on in the next series.

Some good auto responder in the markets is aweber and getresponse. These are good software to do the follow up and they had done well with email delivery for up to 99%. In fact, most marketers make it as the first choice for an auto responder.

After signing up for an auto responder, you have to build a series of emails to follow up with your prospects. It is very vital in relationship building and of course; don’t try to sell something to your prospect on every email. Give something of good value to your prospects and as you continue providing good stuff, they will trust you. In a way, marketing is about branding, and by so doing, you are selling yourself as an expert. In fact, all successful marketers are good emailers who offer values to their subscribers.

Besides emails in your auto responder, send your prospect a report as well. This will win their trust in you as you have your unique report and this literally brand you as an expert.

Now, with all the system set up, you need to market out and expose your squeeze page to the world. There are a few best known and effective methods of marketing. First, you can distribute it through article marketing. You write some good articles like how to or solve a problem article. Then you distribute your articles to articles directories. Very soon, many readers or newsletter publisher will take or read your articles. Your article will be exposed and it will bring traffic to your website through your articles resource box. In addition, many will read your profiles in the articles directories and if they are interested in what you have to offer, it will drive more traffic. To make life easier, you can use article submission software like article submitter software.

You can also use forum marketing method to drive traffic. You visit forums in your niche market and give something useful to the communities and then you add your signature in the end. This helps to drive traffic as well. In fact, you build your presence in the communities. The objective is again to brand your self as an expert.

The other method is through ezine marketing. Ezine marketing is submitting your solo ads to an ezine publisher who already had a subscriber base. This will bring fast and targeted traffic.

Classified ads are another option. However, it is most effective in informing events and please, don’t ever try to post at FFA links. It represents free for all links and serves as ads posting sites. The best classified sites are crag list, US Free Ads and yahoo classified.

Search engine optimisation is another method to drive traffic. However, it a special skill where it involves building your website for the search engine and you strives to get keywords ranking high in goggle search engine. This helps to bring free organic traffic. Its a very big topic altogether. I will cover it some other time.

Pay Per Click is a fast method of traffic driving. However if it is done incorrectly, it will burn a hole in your wallet and does not even build good result. It has a long learning curve and how to do PPC, it is another subject altogether.

The buzz today is web 2 marketing. It makes use of online social communities like blogs and video sites to market your services and products. Again, it is a powerful way of building a relationship with your prospect and exposed your website to the world. We had squiddo lense, facebook, friendster, myspace and youtube.

You can also view the step by step video of this article called How To Get Free Network Marketing Leads at http://www.Awesome-Online-Marketing.com/blog.

www.bloguerrilla.it, un unconventional blog. Ambient, street and guerrilla marketing.

There are as many different ways to market to your prospective customer base as you can think of. What has to come first is for you to think about your complete strategy when looking at the big picture of your real estate marketing. This article will look at how you can know what people are thinking about your brand, how this information can be used to develop a strategy, and then what marketing tools you can use to accomplish your strategy.

The first and foremost key in developing your real estate marketing strategy is to get in touch with what your customers thinking and saying about your brand. You have to know when your current strategy is successful or not. You also have to know whether you are communicating to the segment of your customer audience that you are truly shooting for. If you market luxury homes selling for a million dollars or more but your mailings are hitting households earning $50,000; your marketing aim is off. This research can happen in several different ways. You could do an informal conversation when talking with different customers or prospects. You could hire a company to run a focus group for you to get true findings that can be validated. You can go as far as you need to but it is necessary that you are comfortable with how the end result is gathered.

The research has helped at this point so that you can see if your perception of your marketing and your customers’ perception of your marketing are disconnected at all. This can help you determine whether or not you can continue or must modify your current marketing strategy or simply need to go back to the drawing board. You have built a foundation of your current brand perception. You now have to determine where you want your business to go and this goal should determine what your marketing strategy should be.

The final part is to think about what marketing tools need to be incorporated into your real estate marketing strategy. You can use direct mail, ads at houses, newspaper ads, television ads, websites, mobile text messaging, or guerrilla marketing. The tools that you use are going to be determined by the budget that you have. This will be determined by your decision as far as the direction of the business and the size of the business as well.

Your real estate marketing strategy depends upon zero-based thinking. You must create your strategy based upon where your brand is today and build from that point. If you build strategy based upon where you think your brand is, you have set yourself up for failure. You may be communicating a good message to an incorrect audience. It is necessary to go back on a periodic basis to check on your marketing strategy to ensure that it is relevant as well. Think about companies changing their message during the past recession. These same changes happen in the real estate market as well.

“Fusion marketing is combining the efforts of two entities to ‘explode’ their joint marketing efforts.” – Jay Conrad Levinson

Collaboration. It’s a key concept we’ve practiced for years and one that Jay Conrad Levinson, the father of Guerrilla Marketing, emphasized when we went through the Guerrilla Marketing Coach certification program. He coined the term “fusion marketing partners.” Whether you call it collaboration or fusion marketing, when done right, it explodes momentum and results.

Create Win-Win Situations

The key to successful collaborations and fusion marketing is embracing the beauty and advantage of cooperation and not the concept of competition. Collaborating with fusion marketing partners is a powerfully efficient way to create win-win situations, reach more prospects, and increase sales.

For example, a kayaking outfitter may say to a restaurant owner and bed & breakfast innkeeper, “If you display my flyer, I’ll display yours.” Or, “Let’s create a package that includes lodging, meals and recreation and send a joint mailing to all of our customers.” Their marketing exposure has been tripled while their marketing costs have been reduced.

Fusion marketing partners practice the principle of reciprocity: if you do something nice for someone else, they will want to do something nice for you. Look for opportunities to go the extra mile and improve your positioning with potential collaborators.

Here’s an example of the power of fusion marketing, which gets the thumbs up from us!

Each business quarter, three artists are center stage at a reception and opening of their photography works at the Superior Artists’ Gallery in Washburn, Wisconsin. Dozens of other painters, fiber artists, sculptors and photographers are center stage at a reception and opening of their creations at the Washburn Cultural Center, and Good Thyme Bistro will cater to the increased traffic in the one-block core of downtown Washburn by providing appetizers, drinks and music.

The format, hailed as “Washburn’s Art Walk,” draws a huge crowd and creates big buzz in area newspapers, radio, and among the region. Imagine the attendance brought to each of the shows and the restaurant thanks to the individual promotion by an arts organization, dozens of artists, a restaurant and two galleries each sending an email blast to their list inviting customers, family and friends. Here’s their combined message:

Chequamegon Bay Arts Council Community Exhibit

“It’s All About Food!”

March 1 – 31, 2007

Opening reception Thursday, March 8, 5 – 7:00 PM

*“Washburn’s Art Walk”

2 public receptions on Thursday, March 8, 2007

Washburn Cultural Center

1 East Bayfield Street

Reception 5-7:00 PM

“It’s All About Food!”

Presented by CBAC

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Superior Artists’ Gallery

109 West Bayfield Street

Reception 5-7 PM

“Held to the Light”

Photographs by:

Roslyn Nelson

Harvey Nelson

Stephen Kreuser

Note: Gallery open Saturdays only, March – April, 2007

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Good Thyme Bistro

goodthymecatering@hotmail.com

18 West Bayfield Street

If it sounds high energy and like the place to be, you’re getting the message. And, we hope, you’re getting the message about the power of collaboration. How can you make this marketing tactic work for you?

1. Identify potential fusion marketing partners and collaborators.

2. Determine what each of you brings to the table.

3. Create a win-win fusion marketing partnership and long-term collaboration to blast your business to the next level of success.

Is this the year you will create powerful collaborations to explode your business success? Collaborations are the key to putting you on the Fast Track to more customers, bigger profits and a business you can brag about.

Happy Marketing!

© 2007 BoostYourBottomLine.com

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Marketing Spitfires Holly George and Leslie Hamp are creators of the Fast Track to Marketing Mastery program.

It’s a dilemma that most small businesses and startups face: You must market and advertise, but you’re strapped for cash. Fortunately, ideas, energy and imagination can make up for meager marketing budgets. Whether you’re an established company or a nascent business, the marketing formula is the same. You’ll need to start with:

1. The right message

2. To the right audience

3. At the right time

Here are a few secrets to getting the most bang for your buck:

* Maximize Internet marketing opportunities

The Web has opened up a world of low-cost marketing opportunities, from email and e-newsletters to blogs and podcasts. Also, consider search engine marketing and programs like Google’s “Ad Words,” which charge on a pay-per-click basis.

More Ideas: If you want to send an e-newsletter or conduct a low-cost email marketing campaign, try Constant Contact (as low as $15 per month). To get a great list of prospects, sign up visitors to your Web site (a no-brainer) by offering a gift (a short report, 10 tips from an expert, or something humorous) or rent a targeted email list at Postmaster Direct. Find out more about pay-per-click ad opportunities at Google.com.

* Seek publicity

Send out press releases and look for “hooks” to get your company covered in print or on TV or radio. Also, make the most of trade showsby speaking on industry panels to position yourself as an expert in your field. (Speakers and panelists at trade shows often receive free registration.)

More Ideas: PR Newswire.com details the components of a press release and offers other tools for publicizing your business. This Marketing Sherpa article provides tips for getting on panels at conferences and trade shows.

* Adopt Guerrilla Marketing techniques

Guerilla Marketing is described as “a proven method of achieving profits with minimum money.” After 14 million books in 41 languages, Jay Conrad Levinson’s low-cost tactics are still going strong. Some of his tried and true tips include writing a column for your local paper, sending “off-season” cards (instead of holiday cards), and even slipping your business cards into relevant books at the bookstore or library.

More Ideas: Learn more about Guerrilla Marketing at gmarketing.com.

* Harness the power of Word of Mouth marketing

Word of mouth, or buzz marketing, has been generating buzz of its own as a powerful and inexpensive marketing discipline. Create your own customer evangelists and let them spread the good word.

More Ideas: Visit Bravenet.com to add a free “tell-a-friend” tool to your Web site, e-newsletter, or emails, or try the low-cost Tell-a-Friend Wizard. For more ideas on how to generate buzz, visit WOMMA, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association.

* Consider low-cost, “do-it-yourself” media options

Before you invest in an elaborate direct mail campaign, consider sending less expensive mail such as postcards or birthday cards to clients. Piggybacking on existing community promotions such as participating in town days, and developing loyalty or frequent-buyer programs are other “frugal” methods.

More Ideas: Try a low-cost postcard service such as ModernPostcards.com. Your business can join an existing loyalty program such as MyPoints.com or establish a custom loyalty program with companies such as Maritz. Find dozens of frugal marketing tips at FrugalMarketing.com.

Tips & Tactics:

In a world of spam and impersonal emails, try sending personal, hand-written notes.

Find a related but non-competitive partner and join forces to share marketing efforts.

Do “grassroots” marketing research by talking to your customers one-on-one.

Join newsgroups and online discussion groups to position yourself as an expert.

How you market your company, your product and your brand makes all the difference to your bottom line. Everything you use to get the word out: advertising flyers, marketing brochures, billboards, television ads, etc. must be effective in telling people what your brand’s personality is and what’s special about your product.

The key to a successful marketing campaign is choosing the right weapons, or marketing tactics, that work best for you. Be it brochure printing or sending out e-mails, you need to use what works for you; not what worked for your neighboring business.

To gather your arsenal, you need to start a list of what works for you. For instance, the father of guerrilla marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, has his own list of 10 marketing weapons:

Marketing plan Benefits list Passion Community involvement Fusion marketing (strategic alliances) Follow-up Customer research Online marketing A designated guerrilla marketer Customer satisfaction

Notice that most of these tactics are low-cost or no-cost. No one said successful marketing had to be expensive!

You can use Levinson’s list to come up with ideas for your own. You don’t have to employ all these tactics at once – you can pick two or three to use in combination with each other for six months or a year and then evaluate your efforts. If you didn’t get great results, try another combination.

There are also different tactics within these categories: for instance, to follow-up with customers, you can send advertising flyers or full color brochures, or you can call or e-mail them.

The way to identify your marketing weapons list is to decide what your target markets react to and what benefits they want. Here’s a brief checklist of the steps to take to market effectively: 1. Brainstorm weapons that might be applicable to your markets and business. 2. Determine their costs (time and money). 3. Prioritize. 4. Determine what you can afford emotionally and financially. 5. Use the tactics you afford properly.

If you can’t afford full color brochures right now, put those on the backburner or explore black-and-white brochure printing options. Create a marketing calendar of which tactic you want to try when, and then evaluate what worked and what didn’t. Then adjust your calendar accordingly. Mailing marketing brochures didn’t work in the summer? Try mailing them again in the winter or try handing them out instead of mailing them in the summer months.

By planning what weapons you want to use, and having back-up ideas ready to go in your arsenal, you’ll be ready to change as the market conditions change. Being flexible is a big part of successful marketing. The goal of marketing is to get your message out to prospects and to gain recognition. By employing different marketing weapons during the year, you’ll have a good chance of hitting everyone in your target market and no one will get tired of seeing your materials because you present them in so many ways.

No matter what type of business you own, you are constantly trying to find the best ways to get your name out there and promote your product. In today\’s competitive marketing world, unless you can drop a million dollars on a 30 second commercial, you need to be more creative and devise your own cheaper methods of product promotion. Guerilla Marketing is just one of the newer unconventional tactics used in marketing today. Most sources define Guerrilla marketing as an unconventional system of promotions that relies on time, energy and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. Typically, guerrilla marketing tactics are rare and unconventional by targeting consumers in the most unexpected locations and circumstances.

The main objective in any type of marketing plan is to get your product and name in front of as many potential customers as possible. In the past the thought process was to spend the majority of your marketing budget on television and radio commercials, print, or billboard advertisement. However nowadays in a world that fast forwards through commercials or constantly checks caller ID to avoid telemarketers, tactics such as guerilla marketing need to be implemented in any successful marketing plan. Here are just some examples of guerilla marketing tactics that may useful to any business looking to gain attention without breaking their budget:

1. Planting Your Business Card: People love to browse through magazines so why not stick your business card in any magazine that is related to your customer base. In other words, my company sells car parts, therefore putting my business card in any type of car magazine assures me that anyone who opens that magazine and sees my card fall out is a potential customer. Besides book or magazine stores, planting your business card in unique spots such as restaurant menus, bus windows, park benches, or anywhere your card can attract someone who is seated for a long period of time is a great place to start.

2. Tissue Pack Marketing: purchasing small tissue packets with your logo or product on them is a fool proof way to have people hold on to or keep your information because it is useful to them. Every time they pull out another tissue they are reminded of your product, not too mention every time they give a tissue to someone else it creates a buzz and spreads the word.

3. Utilizing Magnets: Even the most satisfied customer will forget who you are unless you can somehow constantly remind them of your service. Therefore giving away business card size magnets with every order will allow a satisfied customer to stick your information on their fridge or desk as a reminder to use you again. It is very minimal in cost, but also very effective! While you\’re at it to take guerilla marketing even further keep a stack of magnets with you at all times and stick them on any metallic areas that would draw a good customer base……nothing illegal of course!

4. T-shirt Marketing: Get a T-shirt made with your website\’s logo or website on it. Give away these t-shirts to deserving customers, not only will you have a happy thankful customer, but now you just created your own walking billboard.

5. Bumper Stickers: Stickers are always great because they can go anywhere, not just on your car. Bathroom stalls, benches, signs, street poles, etc… Get creative with where you place them. Areas where people will be situated for long amounts of time are a great place to start!

6. Blanketing the Web: Marketing is all about reaching and contacting as many people as possible, therefore joining any and all social networking sites can get you in front of thousands of people in a very short time. Sites such as Facebook ,MySpace, or any social blogs are key networking sites where the snowball effect can result in your customer audience expanding on a daily basis. The key to social networking is constant contact as well as constant content. Stay in touch with your customers, and never stop adding content.

There is no limit to the unconventional tactics of guerilla marketing, and almost any idea is worth looking into. People love creativity when being pitched a product, and the marketing ideas that seem to create the most buzz are not from old school conventional marketing but out of the box pitch techniques. It is a fast pace world where people no longer find the time to sit through commercials or look through newspaper ads. You need to use new and creative tactics without breaking your marketing bank in order to turn your small business into a large player!

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