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The four main tools of promotion are advertising, sales promotion, public relation and direct marketing.
Emails, online adverts, flyers, database marketing, promotional letters, newspapers, outdoor advertising, phone text messaging, magazine adverts, coupons, phone calls, postcards, websites, and catalog distribution are some examples of direct marketing strategies.
Types of direct marketing
However, there are disadvantages to direct selling. Direct salespeople can find it hard to reach new customers and can spend a lot of time on customer interactions to make sales. Without the use of a retail outlet, you also need to carefully consider storage and delivery logistics.
The two goals of direct marketing is to promote products and services to attract and encourage the target market to purchase products.
The Pros and Cons of Direct Mail Marketing
Direct marketing is also a great way to gauge your customers’ appetite for your products and trial new products or services. Direct marketing also allows you to test new markets, review sales results, measure the effectiveness of your sales and advertising tactics, and easily make adjustments to your campaign.
The Direct Mail Association Factbook for 2013 reports that for consumers age 15 years and older, an average of 65 percent have made a purchase as a result of direct mail in the previous year. This 65 percent translates to an average success or response rate of about 4.4 percent.
Direct marketing targets key segments with more personalized strategies and materials. These campaigns focus time and money on promoting a specific product or service to segmented markets, making these efforts more successful.
Relationship
Examples of relationship marketing Thank customers through a social media post or with a surprise gift card. Launch a loyalty program that rewards customers for their continued patronage. Hold customer events to connect with customers and build a community.
Many relationship marketing attributes like collaboration, loyalty and trust determine internal customers’ words and actions. Further, an effective internal marketing program is a prerequisite for effective external marketing efforts (W. George 1990).
In today’s marketing, the Golden Rule asks you to focus on your wants, needs, and perspectives. However, the greatest marketing out there focuses on your audience’s wants, needs, and perspectives.
So, here are some very basic, simple rules of marketing which I think we can ALL benefit from.