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Marketing a Felt and Felt Products Business
You're heavily invested in the success of your felt and felt products business and failure isn't an option. That means you'll also need to invest yourself in the strategies and techniques it takes to effectively market your brand in the marketplace.
In the current economic climate, one thing separates thriving felt and felt products businesses from companies at the bottom of the food chain.
Staying on track requires attention to detail and a commitment to foundational marketing principles.
Multichannel Marketing Strategies
There are a lot of benefits to taking a multichannel approach to marketing. The time when brands could depend on monolithic marketing strategies are over. Now, growth-minded businesses need to populate multiple marketing channels with brand messaging.
Unless you adopt a multichannel strategy, your felt and felt products business will struggle to remain competitive. In practice, multichannel means embracing a mixture of online and offline message pipelines, based on the places your customers go for information. The acquisition of reliable mailing lists from proven providers can expedite the transition, but ultimately your efforts to go multichannel may require the assistance of a marketing professional.
Social Media Monitoring
Social media has become a prominent fixture in marketing. For small businesses, an aggressive social media campaign can level the playing field by generating online buzz that competes with corporate marketing initiatives. Social media can quickly go negative, turning brand advocacy into "badvocacy", a scenario in which consumers and users create content deriding your company and your products. All felt and felt products businesses are especially vulnerable to negative exposure through social media. If your brand is taking a hit from negative mentions, it's important to generate enough positive content to push negative mentions down in search rankings. The more positive mentions that exist, the more difficult it is for negative comments (generated through social media) to gain traction on search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Hiring A Marketing Firm
Eventually nearly all felt and felt products business owners consider outsourcing their promotional and advertising functions to a professional marketing firm. Unless you have a marketing background, you won't be able to touch the ROI you'll receive from a professional firm. Does a marketing firm cost money? Sure, but not as much as you may think. When it's time to look for a marketing firm to represent your felt and felt products business, experience should trump other considerations. Marketing firms that lack industry experience are sometimes unfamiliar with competitive marketing channels and may not understand the value propositions that dominate industry messaging.
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