Tips to Improve Marketing
Marketing a Furniture Frames and Framing Business
Promotional tactics for furniture frames and framing businesses are exceptionally diverse. But in our experience, there are a handful of tips and strategies that will deliver the best return for your marketing efforts.
Think tired marketing collateral is all you need to succeed in today's marketplace? Think again!
Simplistic promotional techniques can't penetrate the clutter of the current marketplace. Effective marketing now means translating market learnings into techniques and tactics that are relevant to your business.
Mailings
There are a lot worthwhile reasons for furniture frames and framing businesses to conduct direct marketing. Direct mail has the advantage of delivering targeted messaging to qualified contacts within your company's market segment. Third-party providers have a reputation for generating accurate mailing lists that can be sorted to accommodate niches and subsections of the market. Despite the added upfront expense, premium mailing lists are a smart investment if for no other reason than their ability to generate higher conversion rates.
Social Media Monitoring
The use of social media as a marketing tool is the latest wave to overtake the small business community. Combined with a functional company website, social media attracts new customers and converts them to brand advocates. Even though the potential for social media to generate positive conversations about your product is good, the potential for it to create negative, online word-of-mouth is a concern that must be taken seriously. Most furniture frames and framing 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.
Marketing Consultants
In a tight economy, there are many places to cut corners in your business - but marketing shouldn't be one of them. The amount you pay a marketing consultant is an investment in your company's revenue stream. The best consultants possess a range of skills, including the ability to accurately communicate your furniture frames and framing business' most important brand characteristics. Your passion for your brand is admirable, but it can't compensate for the experience and expertise of someone who specializes in creating meaningful customer connections. With technology playing a greater role in the furniture frames and framing business arena, exposing your strategy to the influence of capable marketing professional should be a top priority.
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