Industry Specific Marketing Advice
Marketing a Gloves Retail Business
Promotional tactics for gloves retail 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!
Advances in technology and the marketplace itself have made it necessary for businesses to stay on top of the latest trends and strategies. The consistent application of solid marketing principles is one of the few business requirements that has stayed the same.
Social Media Monitoring
Brand advocacy is a buzzword in marketing circles. What does it mean? Using consumer-oriented platforms to encourage customers to create user-generated content about your products and company, typically through social media. 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 gloves retail 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.
Niche Marketing
A niche marketing approach is a good fit for small businesses, particularly gloves retail businesses that hope to dominate a geographic of demographic wedge of the marketplace. Niche marketing isn't new. It's been around for years and has proven to be most effective for firms that understand their key strengths and core audience.
Many companies facilitate niche marketing by providing specialty mailing lists. These lists are targeted and filtered, and deliver greater focus to your company's direct mail campaigns. Specialty mailing lists from top-rate providers take the niche concept a step further by giving you measured insights about consumer behaviors within the niche.
Do We Really Need A Logo?
Having a strong logo for a gloves retail business is a big deal. We live in a visual world and logos are tangible expressions of your organization's key messages. Creating a unique logo is more difficult than it sounds. In addition to quality design, you need to be concerned about infringing on the proprietary rights of other logos in your industry and throughout the marketplace.
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