Industry Specific Marketing Advice

Marketing a Grain and Feed Handling Equipment Business

At Gaebler, we've seen what great marketing can do for a small business. But if you own a grain and feed handling equipment business, exceptional marketing may well be the determining factor in your long-term survival and success.

Small-mindedness has no place in great marketing. In fact, a strong marketing strategy can give a small business high visibility in the marketplace.

The marketplace is constantly shifting to accommodate consumer demand and that means businesses need to adapt their marketing requirements accordingly. More than ever before, foundational marketing concepts have become the bedrock upon which successful marketing strategies are constructed.

Improving Customer Loyalty

You've heard that it's less expensive to retain a current customer than it is to acquire a new one, right? For grain and feed handling equipment businesses, sorted and updated mailing lists obtained from top-tier providers are effective tools for customer acquisition. To encourage customer loyalty, you'll need to tap into deliberate mechanisms that incentivize customers to reward your brand with repeat business. In many cases, online channels can be leveraged to create innovative customer loyalty programs.

Technological Expertise

The PR and marketing community has embraced technology with open arms, transforming basic marketing concepts into sophisticated, tech-driven systems and solutions. One of the things that needs to be considered by grain and feed handling equipment businesses tends to be a search for news to leverage technology to scale up the organization's promotional firepower. Despite the initial cost associated with many technological solutions, the long-term payoff for the right technologies almost always outweighs the upfront expense.

Coupons

Think you know all there is to know about coupling? Maybe not, at least when it comes to using coupons for grain and feed handling equipment business advertising. Percentage discounts, volume discounts, and bundling offers are standard coupon fare. In a typical coupon scenario, grain and feed handling equipment business owners leverage couponing to entice first-time customers to make initial contact with the brand. To improve the impact of your campaigns, routinely monitor local online and offline marketing channels to learn about the types of coupon offers that are common in your geography.

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