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Marketing a Skin Protection Business

The key to success in marketing a skin protection business is to combine time-tested marketing techniques with the most cutting edge strategies in today's marketplace.

Wondering how to market your skin protection business? Unfortunately, there is a fine line between capturing buyers' attention and blending into the background.

In some businesses, marketing takes a back seat to sales and operations. That's a mistake because without marketing, your brand messages aren't being heard. On the upside, great marketing is a real possibility for a skin protection business willing to adapt its strategy to the demands of the marketplace.

Promotional Calendars

Uncoordinated and disjointed marketing plans tend to backfire on skin protection businesses. A strategy chocked full of time-sensitive ad placements and other tactics can devolve into a tangled mess of overlapping deliverables unless it is coordinated in a promotional calendar. Good calendars include not only tactical deadlines, but also schedules for the inputs (e.g. staff assets, vendors, etc.) that are required to execute strategic objectives. Consumer mailing lists from a respected provider can add value to your calendar by incorporating geographic and demographic consumer data into your promotional schedule.

Sponsorships

Event and team sponsorships are a proven method for raising the public profile of skin protection businesses. In many cases, the most effective sponsorships are those that occur over a period of time rather than being limited to a one-off event. A strategic sponsorship targets actual skin protection business buyers. To minimize costs and multiply outcomes, consider teaming up with a complementary business to co-sponsor targeted events.

Technological Expertise

The PR and marketing community has embraced technology with open arms, transforming basic marketing concepts into sophisticated, tech-driven systems and solutions. The consequence for skin protection businesses tends to be a search for news to leverage technology to scale up the organization's promotional firepower. If possible, business owners should gravitate toward technologies that deliver greater ROI than traditional marketing channels.

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