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Marketing a Swimwear Wholesale and Manufacturers Business
Small and medium size swimwear wholesale and manufacturers businesses can compete and even outperform larger competitors. All it takes is the right marketing plan.
Marketing is not a siloed business function. It's a cross-organizational discipline with ramifications for your balance sheet and earnings statement.
In this industry, long-term survivors build their strategies around a core of marketing essentials.
Competitive Awareness
Competitive awareness is the starting point for creativity in marketing. We appreciate innovative tactics. But when innovation causes you to abandon message streams that are trafficked by similar swimwear wholesale and manufacturers businesses, there's a good chance that you're missing something. At a minimum, we recommend seeking a third-party perspective before you adopt any innovations that dramatically alter your marketing model.
Niche Marketing
A niche marketing approach is a good fit for small businesses, particularly swimwear wholesale and manufacturers businesses trying to establish a larger footprint in a targeted market segment. 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.
Company Website
Technology is changing the way small businesses market their products and brands. The on-ramp for using technology to promote your swimwear wholesale and manufacturers business is also the anchor point for your technological strategy: A company website. Although many businesses have a website, a poorly designed and unnavigable website is worse than having no web presence at all. Your site is a representation of your business; it needs to convey the same professional appearance and functionality as you expect from any other sales and marketing asset. Conversion paths are also important. With the proper design, your site can walk new visitors through a series of decisions that culminate with either an online sale, a phone order, a personal visit or a request for more information.
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