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Marketing Eye Small Business Marketing Articles
Tiger Woods has built a reputation on being an honest, clean cut elite athlete who is the world’s best golf player.
With his perfectly whitened teeth, glossy tabloid smile and crisp laundered clothing with Nike’s brand plastered on every visible spot imaginable – Tiger Woods has been an absolute marketing dream.
Every month I go through the arduous task of checking Marketing Eye’s google rankings.
It’s important to our organisation, as we are advocates of not spending money on adwords or external seo optimisers and believe a well built website that is seo’ed is all that a business needs.
It happens! If you are a growing business and you are not the primary account manager of your business, then quite often, clients may not know who you are or what you look like.
Whilst many companies look at the festive season as a time to wind down and enjoy the fruits of the year, there still are a few of us that take this time to have a cold hard look at ourselves and make some very tough decisions.
Having just received information pertaining to a client of Marketing Eye’s that had a section on their website whereby visitors could lobby to have their local shop store a particular beer, I was surprised by the number of people who are loyal to a brand.
What typifies a small business varies from country to country but there are almost 2 million in Australia if you incorporate sole operators and consultants in the mix – or at least so they tell me. How many times in business have you wished you never took on a new client? They were a bad fit, they weren’t on the same page, they didn’t have the same code of ethics or perhaps they had unrealistic expectations. Everyone at some stage has experienced a situation where a client or potential client is not a good fit for their organisation.
Who would have thought, that one social media medium would take precedent over another just because of usability, ease of functionality and a more aligned target audience joined by the fact that it is achieving better results for our clients.
Wow! When you get a bunch of marketers in a room – ideas fly.
Time for a new brand?Where should a business begin when thinking about re-branding?
There are rule of thumbs – but beware. Like most things in marketing, not everything is for everyone.
Believe it or not, brand makeovers are not simply a response to businesses in a downward spiral. Successful companies revamp their brands just as much as ones that have experienced a downturn in their fortunes.
Many businesses are turning back the clock and placing a greater emphasis on traditional word-of-mouth marketing and the latest social networks to grow their market share.
Having been in business for 10 years and totally absorbed by the businesses I already own and operate, I have had little time to think of anything else.
But like a well oiled chain, most of my businesses operate fairly efficiently and effectively without my daily input. These days I am more a problem solver than a day-to-day runner of the business.
Yesterday I was asked the question about what are the concerns of small to medium sized businesses when it comes to marketing right now.
The truth is only they know, however I have a good gauge having spoken with more than 100 small to medium sized businesses in the last month.
I have a good friend who always talks about ‘living the dream’. He arrives at a friends house, they go “what have you been up to?”, he replies “Living the dream”. Actually, you can pretty much ask him anything and the reply is always the same. Go figure.
