Monday, November 17, 2008

Marketing Techniques - Strong Presence

Not all marketing is about actually pushing one product or another. You don't have to have a sale to talk about, a new product to mention, or even existing products to boost up. Simply telling people that you exist and that you're there is often all you need for creating a strong presence in the marketplace.

I've come across quite a few people who don't realize that this is just as much a form of marketing as anything else. They'll lament that they don't have any upcoming sale and so they don't know what they're supposed to put on their advertisements.

Take some times to go someplace where you know there are a lot of posters around. I say posters because these are often used as a very effective and strong form of presence marketing.

I'm sure that if you take the time to really look at a lot of these posters you'll begin to notice that many of them aren't talking about anything but the company in general. They might mention some issue people might have to deal with in life, and then say how the company can help them out, or improve their situation.

The point of poster printing like this is just to let people know the company exists. That is a very important part of marketing as well because quite often you aren't going to get a sale until a person needs to buy something from you.

I'm not going to bother with a store unless I actually need to shop there. A sale might be enough to get me to come, but even the best sale won't make me buy something I don't actually need.

When the time does come when I need something I then have to be able to think of a certain place to shop. If I don't know much about a place then I'm not going to think of them.

The more poster printing you get done that focuses on just letting people know about your store the more people there will be that will think of your company when they need something.

Your job is to find some good locations you can use to put up your posters in. Find spots where you know your customers are going to frequent. That means every time they go there they'll see your company name over and over again.

They might not need to buy anything from you the first few times but that doesn't mean you aren't effectively advertising to them. As time continues they'll reach a point when they do need your services, and because you had a strong presence, you'll be the first company they think of.

Sometimes the greatest challenge of marketing is just getting someone to think of you first. The stronger your presence is, the greater the chances are that company will be you.

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