Marketing has some basic truth that marketers themselves are the ones who are aware of. They are the ones who create the names, websites, taglines and even the social media strategies for promotions. What they cannot really have a say over is how and what causes the people to react to these promotions. They might not be able to exactly identify what makes the ultimate thing to click with the customers.
Whenever we engage in a face to face conversation the result is always that you would go away thinking that the conversation was quite satisfactory. What comes into play here is the fact that there is time to listen, to think and react. Then it is also possible that the other party to the conversation did not have similar impression.
Nobody knows the mind of the other and that is why you may not be very certain that the conversation had achieved its main purpose. You cannot just assume that it did, even if you know the person very well.
This is the reason getting the best and perfect marketing strategy is always a very tall order. It is notable that a fresh product in the market needs one to target the niche audience by applying the following strategies: Check their emotion, logic, and common motivations. It means you must design a message that will cut across using the offer, timeline and headline.
Even this might not really succeed 100 %, in delivering the desired results. That is why there are other safe methods used such as visual aid, colors, pictures, layout, and type font. With this you could also consider adding background music as an audio tool. Your aim is to get the best results and this will give you wider options.
Try to solve the puzzle, knowing that it is next to impossible for one to know which part of the campaign strategy had touched the button for the promotion to succeed. Similarly it would be very difficult to pinpoint exactly where the weak link is. With these questions left unanswered for a fact, it remains quite difficult to conduct a successive campaign and know for sure that it would work without unlocking the puzzle.
The most successful marketers will always test their strategies to identify cause and effect by using the A/B split testing. You could also call it and/or multivariate testing. They are happy with making the assumption that they don’t really know 100% which part of the campaign brought in the sales. They would not know the WHY until they have identified the WHAT.
That is why the double-edged sword method had the ability to unlock this puzzle and was discussed fully by Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink which takes care of the intuition factor.
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This post was written by Cyndi Steward on April 3, 2011
