Recently a possible customer approached me needing a marketing advisor to help him with taking his new software product to market.
Where did I start? With the strategy. Not with strategies, techniques or any of that. Not with website design or traffic or content. The result of what will happen relies on sound small business marketing advice.
Now let me be clear this company’s particular methodology would possibly not be that useful to you, but how we arrived at the strategy should be. The small business marketing advice I gave my client involves leverage, exclusivity, scarcity and the power of clans.
Before recommending something, I wished to perform a little research first. Beginning with keyphrase analysis we discovered that a few organizations offer something similar, but, rather than doing any S.E.O these companies concentrated on marketing their brand.
They’re plan has been effective because they each get plenty of traffic but little to none of it is coming from long-tail keyword SEO. No content marketing either. Branding. The most costly way to plug any business is by branding the name of the company.
After we understood that almost no one in the target audience was using Internet search to find products like this it became easier to establish how best to reach them.
So our campaign starts with collaboration in the groups where the crowd already is. To enter talks about what they are already talking about. To tie something they already need, to the advantages our product provides.
Then we are hoping to build relationship with the most influential members of the market and ask them to evaluate and (if they are benefiting) suggest it to their inner circle of friends. We’re also working to establish relationships with the most influential bloggers in the space, for the same reasons.
And all of this is replicable with your product or service too. Peer to peer promoting is so very powerful and its simple to comprehend and use.
Social media marketing offers us all a platform that makes it possible to create direct contact with thought leaders. Enroll similar-minded individuals in your vision, ask for their help and watch what happens!
Scott A Dennison provides regular doses of small business marketing advice via the Florida Inbound Marketing blog. Check out his posts which are published numerous times per week.
categories: Small business marketing advice,small business marketing services,Marketing Strategy,Social Media Marketing
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This post was written by Scott A Dennison on August 1, 2011

