Double, Triple, Quadruple The Return From Your Current Advertising By Using Autoresponders And Smart Internet Marketing
You will just love this idea if you value the relationship you have with your customers. It will drive sales like mad, has the potential to grow your customer base and the return from your traditional advertising spend will be maximised.
Investing in our business as business owners is normal. Whether you spend a few hundred dollars a year on advertising, or 10s of thousands it does not matter, we all want the best possible return from the outlay. However what do I hear when I speak to business owners about their advertising. What should I spend my advertising budget on when I just do not know what is going to work. Taking advertisements in online directories or yellow pages is fraught and are people still reading the local paper?
So here’s a true story. It’s not mine but really gets to the crux of this article. I will keep the client’s details private.
The brief was simple: The client felt they needed to increase the size of their direct marketing email database so as to truly maximise the return from direct marketing. They wanted to be able to communicate with people who were genuinely interested in their product. Their target was to reach an email database in excess of 50,000 people. (The size is not important)
To achieve the goal looked tough at first, however the brief was simple. So a competition was developed where people could win a complete outdoor entertainment area including, furniture, Barbeque and more. A celebrity cook came with the prize and he/she would cook a meal for friends and family. (Something most people would want)
A web page was developed where people would enter the competition, using smart internet marketing techniques and autoresponders . They could also enter in store as well as by SMS. The promotion was advertised using traditional media, TV, radio, magazines as well as online (banner adverts etc) all pointing people to where they could enter.
It was such a great prize that the response was overwhelming (the prize that everyone wanted as well as combining both offline and online media to drive the promotion. By combining the too the client was able to build a database in excess of 50,000 email addresses. The client achieved additional free national media coverage that they were not expecting, they also achieved sales growth in many of their stores ans they were over the moon with the result.
Now to maintain a client we know from industry statistics that it costs around $50 a year however to attract a new customer we are looking at $350 approx. Stop just spending money on local adverts etc and think about how you can tie your local marketing into a bigger result for your business. By finding a better way to get a return from the investment you are making means you need to be capturing their mobile phone numbers and email address details. This means you can market to them in the future. By far the best return for your advertising is marketing to your current customers
Your business needs sales and think how much easier it is to bring old customers back rather than attracting new ones.
That’s how you can double, triple, quadruple the return from your traditional media spend.
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