Seven Marketing Tactics for Business Success

Seven Marketing Tactics for Business SuccessSeven Marketing Tactics for Business SuccessSeven Marketing Tactics for Business SuccessExcerpted from THE COMMITMENT ENGINE Making Work Worth Itby John Jantsch. Published by Portfolio/Penguin. Copyright (c) John Jantsch, 2012.fruchtwein companies invest in employee handbooks. These valuable resources detail rules, regulations, mission statements, policies, and expected conduct. But they often ignore what might be the most important company knowledge absatzwirtschaft.Any employee who comes into contact with a customer or client is performing a absatzwirtschaft function. Do they know how to represent the organization accurately and positively?Business owners should add marketing training to the ongoing development of every staff member. Teach new hires and conduct routine, perhaps quarterly, all-hands sessions.Here are the seven things to work into training your staff in marketing.1. This is whom we work with.Write a paragraph that paints a vivid picture of the kind of client you seek to serve. Include the problems or challenges that make your company the right one for them to do business with.Until you narrowly define the exact person or business that is your ideal client (or problem that client has), your business will fall prey to the marketing tactic of the week.2. This makes us unique.Give your staff a simple yet compelling way to introduce what your firm does thats unique. This is your core marketing message. It communicates why your product or serviceproduces greater value than every other option.Have employees practice this by role-playing until they are comfortable delivering it authentically.3. This is what our clients worry about.People rarely walk around saying they need your product or service.But they do lament the lack of something. They talk about specific problems or voice an aspiration.Instead of saying I wish I had some new accounting software they say things like I cant ever get a handle on my rece ivables.Your entire staff should know the most common things people say that indicate they could be an ideal prospect.4. This is how we keep our brand true.Your marketing department probably spends time and money on getting the color and font of your marketing materials just right. But everyone else in the business just wings it in their communications.If employees dont practice consistency, how will your clients recognize your company brand?The best way to adhere to brand standards is to make them internal as well as external. Train everyone on the use of color, type, and images and demand that they adhere to these standards in their communications. This will ensure that everyone is consistent with the visual elements of your marketing.5. This is what we are saying right now.Show off your latest ads, mock-ups for the next direct-mail piece, and offers that are going out in every medium. Make sure that your entire staff can talk about your current promotions.When your staff is bedrn gnis able to comfortably answer questions about what is going on with your business, its bad for your company. Keeping them in the loop will make them feel even more engaged in marketing. It will also give them the confidence to better serve your customers.6. This is how we take care of our customers.Make sure the entire staff reads the company blog, understands the educational content, attends your online training, and routinely takes a shift answering customer service calls. Have your staff view the content you produce from the clients perspective.7. This is how we all win.Give your staff a way to know if the company is winning the game.Share the key strategic indicators your organization uses to measure success. Teach them what these indicators mean and help them find a way to tie what they do to one or more of these numbers.If every employee realizes the way their day-to-day contribution adds to a key indicator of success, and ultimately to the overall success of the organizatio n, you give them a way to connect everything they do with success.With this understanding, they know that cutting costs in their department can contribute to lowering the client-acquisition cost.Every business is a marketing business, and all employees trained this way can become contributing members of the marketing team, no matter what their job titleis.Read an interview with John JantschAuthor BioJohn Jantsch is a marketing and digital technology consultant, an award-winning social media publisher, and the acclaimed author of Duct Tape Marketing and The Referral Engine. His most recent book is THE COMMITMENT ENGINE Making Work Worth It.He blogs at ducktapemarketing.comand lives in Kansas City, Missori.