<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Fred&#039;s Finance, Investing &#38; Marketing Blog &#187; Marketing</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.blogsforfred.com/category/marketing/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:44:56 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>A Quick Look at What Cydcor Can Do for Business Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/07/06/a-quick-look-at-what-cydcor-can-do-for-business-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/07/06/a-quick-look-at-what-cydcor-can-do-for-business-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business owners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long term strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you begin analyzing the structure of all of the great businesses of this modern era, a few common characteristics begin to take shape. One of those characteristics is that businesses rise and fall based on overall business sales. While this seems like a foregone conclusion, the truth is that many business owners aren&#8217;t sure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you begin analyzing the structure of all of the great businesses of this modern era, a few common characteristics begin to take shape. One of those characteristics is that businesses rise and fall based on overall business sales. While this seems like a foregone conclusion, the truth is that many business owners aren&#8217;t sure how to actually raise business sales and keep them at those heights. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to do things for short term business growth, but it is long term strategies that really create businesses that last for decades upon decades. So, if you find yourself in this position as a business owner, you might not be sure how to really get the help that you need in order to really expand your company. </p>
<p>Thankfully, there is a solution: you can use external sales services like the ones offered by <a href="http://company.monster.com/cydcor/">Cydcor</a>, a sales and marketing company that focuses more on consulting small-to-medium sized firms. </p>
<p>What does Cydcor offer that the competition just fails to match? In a nutshell, it&#8217;s superior expertise backed by solid numbers. Indeed, it was estimated that in 2008, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Cydcor">Cydcor</a> gave its clients an impressive $2 billion dollars in value as well as 92,000 new customers each and every month. </p>
<p>However, numbers don&#8217;t exist in a vacuum, and Cydcor also takes a different approach when it comes to their employees. The company has just seven main principles that guide their process, including integrity, service, collaboration, open communication, execution, and team member development. There are a few others, but it looks like these are the top principles that have driven so much value directly to Cydcor&#8217;s clients over the last 15 years. </p>
<p>The focus on open communication means that if you&#8217;re really ready to boost your own company&#8217;s sales, it&#8217;s definitely time to give <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/companies/cydcor">Cydcor</a> a closer look &#8212; don&#8217;t delay!</p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/07/06/a-quick-look-at-what-cydcor-can-do-for-business-sales/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Choosing a good Marketing Company to integrate with Promotional Channels</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/27/choosing-a-good-marketing-company-to-integrate-with-promotional-channels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/27/choosing-a-good-marketing-company-to-integrate-with-promotional-channels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 10:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promotional channel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/27/choosing-a-good-marketing-company-to-integrate-with-promotional-channels/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Marketing online and offline couldn&#8217;t be more complex and competitive than it is today. Markets have fragmented and advertising mediums have splintered into hundreds of specialized niches, all requiring specialized expertise in order to achieve respectable results. Marketing channels too, are splintered and controlled by conglomerates. It&#8217;s a realm that is often beyond the average [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marketing online and offline couldn&#8217;t be more complex and competitive than it is today. Markets have fragmented and advertising mediums have splintered into hundreds of specialized niches, all requiring specialized expertise in order to achieve respectable results. Marketing channels too, are splintered and controlled by conglomerates. It&#8217;s a realm that is often beyond the average marketers view let alone their ability to control it.</p>
<p>Promotional marketing is generally seen as the tail end of the campaign, however if a companies overall marketing activities don&#8217;t support its objectives and timing, the results are often poor, and the promotions manager gets to take the blame for the failure.</p>
<p>Choosing a good marketing company to integrate these complicated promotional channels is a task in itself since many will promise exceptional marketing campaign results yet few will deliver what you expect. When they fail, will you know where the problem was or will you have to chalk it up to experience and start all over again?</p>
<p>Why is it that many marketing firm&#8217;s promotional programs and implementation fail? Primarily because they don&#8217;t understand this fragmentation of media. Integrated marketing isn&#8217;t just a buzzword. Multi-channel marketing tactics need to be developed and coordinated by a campaign manager and carried out as a systematic program. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of skilled promotional marketing experts and a limited number of marketing companies that have a national network of marketing channel partners and contacts. Integrated marketing can&#8217;t be done well by small marketing companies that arrange deals with other independents. Large marketing companies have the resources, and the network of established channel partners that ensure your products are promoted from distribution to point of sale.</p>
<p>Marketing Promotion</p>
<p>Since marketing and advertising channels have become so fragmented, it is difficult for an advertiser to reach and affect a target consumer. Advertisers can no longer take access to consumers for granted and it takes a concerted effort to reach a consumer a number of different ways.Promotional marketing campaigns have to consider multiple mediums including the Internet to achieve optimal promotional and sales results. When they work together, they can register with the consumer audience, and ensure that your products are distributed to where they need to be at the right time.</p>
<p>We hear a lot about Internet marketing and its incredible reach, and it is excellent for communications and setting up brand awareness and purchase desire. However, for consumer goods companies, few promotional channels surpass retail store promotion. The retail store location is where the sale is made, and when your promotional program is focused to work well here, you&#8217;re likely to see things go well. A sale can be lost at the point of sale, much to the consternation of firms with weak connections and retail sales training programs. They&#8217;re unable to respond to sales rep issues and the demands of consumers, and when the consumer loses confidence or interest, they won&#8217;t commit to buying the product.</p>
<p>Sales transactions are complex and premiums and incentives are a key part of whether your product will make it to the store shelves and receive the right sales support. Once your products leave the warehouse, they&#8217;re on their own, unless a professional promotional marketing company is supporting them at the retail level.</p>
<p>Strong Integrated Channels</p>
<p>Marketing channels are complicated too, and if the connections in your network aren&#8217;t strong throughout, your sales can come to shuddering halt. Don&#8217;t think marketing channel members don&#8217;t know about your distribution vulnerabilities too. They know you&#8217;re an independent and they have their primary loyalties to bigger manufacturers and distributors. Your products may get secondary status and receive no sales support.</p>
<p>So what happens during fragmented promotional campaigns? Many marketing promotion campaigns are marred by poor point of sale signage, supplier communication blocks, unreliable reporting, warehouse fulfillment problems, poor sales support, poor sales training , along with high costs and outdated technology. A marketing promotion can fail many different ways and you need to understand why. When you&#8217;re spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on campaign development and distribution activities, and have committed to a particular marketing company, your company&#8217;s future is on the line.</p>
<p>What you need is a reliable marketing company that possesses the warehousing and database systems, fulfillment practices, and sales support network to ease distribution and communication problems.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still managing your marketing promotion campaigns in-house, you should consider outsourcing to a promotional advertising and marketing firm that offers a complete variety of support service. From campaign planning to post-sales customer support, these companies can take a burden off your hands and actually give you an edge in the retail promotions space.</p>
<p>Big promotional marketing companies have developed capabilities in producing creative and effective POS marketing materials, print advertising pieces, packaging, warehouse automation, and retail distribution. They can help you manage large scale orders on demanding deadlines because their state of the art electronic systems are set up to do this. They provide solutions for billing/invoicing, customized reporting, and warehouse distribution of your marketing collateral. From EDI transactions to Web-based reporting tools, they have a command of the marketing fulfillment process and can give you an excellent awareness of your marketing campaign performance. Just working with these companies once can make you a better marketing manager.</p>
<p>So give yourself a break and bring in the full service promotional consultants and then start seeing your marketing campaigns hit the mark. As part of a complete integrated,promotional marketing campaign, these service companies will save money, time, and reduce communication problems, and thus save your future marketing channel relationships.</p>
<p>If you could double the ROI on your retail promotional marketing campaign, wouldn&#8217;t it make sense to bring in a full service promotional marketing company? </p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/27/choosing-a-good-marketing-company-to-integrate-with-promotional-channels/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Door Marketing, The Best Way to Promote Your Product in Local Market</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/05/door-marketing-the-best-way-to-promote-your-product-in-local-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/05/door-marketing-the-best-way-to-promote-your-product-in-local-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 07:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[door marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaflet distribution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Door marketing or door-to-door marketing and selling as it is commonly known, is one of the best ways to promote your product in the local market. Door marketing can be in the form of door to door selling, leaflet distribution and door hanger marketing. In door to door selling, you may have to talk to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Door marketing or door-to-door marketing and selling as it is commonly known, is one of the best ways to promote your product in the local market. Door marketing can be in the form of door to door selling, leaflet distribution and door hanger marketing. In door to door selling, you may have to talk to prospect about your products and then sell them. But this method which was often considered to be intrusive by people has transformed for the better. Now door to door salesman show prospects how they can save money by buying products and services at great discounted prices. There is also leaflet distribution done where companies post information about subscriptions, discounts, offers, tickets and events at the doorstep of people. Door hanger distribution is hanging these leaflets by the door knob so that they can invite public attention.</p>
<p>Door marketing is used by many companies because it helps companies to attract local people better than any other form of advertising. Besides it is cheaper form of advertising compared to other methods, and the leads are generated easily. The response is immediate, which is easily companies that do door marketing are successful. Take the case of companies like Eureka Forbes and Aqua Guard. They are house-hold named and no company can rival their presence due to the fact that most households have been habituated to the door to door marketing of these two companies.</p>
<p>Door to door marketing now is more about door hanger distribution and distributing flyers rather than hardcore selling. This removes the pressure off the backs of these salesmen and companies still profit. However, though the response is immediate and in large quantities, companies who undertake door marketing should realize that this form of marketing evokes response on a short-term basis only. For instance, you cannot post the leaflet every now and then to people&#8217;s house. You can distribute a leaflet once and send another one after two months, so that you do not look intrusive.</p>
<p>There are hurdles when you get calls from certain people that you should not be soliciting in their area. You should apologize and say that you are just offering a service which helps people buy or avail of these services at a great discount. If they are adamant that you should not do these things, then you should move on to the next area. However, if you are not too intrusive and space your door marketing properly, you wouldn&#8217;t get these types of complaints. It is important to do enough research so that you are able to attract the interest of the people who will be actually interested in your products or services.</p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/05/05/door-marketing-the-best-way-to-promote-your-product-in-local-market/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Several Ways to Increase Site Traffic When Your Efforts are Not Meeting Your Expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/several-ways-to-increase-site-traffic-when-your-efforts-are-not-meeting-your-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/several-ways-to-increase-site-traffic-when-your-efforts-are-not-meeting-your-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business owners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy traffic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword usage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[page view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[submitting sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Builder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web site traffic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of ways to get free web site traffic, and you&#8217;ll want to use those ways most often. Free web site traffic is out there for the taking &#8211;all you have to do is know how to lure it to your site. However, there are other ways to increase site traffic if your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are plenty of ways to get free web site traffic, and you&#8217;ll want to use those ways most often. Free web site traffic is out there for the taking &#8211;all you have to do is know how to lure it to your site. However, there are other ways to increase site traffic if your efforts to get free web site traffic are not meeting your expectations or if you simply don&#8217;t have time to jump through all the hoops.</p>
<p>If free web site traffic is letting you down, you can always simply buy traffic. It&#8217;s an amazing thing &#8212; to think that people have actually built businesses around getting traffic to other people&#8217;s web sites &#8212; but businesses that offer just that service are popping up all over the place. Just think of it like this: Marketing experts must have seemed like strange beasts to the first business owners who encountered them, but they make their clients millions of dollars annually &#8212; on business they would not have otherwise enjoyed.</p>
<p>People who buy traffic, as opposed to depending entirely on free web site traffic, are often people who have third-party ads on their sites. If they make their money at least partly by ad clicks, then this endeavor may be a good deal &#8212; not to mention that it ups their page view counts. Whether you think this is appropriate for your particular site is up to you, but you can buy traffic if you so desire.</p>
<p>There are packages and services that will help increase free web site traffic, such as Traffic Builder. The software increases site SEO by: providing advice and suggestions, submitting sites to search engines and monitoring keyword usage, as well as the popularity of your link. There are other benefits to using Traffic Builder, and the service generally saves time that would otherwise be needed to increase free web site traffic manually.</p>
<p>Even if you take this route for attracting free web site traffic, and even if you decide to buy traffic on top of that &#8212; you must not forget to go out there and hustle your site to viewers through link and banner exchanges. Research the best methods of letting people know your site exists, as well. For instance, it is much better to embed your links naturally throughout the text than to simply have nothing but a list of links. But most importantly, you cannot forget the # 1 rule for increasing web site traffic: offer great content. It will do absolutely no good to get web site traffic &#8212; if you can&#8217;t keep that web site traffic on your site, where it belongs. </p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/several-ways-to-increase-site-traffic-when-your-efforts-are-not-meeting-your-expectations/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Marketing Plan is Essential for a Business Home Internet Marketing Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/a-marketing-plan-is-essential-for-a-business-home-internet-marketing-opportunity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/a-marketing-plan-is-essential-for-a-business-home-internet-marketing-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing opportunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small home business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A marketing plan is essential for a business home internet marketing opportunity. To succeed in any business, whether a home business or not, you need a marketing plan that sets out your Internet marketing opportunity campaign. If your firm were a large corporation you&#8217;d put several hundred pages of marketing tasks together in one plan. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A marketing plan is essential for a business home internet marketing opportunity. To succeed in any business, whether a home business or not, you need a marketing plan that sets out your Internet marketing opportunity campaign. If your firm were a large corporation you&#8217;d put several hundred pages of marketing tasks together in one plan. As a small home business noting your organized Internet marketing opportunity plan will probably take fewer than ten pages. But it must be done, and early.</p>
<p>The simplest and easiest way to work with your marketing plan is to place the pages in a three ring binder and refer to it monthly. This lets you keep track of what you should be doing in your home business Internet marketing opportunity schedule and if you&#8217;re on schedule or not. Leave plenty of room for notes on your performance in regard to your written marketing plan.</p>
<p>A plan for taking advantage of the marketing opportunities for a home business should cover a one year period. A business home Internet marketing opportunity plan should not extend any further out because so many things can affect such a small business. If someone leaves the firm, if the market changes, or if customers leave or others come on board, the marketing plan must be altered. A few years down the home business road is the time to rewrite the plan to encompass the next two to five years.</p>
<p>A marketing plan for a home business Internet opportunity will take you at least two months to write, especially if you&#8217;re a novice at marketing plan writing.</p>
<p>Everyone that has a management or executive say in any aspect of the home Internet business should have an opportunity to contribute to the marketing plan. While the tendency is to hold the information in the plan close to the vest, it won&#8217;t work without asking for the guidance and input of those involved in the planning, building, marketing and growing, both Internet and otherwise, of your home business. Feedback must come from anyone involved in your Internet home business financing, manufacturing, staffing, equipping, and managing. Of course, as in many home Internet opportunity business ventures, the sole proprietor is the only administrator and as such completes the bulk of the marketing plan with some input of paid consultants.</p>
<p>Your marketing plan for your home Internet business must be consistent with your firm&#8217;s business plan or the opportunity for the two documents to help you succeed is lost. The business plan lays out the company vision for the next five years. The marketing plan dictates how you get to the achievement of that vision and the completion of the various goals along the way. A business plan will talk about the financing needed to start and grow the business, one of which will be the expense of advertising and marketing. The marketing plan will spell out the marketing opportunities you will take advantage of, and the cost of each, to get your home Internet business started and making a profit. </p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/a-marketing-plan-is-essential-for-a-business-home-internet-marketing-opportunity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to Find Affiliate Marketing Training on Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/the-ways-to-find-affiliate-marketing-training-on-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/the-ways-to-find-affiliate-marketing-training-on-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affiliate marketing forums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affiliate marketing training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affiliate program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing course]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing help]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is so many things to learn in marketing. How do you know where to start. Where do you find the information that you need to help you become successful? There is a lot of ways to find affiliate marketing training on the internet. You need to choose the right starting point for you. You [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is so many things to learn in marketing. How do you know where to start. Where do you find the information that you need to help you become successful? There is a lot of ways to find affiliate marketing training on the internet. You need to choose the right starting point for you. You have to decide what you can afford to do. If you can&#8217;t afford anything, then start out with free marketing at first. I am giving you a few ways to help you get started.</p>
<p>1. Forums are a wealth of information about marketing help for affiliates. Do a search on any search engine for affiliate marketing forums, or affiliate program forums. When you find one that you want to join, register with them. The next step is to read the posts that are already on there. They will usually give you answers to any questions you have. If you don&#8217;t find the answer you are looking for, just ask. People that participate in forums are more than happy to help you find answers.</p>
<p>2. Ebooks are also full of information on how to market. You want to do a search for ebooks about affiliate marketing or affiliate marketing training. Don&#8217;t just take the first ebook that you come to. Find out a little about the ebook before you use it. There are hundreds or thousands of ebooks about almost any topic. So take your time, and find the ebook that looks right for the training that you are looking for.</p>
<p>3. Another way to find help to market affiliate programs is to find a marketing course. Again, do a search on any search engine to find a course that suits your needs. Do some research on it, and find the one that is what you are looking for. You always want to be careful about just getting the first one you find. There are so many of them on the internet. So take your time, and find one that answers your affiliate marketing questions.</p>
<p>If you take the time, you will be able to find answers to your questions. There are so many ways to get the affiliate marketing training that you need. All you have to do is look for it. Remember that you are the only one that can make your business a success. No one can do that for you. So take the time to educate yourself, and become the success that you want to be.</p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2010/01/04/the-ways-to-find-affiliate-marketing-training-on-internet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Strategic Marketing: Learn How to Create Actual Offers</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/14/strategic-marketing-learn-how-to-create-actual-offers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/14/strategic-marketing-learn-how-to-create-actual-offers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing offers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing strategy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The crisis is so difficult, and not the deals work. We heard constantly, but this advantage we have to transform this crisis into an opportunity, if you do not have a market study, advanced knowledge of marketing or advertising firm, here we will give you ideas on how to post offers an easy and effective [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-175" title="marketing-plan" src="http://www.blogsforfred.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/marketing-plan.jpg" alt="marketing-plan" width="264" height="197" />The crisis is so difficult, and not the deals work. We heard constantly, but this advantage we have to transform this crisis into an opportunity, if you do not have a market study, advanced knowledge of marketing or advertising firm, here we will give you ideas on how to post offers an easy and effective adapted to the market in Guatemala. We will use some <a href="http://www.blogsforfred.com/category/marketing/">basic marketing</a>, you can do for your business, therefore we will rely on the following.<br />
is there something called matrix product and is divided into four parts (applies if you sell a product or service): flagship, unknown product, cow product, dog product. It may sound strange but those names are used in marketing, here a practical example, we use the restaurant MacDonald, and assume that you are familiar and so it is easy to digest easily this example</p>
<p><strong>MacDonald is well defined in:</strong><br />
<strong>Star product</strong>: the Big Mac, the classic, which sells itself, which all know and love, the incomparable and can not copy the competition, but times change, what the Big Mac is not a very effective advertising. The product&#8217;s most famous and prestigious company.<br />
<strong>Product Test</strong>: The Sunday of passion fruit, we know that both people want it or accept it as is true market research gives us a good chance, but do not know until we launched it to be a rare fruit or at least not very common in our country, if it were adapted to the taste of Guatemalan market. It&#8217;s a new product or a product we do not know how to catalog it.<br />
<strong>Product dairy cow</strong>: it&#8217;s the fries and soda does not matter basically the menu to accompany him to buy chips and soda, but they blow it is always sold and will sell well, very well.</p>
<p>Product dog does not give much profit, as we hope or as our projections, but you have to have it available, such as cookies, which are not as popular as a dessert, but there are people who are loyal to them.<br />
If you note the star product does not need much publicity, but it is almost zero, why?, Because it positioned, people know him, identifies us and sales are always maintained, is what represents us. In its business will be what it does best, so your clients look for most often. This product does not touch a sense there was a very abrupt change in sales or lower your holy devotion and prompted by the same, this product makes it unique as a company makes you feel proud, you emphasize in your business and identify it within your company, constantly remind your customers how wonderful and magical it is, dare advertising their product vision.</p>
<p>Your product question: is it that needs advertising, no promotions or offers, you need to know what your customers try it, approve it and want it, remember it is something new, something better or something that prove curiosity, remember do not put on offer, sell, fall in love with his client, show them the benefits of it.<span id="more-174"></span></p>
<p>Product dairy cow: Bingooo promotions should be placed here consider the case of MacDonald (fictitious prices) Q3 earning them each combo of fries and sodas, which include menu-not bad and they blow it by Q2 but the cost of enlarging them out in Q 1 is keep winning and continue squeezing it, because it is our gold mine, look at your business and get the most out because if promoted its flagship product, the level is dropping and status, is losing its opportunity, their advantage, instead to promote this. This will generate profit and you&#8217;re trying to earn some more.</p>
<p>Product dog and put it into super tender offer, is that service or product that almost nobody wants, the product that has a lot of time at the winery, it bears fruit. Then ofértelo tying his cow product, I get the idea this product will make many who do not know, I mean your company as close to the &#8220;offers&#8221; and ending cash cow bringing their product or star. This can shrink your profit margin, as if it is bearing fruit, we must draw on May r out of it, one way or another. So why not make it a magnet for customers for unknown or undecided, so that they went back, there is novelty, something dirt cheap there anything you can offer. Without compromising their profits, prestige, largely.</p>
<p>He then realizes that if your competition puts the star product on offer is losing identity, became the herd, even if you think they are winning, you&#8217;re really losing a lot and you&#8217;re winning. Its jurisdiction is not explained how you can give so cheap, eye what happens is that you, being sacrificed to who should die and not its star player. Redirection So although advertising is advertising is a steering wheel, and define and re-define their products and services that will help better to be innovative with their product and become the magician mystery of offers. We wish him well and success in your business.</p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/14/strategic-marketing-learn-how-to-create-actual-offers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Why Not Work On Your Own Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/10/why-not-work-on-your-own-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/10/why-not-work-on-your-own-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By having your own blog, you will be solely responsible, that seem very logical, but I mentioned that before having our blog, we published articles in different specialized pages on advertising and marketing, which if we do not send items to time, there is absolutely nothing happening, including other items and was always kept updated [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-171" title="making-blog" src="http://www.blogsforfred.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/making-blog.jpg" alt="making-blog" width="263" height="191" />By <strong>having your own blog</strong>, you will be solely responsible, that seem very logical, but I mentioned that before having our blog, we published articles in different specialized pages on <a href="http://www.blogsforfred.com/category/marketing/">advertising and marketing</a>, which if we do not send items to time, there is absolutely nothing happening, including other items and was always kept updated with your blog not, if it does not work on it, nothing will happen, be aware of this. Do not expect a million hits a day, no matter the quality of its articles, still the best in the world, something never seen before, it can generate a million hits in its first and only article, you must have patience what their views are beginning to increase.</p>
<p>The <strong>continuity</strong> will be the challenge, continuity, there are thousands of blogs, abandoned or had reasonable success incredible potential, which ceased to see the light due to lack of items, they discovered that by passing the sensation of the opening on impetus to transmit and share something, they were hard to find time to keep writing, keep the creativity and a logical line of articles. <strong>The motivation</strong>, it destroys the growth of a blog when you choose to create and maintain your own blog, you must bear in mind why he will, if it would do to be famous for being a sense of the web, make money and how much money you want to do, to convey their thoughts, personal catharsis or whatever reason they choose to have your own blog, you must have found that none of these except for a personal relief will be short-term effects, so it must create a strategy clear how to achieve and have the patience to make your goal is achieved. Remember that if your initial motivation is to receive one million hits your motivation will disappear quickly.</p>
<p>When we started our blog, remember we had a brainstorming session, that would treat subjects who would write each topic, we&#8217;d be in the cross hairs of the medium, and that our articles would not be read only by people interested in <a href="http://www.blogsforfred.com/">growing businesses</a>, but also for our direct and indirect competition, receiving positive and negative comments within articles that we publish. And then realize that we do not factor into account, time, time that would take us to offer weekly articles of interest and quality. If not a personal blog, do not type the first thing that comes to mind, for us to publish an article, ask our staff to a specific topic to write an article, to see to choose which is most friendly to read, can result something quickly and easily, so your blog should be aware that if you write your first thought is not necessarily the best, so we suggest you either write yourself or with your colleagues something similar to this will help decide what&#8217;s offered to your readers.</p>
<p>For us you visit the site and read this article is enough to keep writing and give you tools to grow your business, so you like to visit again and leave us positive or negative comments, only delete the repeated comments. Set a goal of self motivation to grow your blog.</p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/10/why-not-work-on-your-own-blog/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Marketing Is Now Online!</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/03/marketing-is-now-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/03/marketing-is-now-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogsforfred.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, from time to time, electronic media have been winning the battle to any other medium for advertising to businesses. The Internet marketing campaign can have any variety of budgets, from cheap to the most expensive and sophisticated and following the economic crisis the Internet as an advertising medium for companies has increased simply [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s right, from time to time, electronic media have been winning the battle to any other medium for advertising to businesses. The Internet marketing campaign can have any variety of budgets, from cheap to the most expensive and sophisticated and following the economic crisis the Internet as an advertising medium for companies has increased simply because of the inability to present the costs would have to pay in any other medium. According to experts, companies that reduce their costs of advertising are making a big mistake. We know that before the crisis, marketing and advertising is one of the first areas to suffer the ravages of the cut, but if companies carry it out, this will only bring more harm to their business.</p>
<p>So now more than ever notice the benefits of advertising on the internet. Online advertising in addition to the economy of which we have spoken, has the enormous advantage one direct feedback that gives consumers more information about the products or services of the company and it lets you know better what your customer wants, ie , you get more interaction.</p>
<p>Another is very easy to update the ads, you can do from anywhere and often with minimal budget. And finally in this way expands the scope of communication to global markets and to measure the effectiveness of any advertising campaign and making it more efficient investment.</p>
<p>The experts begin by giving two boards that would be the first when searching for online advertising</p>
<p>1 .- Manage a strategy to locate the main purpose of what you really want and need for business.<br />
2 .- The other great advice is based on always count on the advice, we are in complete agreement, but this is not always possible, is determined by the amount of budget to be handled. Of course it is important to a consultant but first has to be one very good and not easy to find them and another is a force to correct mistakes and learned a lot, especially in this field that grows and grows each day and will present new possibilities</p>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.blogsforfred.com/2009/09/03/marketing-is-now-online/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
