Review: The Dark Art of Marketing

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Key Highlights:​
Marketing Methods:

• Utilise a variety of marketing methods to reach potential customers. These include traditional methods like cold calling, door knocking, and trade shows, as well as digital strategies like social media, email marketing, and blogging.

Understanding Your Customer:

• Building the ideal customer profile is essential. Understand their needs, behaviors, and how they currently solve their problems. Segment different customer groups and tailor your approach accordingly.

Value Proposition:

• Clearly define what value your product or service brings to the customer. A strong value proposition addresses the customer's pain points and highlights the benefits they will gain.

Sales Funnel:

• The sales process involves multiple contacts before a sale is made. Persistence is key, with the majority of sales happening after several follow-ups.

Creative Marketing:

• Be bold and creative in your marketing efforts to stand out. Use methods that are less likely to be ignored and more likely to be shared, such as engaging videos or unique direct mail.

Testing and Experimentation:

• Run marketing experiments to see what works best for your audience. Test different tactics and measure the results to refine your strategy.

Building Momentum:

• Consistency is critical in marketing. Small, regular efforts can build momentum over time, leading to significant results.

Practical Tips:

• Marketing Mix Challenge: Brainstorm to determine marketing channel ideas. Engage in exercises to come up with as many channels as possible.
• Dream 100 Customers: Identify your top 100 potential customers and focus efforts on reaching them.

Useful Links:​

• Video on Shareable Content - Dollar Shave Club

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​Practical Homework: 
Create a Customer Profile:

• Identify your target customer. Define their demographics, behaviors, needs, and how they currently solve their problems.

​Develop Your Value Proposition

• Using the template provided below, create a clear value proposition for your product or service:
• Our (products or services) help(s) (customer segment) who want to (jobs to be done) by (define customer pain) and (define customer gain) unlike (the competition).

Plan a Marketing Campaign:

• Choose three marketing methods from the list discussed in the workshop. Plan a small-scale campaign for each method and outline how you will execute it.

Test and Measure:

• Run your planned marketing campaigns and track their performance. Measure the results and determine which methods are most effective for your business.​

By completing these tasks, you'll be able to apply the concepts learned in the workshop to your own business, gaining practical experience and insights into effective marketing strategies.

Disclaimer: Bizezi Ltd, in providing this information, cannot guarantee the success of marketing campaigns. The information provided, correctly implemented, will actively support the delivery of marketing strategies for a business.

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