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How Your Marketing Efforts Help Everyone!
Let’s face it, for many of us marketing may be one of the most hated words in the English language. It is definitely one of the most misunderstood. When many of us think of marketing, we think of the crass selling of a product or service; and we often display a knee-jerk reaction to any discussion of marketing that sounds like it involves the product marketing we see every day. Amazingly, even those of us who support the concept of entrepreneurship often show a strong resistance to marketing! But it does not have to be this way — nor should it be!
“An important feature of being entrepreneurial is that you provide something of value to others. The greater the need people have for your product or service, the greater your rewards will be. If you work to help other people to raise their standards of living and to improve their lives, you will be serving the needs of society. This is the meaning of being an entrepreneur.”1
Thus, despite what you may think, it is possible to take pride in — and even enjoy — promoting your products or services, such as through marketing strategies, as you are creating a benefit for society! This benefit can be expressed simply as a greater awareness in the public about your product or profession, and the greater availability of your product or service. The better informed the consumer is about his or her options, the better the choices and decisions he or she is able to make for his or her benefit as well as for the benefit of everyone in the community!
Why You Need A Marketing Plan
While academic training imparts many important and valuable skills, it rarely provides the business skills necessary to succeed in the competitive marketplace. In fact, the foremost key to success is often not skill itself, it is an astute marketing and communications strategy!
“Indeed, marketing ranks with finance and production as one of the topmost functions of a business, and in some respects it is the most important of all. For it provides the organizational spark that ignites the principal systems and functions, and it monitors their progress.”2 If there is no awareness of marketing, a business plan is usually esoteric and impractical at best.
Additionally, marketing and communications is not a one-time endeavor, but an ongoing aspect of one’s business or professional organization. Communications problems, whether they be small or large, can be costly — even if they occur only once! Without a marketing and communications plan in place, you are vulnerable to many potential problems. Kethyr Solutions can help prevent you from:
- Losing business because potential clients don’t understand your message
- Losing business because potential clients don’t know why they should choose your services as opposed to someone else’s
- Harming your professional image by using unprofessional-looking materials
- Losing potential clients because they can’t figure out why or how to use your product or service
- Losing potential clients because your Website or other communications are clumsy and/or confusing
- Losing current and potential clients because you’re not adequately meeting their needs and not hearing about it
- Not getting clients in the first place because potential clients aren’t aware of and cannot locate you
- And the list goes on and on...
Now, I don’t want you to be afraid or feel that you’re in over your head. We all make poorer decisions when we’re afraid or panicky. Have you spent any time developing a “mission statement” for your business or organization? If so, then chances are you have spent some time thinking about marketing — even though you may not have used that term — as your “mission” reflects your marketing objective(s). The term “mission” should not be viewed as a mere pretension. Your mission embodies your purpose for being in business, the reason your organization exists in the first place, your unique goals and the means for achieving them! This is, among other things, meant to be a defining and delimiting exercise. Effective marketing calls for a reasonable narrowing down of skills and services. Success often comes more readily from being one of the best at a few things and for a few people.
How Can Kethyr Solutions Help?
Kethyr Solutions is here and available to answer all of your questions, show you the little-known secrets to effectively promoting your business or organization, and provide the solutions to prevent a host of potential problems. We offer a full-range of business marketing and communication services. We can help guide you through the marketing process, from the initial strategy and planning phases, through the design and development of information that is easy to access and understand, to writing copy and content that is clear, concise and compelling. We will help you develop a coherent marketing & communications vision that informs, educates, reminds and persuades your current and potential clients about various aspects of your service.
Since there are various types of marketing communications, they form what is known as the promotional mix — a composite of informational and strategic ideas, methods and techniques — which is designed to create in the minds of your potential customers the reasons why they should come to you for a particular product or service. To read more about our various offerings, how they fit into the promotional mix, and how we can help you formulate and implement a custom-tailored promotional campaign — or work on various aspects of an ongoing campaign — please visit our various service offerings below.
Strategic Planning & Consultation
“When a firm or provider establishes and maintains a distinctive place for itself and its offerings in the market, it is said to be successfully positioned. In the increasingly competitive services sector, effective positioning is one of marketing’s most critical tasks”3 Before you spend any money on marketing, you must acquire the information necessary for your successful positioning. Positioning should be based on research and facts. We can help you set short- and long-term goals, hold to a budget, select a medium (or media), create a message (or messages), and evaluate outcomes. Now, I know that sounds like a lot; but the first step in turning your vision into a reality is to be specific! Not to worry, Kethyr Solutions is here to help make the process easy and understandable, even interesting and fun! Please click here to learn how to plan your success...
Internet Marketing
The internet is fast becoming the commercial hub of the new millennium! To not take the World Wide Web into account — and take advantage of it when it comes to your marketing and communication endeavors — is to be left behind from the outset! But there’s no need to limit your options, even if you feel overwhelmed and underinformed. Kethyr Solutions specializes in Internet marketing! From designing, developing and hosting industry-leading Websites, to search engine optimization, Internet competitor analysis and market research, we can keep you ahead of the competition without you having to go back to school to understand your options. Click here to learn about some of the best offers on the Web...
Market Research
Not only do you need to use market research to acquire the information necessary to develop a successful positioning, but market research should become a tool you use regularly to assess the ever changing conditions of the marketplace. Using effective market research — in conjunction with past experience, budgetary restraints, types of communications goals and audiences, the nature of your appeals and format, and pretesting results — can eliminate many media, vehicles, and schedules thereby saving you from wasting both time and money. Without the use of market research it is difficult, if not impossible, to be objective about the conditions your business faces and the options available to you. Click here to learn how we can quickly and easily help you with your research needs...
Copywriting & Editing
Most promotional strategies, such as advertising, a Website, or newsletter, depend on effective communication. One purpose of communication is to reach the public and build an image and reputation in the public’s mind. Communication is also used to educate the marketplace, retain current clients, gain new clients, and expand the use of your products or services. We specialize in writing clear, concise and compelling copy that attends to your readers’ needs and keeps them coming back for more. Click here to learn how we can write your way to the top...
Advertisements
Do your advertisements pay for themselves? We can help you design and write copy for your advertisements so prospective clients become aware of the availability, accessibility and affordability of your products or services. Our advertisements will express the high-quality of your products or services beyond any shadow of a doubt, and display the positive appearance and affable image you’d like to present of your organization and its professionals and support staff. For more information regarding our custom advertising solutions click here...
Brochures & Fliers
One of the most used and abused promotional vehicles is the product or service brochure. Almost every business owner has some sort of handout about his or her business, but seldom does this handout fulfill its potential, either for promotion or for risk management. Learn how to get the most out of your brochure by clicking here...
Business Cards & Letterhead Stationary
While not able to generate business on their own, business cards, letterhead stationary, and the like are important for conveying a professional image. Click here to learn more about our custom design solutions...
Direct Mail Services
Despite the rise of the Internet, direct mail advertising has continued to grow and reach new heights over the past several years. Many people still prefer to have the information in their hands. And direct mail is the easiest way to consistently track and verify your results and returns. Click here to learn more about this often overlooked opportunity...
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