Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Small Biz Bee: Stop! Don’t Spend One Advertising Dollar Until You Read This

Don’t spend one single dollar on advertising until you know your target customer, inside and out, top to bottom. Period, end of discussion. Why draw a hard line on this?

Precision Trumps Plentiful Marketing

Too often businesses use the shotgun approach to marketing, and in this economy that’s wasted money. Sure if you blast off a bunch of advertising you’re bound to hit something, but how much ammo did you waste in the process?

Right now we probably don’t have the marketing budgets to try stuff out, see what works, and throw money around hoping to hit a buyer.

Wouldn’t it be better to know your target customer so well you can then advertise specifically to them – the people most likely to buy your stuff? I think so. You’ll get more sales with less money, and an overall higher ROI for your efforts if you are precise in your marketing efforts, not just plentiful. (more)

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