Helping businesses grow through content marketing
Helping businesses grow through content marketing
Most businesses leave this function to chance or it’s the sales person’s responsibility to take care of it. So when you hear about a former client completing a project, making a purchase or hiring another service that you could have and did provide to them in the past . . . are you surprised?
You shouldn’t be ! ! If you aren’t talking to these people someone else will. That someone is developing a stronger relationship and the stronger the relationship the more likely the customer is to buy.
It’s not the client’s responsibility to keep you in mind when work that you can perform comes up. IT”S YOUR JOB TO STAY “TOM” (TOP OF MIND)
In the advertising business the concept is called Top Of Mind Awareness or TOMA. TOMA is the result of being in front of your prospects, clients and past clients enough so that when a service or product that you offer is needed you are their first thought. It doesn’t mean that you automatically get the business, but you are thought of and at least get contacted, better than not being contacted, right?
In many most businesses the idea of being in front of the client is the sales staff’s job.
Most often this will mean that they will get on the phone and call their contact, hopefully on a regular basis (like once every 4-6 weeks) to check in with them. Not a bad plan, but what happens with the contact gets tired of telling them there isn’t anything going on . . . they stop taking the call. So does leaving a voice mail message count? All depends on the contact, which is anyone’s guess. If this is your only way to create TOMA you need a better plan.
Everyone of us has a preferred way that we like to be contacted. Some want a phone call, others want an email, text can be popular and still others want to receive mail.
Our suggestion: Regardless Of The Contacts Preference – You Need To Mix Up Your Delivery
Keep the phone calls and emails going but add in your own monthly NEWSLETTER.
The Newsletter is one of the best and least used methods for staying in front of your prospects, clients and past clients. A simple 4 page quick read mailer that is sent monthly can do the job your sales force or you don’t have the time, commitment or interest in doing. Let’s face it, when things get going, we all get busy and that’s when marketing efforts start to fail, fall through the cracks and just disappear. But it’s precisely the time that you need to work on them, unless you like the ups and downs of sales cycles.
Your marketing is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR BUSINESS. Let me say that again, YOUR MARKETING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR BUSINESS ! ! !
Without a consistent marketing plan in action you are subjected to the swings of the market and sales cycles. With a consistent effort you can and will level out the cycles. Instead of going from feast to famine you can go from feast to time to take a vacation.
Having a newsletter for your business provides a perfect way to stay in touch with your prospects, clients and past clients. It’s really a stealth method. You provide something that is interesting, fun even entertaining to read and they thank you for it. With your newsletter you can stay in touch with your contacts by sharing:
The ideas are endless but they fall under the same category of helping to stay in touch with contacts and allowing them to get to know you and your company better.
At BGP we have been working on newsletters for our companies for years and now want to help you develop and maintain yours.
Interested? Go HERE for more details on our Newsletter for Business Services.
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