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Marketing consists of spotting the needs of customers and meeting them in the best possible manner. Marketing research plays a key role in this process. Starting with marketing measurement, marketing research helps the firm in every component of the total marketing task. It helps the firm acquire a better understanding of the consumer, the competition and the marketing environment. It also aids the formulation of the marketing mix. Decisions on each element of the marketing mix, product, distribution, promotion and pricing need marketing research support.

With the ever-increasing complexity of marketing and business activity, marketing research has also grown in complexity. Today, carrying out research relating to customers, products and markets requires specialized skills and sophisticated techniques. And marketing research has emerged as a highly specialized function of marketing management.

Marketing research is the systematic, objective and exhaustive search for and study of the facts relating to any problem in the field of marketing. Research on product includes studies on the competitive position of a product/ brand. Consumer research includes studies on consumer behavior and buyer motives.

In applying marketing research for solving any marketing problem, the researcher has to go through several steps or stages. Each stage has its own decisive role in the total research process. Right from defining the problem down to the preparation of the report, the researcher has to proceed step by step, like a scientist in a laboratory. Defining the marketing problem to be tackled and identifying the market research problem involved in the task is the first thing followed by specifying the information requirement.

If the definition of the problem is faulty, the research results will be misleading and confusing. For example, a problem of poor profits may sometimes be understood wrongly as a problem of inadequate sales. Apart from defining the problem correctly, it is also essential to analyze the problem in depth.

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Gone are the days when you would spend money and hope to get a return. Every dollar must be accountable. Learn how to spend less and get more. This sounds great but what’s the gimmick?

Today’s world is not the I wish world, but rather the calculated world. We calculate the odds before we make any decision, like who to date, what car to buy, which house to buy, what school to go to and what career to choose. The logical progression is to make marketing less of a risk. The customer will always be satisfied, but maybe not by you. So what do I do to make sure they buy from me. Traditionally some ad executive would say this is a great idea let’s market and promote it. Here they try to convince the public that they need their product. This might work one time or for a while but most businesses want steady repeat loyal customers in order to grow a long term successful business. Know your customer, what they want, what they crave and what they need.

How do I find this out… Luckily we live in the most data filled environment ever. The last time you bought something at Costco, The Gap or Saks, did the person at the cash ask you your zip code or postal code? Did they ask you any personal questions? When you buy on line do they make you fill out a questionnaire before you begin buying? Have you ever asked yourself why they do this? Do they really need to know how much you make in order to sell you a sweater?

The truth is they are not really interested in that one sale. They are compiling a data base of your buying habits and profile. Once they have your profile and buying habits they will start marketing 1 to 1. The days of spending huge amounts on generic flyers or newspaper adds are numbered. The return rate on these is 1 to 2% and is not easily measureable. With technological changes in the printing field and the use of variable data we can direct a specific campaign for a specific client and get a return rate of over 40%. The idea is not to measure cost per piece but cost by campaign and return of the campaign. Instead of spending 10 cents per flyer spend $1.50 per flyer but make 10000 flyers instead of 150,000 flyers. The cost of the campaign will be the same $15,000.00. The return will be 20 to 40 fold.

On top of this if your existing loyal customers feel you are interested in them and their needs, the likelihood that they will be influenced by their competitors advertisements is greatly reduced. This is the direction that marketing has correctly taken, be smart and jump on now. The danger of letting your competitors get on first might make your marketing much more difficult if not impossible to correct.

If you need help with your next campaign feel free to give me a call at 514-337-2238 or visit my sight for ideas at http://www.solutionsink4u.com Good luck with your next campaign.

About the Author:

Steven Schneidman

steve@solutionsink4u.com

www.solutionsink4u.com

Steven Schneidman has an MBA in Finance and a B.A. in psychology. He has taught at a Canadian University and has worked at a major Canadian Bank. He currently runs a very successful printing and promotional product company servicing companies throughout North America.

In today’ s marketplace, the pressure for immediate bottom-line results forces many companies to give knee-jerk
reactions to economic fluctuations. While this management style may produce some immediate short-term gains,
it is self-sabotaging because it handicaps the development of creative inspiration, which is the cornerstone of
long-term marketability.

Successful enterprise building requires seven key elements. These are:

1) People, who are the source of the creative ideas that drive the enterprise’ s innovations;

2) Financial Resources to fund the transformation of these ideas into market breakthroughs;

3) A Coherent Business Philosophy from which the enterprise sets its course;

4) Capable Leadership in order to properly direct and manage the enterprise;

5) Strategies and Tactics to focus the enterprise’ s strengths and minimize its weaknesses;

6) Marketplace Intelligence, which allows its people to understand the changing forces in the environment
that are producing both the windows of opportunity as well as potential dangers;

7) Time, for it is only with adequate time that the creative ideas, properly nurtured, directed, and implemented, can fully blossom into successful innovations.

Of all these elements, “time” is the one factor many organizations neglect. They may have great people, deep
pockets, an inspiring business philosophy, visionary leaders, cutting edge strategies, and all the marketplace
intelligence in the world, yet they all too often fail to give their ideas the time they need to come full circle.

This time deficit has two forms. Either executives are reluctant to make decisions, causing delay and procrastination to become their nagging partners, or more commonly, they let their shortsighted quest for immediate returns cut short their “long-term” plans. They fail to nurture their creative ideas into market breakthroughs.

Perhaps business leaders should take a few lessons from other professions. For example, the farmer in
springtime first plows and then plants, but he does not rise early the following morning hoping to begin the
harvest. He expects to wait months for his crop, during which time he must repeatedly fertilize and then weed if he
expects a bountiful harvest.

It is that frequent fertilizing, “nurturing and encouraging,” along with the repeated weeding, “directing and guiding,”
that cannot be cut short. The same applies to business. If creative ideas are to mature into breakthrough market
innovations, business leaders must nurture their ideas and give them time to fully develop.

Unfortunately, it is this waiting and nurturing that so often bedevils us. Ten years ago the advent of the personal
computer industry spawned the euphemism “vaporware.” Today, most industries sport their own versions of “vaporware,” if not in form, then certainly in substance. Organizations in every industry repeatedly rush creative ideas, many very promising ones, to market before they are ready. The consequences of this hasty action include unhappy customers, damaged reputations, and often diminished long-term profits. In the most extreme cases, it
can cause companies to abandon what could have been a revolutionary new product or service.

In the movie The Princess Bride, there is a classic line where Miracle Max is trying to revive the “mostly dead”
hero, Wesley. Feeling the pressure from Wesley’ s friends to hurry, Miracle Max responds; “You rush a miracle
and maybe you get rotten miracle.” Well said Max!

Too many executives today are wondering why they keep ending up with rotten miracles. Frequently they need look no further than their own myopic quest for instant profits. In the ‘ 50s and ‘ 60s, the phrase “long term” referred to decades. By the early ‘ 70s, “long term” had shrunk to mean five to ten years. Today, “long term” is anywhere from one to three years or less. No wonder senior executives focus so heavily on monthly or quarterly results.

If creative ideas are not in and of themselves small miracles, then certainly the act of transforming those flashes of insight into profitable plans is miracle making in the marketplace. With their potential to suddenly propel an enterprise several years ahead of competitors, what else could these seeds of genius be?

Unfortunately, far too many creative ideas of great promise result in “rotten miracles,” not because of the ideas themselves, but rather because executives prematurely transform them into “vaporware,” as they are impatient for immediate results. In order to consistently succeed at turning creative ideas into breakthrough innovations, you must tend the idea with diligence and patience. Like choice grapes in a vineyard, your creative ideas will mature, eventually showcasing the fruits of your labor and rewarding you with long-term profitability.

Copyright 2005 by John Di Frances

John Di Frances is an internationally
recognized organizational
legacy expert and keynote
speaker. www.difrances.com

First things first, let’s define the two. Advertising is the act
of getting your message in front of an audience. There are any
number of ways to do this, that’s really not the theme of this
message. Being able to track a sale backwards to the advertising
that produced it, is.

Second, Marketing is the over all process you use to promote
your products and/or services. This includes advertising, but is
in no way limited to advertising. Again the theme here is not to
talk about marketing techniques, but the method’s you can use to
track their success.

The very nature of the Internet provides you with a variety of
unique tracking methods. At it’s very simplest you can produce
10 separate web pages to advertise in 10 different forums.

EXAMPLE: You have a page selling widgets you want to do a banner
campaign with 10 different banners. You can create 10 mirror
pages i.e. Widgets.html, Widgets1.html, Widgets2.html etc, etc.

In this way a different URL is associated with each of the
different banners you send out and your able to track which
banner is producing the most traffic from 10 identical sites..

There is a much simpler and less time intensive way however, to
achieve that exact same result.

You have your index page and rather than mirroring it 10 times
you simply add ?Widgets1 , ?Widgets2, ?Widgets3, etc, etc, to
the URL.

TEST IT HERE:

http://NetServeInt.com

http://NetServeInt.com/?index1

http://NetServeInt.com/?index2

http://NetServeInt.com/?index3

Even though the same page is served up to your visitors, your
server logs treat it as 10 different pages!

You can use this method to track any type of campaign not just
banners. If you were to advertise in a publication such as this
one, (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY THE WAY) as well as others using the
same URL in all of them, you would have no way of knowing that
80% of the traffic produced from those ad’s came from here. If
however you used a different URL ?index2, ?index3, etc, etc. You
would know which ad drew how much traffic.

Do you use (LEGAL) e-mail methods to advertise? This technique
will also work in that forum. Simply alter your URL as described
above in each of your different promo letters and your able to
track which ones produce the most traffic. Thereby allowing you
to discard the ones that don’t produce. Just as you will the z-
ine, newsletter, or banner champaign that’s not paying it’s way.

As an added BONUS you can do exactly the same type of thing with
e-mail responses. Rather than having 10 different response
addresses.

You place an ad with an e-mail link or have an e-mail link
rather than a URL attached to a banner or any other response
link. As in the URL example you vary the link according to where
it will be seen.

EXAMPLE: Ad running in 4 E-Zines

1st one has e-mail link <A HREF=”mailto:info@Widgets.com?subject=Widgets1″>here:
2nd one has e-mail link <A HREF=”mailto:info@Widgets.com?subject=Widgets2″>here:
3rd one has e-mail link <A HREF=”mailto:info@Widgets.com?subject=Widgets3″>here:
4th one has e-mail link <A HREF=”mailto:info@Widgets.com?subject=Widgets4″>here:

As you can see the reply you receive has a different text
in the subject field. Allowing you to track were
your responses are originating from.

Those methods are all well and good, but if your truly
interested in tracking your marketing results there is,
in my opinion really only one tool you need.

Anyone that is trying to bring traffic to their site is using
some form of advertising or other. That is, you use a sig file,
newsletter, e-zines, reciprocal links, banner ads, classifieds,
e-books, giveaways, or some other method for getting your
message to potential customers. With ROIbot, you can set up
campaigns for every new traffic building idea you come up with
and track the effectiveness of each. Then, you do more of what
works and less of what doesn’t. It’s a simple concept, place
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No matter what way you choose to track your promotional efforts
it’s important that do track them. You can waste countless hours
and dollars on a strategy that is actually producing no results.
You may well find that the less costly method works as well if
not better than the one that cost you an arm and a leg.

Again, it matters not which method you choose, it only matters
that you choose one and use it faithfully. You’ll be surprised
how much information your begin to have at your disposal.

“Your Success Is Our Success”

jbp

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Yes, apparently - websites are supposed to make money! Somebody came up with the strange idea that it’s really not enough to spend thousands on your site, hundreds of hours creating the content and then sitting back to admire you, and your developer’s work. No - apparently it is now ‘cool’ to have a web site that actually makes it onto a sales column in your chart of accounts.. ‘Return on in investment’ is a good phrase that’s being thrown around - what are you actually making from your web site in cash terms? Ever thought about that?

Well, you should be thinking about it. Not only should you be tracking where the money is coming from but also where it’s gone to. No point kidding yourself - it wasn’t cheap was it? There was the developer’s costs, the graphic design costs and hopefully some costs set aside for taking on web site marketing experts to get your site found (see magnet4web - they come highly recommended). So, anyway, track what you’ve spent and then see what’s coming through the door rather than going out when it comes to your website. To help you - in what is a constant review and improve process - here are 7.5 ways to get more sales through your web site.

“Get On With It!”, I hear you shout, “Tell Me The 7.5 Ways To Get More Sales!”

1. Use a professional web developer to build the site in the first place.

Don’t cut corners or budgets. How many business owners have an idea for a business and then take up the science of bricklaying to build their own shop or premises? Exactly - don’t do it. Your job is to run your business effectively and worry about where the profits are coming from - not designing websites.

2. Use a professional graphic designer when your site is being developed.

If you use your mate next door we can all tell. It might keep your wallet heavy but hey - if you want a website that looks a million Lira - fine. A rough, made up just now, rule of thumb is to spend 10% of what you would like the web site to make. Just think about that for a minute when you get Dave from down the pub to ‘knock you one up for £100..”. And remember - you’ll need professional web development AND professional graphic design input. Web developers are not designers. Graphic designers are not web developers. Glad we’ve got that cleared up..

3. Use a professional web site marketing company to get your web site found - in the search engines, in the directories - on anywhere on the web that matters.

Graphic designers can’t do this. Most web developers can’t do this. And you certainly can’t do this - you’re supposed to be running your business, remember? Spot the theme here? Yes - professionals. You don’t get a plumber in to lay your carpet do you? Don’t make the same mistake when creating your web site - pull in the appropriate professionals for the appropriate tasks. Which brings us nicely on to way number 4…

4. Don’t be a scrooge.

There is an old proverb that says it perfectly;

“The man who buys cheap laughs once but cries many times. The man who buys expensive cries once but laughs many times.”

Remember this the next you think about cutting corners. There are obviously exceptions to every rule but you usually get what you pay for in this life.

5. Ask for the sale.

Yes it’s obvious. But are you doing it? If you’re actually selling something directly via your website you have to make it an absolute doddle for someone to work out what they need to do. Don’t make them hunt around for pricing, ordering information, contact details, delivery information etc. Sock it to them right up front - they’ll love you for it. If you’re not selling directly via the site you still need to ask for the sale.

6. Throw your web site to the lions.

Not literally, unless it’s really bad. (And in case you’re wondering how that would be physically possible just load all your web site’s files onto a floppy disc, take the number 33 bus down to the nearest zoo, buy a ticket and a map, locate the lions and Bob’s your uncle. But I digress..). Basically get as many people as possible to critique your web site. Friends and family are always good for this - though they’ll probably be unwilling to be over-critical (unless it’s your in-laws) so impartial parties is a better idea, if you can track any down. Ask your colleagues and friends to forward your web site address onto others and ask for direct feedback, no holds barred. Better to have people test it like this and say it’s about as much use as a chocolate fireguard than open your shop doors, so to speak, and have your customers tell you the same thing by voting with their mice and sniffing away in an instant in the search for more professionally-produced cheese…

7. Deliver what you say you will

Yes, another no-brainer but it will pay huge dividends. No point in fighting tooth and nail for all those hard-to-reach prospects if you’ve got a nice healthy stack of existing customers that already think you’re the bees’ knees. Once you’ve got that customer hold onto him / her with all your might - treat them like kings because your competitor will be after them. It’s far cheaper and quicker to sell something to an existing customer than it is to find a new one. Simple in theory - not so easy to put into practice. But hey - what are you after here? A free breakfast?!

7.5. “People Laughed At Me When I Said I Could Get Them To Read This Sentence. But Who’s Laughing Now?!”

Use headlines in your web site. People are busy. People are impatient and people can’t read. Well, okay they can - but they prefer information in small chunks. They like something that grabs them. Why do you think you’re reading this article? Because your subconscious read the headline and dived straight in. You really think you would be reading this if the article were titled “Web Site Creating Techniques Aimed At Improving Return On Investment Over Time”. ?? I rest my case…

Mike Cheney

Sales & Marketing Director, www.magnet4web.com

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Will postcards be an advantage for you?

The latest craze these days is to send a postcard advertisement to everyone on a mailing list. It is both good and annoying to customers. Junk mail, as many call it, does not always get read, but if you put a twist on what is on your postcard, then you are likely to be noticed. A postcard will not yield much business, but in reality it only takes one good contract to pay for the whole mailing. So how do you use postcards effectively? First, you should take time to make up a target list of potential clients. Never bother sending postcards to people or businesses that will never have any use for what you do; that would be wasting your money. Once you have selected your target (and it will take a considerable amount of time to fine tune your target audience) you will need to create the message. What is it that you are trying to accomplish with your postcard mailing?

Some businesses want to sell their products or services through the mailing. This is OK but often turns out to be just a one shot deal that gets tossed. You will likely want to set up a series of postcards at specified intervals to make sure that your message is getting across to the potential user of your product or service. The first postcard should make a strategic announcement as we talked about earlier, and the second and subsequent ones should also make other announcements, etc.

Remember that by sending out postcards, you are looking to gain some brand recognition. If a business needs your service in the future, and you are doing regular postcard or other mailings, they will likely want to give you a call. This percentage will be low but at least you will have the branding you re looking for.

Bette Daoust, Ph.D. has been networking with others since leaving high school years ago. Realizing that no one really cared about what she did in life unless she had someone to tell and excite. She decided to find the best ways to get people’s attention, be creative in how she presented herself and products, getting people to know who she was, and being visible all the time. Her friends and colleagues have often dubbed her the “Networking Queen”. Blueprint for Networking Success: 150 ways to promote yourself is the first in this series. Blueprint for Branding Yourself: Another 150 ways to promote yourself is planned for release in 2005. For more information visit http://www.BlueprintBooks.com