October 9th, 2009 | Posted in | by Michael Hobach
There are marketing companies across the globe that do a very good job and help their clients see real results. There are not many, however, that can claim powerhouse, household-name campaigns and products to their credit. The reason for this is generally found in the approach the best of the best take to marketing.
Experts that cultivate marketing for some of the world’s best-known companies and products tend to know a few secrets that others do not. They approach marketing in a wholly different way and reach out to consumers on a different level.
So, why is it that some marketing efforts produce good results, but others catapult products into the public eye and hold them there?
The answer is often found in what typical marketing campaigns might lack. While they can and do make sales and have a positive impact on a company, they often lack in the features that can really make them shine. The reality is that for serious, runaway successes to occur, marketing must go beyond the safe, standard and tried-and-tested.
Even the best of standard marketing campaigns might fail to attract the attention desired because they often do not:
- Take a holistic approach – Marketing a single product is often not enough to really sell it. Even if the campaign is solid, it can fall short if the company is not included in the mix. Some of the best-known marketing efforts nationally and even internationally are far reaching in nature. They promote not only a particular product, but also a company and even a way of life. Image and people’s perception of that image are everything in successful marketing. Successful products and their makers are synonymous by design, not chance.
- Take chances – Many marketing campaigns are designed to play it safe. The goal is to sell a product; not catapult it into every household possible. Risk-taking is a way of life for some of the most successful companies. Their campaigns go beyond the tested and the results show. If cards have been played right on the holistic approach to advertising, even a bad campaign can produce positive results.
- Reach out on multiple levels – Safe marketing campaigns will often sell a product solely on its merits. Advertisements and commercials speak to the features and appeal to consumers’ logic. These campaigns can and do sell, but they are not likely to produce huge results. To really enjoy success, marketing efforts must reach out to people on levels that go beyond logic and reason. Appealing to people’s emotions, the things that influence them and even the symbols they trust and recognize can make all the difference in the world. Highly successful marketers know these things and plan accordingly.
Playing it safe with marketing can produce moderate and even pleasing results. Average campaigns, however, are not likely to take a product and make it an incredible success. Standard marketing fails on this front because it lacks the ability to sell on multiple levels. The world’s best marketers know how to sell not only products, but also emotions and even lifestyles.
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October 9th, 2009 | Posted in | by Michael Hobach
While it is important to have a good product or service to offer, this is often just not enough to realize major sales upon release. When a runaway hit is desired, planning needs to go well beyond the actual product. In many cases, success or failure is determined not necessarily by the item offered to consumers but the manner in which it is offered to them. Marketing, in short, can make or break a product. It can also make or break a company.
Products that sell incredibly well are very often not the best of their kind out there. They might not even be the most reasonably priced. Still, people will line up to get them and even feel compelled to purchase them. In many cases, consumers believe they have to have a particular product to be happy. They might not even really need the product and they might even see a better one as they are on the way to make the purchase, yet their cash will be plunked down for item X no matter what.
If you are ready to exercise this kind of marketing power to the benefit of your own products and services, you need to look at the secrets that highly successful marketers use every day.
Marketing efforts that manage to turn a decent product into one that people think they cannot live without target consumers in a slightly different way. On the surface the ads used might look the same as all others, but pay close attention and the differences will stand out. Marketers that enjoy runaway successes tend to speak to consumers on a different level than just run of the mill good marketers will.
When real success out of marketing is desired, it is important to understand these things about human beings:
- People have innate triggers they will respond to – Just as most animals will fiercely protect their young and some animals will migrate during set seasons and travel to set places, people are also preprogrammed in many ways. When marketing campaigns trigger the right programming cues, people will respond.
- People act on emotions – Marketing campaigns that are designed to elicit certain emotions or desires can enjoy huge success. When people believe a product will help them look like the people in the commercials, enjoy the same level of happiness displayed on a screen or have the same level of appeal to the opposite sex, they will make purchases.
- People respond to symbols – The language of symbols is one that has been used by people for eons. When marketing campaigns use the right symbols to elicit trust, desire or emotions, consumers tend to respond by opening their wallets.
These are just a few of the truths about people that highly successful marketing campaigns are built around. When campaigns reach out and speak to people on the innate or subconscious level, a runaway hit can be enjoyed. If they do not, even the best product of its kind might not enjoy runaway success.
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October 9th, 2009 | Posted in | by Michael Hobach
It takes more than a simple explanation to really sell a product. While advertising campaigns that are purely informational can show decent results, they generally will not produce record-breaking numbers. This is often due to the fact that campaigns of this nature fail to actually motivate people to take action.
Humans are motivated by a number of forces. Basic needs, of course, are huge motivators, but there are many others. It is the other motivators that can really drive people forward to make purchases, adopt particular products as their brands of choice or even make impulse buys they have no need of but cannot seem to walk away from regardless.
In the marketing world, highly successful professionals tap into a number of motivating forces to help them sell companies and their products. There are, in fact, 22 motivating forces that are continuously at work in people’s lives. These forces can drive people forward to look for solutions to meet their needs and motivate them to buy when they believe they have found the answer to those needs.
Truly successful marketing efforts tap into these motivating forces and use them to guide people to take action. The best of the best know how to manipulate the unseen to get people to move forward and fulfill their desires.
Motivating forces can be powerful marketing tools for a number of reasons. They include:
- Their ability to call people to action – When marketing taps into motivating forces, people will receive and respond to a call for action. Selling people on the idea that a product or service would make a good purchase is not enough. People have to be motivated to actually take action and make the purchase.
- Their ability to appeal to desires – People are highly motivated by fulfilling their own desires beyond rudimentary needs. When they are motivated to believe products or services will meet their desires, they will respond accordingly. Tapping into different desires with marketing campaigns takes understanding a few well-kept secrets, but once they are employed the sky can be the limit on sales.
- Their ability to touch people on an emotional level – Humans are nothing if not emotional. Some of the most successful marketing campaigns in history have tapped into the emotional side of human beings to get them to take a particular action or purchase a specific product.
- Their ability to influence – People have to be influenced to make the purchase of a particular product over another. When motivating forces are used in marketing, consumers will often feel compelled to give a particular purchase a try or they might be influenced to keep buying the “tried and tested” even if something else has appeared on the aisle that looks just as good, but does not cost as much.
When marketing efforts tap into motivating forces to drive people to action, sales tend to result. If these efforts are especially effective, the resulting sales can go well beyond expectations and the repeat business will not fail to please.
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