I am officially in love!Seriously.Pinterest.com is by far my favourite social media network – ever. I can sit there all day long looking at the art on my Pinterest.com pinboard and still never get bored. It is like being in the most extraordinary gallery, that transcends anything you have ever experienced before. And, there is something for everyone.
For 2 minutes I had to check my facebook account to see if I had access to a client’s administration from my log-in and up pops a post from Donna Hay. For those of you that sleep under a rock, Donna Hay is probably the most famous and incredible Australian Chef around.
Smirking to myself, I typed onto twitter a response to a girlfriends tweet about whether or not I would be going on extended travel after a business conference in Instanbul, Turkey.
In no time, I responded. “Depends on whether I am married and have other plans” or something to this effect.
Most small businesses ignore guerilla marketing as part of their marketing mix. Why? Because most think that it’s just what the big companies do.
Well, that is true most of the time, but not because it costs alot of money to do. It’s mainly because their creative agencies or someone with a spot of ‘genius’ has come up with a guerilla marketing idea that has great potential.
In light of the past week whereby a person who is on television on occasion has been admitted to hospital after reportedly trying to take her life, the question of managing social media profiles is now on everyone’s lips.
If you have ever marketed even one of your products or services, you’d know what they say about Direct Marketing (DM). There are so many different views about DM amongst the marketers today that it’s difficult to understand whether it’s worth all the time and effort at all. It’s confused, abused and misused by several marketers.
There are thousands of marketing companies in Australia. They range from one-man bands, to small and mid tier agencies, right through to large multinationals.
For small businesses, it is very hard for many entrepreneurs or business managers to ascertain what is the best marketing solution for their business and what will help them get to the next level.
As a business owner and entrepreneur, it is paramount to understand our competitors and do the complete opposite to what they are doing.
Retailers that have not adopted a strategic social media strategy that has as much weighing in their marketing budget as their traditional media spend, are at risk of not only losing marketshare but also staying alive as a business.
Your brand is alive in places you never knew existed.
With the introduction of the Internet and in particular social media, your brand is coming up in places that sometimes you would prefer for it not to be.
That is the nature of today’s marketing environment.
If I was to pick 3 things that you need to do as a small business to market your business today, I would say;
About 10 years ago, I was in New York for a holiday and by chance, I happened to be in town when there was an entrepreneurs event with Jack Welch.
I sat down with my friends who were also in business and watched Jack Welch talk about his story of how he changed GE and his philosophies on business.