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Small Business Owner's Guide to Marketing (Beginner's Edition)

Writer: Tejashree BhovadTejashree Bhovad

Updated: Sep 19, 2022

To understand marketing. Let's start with what Marketing is?

Marketing is a short word but is very impactful. In the Business world, marketing is an interaction between the business and the consumer. It involves communicating, listening, adapting, and providing value to the consumers. We can say that ‘if marketing is done right the consumer gets attracted and interested in the product. It is one of the important factors involved in growing the business.





But what is marketing about? Is it challenging to market your business?

People tend to confuse marketing with selling their products or services. Whereas in reality, selling a product or service is not the very first aim of marketing. It is about interacting with the consumer, and creating and enhancing a relationship between the consumer and business. For a business to grow, you first need to engage with your customers.

So, how can you engage with the customer/ What is the key to engaging with the customers?

Customers are attracted to product that they think are worthy of the value and time they spend. As Jonathan Mildenhall said, “Amazing things happen when you listen to your customer.” So your business should focus on providing solutions to the customers' problems. Always value your customer, and understand their views. Assure them that your priority is to understand and value its customers.

As every brand we look up to, serve values in terms of their product or service. Likewise, your business focus should provide value to its customer in the form of your product or service.

Here’s some advice that might help you to make your customer feel valued and understood:

  1. Hear your customer.

  2. Note the feedback.

  3. Adapt and work on necessary changes for the benefit of the business.

  4. Be Prepared to adapt to changes as per the market and consumer dynamics.

  5. Provide offers.

Always keep in mind the main motive should be providing solutions and making customer’s life easy. For example, this article shares with you the importance of understanding what marketing is and how it works and how to grow your business by enhancing marketing skills.

Marketing has no limits. It can be done in any form be it traditional, digital, sales marketing, mouth publicity, billboard advertising, and many more. In business marketing, you cannot choose one type of marketing. It works well when it is a combination of many marketing types. Yes, but the intensity or volume of each type of marketing might differ from business to business. But in all these options, how to start a particular marketing that might go well with your business?

It is crucial to choose the correct strategy of marketing for your business. Here are some factors that will help you create the marketing strategy for your business.

  1. Research deeply about your market.

  2. Select a suitable audience and target them.

  3. Give customers a reason to invest in your product or service.

  4. Watch your competitors' strategy.

  5. Plan and strategise accordingly.

So now you know, that marketing is all about how you approach, how you engage the consumer, and majorly what your goal is. Marketing is the key to the successful growth of your brand. These tips will help you plan your marketing strategy more efficiently and will result in your business's growth.


 
 
 

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