Introducing Five Proven Ways To Make Sure Your Holiday Sales Season Totally Rocks!
Okay so what do you mean exactly, by your statement, that the holiday sales season is over and you’re no longer concentrating on it? Entrepreneur, this isn’t just about what you do (on or) offline during the wild wild west holiday shopping season! Not by a long shot. Because there is a very subtle-key- marketing mind shift that you definitely need to make.
In order to be sure -that- going forward, you don’t spend yourself into bankruptcy, while desperately trying to make a profit during the next holiday shopping rush.Because unfortunately, certain ways that you go about trying to get the word out, do nothing more than simply drain your extremely limited bank account!
Five Proven Ways To Make Sure Your Holiday Sales Season Totally Rock!
Entrepreneur, in order for you to really have half a chance at any type of long term success and make any real money. On or offline.The first subtle mind shift you simply have to make is.
You’ve got to quickly realize, before you go broke that, in most cases, (certainly not all), proven marketing strategies, trump traditional run of the mill advertising strategies by far.
Witness the five following extremely vital stats to prove it. Watch “how” the following five (fairly traditional) marketing channels, far out perform the more traditional run of the advertising channels. Case in point:
The five following marketing channels, you would do well to employ throughout your entire marketing calendar year. But especially during your all important holiday sales season. If you’re truly serious about crushing it.Because remember, those last thirty days of the year (believe it or not!), can and does account for as much as twenty percent of your overall gross profit.
1.) Proven marketing channel #one: Is this first low cost, proven marketing channel any real surprise? On average, good old positive “word of mouse and mouth” does the trick, when it comes to consistently (and inexpensively) generating new leads and eventually first time customers and clients.
Generally speaking, this proven process/method accounts for 28% of your new business.
2.) Proven marketing channel #two: Next, as far as online marketing goes, good old SEO (Search engine Optimization) will help you get found more often than not.
Provided, both your on and off page optimization fundamentals are in place.This process typically accounts for about twenty percent of your new business.
Entrepreneur Learn To Strategically Market Your Business Not Just Advertise It!
3.) Proven marketing channel #three: Moving right along, (entrepreneur) whatever you do, don’t sleep on the potential of being found (online) via the various local directories, such as yelp and others.
Otherwise, you’re conveniently sacrificing about sixteen percent of your potential first time customer/client base.
4.) Proven marketing channel #four: This next proven (non traditional) marketing channel, while it’s certainly faced some serious competition, especially in the last few years, and while it’s certainly lost a little luster!
Make no mistake! It’ still a proven winner. Because it’s still accounts for (about) twelve percent of your new business. Which makes strategic email marketing, still a most worthy, long term -proactive- marketing tool.
Which means, you’ll definitely want to look into one of the top paid email marketing service providers, in order to determine which one best fits your current budget and specific business needs.
5.) Proven marketing channel #five: And finally… a good mobile marketing strategy, according to recent statistics, can and should account for around five percent of your new business. Remember, whether it’s during the all important holiday sales season or not.
“What’s” the alternative you ask? Well, if you’re really into spending lots (and lots) of your hard earned money on traditional advertising methods, that unless you’ve got the extremely deep pockets of corporate America, and you afford to average somewhere under five percent new customer client generation rates of return.
You probably want t stay away from the traditional advertising mediums like, local newspapers, local TV & radio and good old PPC (Pay Per Click) ad campaigns etc. Would you not agree? (Granted, all total they add up to about 81% give or take. Everything else you to that makes economic and marketing sense, equals the rest!)
And that my friend, are the five extremely simple ways, to make sure your holiday sales season (and beyond) rocks! Any questions?
Please list at least two simple spin off concepts (in the comments section below) that you can apply to your business, product or service in the next 30 days or less!
As always, if you got any value out of this post, please Digg or tweet this. Thanks!
And be sure you grab your explosive free 22 step small business marketing idea kit series, because it will help you increase your profits by at least 25% in the next 90 days or less.
And help you master your effective communication in marketing skills.(No matter what your particular niche market is.)
It’s a $97 dollar value and it’s free!
