Dare to be Different

In your marketing, do you dare to be different?
I will soon be creating a product which will show the marketing world how to see what everyone else is doing, and then to do the exact opposite because… if you do so, you are more app to be successful.
So this morning, do you trust me? Here’s an idea that may work for your business. It’s been around for years, but few use it. If your business is a retail establishment such as a hardware, or similar, try it this week as an experiment and let me know how it worked for you.
It’s easy, here’s what you do. Tell all (or most) of your employees to park closer to your building in the customer parking spots (except for the handicapped) instead of the usual employee parking area. See if this doesn’t bring in more business from the drive by traffic. Try this during "slow" days or times, and also when neighboring businesses are having specials that are creating drive by traffic. People will wonder “What’s happening at (your business name) store?”  

“Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd” P.T. Barnum

Get your press release out there.


The three rules for placing a press release are:
  1. it needs to be
  2. news, it needs to be interesting
  3. and it needs NOT to be advertising.
In my local area I place simple press releases to all the local media for just $9.99 to generate sales for my other marketing services. I do the same for any business person across the country but the press release goes to most media in their local area, and Internet sources. The fee for this is $350 per press release. Details are at www.terscott.com/pressreleaseservice. If you have trouble getting to the right page on my www.terscott.com site, email me at: terscottpromotes AT yahoo.com (don’t use spaces and replace the AT with the @ sign).
Make it a great day!
Ter
Terrific. Energizing . Results!

"How did you find us" Marketing Questions

OK, it's not "Monday" so sue me. OK, please don't do that either, there's too much of that going on. How about just looking at this on Monday, or read it now and remember to use it on Monday. Yeah, that's better!

Here are three tips to find out how someone finds your store or website. You can get more complete definition for each at my other blog: http://marketingmasterclass.blogspot.com/ by clicking here. For now, here they are, short and sweet:

How did you find “Us”? Just ask 3 Things.
1.       How did you find us? Ooh, that’s a tough one!
2.       What do you think of our store (or website)? This is a great open ended question which can elicit many responses; that’s good.
3.       Did you see any reviews? This can mean “anything” from any word of mouth marketing (notice I call this word of mouth “marketing” and not “advertising") to an online review. Do these three things every time a customer visits and you’ll know more about your customers, and your business!
Know this and you'll start to know more about your customer ... and your business!
Ter