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Showing posts with label Virtual World Social Media Marketing twitter ning blog blogs forums groups MySpace Facebook MerchantCircle. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Behavioral Targeting

How do you hit your nich or target market?

If you are able to combine a comprehensive database of demographic and lifestyle date with past buyer activity into your CRM software, you can effectively predict behavior and offer a purchase choice and experience to your target market to purchase.

You need to profile your best customers. Find out where they go, what they do. Then target your marketing channels to be in front of them in as many ways as possible.

I’m not just talking online here but print, billboards, bus signs, radio. Where ever they go you must follow.

Larson note: Knowing who they are, your customers is only the beginning. Now where do they hide out? What do they do, watch, eat, drink, say and think? Be the customer. Learn to think like the customer. Then ask who am I and where am I.

Howard Larson
Larson & Associates
Target Marketing & Telesales Professionals for new account acquisition
Making good businesses great and great businesses even better
847-991-0488
howard@larsonassociates.ws
www.larsonassociates.ws
http://larsonassociates.blogspot.com
http://member.merchantcircle.com/larsonassociates
http://businesswarfare.ning.com/profile/HowardLarson
http://teamcircle.ning.com/profile/HowardLarson

https://twitter.com/LarsonAssociate

P.S. We make telesales for small business affordable by offering programs down to only 15 hours a week. Maybe you could add telesales into your marketing mix call today and find out.

P.P.S. We are offering 2 free ½ hour consultations a week for marketing businesses. Call or email to get your spot to pick my brain for 30 minutes today.

*Source: WeeWorld

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Leveraging the Virtual World

People, consumers, buyers, prospects, control social media. To be effective you not only need to realize this but find ways to provide valuable content that is pertinent to your target customers needs, wants and desires.

In the virtual world, content tied to the community needs and behavior. As members place their favorite entertainment, car, food or pastimes your areas of content becomes much more powerful as you interconnect to their specific posted lifestyles. Content is a much more powerful way to connect with consumers. Much more so that banner ads or product placement because the consumer goes out and chooses the content choices they make and not vice versa.

Larson note: Getting a handle on Social Media Marketing is not always easy. It’s as easy to hold onto as the wind. How and where are your clients and customers in the free form world? People pick and choose and resent having things thrown in front of them. Spam takes on a new meaning. Cross the community and the entire site will know in minutes not days. If you choose to marketing into the area of SM tread easily letting and finding out what your audience wants from you and when you find it, let them have as much as the need to fill up there appetites but beware, what is wanted today will be gone tomorrow only to be filled by a new content hunger.

Howard Larson
Larson & Associates
Target Marketing & Telesales Professionals for new account acquisition
Making good businesses great and great businesses even better
847-991-0488
howard@larsonassociates.ws
www.larsonassociates.ws
http://larsonassociates.blogspot.com
http://member.merchantcircle.com/larsonassociates
http://businesswarfare.ning.com/profile/HowardLarson
http://teamcircle.ning.com/profile/HowardLarson

https://twitter.com/LarsonAssociate

P.S. We make telesales for small business affordable by offering programs down to only 15 hours a week. Maybe you could add telesales into your marketing mix call today and find out.

P.P.S. We are offering 2 free ½ hour consultations a week for marketing businesses. Call or email to get your spot to pick my brain for 30 minutes today.

*Source: WeeWorld