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Blog Marketing Marketing Planning Why bother with marketing?

Why bother with marketing?

Answer: To make your product or service as desirable as possible to your customers. (And in doing so, maximize your sales opportunities.)

Here’s three ways how marketing can do it.

1. Build a brand that reflects your values

Your brand is:

  • Your reputation
  • How people perceive you
  • How you look, feel and sound
  • Your customers’ experience
  • The reason people choose your product.

At Design Distillery, we can help you ensure that all your marketing and sales collateral is on-brand. We help you define your brand proposition and your positioning in the market place.  Only when that is cracked can we start designing and writing your marketing collateral.

2. Make your product easy to choose (aka differentiation)

We will work closely with you to identify and communicate the features and benefits of your product that differentiate it from your competitors.

3. Be relevant to your customers (aka Segmentation)

You need to present your brand in a way that is relevant to your customer’s individual needs. That could mean segmenting your target market.

We help ensure you say the right things to the right people, in the right place at the right time.

If like us, you understand the job marketing does then lets meet up. Together we can make it more effective for your business.

To finish, my favourite definition of marketing:

Marketing covers all activities that combine to deliver a positive customer experience across all aspects of their interaction with your product or service.

And remember, It is an investment not a cost.

About the Author

This post was written by Guy Tillyard

After twelve years with London agencies working with blue chip brands such as McVities, Scottish and Newcastle, and Microsoft, Guy moved to the South coast and set up Design Distillery in 2005. Guy has a wealth of strategic planning and project management experience, but it is creative direction where his real strength lies.

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