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Posts Tagged ‘Messaging’

Why bother with marketing?

January 14th, 2010

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.

Tags: Brand, Branding, Differentiation, Marketing Advice, Marketing Vs Sales, Messaging, Offer Value, Positioning, Price Marketing, Segmentation
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Finding simple

November 5th, 2009

We know from experience that keeping communications simple always achieves the best results. However, finding ’simple’ can be a complex and challenging process.

Of course using simple language in your brand marketing requires you to have a clear understanding of your brand proposition, but it also requires you to have enough confidence to stand out from the crowd and not to hide behind a wall of jargon and dry business-speak.

That sounds simple enough you may think, but it’s amazing how many businesses fail on both counts.  And this is strange given that when we become consumers we know what appeals every time: simplicity and readability. I always follow the rule, if you wouldn’t say it don’t write it (have you ever written to a friend in bullet points?).

Imagine you’ve been handed a company brochure and you are about to open the cover.  What you be your answer if at that moment the person handing it to you ask you the following questions:

Would you like there to be more copy or less?
Would you like pictures to tell the story?
Do you like to read bullet points or be told a story that engages you?

I know what I’d prefer.

Tags: Contract, Design, Finding Simple, Messaging
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