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Old 01-20-2007, 07:02 AM
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Marketing any business is a real challenge these days, every business is facing tough competition, its important to trace each and every aspect of trade and commerce to obtain the optimum profits.

Some ways to do quick marketing would be providing
  • Special offers
  • Discounts
  • Freebies
  • Prompt service
  • Appropriate behaviour with customers.

As long as you keep your customers happy u gona get more and more of them
Marketing, advertising, promotion, publicity etc are all words that get interchanged, sometimes incorrectly.

What you have mentioned above is promotion, not marketing, just a part of marketing.

Marketing and Public Relations are a whole of business solution of which promotion is only a part.
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Old 01-22-2007, 11:01 AM
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Old 01-25-2007, 02:56 AM
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We only attending some Textile Fair.for foreign customers know us better.I donot know whether it will be workable.May be we need more advertisement as web promotion.
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Old 02-07-2007, 01:51 PM
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Old 11-03-2008, 10:13 PM
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Business Marketing is the formulation of strategy. Business marketing strategy is also influenced by the characteristics of the product or service itself, irrespective of the target market. Let’s find what it is exactly… Business Marketing has evolved to indicate the marketing of any product or service to an organization that is involved in the production of products and services for others, regardless of ownership.

Nature of Business Marketing:
The issues which business marketers face are significantly different than those that face marketers of consumer products or services. The fundamentals, of course, are similar. That is, all marketers are concerned with the selection of target markets, with segmentation within these markets, and with decisions regarding product, promotion, pricing and distribution. The nature of organizational buying, characterized by multiple influences, professional buyers and long term relationships, is very different from that of consumer buying. Because organizations buy in order to achieve organizational purposes, there is more emphasis on functionality. As a result, most products and services produced to meet the needs of organizations find markets in many countries. Selection of markets, the critical decision, has the horizontal dimension of consumer goods plus a vertical dimension.

Business Marketing Strategy:
At the heart of Business Marketing is the formulation of strategy; strategy that takes into account the nature of demand for the particular product or service, the industry in which the firm competes and events and trends in the broader external environment. Marketing strategy, however, is not conceived in an organizational vacuum. Its purpose is to assist the firm to achieve its objectives. It must take into account the capabilities and aspirations of the firm and it must work closely and in harmony with other functional strategies.

Business Products and Services:
Business marketing strategy is also influenced by the characteristics of the product or service itself, irrespective of the target market. A number of classification schemes have been developed to further identify the nature of these goods and services, as a basis for better understanding the nature of the purchasing process for them and thus developing marketing strategy. Most classification schemes include the following:
Raw materials

Manufactured materials

Components

Services
Marketing Strategy and Planning:
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. Markets are managed by people not created by God, nature, or economic forces. That want a business satisfies may have been felt by customers before they were offered the means of satisfying it – but it remained a potential want until the action of business people converted it into effective demand.

The marketing concept holds that the purpose of a business is –or should be – to satisfy the wants and needs of its customers better than its competitors and at a profit. This requires the collective efforts of all those in the organization. Guiding these collective efforts is the role of business strategy. Marketing strategy may guide the development of business strategy but it also supports it and work in harmony with other functional strategies.

Typically, business strategies establish broad business objectives, indicate the scope of the business, in terms of products and markets, and identify the principal technologies and source of competitive advantage. The components of business strategy are usually the functional strategies. These include a marketing strategy, which deals with target markets and the actions necessary to reach them effectively; a manufacturing strategy, which deals with make or buy decisions, plant size and manufacturing processes; a research and development or engineering strategy, which addresses such issues a basic or applied research and fields of technology; a financial strategy, which deals with methods of financing, financial terms, credit risks, or working capital requirements, size and nature of the work force, and people management systems.

Depending on the nature of the business, the business strategy may include other dimensions as well. Marketing strategy, however, lies at the heart of business strategy. More than any other, it is concerned with the external environment and so is looked to provide guidance with regard to markets to be served and products to the produced; the fundamental business decisions. These business decisions can only be made in the context of the resources of the firm and its collective skills and abilities. Marketing strategy, therefore, must be as concerned with the capabilities of the firm as it is with customers, competitors, and other elements of the external environment.
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Old 11-19-2008, 06:36 AM
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hi there... What internet marketing strategies you all adopt?? and what are your success ratio?
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Maybe you could try social marketing, social networking website is a very good marketing idea, I mean for a start.
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Customer Service is the #1 most important thing in a business. You can have all the gifts, all the discounts and more, but if you don't have good customer service people will come once. The goal and most profitable customer is the repeat costomer because they buy things as well as give good referrals. If you have a business just remember that the most important thing that you can do is train for customer interaction and asking for referrals...
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To have a way of following up with your existing customers and building real relationships with them is key. By building a simple email list you can commnicate with your customers, build real relationships with them and market to them from time to time.

It's the most effective strategy any business can implement.


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Old 12-08-2008, 06:17 AM
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Find teh crucial stuf in your business and target them as main target
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