Saturday, May 30, 2009

Branding Strategy is one Key for Lowering Your Marketing Costs

When you have a brand strategy, you don't have to constantly reinvent the wheel every time you create an ad, update your brochure, do a new sales presentation power point or develop a retractible banner.

By having a strong niche and positioning, most of your work is already done for you.

Many small and medium businesses have trouble defining their own brand. They want to tell every feature, describe every benefit and try to sell to every possible customer in every market.

If you define your brand strategy before you do the marketing tactics, you'll find your costs will be lower and your results better.

It's one way of working smarter, not harder!

2 comments:

confusedyetamused said...

Yes great idea to find out what makes your niche itch.
once you know what that is then your golden.

But the problem with smaller brands is that they are trying to grow, so they branch out to other niche's. what they should do is to try to reach more people in that niche. That is how fads are created.

Chris Brown said...

Dear Confused Yet Amused:

Yes! Even more than creating a fad, it helps a business to really know and cultivate that consumer base.

thanks for commenting!
Chris