When working with a business all day and everyday, often your focus is on making it successful, that’s the whole point isn’t it? You know you need to sell more products or provide your service more often in order to get money in the till, to pay fixed costs and your homes mortgage/rent. However often, taking a step back and looking how things connect together can be extremely beneficial.
The importance of setting objectives is paramount. How do you know if you have achieved what you want to if you haven’t got anything to aim for?
Most businesses have the same overall aim, which is to be a success. The interesting part comes when looking at how different businesses approach this…
By setting a marketing objective such as: ‘Increase sales of my product by 10% in the next 3 months’ it gives your business something to aim for. It also allows you to set marketing communications objectives as ways to help you achieve them. To sell more products, more people need to know about them. Therefore your marketing communications objective to help achieve the above marketing objective would be: ‘to increase brand awareness by 30% over the next 2 months.’
Still not getting it? No…
Your objective: To get to the other side of the river. Marketing communications objectives act as your stepping stones to get to the other side without getting wet – you wouldn’t just jump in the water now would you?!
What has a website got to do with it?
Your website is one of your stepping stones, in fact it could even be a rowing boat depending on how good it is. A website offers you a fantastic opportunity to communicate with your customers. You can advertise your products, share information, discuss topics of interest, review your products, share information and engage with customers. A website is often a face of an organisation as it is possible it’s the only element of the business customers will see or it is the first contact they will have with the company, hence the importance of getting it right.
Marketing communications has many tools to help achieve the task. Just like a mechanic needs spanners and torches, marketers need personal selling, advertising, public relations, direct marketing and sales promotions. When used together and for their correct use, the marketing machine will work in harmony and the products will fly off the shelves and objectives will be achieved.
So reassess your toolkit – if things are missing it might be a good time to check and replace.
Article Written by Carli Smith
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