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The Marketing Minefield

No matter where your business is located, Standish, Wigan, New York, Paris, many locations or few, online, offline or a combination of all of them the M word will always be an essential part of your business the M word being – MARKETING.

WN6 Creative Design Creative Services has many years experience in marketing of all forms and understand the problems small and large business owners face in getting together, deploying and more importantly understanding a successful marketing campaign.

It is true that 50% of your marketing works and 50% doesn’t the real secret is understand where the success lies.  No matter how basic or glamorous a Marketing campaign is, or how much money is thrown at it, the truth still remains.  If you arent tracking it properly and building the analysis back into the business you will be lucky to get a good ROI’s on your marketing budget.  You won’t have any more understanding of your customer and most of will still be scratching about for the answers come the next campaign.

Great tracking and analysis is the single most important aspect of any marketing department, large or small – fail to do this and the long term impact on lost revenue can be profound.

And this statement is true for every type of marketing too, online or off line, below or above the line.

So how can you work through this and really optimise your marketing return on investment?

When when working as Marketing Consultants WN6 Creative Design Creative look in depth at the existing tracking infrastructure (if there is any), the way marketing data is collected, collated, analysed and deployed.  Many businesses state they have little in the way of incoming data so have no nothing to track, but it’s simply not true – every telephone call, enquiry, email or conversation is valuable marketing data.  Inn fact all forms of customer communication is data.  When it comes to marketing ALL sales led marketing campaigns should have a response mechanism.  If you have a response mechanism you will receive data, collect and manipulate the data and hey presto you are some way to cracking the equation, of what works and what doesn’t.  Fail to even collect the data and you’ll never know.

Ask the questions, use response hooks on marketing literature, marketing is only communication so communicate with the customer – seek to learn and then understand.  Collect the data, analyse it and deploy it next time.

Great data collection, analysis in the ‘real’ world environment can then be used alongside powerful online analysis tools such as Google Analytics (installed on all WN6 Creative Design websites) to provide a greater understanding.

If you feel your business could benefit from improved Marketing data analysis contact WN6 Creative Design Creative today – its easy to do and so powerful done correctly.

Marketing is everywhere in your business, it’s you, and every member of staff, it can be. simple customer service, traditional marketing, it can be fun, funky, exciting but also very very costly in more ways than one.  No matter the better the understanding the greater the ROI, and at the end of the day we all want great returns and increased profits.

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Starting your own business

Few things compare to being your own boss. But starting your own business is always a big leap, trust me I know. When starting your own business many, many questions spring to mind, such as

  • Will I cover my bills.
  • Can I earn more than my current job.
  • Is it worth investing my redundancy in starting my own business.
  • What happens if it doesn’t work.
  • Have I got the drive to keep it going.
  • Can I cope.
  • Is it just a pipe dream.
  • Is there a market for my products or services.

The truth is most of these questions are very difficult to answer with 100% confidence, but one things for certain. Most people if they know they can get up in the morning for someone else, can almost certainly get up in the morning to do it for themselves!

Working for yourself and being your own boss is one of the hardest and yet most liberating moves you can ever make – I did it and it works for me.

At WN6 Creative Design Creative Business Solutions I have a passion for small businesses, start-ups and self employed people in general.  These small operations provide me with the greatest sense of achievement, knowing I’ve helped someone realise a dream.

With every business, planning is imperative, but ensuring you get a great return on your investment is even more essential.  That’s why every single service offered by WN6 Creative Design Creative Business Solutions is priced with an eye on providing you with the very best return on investment.  I enjoy reciprocal business relationships that’s why business keep coming back to continue the programme of development, whether it be for just their websites or bespoke business consultancy.

If you are interested in starting your own business, then contact your local business link service first, then call WN6 Creative Design Creative Business Solutions – I’m always happy to help.

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