We have beer! (Marketing Tip)

beer  I saw this sign outside the Jacksonville, North Carolina regional airport.  For those of you who don’t know, Jacksonville is home to Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corp base.  Many of the passengers are coming from or going to the base.

Think a Marine on R&R might like a brewskie or two?  Probably so.  Thus the sign Yes We have Beer.

Like it or not, we’re all in the marketing business.  Yes, you are a design professional, and went to school for years to be a licensed architect or a registered engineer.  But, you also need to keep the clients coming in, and cash flow flowing.  So today’s marketing tip:  remember your audience!

It’s a simple thing, but something that many folks forget.  Write the proposal or your brochure copy with the client in mind, not to impress the client with your erudite vocabulary  (Yes, I’m using the word erudite — I saw the movie Divergent this weekend, so it can’t be helped!)

Your turn.  What marketing tips have you learned along the way?  What have you learned *not* to do?  Share in the comments section, below.
And, if you haven’t already signed up for the white paper and newsletter, go do that now, while you are thinking about it.  The form is on the top right of the homepage.

 

Creative Commons License
Photo: “We Have Beer” by Melissa Brumback

 

5 thoughts on “We have beer! (Marketing Tip)

  1. Michael Juba says:

    I’ve learned that you need to figure out your target market and customer personas, then you can target them with resources and answers to their questions with cool content and visuals. Once you become a trusted brand in that niche it helps to make inbound marketing a lot easier.

  2. publisher100Mark Buckshon says:

    point well taken, and I’ll make mention of this in an upcoming blog posting. Obviously the highest value marketing arises from repeat and referral/word-of-mouth business, but I’ve been asking “what else works” and the results are interesting. See this posting:

  3. Phil Kabza says:

    Marketing far from home is expensive and time consuming (ie., expensive). Talk to your existing clients and contacts first – they may have been thinking about calling you, or they may not have known that you could tackle a project they already have in mind.

Got a comment? Please share!!!

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.