Why Bother With Marketing?

Why Should You Set Goals for Your Marketing?

Customers are human.  They prefer to see returns on investments sooner rather than later.  That’s just the world we live in these days.  Business moves quickly.  Technology advances rapidly.  If you aren’t getting ahead, then you're falling behind.

Balancing short-term and long-term goals for your marketing is critically important.

Firstly, you need to have goals and plans for your success. 

It's important to know exactly what “success” will look like. 

Have a set of specific, scheduled actions designed to help you

reach success and significance.

Remember that any plan of the future starts from where you are now.  Envision where you want to see yourself in 3-5 years from now.  Be ambitious – but not ridiculous.  Set goals that will stretch you and inspire you, not goals that will require a miracle and angels

to do the work for you.

Develop and evolve your plan continuously – don’t settle. 

Don’t be complacent. Review and adjust your marketing plans accordingly.  Study the results you are getting

and make adaptations where necessary.

Don’t take shortcuts. Taking shortcuts is always a bad idea. 

It may work in the short-term but it will cost you in the future.

Now let’s get down to business...

 

How To Create Your Marketing Goals:

  • Plan your work. Create a marketing strategy.

  • Reach out to your target audience. Social media is gift from the gods in this regard.

  • Act – Approach leads and targets in various ways - not just one

  • Convert leads into sales. Convert sales into loyalty.

  • Engage – Stay in touch and build trust.

Here Are Some Remarkable

Examples Of Marketing Goals:

  • To create the most remarkable customer service in your industry and make sure your customers stay with you for life.

  • To create visibility and connections that will lead to sales

  • To increase customer satisfaction and brand exposure

  • To increase sales and create a compelling customer experience (this should be top priority)

Goals help people to move forward.  It gives you clarity and also a sense of achievement.  This builds confidence and encourages personal growth.  Set milestones for each goal that you have, personally and in business, move from day to day tactics to strategic growth and celebrate when you achieve something worthwhile.

5 Steps To Setting Your Marketing Goals:

  • Write down each goal and set timelines for each goal.

  • List the potential obstacles – and plan how to overcome these potential roadblocks. Be like an ant.  Climb over, go around, or dig under an obstacle.  There’s always a way to get it done.  Find it and do it.

  • Understand and communicate the benefits for your customers.

  • Identify the resources you need and apply a process so you get consistent results for your clients. Create checklists to measure progress and be clear on what process you need to follow to achieve your goals, and how often you should measure results to determine whether you’re moving forward or backwards.

  • Measure results – if you achieve your goals, what is the reward? At what point do you think “This goal is just not going to happen , maybe I should walk away”?

 

Don’t stretch yourself too thin.  Don’t set your goals too low. 

Find the right balance that will be fulfilling, challenging, and profitable.

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