Why you should pay your marketing manager to alienate prospects ...

Nick Pauley- MD of Pauley Creative

It is very likely? that your marketing is appealing to audiences that have zero intention of buying, specifying or influencing any decision about your products and services.

In general we market with a broader brush than necessary, hoping that within the sweep are prospects that will buy from you in one way or another.

We market in this way out of fear. Fear of leaving money on the table. Fear of putting potential paying customers off. Especially the ones that are big, that cost you money and take up all your time.

If your company relies on reaching more customers who have a) never heard of your company and b) never used your products or services before, you need your marketing manager and the strategy they implement to start alienating prospects.

Let me give you three very good reasons why:

1. Concentrating on key audiences at the expense of others saves wasted time, energy and money. In due course, if implemented correctly it?ll tell you where to better spend your time, energy and money too.

2. Concentrating on key audiences forces your business to focus on what?s important to the prospect, for the good of the business- not necessarily individuals within the business.

3. Concentrating on key audiences will encourage your business to position itself, its products and services to profitable markets and subsequently the key people (prospects) within those markets.

Let?s work backwards. Concentrating on key audiences will encourage your business to position itself, its services for product manufacturers and its products to profitable markets and target audience(s) within those markets.

Businesses that position their products and services in this way differentiate, not for differentiations? sake, but for the good of the customer. They gain credibility and confidence by proving leadership and out-teaching the competition by sharing technical expertise, processes and putting case studies into a context that show you how you add value. Firms that are positioned well, those who have identified their preferred market, tend not to compete on price- even in the construction industry.

Concentrating on key audiences also forces your firm to focus on what?s important to the business, whether that be customer service, specification selling, invitations to tender, profitability or awards.

By positioning products in tight niches you will be sacrificing prospects. You?ll be turning them away at the door. Positioning makes you work hard for your audience. Makes you focus on ?why? you are great at what you do and whom you do it best for. It makes you smarter and more efficient and helps your audience to be better informed as a consequence.

Identifying your key audiences will come from clear digital marketing strategy. It?s those decisions, if they are adhered to, that saves time, energy and money. It?s the performance and subsequent measuring of the elements within that strategy that tells you where you better spend your time, energy and money.

Your marketing strategy needs only one thing, a business goal. It?s what will make your marketing managers? marketing strategy credible. Marketing objectives aligned to business goals can be measured typically against benchmarks taken from the research at the beginning of the process. Business goals also empower great marketing managers to perform. When the performance of the strategy is reported, refined and honed your business succeeds as a consequence. Without that business goal to align to, your marketing manager?s role and any strategy they implement will be meaningless.

Developing sound marketing objectives around key audiences is what you should be paying your marketing manager to do, so let them do it.

Source: http://www.cimcig-blog.org/2012/12/why-you-should-pay-your-marketing-manager-to-alienate-prospects/

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