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How to Tune Up Your Marketing Efforts for Better Results and More Profits

By Sydni Craig-Hart

in gearOne of the most important elements of profitable marketing is often the most difficult for solo service professionals to maintain. That is sharing your solutions consistently. To keep your pipeline filled with ideal clients who happily and readily pay for your solutions, you MUST market your business regularly (meaning EVERY week…YES, that often).

I find though, that many service professionals feel that they don’t have time to do so. It can be easy to become so consumed in serving the clients you do have and running your business that your marketing efforts may unintentionally be pushed aside.

If you’ve ever found yourself having “fallen off the wagon” when it comes to your marketing efforts, you’ll be happy to know that a quick and easy tune-up can get you right back on track.

To tune up your marketing systems, you’ll first want to do a quick assessment of your business and ask yourself the following questions:

1. What’s working great in my business? – Review the activity in your business over the past 6-12 months. Taking stock of what is going well and what you have achieved will boost your confidence and inspire you to put forth the necessary effort to make any needed changes.

2. What marketing strategies have been most effective for connecting me with ideal clients? – Have you gained a number of hot leads from your breakfast networking group? Is your email newsletter generating consistent inquiries about your solutions? Are your blog posts consistently driving traffic to your website? As you determine what has worked particularly well, take steps to increase your efforts in that area.

3. What needs to be improved? – As you come across aspects of your marketing that aren’t running as smoothly as you’d like, or aren’t generating leads and income, make a list of these and the reasons why. Can these strategies be tweaked or improved in some way? Or is it time to let them go in favor of what’s actually working?

4. What’s keeping me from marketing my business on a consistent basis? – Be honest here! Is it that you don’t manage your priorities as well as you could? Do you not have the know how to pursue a particular strategy? Do you have trouble staying accountable to your commitments? Whatever the reason, don’t beat yourself up over it. Acknowledge it! Own it! And make the decision to do things differently from today forward.

5. What limiting beliefs do I have regarding marketing my business? – Do you tell yourself, “marketing is too hard?” Or “I don’t have the money to market my services?” Maybe the excuse is, I’m too busy for marketing.” Each of us has limiting beliefs that requires effort to breakthrough. Whatever your particular issue happens to be, I can guarantee you two things:

A. You can choose to ignore it and take action in spite of how you may feel. (Successful people take imperfect action and focus on results.)

B. The success you’re looking to achieve is right on the other side of that limiting belief.

Remind yourself of these two affirmations the next time a limiting belief steps into your path. Acknowledge the thought, but keep taking action! Remember, we’re shooting for consistent effort. Even “small” steps will keep you moving forward towards your goals.

Once you’ve taken the time to assess your marketing strategy, I would love to hear what you find. Please take a moment to share your thoughts in the comments below!

YOUR “TAKE ACTION” PLAN FOR THIS WEEK:

  1. Set aside 30 minutes to complete the aforementioned assessment.
  2. Answer each question honestly.
  3. Share the results of your assessment with a trusted and supportive family member, friend or colleague.
  4. Start brainstorming about the changes you want to make with your marketing efforts and what results you’d like to achieve.

Filed Under: Attract Perfect Clients, Marketing Strategy Tagged With: Connect with Ideal Clients, Consistent Marketing, marketing a service business, marketing solutions, Smart Simple Marketing, Sydni Craig-Hart



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Sydni Craig-Hart

Is your organization looking to gain market share and deepen loyalty with small businesses, women or minorities? Sydni Craig-Hart is CEO of Smart Simple Marketing and a 4th generation entrepreneur. Since 2006, her team, having worked with over 8,000 small business in 79 different industries, has been helping companies to drive engagement with sought-after, growing market segments. If you want to increase the value of existing-customer spend, recapture marketing investments, grow customer lifetime value or decrease attrition, contact Sydni to discover how her team is doing this for companies like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and more.

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Comments

  1. Renea says

    March 27, 2012 at 7:55 PM

    I made sales because my site offered something useful to my visitors. Having a banner farm full of advertisements isn’t the way to go when it comes to affiliate marketing. You’ll make money when your visitors have a reason to stay on your site and check out what you have to offer them. Content will bring clicks, sales, and money in your pocket.

  2. Bryce says

    March 28, 2012 at 6:46 AM

    I’m definitely happy I found it and I’ll be book-marking and checking back frequently! Very good post, i actually love this web site:)

    • Sydni Craig-Hart says

      April 13, 2012 at 6:34 PM

      Thanks very much Bryce!

  3. Ava says

    April 1, 2012 at 7:41 PM

    Excellent overview – Tracking and monitoring your marketing efforts and advertisements will help you in allocating your marketing budget in marketing campaigns that you know will work.

    • Sydni Craig-Hart says

      April 13, 2012 at 6:33 PM

      Thanks Ava! I am so love with topic and wish I could scream about it from the roof tops. Too many times entrepreneurs find themselves jumping from one idea to the next. When all we really to do is stay focused on a few key strategies and track them so the necessary adjustments can be made. I’m so glad you’re feelin’ me on this one! 🙂

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