Be the 1 in 100 – Week 1

In this article, I am going to write about how marketing is changing with time and place and what the future of marketing looks like. But, before that, we need to learn about some laws of marketing that remain the same.
Is marketing only advertising?
Is marketing is only sales?
Is marketing only copywriting? Or ….
Marketing is the combination of all activities that take place to achieve the ultimate motive of any business entity is to generate revenue. Read more about marketing
List of the activity that marketing include are:-
o Branding and Sales Appeal. …
o Variety in Sizes and Shapes. Based on your intended consumers
o Prevent Squeezing or Damage to Produce. …
o Shelf Life. …
o Biodegradability.
Branding is the process of giving meaning to a specific organization, company, product or service by creating and shaping a brand in consumers’ minds. It is a strategy designed by organizations to help people quickly identify and experience their brand, and give them a reason to choose their products over the competition’s, by clarifying what this particular brand is and is not. (Source https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/) Read more about Branding
We also understand that some basics of life/learning that never changes same applies to marketing also. Whatever you do and you aim to achieve this 4P of marketing is always going to apply:-
Some things are an integral part of marketing irrespective of the medium used for marketing or product. These are:-
Now, we have understood some basics of marketing, let’s talk about how the Future of the Market looks:-
We can see changes around us and changes in consumer buying behaviour. Due to the availability of digital resources and automation of processes things move and change very fast. For example, now you no need to go out in the market for buying or selling for most of the things you need, you can do that with a click sitting in your own space and comfort.
When we talk about digitisation we are not only taking just digital marketing, however, we talk about the entire marketing process of digitisation for research to promotion of products.
In simple words, we can say the main difference is the medium used for communication to the audience. In traditional marketing, we used TV, Radio, Newspaper, Billboard as mediums of communication. In Digital Marketing we use digital media like Website, App, Social media, Search marketing, Email, SMS as the communication medium. Some other differences are:-
Normally people don’t know how ads are doing or you can’t measure your marketing performance just know your brand awareness. Then it’s become very difficult to know how well your marketing is doing or what medium is working for you. By using direct response marketing you can measure your efforts.
Direct response is the type of marketing designed to elicit an instant response by encouraging prospects to take a specific action. Techniques used in this lead customers for Call -To -Action (CTA) like making phone calls/email/messages/sign-up or purchase.
The best thing is that it can be used with any kind of product/service with a limited budget.
Some of the tools that can be used in Direct response marketing:-
Content (C) – > Attention (A) – > Trust (T) – > Transaction (T)
In simple business formula is Wealth = n^CATT,
Here n= niche (It’s your product/service focused target audience)
Content:-In today’s digital space your content drive your sales. Content is key for starting any digital/social media campaign or starting direct communication with your niche. With content marketing, you talk to your customer instead of telling them about your product/service. (Example of Content)
“Great content is the best sales tool in the world.” ~Marcus Sheridan
Attention: With your great content you get attention from your niche and that brings traffic for your product/service. Content is the main driver of attention (traffic), so you can imagine if your content is weak then how much traffic you will drive.
Trust: Once you got attention then you need to build trust with offer/commitment/review to convert your potential customer into an actual customer. Once you have done that your sale comes naturally.
Transaction: Finally you achieve your ultimate goal which is getting the transaction done.
If you follow the process and keep enchanting your content with having the trust of the current customer base your sales will multiply themselves.
“A great product/service convert the customer into your brand ambassador and then word of mouth marketing is the best channel marketing ever” so, retaining your customer will bring new customer naturally.
We need to note here that one of the most important aspects of the CATT funnel is niche. Without choosing the right niche you will be wasting your time and energy.
The niche is selected by best of the Talent in Market that derived by Passion.
We need to know that one of the most important things is to integrate all digital activity. The success of any campaign will not drive by one channel/medium, we should have the same aligned communication on the channel.
Content Marketing + Paid Advert + SEO + Social Media + Sell & Convert + Email Marketing +All other marketing activity
It’s also very important that all channels have the same brand/ message /concept image/text /font /colour scheme etc. That don’t allow the customer to divert from your product/service to another or it’s always reminded to the customer by a different source.
One of the important factors in today’s marketing is personal branding. “People want to hear from people not from the brand”.
A personal brand becomes an influencer and brand ambassador for the companies that they run. Read More
Conclusion
We have seen that the basic law of marketing always remains the same as the Law of Science. However, the combination changes to achieve a high result.
Future of Marketing is not only ATL, BTL or Digital Marketing. It’s the combination of all and would be evolving forever.
Last and most important is that people and products always remain the core of any business entity.
I will write more on some topic in my next article till then
Keep reading, Keep Learning, Keep Growing!!!
All the Best !!!