Use your customers as your marketers

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Allow your customers to help you drive your marketing strategy, they are an authentic representation of how your product/service is perceived in the market. Here are three ways to work customers into your marketing efforts:

Reward your customers

Inviting customers to tell you what they think of your product directly on your website, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter or other platforms, is a meaningful way of showing you care.

Use the feedback you get from them as content on your website / social media platforms, this shows that you value their opinion and they feel like they are part of the brand.

Let customers share inventive ways they’re using your product and allow your customers to create and share stories about your brand.

There is nothing more authentic than learning about how real people use a product and how it has changed their lives. You will learn a lot about your market from the way people define your brand. For example, if you are a fashion business, consider inviting customers who have purchased one of your items to share/post photos of them wearing the item.

Enable customers to create your marketing material

Responding and engaging directly with your customers on social media and other platforms establishes an emotional attachment to your brand. Often the comments or photos they produce can be your best marketing material. They will speak on behalf of your brand on their networks and this will increase your brand awareness.

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  • What business problems do your customers face? What are their opportunities? What are they trying to accomplish? What is the environment in which they operate? These key questions should underpin the way in which you market and sell to them. Your primary motivation should be to identify and address the needs of the buyer. Or in the words of renowned entrepreneur and marketer Seth Godin “don’t find customers for your products find products for your customers”.
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  • Good morning South Africa Yes customers word of mouth is an amazing tool for growing your business
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  • But lets take a step back and understand that customer centred is what will get those customers to become our best marketers... reserach says that a word-of-mouth referral is at least twice as powerful as paid for advertising
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  • So for all you budding small business owners... remember that their is no substitute for the hard work of thinking for your client and like your client and putting yourself in THEIR shoes so that you have a proper understanding of what they want... its a daily devotion
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  • Recently i went to a new restaurant that had quite a bit of hype.... and as it happened i ran into a friend who i had met at the gym and he was sitting with some other influential guys and he came over with the owner of the restaurant and we all connected and had a ball. So i had a great evening and the restaurant got my nod... as well as the fact that the meal i had was great. Not more than a few weeks later im in a meeting and the same restaurant comes up... and the person says his colleague went and it was a disaster... so he wasnt trying it out... i relayed that i loved it and maybe i was the catalyst for marketing the place when his colleague was turning him off. It just goes to show that every customer you have has the ability to market you or close you down
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  • I think this article about Letting your customers be your Marketers is a very sober reminder to us all thatlovingeach and every customers engagement is the only mantra for starting your working day... WE LOVE YOU CUSTOMERS
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  • There are always going to be some degree of clashes like price and costs but if the client feels loved then these issues will be easier to resolve.
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  • And on the issue of pricing and costs etc it was illuminating to hear Alon Raiz speaking of the mental shift we need to make when thinking of pricing. He said that selling time is not a scaleable concept so instead of thinking about services in terms of hours and time rather shift your thinking to the idea os VALUE. What value do you add and how much is that worth. It reminds me of a surgeaon friend in Paris France who charges 10 x the medical aid rates. He is over loaded with patients... and it because he does doubt the VALUE he adds not just the hours
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  • sorry Doesn't doubt....
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  • Businesses spend millions of Randsto bring people into their stores. Wouldn’t it be nice if those businesses could incentivize their customers to bring people in for them? That’s what we’re be exploring here today. Here'san example: On a Saturday afternoon I received a phone call from my gym. They called to tell me of their latest promotion which was this: If I bring a nonmember to the gym at anytime during the weekend we both will receive a free t-shirt and a complimentary lunch. So instead of launching a multi-million dollar ad campaign to bring in people my gym implemented a growth hack. They turned customers into marketers by incentivizing them to bring in a friend. Then the friend possibly could become a member.
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  • Refer a Friend One of the most common ways businesses spread their product and increase their viral coefficient (how many customers your current customers bring in) is through the use of referrals.
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