If you are a business owner, you know that today’s business landscape is tough. To thrive, you need to stand out from your competitors, keep an ongoing relationship with your clients, and exceed their expectations.
Sure the quality of your product or service is essential, but it might not be enough! You need more! Effective marketing plays a pivotal role in understanding your clients and exceeding their expectations. Let’s find out how.
1. Marketing helps you understand your clients
If you want to exceed your clients’ expectations you need to understand them well first. So conduct thorough market research to identify your clients’ pain points, preferences, and aspirations. Once you have gathered this information, use it to tailor your marketing strategy. Remember, a solid marketing strategy will be important for your success in business, so if you don’t have the right in-house skills, engage an external marketing professional to help you.
2. Marketing helps you communicate with your clients effectively
If you have a thorough understanding of your clients, you can communicate your unique value proposition clearly and compellingly with them. Marketing helps you craft your messages, use the appropriate tone, create relevant key messages that address clients’ pain points, and showcase how your service can solve their problems.
3. Marketing helps you build clients relationships and connections
If you want to stay top of mind with your clients and exceed their expectations you need to keep the dialogue alive and consistent. So understand how, where and how often your customers prefer to communicate and get the conversation going.
Social Media? The good old Email? Even a phone call?
Social Media. Use Social media to engage with existing customers publicly, reach new ones and increase brand awareness. Post consistently quality content that engages them and keeps you front of mind. Remember to invest only in one of two social media platforms to optimise your ROI’s.
Emails. Use email if you have a large amount of information to share, or if your audience doesn’t engage on social channels. It’s a direct and highly customisable way to communicate and works great when you want to inform your customers about specific things privately.
Phone call. Calling your customers requires resources, but the value and connection that you’ll create is well worth it. Having a conversation allows you to explore a variety of topics in one go, ask questions and learn more about what your customer’s needs and wants are. This will result in you delivering more tailored services to your customers and exceeding their expectations.
4. Marketing builds credibility and shows how you exceed clients expectations
With the increasing cost of services, demonstrating your value is harder. Consumers are more hesitant when investing resources because they want to be sure of a return. Marketing helps demonstrate to your future clients how you can add value to their lives with your service, giving you a boost in credibility and referrals. So, populate your website with case studies, reviews, and content that highlights how you have helped others and exceeded their expectations with your service.
When prospective clients see evidence of your expertise and the positive experiences of other clients, they will be inclined to choose your business over a competitor.
At We Are Savvy, we love seeing businesses reach their goals. We have been creating effective marketing for over twenty years. If you want to know more about how marketing helps you exceed clients expectations and require professional support, get in touch via hello@wearesavvy.com.au.