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Marketing Network Support Services Successfully
A manager of a large, but struggling, network support provider confided in me, “we all sell the same thing… there’s no difference between what one network support company offers compared to another.”
Here’s the problem with his vision… when you see yourself as providing essentially the same computer support products your competitors sell, you immediately become a “victim” to brutal price competition. You are reduced to a commodity where the company with the lowest price wins.
Winning the lowest price war is the least profitable way to build a business. And it is the most risky. Lowest price attracts the most disloyal group of buyers. I call them “the cheapskates”. And second, it is too easy for competitors to cut your legs out from under you by beating your price.
If you can’t see and articulate a clear competitive advantage, your potential client won’t see a reason to choose you over someone else. There is a solution. But cutting your price isn’t the way to go.
There are more profitable ways to win more than your share of business without dropping your price. How? You could become a celebrity within your industry. You could become the high-price leader who only deals with a certain caliber of clients.
You can also differentiate by the way you market your business.
In every industry there are marketing strategies that are accepted as “the right way” to build a business. Unfortunately when you do what everyone else is doing, you sound and look like everyone else. You become a commodity.
One solution to this problem is to borrow strategies from other industries. Using marketing techniques uncommon to the computer support industry instantly makes you distinct. You sound unique because no one else sounds like you. And if anyone tries to copy you, they instantly sound like a copy cat. A “me too” loser.
Besides differentiating yourself by selecting from over 100 different marketing strategies you can:
- position yourself as first in some category or accomplishment or activity
- be contrarian in your marketing approach or service
- set yourself apart by being exclusive in the type of client you will accept or the types of services you deliver
Here are nine strategies that will help you differentiate your business while you attract new clients, sell more to existing clients and control client attrition:
1) Improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the marketing you’re already doing
2) Define and clearly articulate a dominant competitive advantage
3) Cross sell, upsell, back end sell, look for reactivation opportunities
4) Develop complimentary alliances with other businesses
5) Exploit advertising media opportunities
6) Develop community relations and publicity opportunities
7) Profit from direct response marketing and advertising
Gain new business and sell more to existing clients through smart use of the internet
9) Find new uses for your products and services you may have overlooked until now
The reason these nine strategies will instantly differentiate you is because this process takes a non-traditional approach to marketing. Traditional marketing involves paying more and more money in ads or worse, cold calling people who don’t want to hear from you.
This non-traditional marketing approach focuses on what you’re already doing (or should be doing) and making it more responsive and more predictable without sounding like everyone else.
This is critical because in today’s global marketplace differentiating yourself in the mind of clients and potential clients is the key to a company’s survival. Failure to differentiate is the number one reason I believe companies struggle unnecessarily.
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Andre Bell
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Child Game Indoor: Enjoyment With Safety
Indoor child games have always been a favorite at children’s parties. It is also an excellent face-saver in case of bad weather days. Notwithstanding the fact that Indoor games are a major source of attraction for children, it is something that they look forward to, with much anticipation. These games are real fun and very entertaining. If the fun and excitement of indoor games can be coupled with safety, there would be nothing more to wish for. Today, there are several companies that offer many interesting and educative indoor games for children of all ages. These companies provide many innovative ideas for kids’ parties by providing enjoyable and safe indoor games.
Magic Jump Inflatables Inc. is your foremost source of interactive inflatable and indoor entertainment. We are the industry’s pioneer inflatable manufacturer and supplier of a wide range of indoor inflatable play structures such as inflatable tents in various custom shapes, inflatable bounce houses, inflatable obstacle courses, and inflatable slides, combo units, wholesale inflatable jumper, Moon Jumper and many more. Besides, we also carry inflatable advertising balloons and giant advertising inflatable balloons in different shapes and sizes for marketing and other promotional activities.
Our bounce houses are amongst the first inflatable play structures in the industry that are bound to deliver fun and excitement to kids. Wholesale inflatable jumpers, also known as inflatable bounce houses or moonwalks come in different themes, such as prince and princess castles, pirate houses, clown houses, doll houses, animal houses and many more. We have wholesale inflatable jumper for boys (prince castle, boxing ring or pirate castle and many more.) and girls (princess castle, doll house or pink cake and much more.). Whether you like hot air balloons, dinosaurs, and giant robots or racing cars, we have them all. Our whole inflatable jumper collection is superior in quality, extremely durable and combines complete entertainment with utmost safety.
MagicJump.com offers a complete catalog of big inflatable slides that provide thrill without compromising on security. Our family entertainment center is a popular way for parents to amuse their children with fun activities, while providing them a safe environment. Our combo units provide the adventure of having different activities in one slide. We’ve also got inflatable tents, inflatable slides and inflatable pools and many more. Magic Jump is your sole point of contact for the best inflatable indoor games that combine fun with safety.
Sam Bagumyan
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Which Affiliate Marketing Network Program to Look Out for When Promoting?
There are many horror stories about affiliate marketing network programs. People have heard them over and over again, that some are even wary of joining one. The stories they may have heard are those related to illegal programs or pyramid schemes. Basically, this kind of market does not have real, worthy product.
You do not want to be associated with these schemes. It is obvious you want to be with an affiliate marketing network program that offers high quality product that you will readily endorse. The growing number of those who have joined already and are succeeding immensely is proof enough that there are reliable and quality affiliate marketing network programs out there.
Why participate in an affiliate marketing network program?
It allows you to work part-time. It gives you the opportunity to build a generous residual income. And it makes you an owner of a small business. Affiliate marketing network programs have already created lots of millionaires. They are the living testimony of how hard work; continuous prospecting, motivating and training others pay off.
If ever you are deciding to join one, you must take note that you are getting into something that is patterned to what you are capable of. This will be an assurance that you are capable of doing anything to come out successful.
How do you choose a good affiliate marketing network program to promote? Here are some tips you may want to look over before choosing one:
1. An affiliate marketing network program that you like and have interest in. One of the best ways of knowing if that is the kind of program you wish to promote is if you are interested in purchasing the product yourself. If that is the case, chances are, there are many others who are also interested in the same program and products.
2. Look for an affiliate marketing network program that is of high quality. For instance, look for one that is associated with many experts in that particular industry. This way, you are assured that of the standard of the program you will be joining into.
3. Join in the ones that offer real and viable products. How do you know this? Do some initial research. If possible, track down some of the members and customers to give you testimonial on the credibility of the program.
4. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Make inquiries. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.
5. An affiliate marketing network program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.
6. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate marketing network program imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.
7. Select one that has plenty of tools and resources that can help you grow the business in the shortest possible time. Not all affiliate marketing network programs have these capacities. Make use you decide on one with lots of helpful tools you can use.
8. Check out if the program has a proven system that can allow you to check your networks and compensation. Also check if they have it available online for you to check anytime and anywhere.
9. The program that is offering strong incentives for members to renew their membership each time. The affiliate marketing network program that provides continuous help and upgrades for its products have the tendency to retain its members. These things can assure the growth of your networks.
10. Be aware of the things that members are not happy about in a program. Like with the ones mentioned above, you can do your checking at discussion forums. If you know someone in that same program, there is ho harm asking if there are many downsides involved.
Have a thorough and intensive knowledge about the affiliate marketing network program you will be promoting on.
Knowing the kind of affiliate marketing network program you are getting yourself into will make you anticipate and prevent any future problems you may encounter.
Alexander Gorbachev
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