Your first Marketing Campaign

At Growth Associates we don’t have a fixed plan or price for any particular service we offer. Wonder why? This is because we believe that each and every company need a unique marketing strategy. Most people think that it’s enough to copy a strategy that is done by a similar company. This is not true. What worked for someone else won’t necessarily work for you.

Throwing Pizza on the wall

What worked for someone else won’t necessarily work for you even if you are in the same space. One of the ad agency that we knew copied the marketing strategy of their competitors. The results were negative and they were losing lots of money. So if you’re wondering where to start a marketing campaign, it’s like throwing Pizza on the wall. You take a lot of marketing channels and throw them on the wall and whatever sticks is what you follow on. You can try paid ads, SEO, Facebook ads, Social Media Marketing etc. and from there see what shows positive results. Pick the ones that show best results with the least amount of work and double down on that. Create a process on this so that other people can work on it and keep growing it. For example, if its SEO, create a process on how to keep developing and add multiple channels to it. Then check for the next best result and create a process for it as well and keep doing this until all the channels are doing extremely well. And for the ones that didn’t show any results initially pick them and do something creative with it, test it and make drastic changes to it. Check if you can get those channels to work and once you start getting results, create a process, automate it as much as possible and continue from there.

One-on-One Contact

How do you go about on acquiring the first hundred or thousand customers? The answer is always one-on-one contact. It’s going out there knocking on doors, talking to customers, emailing to people directly, it’s like ‘laser targeted’ type of marketing. This is good for product development as well as marketing. Most companies, especially startups, the first 100 customers are all acquired manually. The reason for these companies to do this in marketing is because your first hundred customers will determine the first thousand customers and these thousand customers will determine the first ten thousand customers. So if you have the wrong hundred, it screws up everything.

Cash flow

You also need to analyse the current situation. As a company what is your cash flow?

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