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Golf Course Marketing Has Changed

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Golf course marketing has changed! Private club marketing has changed! Times have changed and now its time that you as the owner, general manager or board member realize that the old way of golf advertising or golf marketing is no longer valid to generate additional golfers and members. It is time to look at what is really working in our technology age and be able to track our results. Any good golf marketing expert will tell you that what gets measured accurately, improves. The problem is that most golf courses or clubs dont know have a Golf Course Marketing. Plan and for sure dont know how to track their ROI. Thats about to change.

Understanding that most daily fee courses or private country clubs are working from a limited budget or in some cases no budget at all, it is imperative to make sure that every dollar is accounted for and you can verify Return on Investment. That way, you can determine what is working and what is not and spend more time on what is working and less on what is not. You will also be able to go to all decision makers and show proven results and feel confident that your golf club marketing is heading in the right direction.

What I am talking about is Internet Marketing for courses and clubs. This is the missing link for most golf marketing programs. What specifically am I talking about? #1) Having a marketing plan. Most clubs dont have one and wing their efforts day to day. Create one that is simple, cost – effective, consistent and measurable. #2) TRAFFIC!! Everything starts with traffic. Generating more online traffic to your website using strategies like SEO, PPC, Blogging, Facebook or educational article and video marketing. #3) Capturing lead information while they are on your site but also taking advantage of the traffic already at your course using offline email capture strategies with your staff . #4) Getting reviews and testimonials from your happy golfers and members and posting them online for the world to see. #5) Asking for referrals from your happy golfers and members.

Understanding what your perfect golfer or member life-cycle looks like will dramatically help change and put you on the road to success, but choosing the right tactics and strategies to get the best measurable ROI is absolutely critical!

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Learning From Rolex’s Example How To Market Luxury Goods

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Authenticity and Essentialism are Innate Desires
The world is filled with duplicity. Knock-off has become a term that means the same, but different in terms of quality and price. By nature humans want to be original since every human is an original creation that can not be duplicated in terms of thoughts, beliefs, and energy.

Consumers want to buy original products that present an image of uniqueness as well as quality and value and theres no better example than Rolex watches when it comes to proving that humans innately want to express their own quality, value, and uniqueness through the goods and services they purchase.

Rolex Watches entered the world of Horology in 1905 when Alfred James Davis and Hans Wilhelm Wilsdorf founded Wilsdorf and Davis Ltd. Wilsdorf created three watches that passed rigorous accuracy tests before the company was formed so it was a natural step to start a watch company with his English partner Davis who was his brother-in-law. The company became a family affair and they registered the name Rolex in Switzerland in 1908 even though that name had no real meaning other than it was easy to spell, easy to say in various languages, and easy to remember in all of them.

In 1915 the company was officially renamed the Rolex Watch Company and it finally became Rolex SA which is the driving force behind today’s successful marketing program.

By 1945 Rolex Had Established Its Manufacturing Prowess
During the 1920s and 1930s Rolex carved a luxury name for itself by receiving several awards for precision and quality from four renowned observatories: Geneva, Kew, Besancon and Neuchatel. A chain of internal events took place before the Second World War and they also had a significant impact on the evolution of luxury Rolex Watches.

The famous Crown or Coronet logo was trademarked in 1925 and the name Rolex began to appear on the dial in 1926. The company also changed the design of its case and began using hermetically sealed cases designed by the Swiss craftsman Francis Baumgartner. These new cases made Rolex Watches almost waterproof.

Wilsdorf also bought the patent for a new moisture-proof winding system in 1926, and that addition produced the Oyster, which was the first watch with a waterproof case. The oyster was worn by an English swimmer who swam the English Channel in 1927, and the impetus from that marketing campaign set the stage for future luxury marketing tactics.

Rolex watches were marketed and advertised as wonder watches. The company made improvements in the Oyster which increased its status. It was the first watch to be called waterproof at 100 feet under water. That feat made it a watch rock star almost overnight.

The pricey Prince was introduced in 1928 and it is still a popular style today for men who want to express their innate uniqueness and material success. New adjustable six position balances were also introduced in 1928 and in 1932 the company introduced the self-winding feature. In 1935 the Super Balance was introduced to improve the design of its Auto Rotor.

In 1935 Rolex acquired the exclusive rights to Aeglers movements and that was a strategic move that allowed the company to focus on the US market. In 1937 Rolex introduced the first chronograph wristwatch. British pilots wore the Rolex Oyster during the war to signify their excellence and success. After the war the company gave every British prisoner of war a new Rolex since they lost their originals to their captors. Those replacement watches didnt have to be paid for until after the war and that move turned out to be an incredible marketing tool.

Rolex Still Sets a High Marketing Bar
Rolex is still launching new watches and unique marketing campaigns that emphasize quality, prestige, and individuality. The company produces over 2,000 watches a day and is ranked in the top 100 global companies by Business Week Magazine. It holds the top spot for among all watch makers in terms of product recognition, perceived quality, and creative design features and functions.

Tradition meets innovation and Rolex uses that philosophy to create a luxury watch marketing campaign that continues to break price barriers. Their marketing campaign is rooted in authenticity and essentialism as well as the rich heritage of quality timepiece manufacturing.

Is Your Phone Part Of Your Marketing Plan

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Attracting new clients in this economy can be a challenge. You need to get creative and adapt the way you promote yourself.

Here are a few simple strategies that you can implement and integrate in your marketing plan today. There is a tool that lots of small business neglect. It is just right there on your desk, but you may not think about it or and you may even be afraid of it.

What is this tool, I am talking about? Your phone. Yes, your phone is a powerful tool that you could use effectively to attract new clients.

In 1998 I started a telemarketing company in France and I was spending 6 to 7 hours on the phone, selling my clients products or setting up appointments for them. I know that calling prospects is not very fun, but I am not speaking of cold calling here. I don’t want you to buy lists of potentials clients and speak to total strangers. I am talking of integrating your phone as part of your follow-up system. You will contact only people that you already met at networking events or online via social media.

Let’s say that you attend networking events on a regular basis, you probably have tons of business cards on your selves or on a shoes box, and are just not doing anything with them. Go back to this pile of business cards, send an email to reintroduce yourself. Use your normal introduction about your services and ask those people what you can do for them or how you can help them. If you get a response, instead of emailing the person back, pick up the phone and call them. You already spoke with the person or met them online. It impresses people that you take the time to actually connect one on one. Make sure you are not trying to sell them anything, that is the tricky part, give them free and valuable information that could help their business. Networking is not about you, it is about them. Networking is not about selling but building a relationship.

If people don’t reply to your first email, don’t be mad, it doesn’t means they are not interested right this minute or they haven’t read your email yet, or maybe it went to spam, or they maybe too busy at the moment. There is no reason to fret. There are a thousand reasons people don’t get back to you right away. Wait for few days or a couple of weeks and send another email or send them some information by mail. You remember the old way to do business – using the post office, well it still works, but only if you actually use it! Combining email and mail doubles your chance to reach people and double your rate of answers. When you pick up the phone after a couple of exchanges, you will see that you will get a lot more chance to attract clients.

After all this online and print information they have received from you they already know about you and your business. They know you care about their problems and can provide them valuable information, so they will either take the time to speak with you on a spot or if you call at a bad time you will get a chance to schedule a phone appointment to speak with them at a later date.

What about calling your previous clients, they already know and like working with you? Do you have a new product or service that you would like to tell them about? Always remember to list the benefits and describe how your new product will help them. Too many small business owners are too busy selling and marketing that they neglect their current clients. It is much easier to have a client become a repeat client than to get a new client. So check your database, who could you call right now?

I don’t have my telemarketing company anymore but on my French consulting business “My French Network” that I started in the US few years ago, I still use the same techniques. I contact each and every person who contacted me for a free consultation. Starting a business in the US for a foreigner can take months or years, time to find the funds or get all the immigration requirements. I give my clients a call within 3 months of the consultation to make sure they are getting somewhere in their process. Then I give them a call at least every 3 months to get updates on their project. If they are still not ready for my help I may call them every 6 months. In the meantime I keep sending my newsletter, stay on top of their mind and check up via email to keep them interested. When I call they are not surprised; they do not reject my call. They are actually glad to see that I still follow their cases and I am still there to help them; I am still building the relationship.

So pick up your phone NOW.

Call your previous clients; reconnect with the people you met since the beginning of the year. Find out how you can help them. Create a follow-up system to keep in touch with them on a regular basis. Don’t just call once and forget about it. Use software like Act or OutLook Express to set reminders of when to call. Schedule a few hours a week to call your contacts and clients. Try it for the next 30 days, track your results, and then check how many new clients come rolling in. You will be surprised by the results. Integrate the process into your daily marketing plan.

Your own phone can change your business, it is as simple as that.

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Buying Twitter followers for business profile

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Marketers have the clearest idea about how a number of people are important for their business. The more exposure a business gets, the more customer database will increase. In order to get a business more exposure, the social media websites can be of a great health, especially Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site with millions of people active on it. It stands on the top of the social media networking and people stay connected with tweets and by following each other. For a business marketer, Twitter can be proven to be very beneficial; more followers will mean more customers. If a business profile on Twitter has low number of followers, then it can be a very challenging task to gather more followers, it is highly recommended that one Buy Twitter Followers

Twitter is a very popular brand; many internet users consider Twitter to be their main site for social networking. Twitter is also a home to different renowned personalities of the world which includes the presidents of different countries, politicians, singers, actors, actresses, designers and other celebrities. Many of these have authentic and realistic profiles, there is a hardly a chance one can come across a fake profile on twitter. If one has business regarding T-shirts, what they can do is follow a famous celebrity and tweet their product along with the tagging of the celebrity. For example, one can sell a T shirt which may have Lady Gaga’s Art Pop album printed in the front, one can tweet -Get exclusive @LadyGaGa #ArtPop T shirts only #TheTeeShirtCompany’. The fan following of Lady Gaga will see this post and will eventually follow the business profile, and who knows, they may even place an order. When tweeting, don’t forget to add tags by typing -@’ and hashtags by using -#’.

In order to sell your products and service quickly, one can Buy Twitter Followers cheap for their products. There are many people who are offering this service, while the Twitter itself can advertise the profile on the website giving it an exposure to millions of Twitter users. This is the quickest method rather than following people and then tweeting with their name. Twitter gives exposure to a business in a very short time. A business profile should be made public; tweets should be posted on a regular basis. One should make sure that the tweets should be interesting so that the followers will remain engaged. If the tweets are interesting, the purchased followers will then re-tweet (share) the post on their profile which will result in more followers and more exposure to the business profile, leading to a larger consumer database.

There are many people on the internet who will offer the option to buy Twitter followers cheap. Since the rates offered will be cheap many people may get attracted to it and will take the offer. Even if the rates are cheap, one should not forget about the quality of fans, since there are many people who offer fake Twitter followers from fake profiles and those who may un-follow after a while. In these services one may find real Twitter followers and fake followers, it is highly recommended one takes service from that person who had been helping others and has a very positive feedback. The fake Twitter followers are those which have been generated by bot and they are made visible for temporary basis or they have no use for a business profile at all since they are not active. Twitter is now compatible with mobile since it also has its own applications which run on different Smartphones. The Twitter fans will stay connected whether they are on their computer, laptop or on mobile.

steps for an effective sms marketing campaign

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SMS marketing is a great way to promote your business but it is not always successful. We share some easy steps with you to ensure that your sms marketing campaign gives the desired results. Not many of us know that there is an organization named Institute of Practitioners in Advertising which gives some guidelines for sms marketing or mobile advertising to marketers. The guidelines are simple and if followed, can give fantastic results to your campaign. Some of the guidelines are captured here along with other important Mobile Marketing tips.

While setting up your campaign, take care to offer ‘unsubscribe’ feature to the target group just incase they are not interested in reading any more sms from your company. This gives the impression that you are not a spammer determined to flood people with boorish messages. The second most important step is to send sms only to ‘Opted-in’ target group. It is important to run a prior exercise to collect numbers of those who are interested in your product. It can be through your website, a seminar or maybe an e-mail campaign. If you send messages randomly, the chance of success is much less here. The good news is that in the US, SMS adoption is on the increase and it is projected that mobile marketing initiatives will be second only to social media advertisement campaigns in the coming years. It is not surprising to see the phenomenal growth that mobile marketing products are creating across the country. Marketers are expected to spend around US$561 million for mobile marketing campaigns.

Campaigns can go wrong if proper data guidelines and security procedures are not in place. Ensure that the marketing message that you send cannot be altered and misused. The response that you receive should contain customer information and privacy needs to be maintained. Consult with an attorney expert in marketing and advertising practice who can guide you with the rules before the campaign starts.

A marketer or a business promoter should know the boundaries and
limitations of mobile technology adoption. In the US, the adoption of latest mobile technology is high, so marketers can target an sms marketing campaign that is rich in content and pictures. This is just an example and analysis needs to be done with respect to your target group. Mobile marketing is a unique medium in the sense that mobile users can access the message instantly and reply in an instant. Therefore the content you send out should be easily consumable by the users. Another important tip to keep in mind is the budget. Small and medium sized companies have limited budgets for advertisement and marketing and it needs to be spread across mobile marketing, digital advertisement and finally the local radio station. The prospect data that you collect should be indexed in the right way in a CRM system. Only then you can get the real benefits of a mobile marketing campaign.

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