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Welcome to . . .
Guerrilla Marketing
Tactics
presented by
Al LautenslagerCertified Guerrilla Marketing Coach
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Do you have all the customers you want?
Do you have a blank check book to spend on marketing?
Does everyone that could buy from you, know about you?
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The primary investments of a Guerrilla
Marketer should be Time, Energy and Imagination.
Since Guerrilla’s do not have big bucks to invest, the marketing arsenal must work harder and smarter!
Theory of Guerrilla Marketing
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Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days Definition
• Marketing is everything you do or say that a customer or prospect sees or hears.
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Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days provides:
• Proven Guerrilla Marketing ideas
• Step by step
• Day by day blueprint
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The Question to Focus On:
• “How am I building awareness with my prospects and clients through all of our marketing?”
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What is your Marketing Habit?
• 3-5 things a day
• Put Marketing on your to-do list
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Specific Customer Activity• Send for information / Free Report
• Call your toll free 800 number
• Visit your website
• Enter a contest
• Visit your place of business
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The Ultimate Targeting Exercise
• If you could magically
define the “ideal client,”
what would they look like?
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Biggest Target Market Tip
• Keep track of your customers• Keep track of prospects
To Get Names:
• Enter to Win • Marketing Hook• Fusion Marketing
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David Olgivy:
“Marketing results depend less on how advertising is written than on how the product or service is positioned.”
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Positioning Examples• Southwest Airlines
• 7-Up
• United Airlines
• Fed-Ex
• Crest Toothpaste
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A Revenue Exploding Guerrilla Marketing Positioning Example
• An appliance business that can provide the most affordable kitchen appliances to cost conscious buyers.
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You Are An Expert
• Parking Lot Expert
• Shopping Center Lot Expert
• Road Expert
• Sports Surfaces Expert
• Driveway Expert
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Prospects Don’t Care About You
They want to know, “What’s in it for me? How will you benefit me?”
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Features
• Self cleaning oven
• 200 Cd jukebox
• One click buying on Amazon
• Live operator on duty 24/7
• In business since 1910
• We have the biggest widget maker
• Award Winning
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These are the related Benefits
• Convenience
• Time savings
• Organization
• Easy access
• Immediate
• Less resources required
• Reliability
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Your competitive advantage is the benefit you offer that your competition does not (Day 4 – benefits)
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Your Benefits• Longevity• Environmental• Economics• Safety• Appearance
• Easy to Do Business With
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Advertising
• The most visible form of marketing
• Shouldn’t be intimidating
• Can eat a budget very quick if not done right
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Advertising• 1. The first time a man looks at an advertisement, he does not see it.
2. The second time, he does not notice it.
3. The third time, he is conscious of its existence.
4. The fourth time, he faintly remembers having seen it before.
5. The fifth time, he reads it.
6. The sixth time, he turns up his nose at it.
7. The seventh time, he reads it through and says, "Oh brother!"
8. The eighth time, he says, "Here's that confounded thing again!"
9. The ninth time, he wonders if it amounts to anything.
10. The tenth time, he asks his neighbor if he has tried it.
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Advertising• 11. The eleventh time, he wonders how the advertiser makes it pay.
12. The twelfth time, he thinks it must be a good thing.
13. The thirteenth time, he thinks perhaps it might be worth something.
14. The fourteenth time, he remembers wanting such a thing a long time.
15. The fifteenth time, he is tantalized because he cannot afford to buy it.
16. The sixteenth time, he thinks he will buy it some day.
17. The seventeenth time, he makes a memorandum to buy it.
18. The eighteenth time, he swears at his poverty.
19. The nineteenth time, he counts his money carefully.
20. The twentieth time he sees the ad, he buys what it is offering.
The list you've just read was written by Thomas Smith of London in l885.
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“I do not regard advertising as an entertainment or an art form but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it creative. I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.”
-David Olgivy
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Creative
• Market your product or service, not your creative, (unless you are in the creative business).
• Super Bowl commercials Herding cats - who was it?
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50 People Instantly• Neighbor
• Banker
• Bartender
• Travel Agent
• #49 www.networkingworkbook.com
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Networking Goals• Meet 10 new people
• Receive 8 business cards
• Note something of interest
• Write a follow up note to 5
• Call to meet 3
• Continue a relationship with 2
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Networking Tips• Set goals before arriving
• Arrive early, leave late
• Help at registration
• Power partners
• Show interest
• Act like a host, not a guest
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Fusion Marketing
• Business connections (non-customers) with other businesses; strategic alliances, affinity marketing, joint venturing, affiliate relationships.
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Junk Mail vs. Love Mail
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3000 marketing messages a day
• Low response rates are rampant
• Creative overwhelms the messages
• Action does not result
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More Good hook examples• Special Report:
7 Mistakes People Make When Choosing An Asphalt Contractor/Supplier
Before You Purchase Asphalt You Should Read this Report
This is what our competition won’t tell you about Asphalt services
The importance of driveway maintenance to preserve the value of your home
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Website & Email Marketing• Change your website. Change gets noticed. • Put up some new photos• add a materials calculator • add new case studies or testimonials.
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Website & Email Marketing• Blog on popular blog topics that serve your community.• Portfolio of Products & Services• Newsletter Archive, Services• FAQ page.
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Environmental Marketing• Consider another area that is attracting more
attention, and that is green marketing.
• There is such a thing as green dye for asphalt surfaces, and there are new environmentally beneficial products and techniques in the industry, such as warm mixes and geotech products.
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Environmental Marketing
• What Environmental Marketing can you do?
• What do your customers and prospects want?
• What will they respond to, environmentally speaking?
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What’s In The News?• New Shopping Center
• County/State Road Projects
• Sporting Surfaces
• Highway Safety
• Pot Holes / Longevity of Surfaces
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PR• Ideas for a Press Release:
• New service• Awards• Promotions• Reorganizations• New employees• Celebrations (anniversaries)• Survey results
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Wrap Up/Conclusion/Action(…continued)
• Launch what is comfortable
• Get help if you need it
• Do something…in 30 Days
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Prioritize and Implement
• Marketing Attack # 1: website, email marketing, tele-follow up, referral program
• Marketing Attack #2: all in # 1 plus press releases, brochure/flyers, special reports
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Prioritize and Implement
• Marketing Attack #3: all in #2 plus social media marketing, blogging, contests
• Marketing Attack #4: all in #3 plus an appreciation or recognition event