Monday, December 3, 2012

Proven Marketing Targets and Ideas - Part 1



·         Make speeches to clubs, nonprofits, other organizations.
·         Place news releases with local publications and broadcast media.
·         Get on a radio talk show speaking about parties, events or food.
·         Tie your marketing in with various charities.
·         Find an important person or celebrity to feature in your advertisements.
·         Create and mail or email a newsletter.
·         Write a column for the local newspaper or a local magazine on entertaining.
·         Tell clients that they can borrow some of your event equipment when they need it for something they are doing themselves without your catering.
·         Send congratulatory letters to key business figures who win awards or are written about in the business section of newspapers.
·         Create a traveling information booth to take to shopping malls and community trade shows.
·         Rally around a common problem of the community.
·         Provide your prospective callers with hard-hitting testimonials from happy clients.
·         Provide food for the Chamber of Commerce meetings.
·         Create marketing value with all sorts of event checklists and how to for buyers.
·         Make a contribution to a charity based on a percentage of each sale you make.
·         Send birthday cards or cakes to important people.
·         Provide souvenir menus for the guests at events to take with them.
·         Put catering displays in other business’s windows.
·         Invite your best buyers to a party.
·         Send a picture postcard of your staff.
·         Put best buyers’ names up on a billboard to thank them for their support.
·         Use at least one of the client’s recipes at the event.
·         Put a food scent into your letters or marketing postcards.
·         Offer to buy back one of the host’s pictures to add to your collection to show others.

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