Making a marketing push

No matter what kind of marketing techniques you are going to be using they are going to fall into one of two categories, push or pull marketing. To people who have a marketing background or any type of education in marketing the push and pull styles of marketing is something that is completely understood and accepted in the marketing world. Where it gets confusing is for people who have no background in marketing, which are pretty much most small business owners out there. So one of the easiest ways to tackle your marketing would be to hire a marketing professional, but many times that is not a valid option for small business owners because of the money involved. When it comes to hiring a marketing professional many small business can't afford that expense when they are first getting started and then after they have gotten started and are successful they don't see the point in hiring a marketing professional to do the work for them.

So if you are a small business owner who can't afford to hire a marketing professional to create your marketing plan then this article about making a marketing push is going to be perfect for you. In this article we are going to discuss what a marketing push is and how it applies to your marketing plan and what kinds of marketing techniques you can use to create a marketing push. One thing that you really need to know about marketing is that marketing is a way to get your customers into the door and there are two ways that you can do that you can either push them through the door or you can pull them through the door.

Let's begin by talking about push marketing, or pushing your customers through the door. With a push marketing strategy basically what you are trying to do is to create consumer demand for your product by making use of a company's sales force and trade promotion activities. What happens in a push marketing strategy is that the company that is making the product, the producer, promotes the product to the wholesalers, the wholesalers in turn promote it to the retailers and then the retailers promote it to the consumers.Basically with a push strategy you are trying to sell directly to the consumer through consumer promotions and advertising.

One great example of push marketing is kickbacks. Basically what happens here is that the wholesaler is offering the retail store some kind of incentive to sell a certain product. Because the retailers are promised something in exchange for selling the product they are more inclined to push that product on their customers. But not only will they push that product on their customers by recommending that product they will also create displays for that product that draw the customer to the product. Basically what this means is that the retail store will create end caps or prominent displays in the center of the store that focus on that product. The same thing can hold true for the producer and the wholesaler the producer can also the wholesaler certain bonuses or kickbacks if they promote their product over somebody else's.

Another way that push marketing works is through word of mouth. This isn't the normal type of push marketing because the producer or the wholesaler is not offering some type of incentive to sell their product. But in word of mouth what happens is that the customers leave the store or company very pleased with the service or product that they received and they tell everybody they know about it. This is spreading the word to other people and pushing them to go into the store to get the same kind of treatment.