الأحد، 12 فبراير 2017

Introduction To Manufacturing Marketing Strategies

By Kathleen White


For manufacturing firms, there has been a great shift from brand awareness marketing strategy to marketing in order to push sales. Whatever the manufacturing marketing firm goal is, it is important to communicate the following to customers.

Unique capabilities that a firm has over the competitors.

Communicating this information down the supply chain is valuable so that the distributors are ware of the target markets needs. Additionally, also get information as to why the resellers or distributors would want to sell your product as opposed to selling the competitors products.

Creating new and efficient solutions to the customers. It is very important to communicate these capabilities and also the leadership strengths to customers. Marketing the core assets of the firm like the experience of the engineers, new and improve machines for production. Communication of these capabilities should not only be done through the mission statement, it need to be part of the total brand.

Content online Buyers of manufactured goods often start their search online or form the websites. The content on the website should capture the attention of the buyer such that they would want to get in touch with you to know more about the product and hence buy and repeat sales. These content should be written such that it appeals to the consumer and shows how the product will satisfy their needs.

Marketers are finding and utilizing the best way to leave a consistent and lasting impression on the customer market using the appropriate marketing channels.

Do the firm use new technology so that end products are accurate. Van the firm offer after sales service to customers as and when required?

No matter what type of product a firm is marketing, it comes down to communicating uniqueness of the firm in order to beat competition.

Facilitating an ecosystem. Manufacturing companies can benefit a great deal from creating online communities that their customers can use to communicate with each other and share knowledge.

A company should also not ignore its own weaknesses which are internal areas that need to be improved. This should be looked at side by side with the proposed ways of turning the weaknesses into strengths. Opportunities can present themselves in terms of gaps in the environment that a company can fill so that it can increase sales.

Distributing documentation. If the products come with documentation that helps customers better understand how to use or implement products, post it on your website.

It takes a manufacturing firm to change its manufacturing site or even change the design of how it manufactures its products.

S. M. A. R. T Goals. Goals must be Specific. Measurable, Attainable Realistic and must be time bound Being specific on what your team intends to accomplish drives them forward. Goals must be measurable against a certain matrix that is set by the company. Example can be assembling and selling 50 cars in a period of one month. The measuring matrix here is the number of cars to be sold in a given period of time

The goals set must be realistic and must have a time frame for achieving them. Analyzing he buyer or target market behaviour, culture or even ages. This affects the buying patterns of consumers to a great extended and hence affecting the outcome.




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