Top Marketing Strategies

Top Marketing Strategies for Getting New Members and Clients

The pandemic has changed the state of many industries for the foreseeable future with now being what could be described as the “new normal.” However, these new times come with great opportunities to not only survive but thrive. As your competitors hold back in fear, you now have the opportunity to double down on proven winning strategies and focus on the key components of your business which have the greatest impact!

In recent memory, there hasn’t been a more crucial time for business owners to learn key marketing tactics to differentiate themselves from their competition and grow their membership and client base.
This article will lay the foundation for all of your marketing decisions as you move your business forward

Winning campaigns for building relationships

What is the number 1 determining factor for a successful marketing campaign? It’s not the targeting. It’s not the copy. It’s not the image. It’s the offer.

When advertising to an audience who is unaware of you or your brand, it is vital that you first build a relationship and rapport with your potential customers to give them a reason to buy from you, rather than your competitors. This is commonly overlooked when many business owners run ads.
To build the relationship with your audience, there are luckily many options.

Examples of what you can offer include:

Nutritional advice including what foods to eat and not to eat whilst also providing best practices on how to have a healthy relationship with food
Workout guidance on best workouts for losing fat and gaining muscle
Membership plans for a certain period free of charge (i.e. a 1-week free pass)
Advice on how to improve mental health

It is vital to make the offer of massive perceived value to your target audience to differentiate yourself from your competition.
However, you should also make sure that this offer is a minimal time and cost commitment to yourself as this offer needs to be scalable and reach a large number of people. By offering this value for free, your customers will feel obliged to reciprocate and offer value in return. It’s human nature.

What is the number 1 determining factor for a successful marketing campaign? It’s the offer. Luckily, there are many options to build a relationship with your audience

How to charge for your offer

Now, you may be asking, “When do I charge for my products/services?” This all depends on who you are targeting.
Once the customer is familiar with your business and you have already provided value, then you can start running advertisements specifically targeting these individuals only. As your customers experience your products and services, the more you can continually upsell them to your higher-priced offers.

When promoting to a familiar audience, consider that nobody wants a membership for the sake of buying a membership, they only want an outcome and they want to know when they’ll get that outcome.

To do this, you can sell them a defined end program (DEP), which lasts for a certain period of time—a six-week challenge for example. The advantage of this campaign is that your customers will pay two to four times more for an offer that is not on continuity as their desire to achieve the outcome is the highest at the beginning of the period.

Take the guesswork out of getting a new client

You could have the perfect offer and the perfect advertisement but if you do not know your numbers, your marketing campaign may still fail.

You need to track the entire process which means tracking from when your ideal customer sees the ad to when you see the money in the bank. This allows you to see what is working and what isn’t so you can adjust accordingly. This point cannot be overemphasised since if you’re spending money on generating leads and if your leads aren’t converting then you are wasting money.

What is a customer worth to you? If you don’t know the answer to this question, then this is your opportunity to discover how much you are prepared to pay to acquire a new member. Do this by working out how much an average customer is estimated to pay you in their lifetime. By doing this, you can work out your estimated return from your campaigns to determine which you should scale up and which you should stop running.

It is so important to do this objectively as this cannot be guesswork. You are doing yourself a huge disservice if you are guessing such an important aspect of your business.

Knowledge is not power. Applied knowledge is power.

Make sure this is not an article that you simply read and forget as the actions we take now will have a significant effect on our business outcomes in the future.