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Which is the best method of marketing?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by dipal76, Jan 11, 2016.

  1. #1
    Dear Friends,
    Which is the best method of marketing?
    1. Email Marketing
    2. Social Media Marketing
    3. SMS Marketing
    4. Advertisement Marketing
    5. Face to Face Marketing
    6. Other (Please Mention)
     
    dipal76, Jan 11, 2016 IP
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  3. EPol83

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    All of it working together. Starting off with just one I would pick facebook for sure. Just huge amounts of traffic sitting on facebook all day.
     
    EPol83, Jan 11, 2016 IP
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    Email Marketing IMHO.
    What is SMS Marketing BTW.
     
    jcdean, Jan 11, 2016 IP
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    It depends, what are you marketing?
     
    harleynash, Jan 12, 2016 IP
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    #6
    There isn`t a one "good for all situations" method of marketing. It really depends on the niche you have. You can`t use sms marketing if you are from USA and your clients are from Europe for example (or even face to face, that would be even harder if you can`t teleport :D ).
    Different marketing methods work for different situations, but one thing is constant: It doesn`t matter which niche you have, you will have to use a combination of more than one marketing method.
     
    HCFGrizzly, Jan 12, 2016 IP
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    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    If I am not mistaken over in Europe SMS can mean texting.
     
    qwikad.com, Jan 12, 2016 IP
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    My bet for Display advertising & Email marketing, It brings quality results seriously.
     
    TrafficBrokerAM, Jan 12, 2016 IP
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    Email marketing & Advertising marketing is best business ideas.
     
    cinemagicllc, Jan 12, 2016 IP
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    #10
    It really depends on what you mean by best. The best kind of marketing in terms of getting customers will definitely be face-to-face. But it is time-consuming and expensive.

    IMO, there are merits to each kind of marketing. It should be up to each marketer to figure out which works best for them.
     
    Thiam Hock Ng, Jan 13, 2016 IP
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    #11

    you say good
     
    jisourov88srs, Jan 14, 2016 IP
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    hello, I can suggest for you best idea of email marketing and social media marketing, because social media are good way for this trend and social media are very usefull for marketing because more than people use for social media soo

    Thanx
     
    AZ Website Solution, Jan 15, 2016 IP
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    Word of mouth is probably the best, but takes time to establish.
     
    NimbleMerchant, Jan 16, 2016 IP
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    Email Marketing by far.
     
    Marvin Adam, Jan 17, 2016 IP
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    Although all the above marketing methods work for you, email marketing and social media marketing can make a strong impact.
     
    abinjoy, Jan 17, 2016 IP
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    Can you give us some arguments to your point of view?
     
    HCFGrizzly, Jan 18, 2016 IP
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    I think Email Marketing is very consistent, effective, easy to do,
    sustainable, passive enough, reliable and a fun biz to be in.
    It's good to focus on one thing at once.
     
    Marvin Adam, Jan 18, 2016 IP
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    #18
    here I want to let you know that broadly,you are talking about 2 marketing strategies.
    1- Traditional Marketing (face to face marketing, SMS marketing)
    2- Digital Marketing (Email, Social Media, Online Advertising)
    Basically, now is the time when user are more adhere to online platform. So, digital marketing affects more to human resulting to be more productive as compared to traditional marketing.
    But its not like Traditional marketing is not having importance. It is as important as other marketing strategies.
     
    Rudra Pratap, Jan 18, 2016 IP
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    Yep, the Marketing Mix - you should always consider more than one option. Perhaps you could share what product or service are we talking about?

    Cheers
    Adam
     
    Last edited: Jan 18, 2016
    LiveChatAdam, Jan 18, 2016 IP
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    #20
    You haven't really given sufficient information to really be able to answer your question because what we're marketing is critical to the how.

    For the sake of argument, let's just say it's a startup product that doesn't have oodles of money. Instead of answering which method is best (because let's be honest, they're all great if you can afford to do them), I'd layout how I would approach the marketing plan to cover as many people as possible and build the budget to get involved in all of them.

    1. Social marketing
      1. Social marketing can start with little or no investment. Simply "sweat equity".
    2. Search Engine Optimization
      1. Your social marketing will result in some interest about the product so investing in optimization ensures you will reach those people
    3. Email marketing / SMS marketing
      1. Now that you've got people engaging in your site and making purchases, build your list!
    4. Advertising
      1. Will the money you've generated from the earlier channels, you can start investing in advertising to drive returns.
    5. Face to Face
      1. As travel costs are high and sales can be less direct to track, I leave this to the end so you can establish yourself via less expensive channels while ensuring you've got the best product for success. If you get to this stage, you can pretty much go anywhere and close deals
    From there you can scale by investing more in each of the channels to grow your sales.
     
    pmspinner, Jan 18, 2016 IP