Here’s some sound advice from Jimmy Wales, of wikipedia fame, on wiki based marketing for communities. These points are important to you for all forms of imarketing. How do you foster your customer loyalty? Once you offer more than a ‘good deal‘ you are creating a customer relationship.
Give yourself a leg-up, and tell me what you can take away from Jim’s talk . . .
What about you? Is your web site’s community or forums supporting your services and products? Or have you understood that customer support makes you more money?
A thing to remember is that serving your customer over the counter, is also an “interactive marketing“, without a bias to electronic means (imarketing). Good basics, make good business.
People are always excited to find something that they believe in.
~ Jimmy Wales(AdAge, 24-Feb-20092)
Hello and welcome to the new mbi blog. The column talks about applying marketing principles to the world. “Why marketing?“
Whatever your ambition, the outcome depends on the consistent elements in the connection between you and everyone else — That’s a “market“: where an exchange between two or more people happens. People in the arts, non-profit, open source, and government also make exchanges.
As background, marketing’s “Four P-s” are only a handy aide memoir for each P. For instance: the things you can directly change in any exchange.
Cost … What the other surrenders to accept your offer [Price].
There are other things that you can influence indirectly. In my experience the indirect things are less critical than people of little substance tend to want to think. Just keep it real man.
Comments are welcome on the technology of marketing in practice.