Marketing Strategy for 2014

Creating a winning marketing strategy can only prove beneficial in improving your company's trade. Regardless of how the last year has progressed for your business, looking for improvement is paramount to everyone.

The Key Goal To A Successful Marketing Strategy

Evaluating the marketing situation relevant to you is the key goal to any successful plan, and when looking to create a potential marketing strategy it should always run parallel to the work of your marketing plan and how to approach the upcoming year. Assessing how to improve your company can be achieved with the identification of marketing tools that can benefit you.

Total Merchandise offers a variety of marketing tools, from our stress balls to bags and sports equipment, all products have a singular aim of improving the image and awareness surrounding your business.

The BPMA research found that 35% of people surveyed remember a company better through a promotional product than through online advertising. Furthermore, 50.7% of those surveyed suggested that Promotional Products were the most successful way to get a client or potential customer to take action. It, therefore, could be considered worthwhile to incorporate the purchasing of products such as pens - which were highlighted as the most popular promotional products - into your marketing strategy for the forthcoming year, as well as memo pads, and calendars.

Other Aspects To Consider When Planning Your Marketing Strategy

A marketing plan must also be current, relative and adjusted to suit the economical standard at the time. 2014 may well be completely opposite to 2013 and therefore updating an annual marketing strategy can prove crucial in successfully offering your services. Therefore promoting your company in a way that is cost-effective, with bundles of promotional products- such as those offered through TM can prove very efficient in improving your companies sales.

The strategy is intended to suit your company for twelve months, maintaining consistency in sales and is in place to reduce the wavering from the strategic goals for the year. Therefore the creation of a marketing plan should be accurate and concise, one which is clearly defined. Using a professional template is extremely beneficial in that it will structure the plan's design for you, and offer insight and suggestions in ways that other companies have strategically mapped out the forthcoming year in relation to their business.

Maintaining an air of realism is also important in the development of a marketing strategy and being over-ambitious may only cause disruption throughout the year. Make sure your marketing tools are all affordable for your company and avoid spending too much at the same time as the steady growth of a company is easier to achieve than a rapid rise.

As one of the largest suppliers of promotional products in the UK, we specialise in supporting companies to achieve reasonable and attainable goals set in marketing strategies. Take a look at some of our promotional products for small businesses.

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