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How To Move Up To Number One

kimhillman | 30 December, 2008 07:20

Fact: you can't lead from the back of the pack. If you're going to be a leader in your industry, you've got to move your business to the number 1 position. It's easier to do than you think.

First, you need to figure out what it is that your company does best or the most of. If you sell widgets, are yours the best? Why? What makes them special? Maybe yours is a flying widget, but your competitor has a flying widget too. Does your widget fly higher, faster or farther than your competitors? Then, you can claim that yours is the higher, faster or farthest flying widget, which makes you number 1 for that particular category of widget.

Another way to become number 1, and probably the best way, is to become the best known for providing your product or service. How do you do this? By marketing through as many channels that reach your niche as you can. You might advertise in classifieds, trade magazine, on radio or tv. You might do several direct mail campaigns. You might canvass neighborhoods with door hangers. The point is to do as much as you can as often as you can. Repetition is necessary and from as many sources as possible.

Incidentally, Up & At 'Em Publications can help you with this. We create printed promotional materials from ads to sales letters to promotional booklets that get results and help you sell more of your products and services. Why? Because the more tangible collateral you've got in the marketplace with your name on, the more people will see your name everywhere and remember you.

Up and at 'em!

Kim Hillman

Up & At 'Em Publications

www.upandatempublications.com