by Randall CraigFiled in: Blog, Branding, Make It Happen Tipsheet, Marketing, TrustTagged as: CRM, Engagement, Marketing Automation, Thought leadership
How much does your organization invest in marketing?
Beyond thought leadership and inbound marketing strategies, there is advertising, promotional items, trade shows, CRM, marketing automation, the web and social media. Any way you look at it, the investment is substantial.
Yet despite this focus, and despite all of this strategy, why is marketing so often ineffective? Is there a factor that silently gnaws away at this investment, often hidden from obvious view? The answer, unfortunately, is yes.
Marketing has but one goal: to build the organization’s brand. All else, from generating awareness to generating leads, flows from this. (I am not suggesting that building the brand is the ONLY thing marketing does, but that everything that it does flows from it.)
Building the brand means building a trust experience. It happens at every touchpoint: in person, over the phone, via email, advertising, traditional media, and on the web. So while the marketing investment might be building the brand up, a particular person’s experience at a touchpoint might be tugging the brand down.
There are 1000’s of trust-killers, but here is a selection of some of the more obvious:
Trust-killers are the boat anchors keeping your marketing ship from reaching full speed. This week, look at your marketing plan through the trust lens: how much of the plan is focused on reducing or removing trust killers? And then look in the mirror: is there one thing that you personally are doing that reduces others’ trust in you?
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