Saturday, June 27, 2009

How To Get By As a Marketing Consultant

By Pete Mill

If you're into the field of being a marketing consultant your main job is to deliver results. It seems to be common knowledge but you'd be surprised how many consultants don't seem to know this or put it into practice.

It doesn't matter if you're a SEO or small business consultant because if you don't make some changes in your clients business and start making them money then your job with them won't be around for very long.

In the case of the marketing consultant your job is actually a bit different. When a company hire you they are almost always going to be searching around for similar end goals and that will be to increase their revenue and sales.

Your job is to help them do that. Whether your weapon of choice is a long-term strategy or a short-term tactic, everything you do must be focused on the results generated.

You might want to try out using PPC, a new print or web advertisement or even dabble in direct mail. You may even go the route of trying out a referral system if that is what works for you.

In general every client is different. Clients with a larger marketing budget will be open and usually more flexible to trying new mediums they haven't used before. Whereas the client with a limited budget will find it difficult to do so.

Regardless of your client's budget, your goal should always remain to find the right blend of tactics and strategies to help them see improving results.

What you need to do is make sure that everything you help your clients with can be measured with results of some sort. If it's measurable it can be tested and proved and you'll see what is working and what needs changing.

As you do this your client will grow to trust you more and open their wallets to allow you to expand the marketing budget - because results are being realized.

If you don't show good results, your jobs as marketing consultant will run out. Remember it doesn't matter what you see yourself as. If you are not selling results then you are basically just selling your character and that can only go a certain distance.

If you show your results time and time again and set up systems for your consulting and marketing work the work and money will just keep flowing in.

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