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7-Steps Guide
to Successful
Marketing
Step 1:
Understand your Customer,
Market, Product, &
Competition
Understand your Customer & Market
Get a firsthand understanding of customers, their pains, and aspirations
Survey / interview 100-odd
Figure out who influences their choices and decisions
Ask some of them to test your online products and record it
Also, garner opinions from industry experts
Understand your Customer & Market
Surveymonkey.com
Hotjar.com
Hellobar.com
AudienceScout
Usertesting.com
Clarity.fm
Tools that can help:
Understand your Product
Get to grips with how your product works
Understand the roots of its value proposition
Understand your Competition
Identify your competitors
Find out how they are winning customers
(messages, offers, channels,)
Spyfu
Facebook Ads platform
Spy.house
AudienceScout
SEMrush / Ahrefs
Ubersuggest
ClickCease
Tools that can help:
Step 2:
Set Goals
Set one to maximum 3 key goals
Track them, and discuss them
regularly
Examples: CAC, LTV, No. of new
customers, etc.
Step 3:
Make A Game Plan
Who you will target, why, how?
How will you beat your competitors?
How will you price?
What marketing experiments will you run?
What creative angle will you adopt for each channel?
Create a schedule for the next 12 months.
Draft a budget and be disciplined about it.
Figure out what talent and tools you will need.
Step 4:
Prepare
Hire talent (in-house and/or externally).
Invest in the tools needed and configure them.
Create the content (web copy, blogs, ads, videos, etc.)
Prepare the channels (Website, Google Analytics, Social
media pages, etc.)
Step 5:
Launch
Go live with website / landing pages / social pages.
Launch the ads.
Kick-start email nurtures, and the other experiments.
Keep track of progress.
Google Data Studio
Klipfolio
Adverity
Tools that can help:
Step 6:
Test
Test every channel, even if you
don’t believe in some.
Blogs
Publicity
Unconventional PR
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Social & Display Ads
Offline Ads
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Content Marketing
Email Marketing
Viral Marketing
Engineering as Marketing
Business Development (BD)
Sales
Affiliate Programs
Existing Platforms
Trade Shows
Offline Events
Speaking Engagements
Community Building
There Are 19 Channels To Test:
Allocate only a small amount (like
£100) per channel.
Give about 1 month per channel.
Look only for indications of
potential for growth, not full-scale
results.
Step 7:
Shortlist, Optimise
&
Repeat
Pick the channel that showed the best traction.
Optimise your campaign on it.
Launch at scale.
Try all possible strategies.
Do A/B testing wherever possible.
Continue until you see saturation.
Then, move to the next most promising channel.
Read the process in detail on:


debout.co.uk/blogs

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7 Steps Guide to Successful Marketing

  • 2. Step 1: Understand your Customer, Market, Product, & Competition
  • 3. Understand your Customer & Market Get a firsthand understanding of customers, their pains, and aspirations Survey / interview 100-odd Figure out who influences their choices and decisions Ask some of them to test your online products and record it Also, garner opinions from industry experts
  • 4. Understand your Customer & Market Surveymonkey.com Hotjar.com Hellobar.com AudienceScout Usertesting.com Clarity.fm Tools that can help:
  • 5. Understand your Product Get to grips with how your product works Understand the roots of its value proposition
  • 6. Understand your Competition Identify your competitors Find out how they are winning customers (messages, offers, channels,) Spyfu Facebook Ads platform Spy.house AudienceScout SEMrush / Ahrefs Ubersuggest ClickCease Tools that can help:
  • 8. Set one to maximum 3 key goals Track them, and discuss them regularly Examples: CAC, LTV, No. of new customers, etc.
  • 9. Step 3: Make A Game Plan
  • 10. Who you will target, why, how? How will you beat your competitors? How will you price? What marketing experiments will you run? What creative angle will you adopt for each channel? Create a schedule for the next 12 months. Draft a budget and be disciplined about it. Figure out what talent and tools you will need.
  • 12. Hire talent (in-house and/or externally). Invest in the tools needed and configure them. Create the content (web copy, blogs, ads, videos, etc.) Prepare the channels (Website, Google Analytics, Social media pages, etc.)
  • 14. Go live with website / landing pages / social pages. Launch the ads. Kick-start email nurtures, and the other experiments. Keep track of progress. Google Data Studio Klipfolio Adverity Tools that can help:
  • 16. Test every channel, even if you don’t believe in some.
  • 17. Blogs Publicity Unconventional PR Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Social & Display Ads Offline Ads Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Content Marketing Email Marketing Viral Marketing Engineering as Marketing Business Development (BD) Sales Affiliate Programs Existing Platforms Trade Shows Offline Events Speaking Engagements Community Building There Are 19 Channels To Test:
  • 18. Allocate only a small amount (like £100) per channel. Give about 1 month per channel. Look only for indications of potential for growth, not full-scale results.
  • 20. Pick the channel that showed the best traction. Optimise your campaign on it. Launch at scale. Try all possible strategies. Do A/B testing wherever possible. Continue until you see saturation. Then, move to the next most promising channel.
  • 21. Read the process in detail on: debout.co.uk/blogs