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July 19, 2023 By Barry Bright

Don't market to the wrong beat

Before you know it, you’ll have your employees do TikTok dances for you.

Yea, your buddy who also has his own family business can do it, but his business works much differently than yours. This isn’t to say that you can’t do the same thing, but you don’t want to be marketing to the wrong beat.

Everyone else’s success story isn’t going to be yours.

You want marketing to work for you, but that isn’t going to happen if you’re continually latching on to every random act of marketing in sight. If you’re being random, you aren’t being strategic.

Your marketing approach is frustrating everyone, including yourself.

It’s hard to distinguish between good and bad marketing. Both work to some extent, but some are nominally more effective.

TikTok dances only throw a wrench in what you’ve planned for your business. Your team’s energy is wasted chasing the newest marketing fad that caught your eye.

Your dysfunctional marketing is getting in the way.

Your marketing budget is going in all different directions when you chase random acts of marketing.

None of it is delivering a return on investment because there isn’t a strategic plan for profit—TikTok is trendy now, but it might not be in the future.

On top of all of this, your team will be frustrated.

You have to lead your team and drive them toward productivity that makes sense.

At the end of the day, marketing is based on results.

You review your team’s productivity and efficacy all the time. Why should your marketing be the exception? Make it stand up to the test.

You need to start tracking your marketing to know what’s effective. You have to hold yourself accountable for your marketing decisions, whether they’re a shot in the dark or finally getting right on track.

Random acts of marketing risk your marketing budget, the loyalty of your employees, and more.

Focus your marketing.

You are the de facto marketing strategist of your family business. You know it’s not hard to learn marketing, but you don’t have the time to learn it from a book. Right now, you’re operating under less-than-optimal conditions.

A marketing framework would help you guide your decisions, considering how busy you are.

You answer questions all the time, and your marketing should mirror that. Customers are drawn to businesses that help them. Creating an Answer Vault, a collection of information about your business, would set your marketing on the right track.

Our Answer Vault allows you to be a problem solver for potential prospects. You do this already; you just have to concentrate and simplify your efforts. We’ll help you translate your expertise to the common customer.

Restore your team’s integrity and the stability of your marketing budget.

Check out the Answer Vault Framework to end your random acts of marketing once and for all.

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