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Marketing Strategies for Financial Services

Just as any business needs sales of products and services, and accomplishes this task through the utilization of sales strategies, so does a financial service provider also have a need to formulate its own marketing strategy to make it known to potential clients. This is rooted on the fact that competition nowadays is rough and tough. It is very stiff and that every firm is out there trying to land a client.

A distinction from the countless firms needs to be established in order to have an identity and hopefully your firm’s own clientele. Marketing strategies needs to be formulated and utilized for this purpose.A very helpful tool for this intent are networking and advertising.

The Use of Direct Marketing

One of the strategies employed in marketing is direct marketing. Direct marketing is a hands-on approach. It is personal and it goes directly to the intended or target market. One type of direct marketing is advertising. It caters to a vital element in marketing, the recognition of a company or firm’s name. Advertisements or ads may be placed in a variety of locations and through a number of different sources or means. Ads can be placed on the business columns of newspapers, in magazines, in newsletters and a lot more modes of media that utilizes printed or written instruments.

Ads may also be placed on the other forms of media. Like radio and television but these will be more of a publicity stunt. But, none the less, if name recognition is the goal then radio and television ads will do it for you. But it should also be pointed out that name recognition is not the only aspect that should be given priority. Advertisements should not only get the name of the company or firm recognized but it should also say what the capabilities of the company or firm are.

Theses advertisements may establish integrity in a short span of time but this should be back by concrete proof of your company’s credibility and capability. Ads can only do so much, at the end of the day what your company did to back the claims of the advertisements are what will make or break your credibility as a company. This is where networking come in. direct interaction and contact with people. Yes, people skills are a requisite.

Networking may be done directly by the company’s employees or by an agent or broker. This may be a simple task of attending functions and conventions and passing out calling cards and establishing rapport to the other people in the event. Networking is done by informing people of the company’s specializations and expertise. The simple act of passing out cards yields into a number of people coming to the company as clients and the branches that are established through the networking will establish a base for the clientele of the company.

 

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