MECHANICS OF MARKETING ENDORSEMENT

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copyright (c) Pavel Lenshin
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Give-Give and Get, Give-Give-Give and Get. This is universal
scheme of email marketing nowadays. And this scheme works.
You need to deliver to your subscribers useful stuff, build
rapport, credibility and trust. Then it is a power of
selling propositions you make to convert gained trust into
money in the bank.

Building by Giving.

“Giving” in respect to online business usually means sharing
valuable information. It may be gathered online or be of
your own unique origin.

Whether you work in PC hardware industry promoting
technological inventions or run international travel ezine,
promoting 3rd party international trips, your main channels
of keeping communication and delivering benefits is
Information.

For PC hardware industry it may be previews and reviews of
new hardware, devices, results of conducted tests, your own
analytical analysis etc. International travelers are fond of
trips and country reviews, publications about available
tours and comparisons.

Another supportive way of “Giving” is providing bonuses,
gifts, running contests and encouraging your virtual
community for intercommunication.

Each market has its own preferences, satisfying which you
build credibility and trust.

Capitalizing by Getting.

“Getting” means selling through promotion and advertising.
The success of capitalization depends on two instances:

- the quality of established trust, the more trust the more
sales you convert;
- the quality of offered products or services, the more
beneficial they are, the more sales you convert.

If you managed to gather responsive and trustful community
around your business and don’t have high quality solutions
to promote, try to acquire them via resell rights or
partnerships, joint ventures.

Pay close attention to the balance of “Giving” and “Getting”
. Shifting your priority to “Getting” will do you no good as
you will betray subscribers’ trust and increase the number
of unsubscriptions, instead of sales.

People like participating in interesting contests and games,
that is why it opens innovative potential for endorsement.

Having me bored with promotions and ads is the quickest way
to my unsubscription. Giving me information I need is the
quickest way to my credit card.

The Endorsement

Endorsement is the most responsive marketing method of
promotion.

Skilled endorsement combines “Getting” and “Giving”, because
it integrates delivering useful information that can benefit
subscribers with lucrative potential of capitalization for
the endorser.

Efficient endorsement is based on established trust, so no
endorsement can be run until the “circle of Giving” is
completed.

When endorsing, it is important to position yourself as
concurrent part of the target market you address to. You are
“birds of one feather”, otherwise suspicion is inevitable.
Associate and present yourself as an advocate of your target
market’s best interests.

It is clear that ultimate task of any endorsement is to make
reader perform desired action such as buy, signup,
participate in survey or test, email question and so forth.
I will not discover America if I say that your endorsement
should be beneficial, i.e. include enough benefits for the
reader to conduct this action. Keep note that benefits
should play the role of answers for target market’s
questions, needs and wants. This is the most important step
of the endorsement course.

The intermediate task of this course is to lessen
advertising pressure. Actually it implies using
non-advertisement jargon and non-selling attitude.

Endorsement should be information-oriented, not a sales
driven. Web-sites visitors are referred to usually represent
sales pitches, so why make them read it twice?
Power marketing endorsement is based on soft pre-selling
that means educating about benefits of market solution you
promote.

Curiosity as a human feature is also actively used by many
marketers. Practically this means endorsing Secrets, not a
product, service or solution. People want to know hidden
secrets, unknown for the rest. Unfortunately often what
marketers call “secrets” turn out to be well-known old crap,
so if you use curiosity factor in your promotion, make sure
your solution is truly innovation-rich.

Another feature of winning market endorsements is their
basing on private positive experience and achievements of
the endorser as a trusted source. Such endorsements proved
to generate the biggest response and “click-throughs”.

This should be enough for you to generate maximum response
for your endorsement, but always remember that it is market
solution that is responsible for your long-term success of
your promotion campaigns.

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Pavel Lenshin is an Internet entrepreneur, web-developer and
marketer, founder of the entrepreneurship portal, where you
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