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Marketing a Moving and Storage Equipment and Supplies Retail Business

Promotional tactics for moving and storage equipment and supplies retail businesses are exceptionally diverse. But in our experience, there are a handful of tips and strategies that will deliver the best return for your marketing efforts.

For every moving and storage equipment and supplies retail business winner, there many more moving and storage equipment and supplies retail businesses that never got off the ground.

A robust marketing plan cements your company's relationships with customers. With that in mind, it's important to leverage marketing as a path toward better customer engagement in your moving and storage equipment and supplies retail business's planning process.

Newsletters

Despite the unrelenting demands of generating content on a monthly or quarterly basis, a company newsletter has promising potential as a marketing device. Blatant marketing messages aren't appropriate in newsletters because they don't communicate informational value to your customers. Instead, your newsletter should contain industry news, product use tips, and other content that captures your customers' attention. Increasingly, moving and storage equipment and supplies retail businesses to distribute newsletters through online channels (e.g. in email campaigns and as PDFs on the company website).

Email Campaigns

Today's consumers are extremely tech-savvy. They rely on social media and email to both receive and transmit brand messages. So if you can deliver messaging to your customers' inboxes, the likelihood it will be seen and read by a large percentage of recipients is extremely high. For moving and storage equipment and supplies retail businesses, the real challenge is compiling a substantive quantity of qualified email addresses. Premium mailing list providers can mitigate the cost and hassle of in-house list generation. More importantly, providers typically give business owner an assurance that their lists are accurate and up-to-date.

Industry Resources

Inexperience and a lack of industry connections have an isolating effect on owners of a moving and storage equipment and supplies retail business. Although there is a tendency to believe that the challenges you face are unique to your business, your competitors face many of the same marketing hurdles and obstacles. To overcome those obstacles, you'll need to tap into industry resources. The best resources are usually the ones that leverage industry-specific experience and the input of proven veterans.

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