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Marketing a Pet Training Business

You have to be light on your feet to stay ahead of the curve these days, especially when you're promoting a pet training business. We have the information you need to create a nimble, yet effective marketing strategy for your business.

Think tired marketing collateral is all you need to succeed in today's marketplace? Think again!

So what separates the best pet training businesses from average companies? Surprisingly, the ability to create clear brand messages often outweighs product quality and other considerations.

Staffing Expertise

Right out of the gate, you are going to have to make an informed decision about who will be responsible for marketing your product offerings and your brand. In practice, a large number of business owners simply assume the role of marketer-in-chief, squeezing even more responsibilities into their already packed schedules. To maintain marketing momentum, many pet training businesses outsource marketing to a professional firm. A high quality marketing firm can deliver a much better ROI than internal stakeholders who aren't primarily focused on marketing functions.

Social Media Monitoring

The use of social media as a marketing tool is the latest wave to overtake the small business community. Combined with a functional company website, social media attracts new customers and converts them to brand advocates. Social media can quickly go negative, turning brand advocacy into "badvocacy", a scenario in which consumers and users create content deriding your company and your products. All pet training businesses are especially vulnerable to negative exposure through social media. If your brand is taking a hit from negative mentions, it's important to generate enough positive content to push negative mentions down in search rankings. The more positive mentions that exist, the more difficult it is for negative comments (generated through social media) to gain traction on search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Multichannel Marketing Strategies

Are you up to speed on the multichannel marketing concept?. Today's consumers engage with brands in diverse ways. That means brands need to demonstrate similar diversity in the channels they employ to connect with customers.

Unless you adopt a multichannel strategy, your pet training business will struggle to remain competitive. In practice, multichannel means embracing a mixture of online and offline message pipelines, based on the places your customers go for information. The acquisition of reliable mailing lists from proven providers can expedite the transition, but ultimately your efforts to go multichannel may require the assistance of a marketing professional.

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