How to Reach Your Target Market

Marketing an Ecological Engineering Firm

The value and earning capacity of an ecological engineering firm largely depends on the quality of its marketing efforts. But great marketing takes a lot more than hanging a shingle and hoping for the best.

Still looking for a way to effectively market your ecological engineering firm? Unfortunately, there is a fine line between capturing buyers' attention and blending into the background.

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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. These days, ecological engineering firms 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.

Niche Marketing

A niche marketing approach is a good fit for small businesses, particularly ecological engineering firms that hope to dominate a geographic of demographic wedge of the marketplace. Niche marketing isn't new. It's been around for years and has proven to be most effective for firms that understand their key strengths and core audience.

As a side note, it's important to customize your marketing tools to accommodate a niche strategy. Leading mailing list providers can filter contacts for more cost-efficient and effective direct mail campaigns.

Competitive Awareness

Competitive awareness is the starting point for creativity in marketing. There's nothing wrong with creativity, but if it precludes your messaging from being represented alongside other ecological engineering firms, there's a good chance that you're missing something. At a minimum, we recommend seeking a third-party perspective before you adopt any innovations that dramatically alter your marketing model.

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