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| GENERAL
INFORMATION
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| *Your
Name: |
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| *Title: |
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| *Email: |
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| *Website
Address: |
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| *Business
Address: |
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| *Phone: |
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| *Business
Name: |
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| *Featured
sub-brands to name (if applicable): |
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| *Lead
product or service: |
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| *Industry/type
of business: |
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| *Years
in business: |
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| *Geographic
service areas: |
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| *Are
your primary customers businesses or individual consumers?: |
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If business, what type: |
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individuals, detail profile of your primary target: |
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| *Total
Employees: |
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| *Are
you currently working with a marketing consultant or fuller service ad
agency/pr firm?: |
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so, whom?: |
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| *Would
you like to arrange a no-cost, no obligation, 90-minute meeting to deeper
assess your profile and survey answers?: |
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| *Our
biggest marketing challenge is: |
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| *Our
biggest marketing asset is: |
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| *Our
weakest marketing attribute is: |
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BRAND
SURVEY |
1.Can
you define the specific ways in which the products/services you offer
your customers are different from what is provided by your competitors?
What makes your brand special and unique?
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2.
Do you have a marketing plan or minimally, a marketing action outline
with detailed budget items & rationale? If so, what is your level
of spending on marketing related expenses as a percentage of the gross
projected sales for the next calendar year? What was it last year? Have
you ever conducted a marketing immersion & planning session? If so,
when? |
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3.
Do you have any internal staff (whether they are President or Office Assistant)
specifically devoting some time to marketing, advertising, public relations,
or general customer communication related tasks? If so, please detail
who and what they focus on? |
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4.
How well do you achieve your sales goals? How have sales been trending
over the past few years as well as during year seasonal highs/lows?
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5.
Are you more concerned with keeping current customers or getting new ones?
Why? |
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6.
What is your primary business concern at this time? What do you see as
your most pressing marketing challenge now? If you currently use an outside
marketing resource or full service ad agency, are you satisfied? Why or
why not? |
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7.
Do you think past, current, or potentially new customers know who you
are, what you do, and why you do it better than your competitors? If so,
why? If not, why not? |
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8.
If you met a new target customer in an elevator and had only a few floors
to communicate with them-what would you say and why?
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| 9.
What pleases and displeases you most about your current marketing efforts
(can be one very specific thing)? |
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| 10.
What ways do you currently market yourself? Do you maintain a useable
database of customers? Of a media & non-media contacts? Of key influencers
& referral sources? Or possible leads? Please be specific in terms
of media choices, if any. What type of direct marketing, if any? What
type of ad, web, PR, cause, partner, or referral/outreach marketing, if
any, etc? |
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