How business owners align marketing research to their vision.

To stay confident, focus on looking ahead.

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Here’s an example of one business owner’s journey and why marketing research matters.

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Vision & Passion

You can’t believe your business is celebrating its five-year anniversary. You began with a vision of revolutionizing how we purchase meat. You envisioned a brand that would offer more than the product itself – it would narrate the dedication of farmers who care passionately for their animals and the environment, with a commitment to responsibility and honesty. You envisioned a brand built on the principles of transparency, superior quality, and environmental consciousness, shaping every business decision along the way. Your aim was to create a bond between consumers and the origins of their food, cultivating trust and appreciation. More than just providing meat, you aspired to embody a lifestyle choice.

This dream drove your passion.

Above all, your priority was to provide your family with nutritious and satisfying food. The standard meat industry's questionable ethics and subpar quality horrified you. You were tired of expensive imported meats laced with hormones and antibiotics. What you desired was a superior option: meat that benefited your health, your family, the farmers, and the community.

That's when your journey began.

And with the journey came lots of challenges and lots of questions.

·        How do we compete with the big players who dominate the market?

·        How do we convince people to care about where their meat came from?

·        How do we keep up with the demand and quality standards?

But you never gave up on the vision, fueled by believing millions of families deserved better.

Marketing Investments

Over time, to grow and stand out you had to invest in marketing resources and hired a marketing consultant or fractional CMO.

This gave you:

·        A compelling market analysis plan, to preciously identify the target audience, their preferences, their buying behavior, and their challenges. The plan included how to build an informed perspective of competitors to see opportunity gaps, including niche audiences to target, and which trends to leverage.

·        A brand positioning plan, to define brand identity, values, personality, voice, and tone.

·        An integrated marketing campaign plan to hone your goals, objectives, tactics, and timelines for planned marketing activities. And to build strategically defined KPIs to track and measure marketing performance. 

·        A customer centric strategy to collect and analyze feedback, including online reviews, testimonials, and polls.

By investing in marketing resources, you significantly increased the odds for success by working on brand awareness, reputation, and credibility. As well as a robust strategy to attract more traffic, leads, and customers. The signal the strategy was working was a boost in sales, revenue, and profitability.

But your effort didn’t stop there. 

You committed to a relentless customer centric mindset to fuel customer retention, loyalty, and advocacy.

Impact

Marketing investments transform challenges into achievements and create enduring models for small businesses. They also provide a considerable benefit to bring your vision to fruition.

Over time, marketing research emerges as an equally valuable force. Why? You need real confidence your market, brand, campaign, and consumer strategies are effective and working.  Marketing research is the tool to audit marketing strategies and assess ROI.

Sales indicate historical performance, while market research provides insights into future possibilities.

To realize your vision, it's crucial to maintain a future-oriented focus.

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