34 types of Marketing – Which will work best for you?

This is part of my permanent website for good reason. I want you to remember there is more to marketing than just social media marketing or advertising. In the next few weeks I am going to give you ideas of what can be done with each of these. I start with Social Media next week and you’ll probably see it take a couple of weeks to get through. There is a lot of info about social media marketing.

If you have questions about social media or any of these marketing methods, please contact me.

Boyd Petersen

PS – Watch for some exciting changes coming to what we offer.

 

Types of Marketing

There are some lists on the internet that say there is a lot more than this but they all boil down to these. There may be more, so let me know if you feel I have missed some. I wouldn’t want them to feel left out.

Advertising – the many ways

Affiliate Marketing – paying affiliates to send traffic/customers to your website/business

Article Marketing (Newsletter) – writing articles (online and offline) to promote one’s business

Content (Newsletter) Marketing – producing useful or entertaining content for your audience

Cooperative Marketing – companies co-marketing a jointly developed product, service or brand

Demographic marketing – Marketing to a specific demographic (male/female, household income, others)

Direct Mail Marketing – Directly mailed piece, either postcard or letter

Direct Marketing – marketing directly to audience, often without TV, radio, or print ads

Direct Response Marketing – direct marketing expressly designed to solicit a response

Door-to-door (cold calling) Marketing – salespeople walking to houses, knocking on doors

Drip Marketing – sending pre-planned messages to prospects/customers on a schedule

Email Marketing – emailing prospects/customers, either by list rental or express permission

Event Marketing – running events such as trade shows, conferences, seminars, festivals

Guerilla Marketing – low-budget, high-impact marketing, typically entrepreneurial

Internet (banner ads, keywords) Marketing

Mobile Marketing – marketing delivered via mobile devices such as (smart)phones

Network Management (relationship) Marketing – A network of people that will market you and you them. Shared sales and/or educating a group of salespeople

Network Marketing – Marketing to a group or network of people

Niche Marketing – targeting very specific audience segments

Permission Marketing – inspiring your audience to want to hear from you

Promotional Marketing – broadly speaking, almost any kind of marketing to attract customers

Pull Marketing – pushing messages to prospects, synonymous with inbound marketing

Referral Marketing – encouraging/incentivizing existing customers to refer new customers

Relationship Marketing – emphasis on building long-term relationships with customers

Social Media Marketing – interacting with prospects in social media channels

Street Marketing – unconventional marketing in public places meant to engage prospects

Target Marketing – Similar to Demographic Marketing but to a set target audience (sports enthusiasts, business people, etc.) rather than a demographic market.

Telemarketing – calling people on the phone with a pitch, usually uninvited

Testimonial Marketing – Similar to Word-of-mouth advertising but you get to spread the message far and wide with their permission.

Text Message Marketing (mobile) – Text messages to a mobile phone – permission or purchased lists

Trade Show Marketing – using an event such as trade shows, conferences, seminars, and festivals to promote

Video Marketing – incorporating videos in online marketing, leveraging YouTube

Viral (Buzz) Marketing – tapping into existing social networks to spread a marketing idea

Word-of-mouth Marketing – when happy customers spread your marketing message