“A Strategic Approach To Produce A Strong Professional Services Brand, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
By: J. Glenn Ebersole, Jr., Chief Executive of J. G. Ebersole Associates and The Renaissance Group ™
A professional services firm, just like other types of businesses, needs to develop a strong brand and a favorable impression in the minds of prospects, clients and stakeholders in their business. In smaller professional service firms, there are limited financial resources for advertising as a primary branding vehicle. Therefore, as strategic approach is imperative to maximize the impact of available resources to rand your professional services firm.
How do you influence your market in a strategic way that produces a favorable image of your firm in the minds of your prospects, clients and stakeholders? Your strategic thinking business coach recommends the following strategic approach.
Strategic Acton #1: Select the right target market and build a target list of your most desired clients within the target market. The most desired clients should include existing clients and prospects you want to turn into clients.
Strategic Action #2: Develop a strategic integrated marketing communication plan to build your brand to a well-defined audience within your target market. You should incorporate the use of direct mail, email, telephone and other one-to-one contact methods. In addition, a strategically planned public relations campaign to promote awareness of you and your brand is essential.
Strategic Action #3: Enhance your firm’s reputation by demonstrating “value” that is offered by you and your firm, with a clear focus on specific targets and specific offers. Develop and implement a plan of integrated and sustained contacts with your targets. Make each contact meaningful and have some delivered “value” in the form of a referral, an article of interest, an invitation to a seminary, workshop or professional event, or something else that will be perceived as having “value” by the recipient.
If you would like to learn more about using a strategic approach to build the brand of your business and how a strategic thinking business coach can serve as your guide and facilitator in that process, please contact Glenn Ebersole today through his website at www.businesscoach4u.com or by email at jgecoach@aol.com
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