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A marketing crusade is an all out effort to convert prospects to your product or service, your company, and your way of thinking. Ninety-nine percent of the success of your business will result from the success of your marketing efforts.
You can have a great product or service, but if you don�t know how to get it into the hands of your potential customers or clients, you will go out of business before you even start.
You should compare your marketing efforts to the work of a missionary or the launching of a crusade because only the fervor and the determination of a missionary or crusader will assure your marketing success.
Missionaries are driven by more than just their desire to sell someone on buying their product or service. A missionary�s goal is to convert the world to their way of thinking, their mission. Only through such a conversion process can you expect to receive not just a customer, but customers for life.
When your business launches a marketing mission, it takes a different approach to marketing than what is traditionally done.
Traditional approaches must be set aside in favor of your missionary or crusader goal. In a traditional effort, the real motivation for most marketing activity is to make a quick buck. That�s nice to do, but that�s not all you need to stay in business.
As a missionary, your business goal should become a commitment to win your customer�s lifetime business and loyalty. The goal of your marketing is to change the way your customers think about your products or services. Your prospects and customers must see your business as the only way to solve their problems or satisfy their wants and desires. Then your goals and your growth will be met as a natural result.