Utilizing Marketing and Advertising

Let’s explore the marketing and advertising to dive into how we can utilize both as a team for your business.

It is so important for businesses to understand how they go hand in hand. When you tie the two together, this is where positive outcomes occur. Both have the same goal: to draw people to either a service or a product. Understanding the distinctions between the two can ultimately help you expand your business.

Advertising is part of marketing. 

Marketing contains several components that contribute to the success of a business. 

Marketing

When you embark on a marketing journey, you are researching and creating ways to find the best way to approach a specific audience with a specific service or product. Marketing can actually help to showcase the product better than the product itself showcases itself. 

Marketing is understanding the customer’s needs and deciding which direction to go in order to fulfill these needs. Advertising is the promotion of a business through advocating.
 
The term marketing encompasses several different components. Marketing contains advertising. It contains customer support. It is public relations. Marketing is the backbone of a business’s success. To market towards a customer is to reach into the customer’s atmosphere, challenge their perspective, make them feel welcomed, and introduce a product or service that they need. 

When someone decides to do marketing, they must understand the level of research that will be involved with understanding the audience, their language, and the best form of communication to influence an audience. Embarking on a marketing journey means making a conscious decision to understand the audience: how they think, the different lifestyles they may have, or the different needs they have.

Marketing almost utilizes a bit of psychology and empathy. Not only should you be aiming to achieve more sales or clients, you should also aim to look at any biases consumers may have, what inspires them and motivates them to purchase an item or pursue a particular service, what colors encourage people to buy more or feel more at peace with these decisions? All of these components play a role in marketing that are often overlooked.

Advertising

Now, what is advertising? 
 
To advertise is to make a product known to the audience. Advertising is the physical act of showcasing a product or service. One may use a variety of media in the process of advertising: radio, Facebook ads, television, etc. To effectively reach all levels of audiences, different forms of advertising may be used. Advertising is one way communication: you are putting your message out to the audience.

Advertising is absolutely essential to a business. This is where you are able to create your own branding as a company and drive more loyal customers. Advertising allows you to create true ownership of your business as you drive in sales reaching a wider audience.

Tying the two together

Advertising is essential for marketing. Marketing takes a product and gets it ready for the marketplace. Advertising is the actual act of preparing your product or service. Advertising actually should use the data that you hopefully collected in the process of marketing. 
 
Advertising is the creative approach to reaching an audience. Marketing is the science behind the process. If your business is lacking in marketing, it’s hard to advertise for your business effectively. 
 
If you’re struggling with this process of connecting your advertising with marketing, let me help you. Your business is worth the investment. I will connect the marketing equation to effectively bring you an advertising process that will in turn lead to profit for your business. 
 
That’s what we’re here for. Profit Chatter, we’re here to make life easier for you while increasing your profits.