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Serfwerks to Unveil Marketing Training Products

Today Serfwerks announced that it is set to unveil a series of marketing training for marketing professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and business owners. Focusing on several different components of the marketing function, the training will consist of a series of workshops focused on helping businesses achieve significantly improved marketing results.

Marketing Tools v. Marketing Strategy—Tier I Marketing

For Tier I marketers, the marketing function is about tools and how to use them rather than a concise game plan that drives marketing decisions. When tools take precedence to strategy, the marketing function becomes no more than the process of developing content to fill brochures, ads, web sites and tweets.

Get Better Marketing Results Through Measurement

In a study of about 500 first year sales reps: 60% reported setting no goals; 32% reported setting general earnings goals; and 8% reported setting specific annual earnings goals. Of those surveyed – those that set general goals were 2 times more successful than those that set no goals and those that set specific goals were three times more successful (Hall 2003).

Please Keep Giving Us Quick Fixes

Marketing is more than quick fixes. Those that surrender to the temptation of a quick fix are, by the constraints of business, doomed to make unwilling compromises in cost and quality – and are more likely to waste money taking well-intentioned and educated guesses.

Marketing’s Biggest Secret

Marketing’s biggest secret is that it all about the money. Some things are about awards, creativity, beauty, or buzz – but marketing isn’t one of these things. Marketing is a business function and like all other business functions, marketing exists to make that “dolla.”