{"id":52258,"date":"2019-10-15T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/?p=52258"},"modified":"2020-07-28T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T03:03:02","slug":"what-is-the-actual-purpose-of-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/what-is-the-actual-purpose-of-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Actual Purpose of Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"font-effect-text-shadow\" style=\"font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 48px; color: #800080;\">The Purpose of Marketing<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I mean, what is the purpose of Marketing? Well, in a nutshell, Marketing is supposed to help<br \/>\nfacilitate your prospects&#8217; decision-making process. There are prospects out there that need<br \/>\nto buy what you sell. Sometimes they need to be educated to the fact that they need to buy what<br \/>\nyou sell in the first place, and other times &#8230; they already know that they want it but they need<br \/>\nhelp deciding who they should buy it from. Often, they think they might want what you sell, but<br \/>\nthey have questions and concerns that need to be overcome before they&#8217;ll pull out their credit<br \/>\ncard or checkbook. But consider this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Because these prospects are not experts in what you do&#8230; or their exposure to what you sell<br \/>\nis quite low &#8230; they don&#8217;t really know the relevant issues surrounding the purchase. They don&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow how to make the best decision &#8230; they can&#8217;t tell the difference between the BEST deal and<br \/>\na major mistake &#8230; which leaves an opportunity for you to provide them with this information &#8230;<br \/>\nand then guide them through the buying process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All prospects and customers want the exact same things. And it really doesn&#8217;t matter what<br \/>\ntype of business you have. They want to feel confident that their money has been well-spent &#8230;<br \/>\nand their decision has been made to the best of their ability. They want the best deal. NOT just<br \/>\nthe best price, but the BEST DEAL in terms of overall value. People instinctively want to make<br \/>\nthe best decision possible&#8230; and not feel like they&#8217;ve got to second-guess their buying decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All you have to do as the Marketer is figure out what&#8217;s important to your prospects &#8230; educate<br \/>\nthem as to what constitutes the best deal when it comes to buying what you sell. Remember &#8230;<br \/>\nvalue. And then show them quantifiable proof that you actually provide the best deal in terms<br \/>\nof price and value. All this has to be communicated to them in a way they&#8217;ll pay attention to,<br \/>\nbelieve in, and then take action on. When this occurs, the prospect gets what they really want<br \/>\nfrom you &#8230; complete confidence that they have actually made the best decision possible &#8230;<br \/>\nand that they have truly gotten the best value. But here&#8217;s the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marketing-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52260 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marketing-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMJustice Marketing discussing the meaning of marketing\" width=\"582\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marketing-1.jpg 582w, https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marketing-1-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead of using the real purpose of Marketing to educate and facilitate the decision-making<br \/>\nprocess and build the case why a product or service is the best on the market&#8230; most<br \/>\nbusinesses fill their Marketing with self-serving jargon that\u2019s only a thinly-veiled way to say,<br \/>\n\u201cbuy it from me because I want you to give me the money instead of my competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s why people become jaded &#8230; and why they resist Marketing. They tend to either dismiss<br \/>\nyour entire Marketing message &#8230; or worse &#8230; they become skeptical and stop paying attention<br \/>\nto the message altogether. Prospective buyers want and need to be educated so that they can<br \/>\nfeel confident when making their purchase decision, and no one&#8217;s providing it. But here&#8217;s the<br \/>\ngood news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The first one who does provide prospects with this information&#8230; WINS all the most profitable<br \/>\ncustomers available! When Marketing is done improperly, the end result is 100% predictable:<br \/>\nyou start to feel intense pricing pressure from your prospects, and typically you&#8217;re forced to<br \/>\ncave in, lower your prices, destroy your margins, and make way less money than you should<br \/>\njust to stay competitive. And you get to spend more time at work and away from your family<br \/>\nthan those that are successful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52025\" src=\"https:\/\/imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/social-media.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/social-media.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/social-media-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s the brutal truth&#8230; and please don&#8217;t be offended by this&#8230; but if you&#8217;re always competing<br \/>\non price, it&#8217;s your own fault! Your lack of Marketing ability has led to a situation where there&#8217;s<br \/>\nno discernible difference between you and your competition. There have been no additional<br \/>\nparameters &#8230; or relevant issues introduced &#8230; to educate your prospects as to what really<br \/>\nconstitutes the best value when it comes to buying what you sell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you feel like you&#8217;re always competing on price, it&#8217;s because price is the only relevant variable<br \/>\nthat you&#8217;ve given your prospects to consider. From the prospect&#8217;s perspective, all things appear<br \/>\nequal, so they default to the business offering the lowest price. I&#8217;m about to show you how to fix<br \/>\nthat once and for all. Our system &#8230; simply put &#8230; is a step-by-step program for innovating and<br \/>\nMarketing your business. The system will allow you to first be better than the competition &#8230; and<br \/>\nthen second, do better Marketing than your competition. This allows you to separate your business<br \/>\nfrom your competition &#8230; and become the obvious choice for your prospects to do business with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Everyone looks at the Internet as the end-all-be-all to all of their Marketing problems. But the<br \/>\nreality is that the Internet is just another medium to screw up your Marketing with bland messages<br \/>\nthat do nothing to facilitate the decision-making process of your prospects. Yes &#8230; the Internet is an<br \/>\nimportant tool in your Marketing arsenal. But you need to have a great website &#8230; and that means<br \/>\nyou better fix your strategic messaging that I&#8217;ve been talking about or you&#8217;re going to fail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There&#8217;s an old saying that goes like this &#8230; If you want to know why Jane Doe buys what<br \/>\nJane Doe buys, you&#8217;ve got to see the world through Jane Doe &#8216;s eyes. But the problem is that,<br \/>\nwhile most businesses are very good at knowing what Jane Doe wants, because they aren&#8217;t<br \/>\ncommunications experts, they don&#8217;t have the ability to communicate through their Advertising<br \/>\nand Marketing their inside reality to the outside world. They can&#8217;t lead their prospects to say,<br \/>\n\u201cI would be an idiot to do business with anyone other than you&#8230; at anytime, anywhere or at<br \/>\nany price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>[wpforms id=&#8221;53050&#8243;]<\/strong><\/span><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"&lt;strong&gt;Purpose of Marketing | IMJustice Marketing&lt;\/strong&gt; aligncenter wp-image-37463 size-full\" title=\"Purpose of Marketing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tips-strategies-and-ideas-for-Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"Purpose of Marketing\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tips-strategies-and-ideas-for-Marketing.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.imjusticemarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tips-strategies-and-ideas-for-Marketing-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purpose of Marketing &nbsp; I mean, what is the purpose of Marketing? 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