24 Oct Outsourced Marketing Advantages
What’s outsourced marketing all about? When you’re setting up a business, one of the biggest challenges you face will be raising the profile of your brand so that people are aware of you and the services or products you provide. When you are in the early stages of growing your business, finding the time to market your brand can often be a stretch too far.
Having an effective communications strategy can reap huge rewards for your business, including highlighting your brand to your target customers and ensuring the message you promote is aligned with your tone of voice. In the long term, clear brand messaging can help you beat your competition, securing stronger relationships with your customers and generating increased sales.
So how do you solve the challenge of marketing your business when you are so busy with everything else you have to do? A solution could be to hire an outsourced marketing expert, to act as your personal marketing manager.
There are many benefits of outsourced marketing, including:
Cost effective
In the early stages of building a business, factoring in an extra head can be a big ask. It might be that you haven’t been involved in marketing strategies previously and want to see some return on your investment before considering an in-house marketing role. As your business needs increase and decrease through the different life cycle stages of building and maintaining your brand, your expert marketing manager can be on hand to offer increased support.
Expertise
Outsourcing your marketing ensures you are working with an experienced, capable agency who have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering tangible business results. It’s also your personal marketing manager’s job to stay ahead of developing trends within the marketing industry, including rapidly changing digital and technological innovations.
From offline marketing, PR and events to online social media, website and email marketing, outsourcing your marketing means you can utilise external expertise to ensure your strategy creates as much impact as possible, while keeping your time free to manage your business.
Peace of mind
Entrusting your fledging brand to someone external to your company might feel daunting at first. Outsourcing your marketing allows you to free up precious time to invest in developing your business, knowing that your marketing strategy and communications are safe in expert hands.
Livingroom128 is a marketing consultancy based in London, offering marketing and communications consultancy services for small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. To see how we can help you coordinate your strategy, get in touch today.