How to Develop a Holistic Direct Selling Marketing Strategy

Just as in any other industry, more and more consumers prefer online platforms in direct selling too. And the importance of a holistic direct selling marketing strategy becomes clear and much needed. A sound and effective strategy is made up of marketing tactics on platforms that are both offline and on-site. However in today's world, with the advancements in technology, it is all about digital strategies that can generate awareness for your brand, attract new customers and distributors to your network, drive customer loyalty to your brand, and ultimately increase sales and growth.

It is imperative to know your network of customers and distributors before developing any strategies. There are many ways to understand the trends and patterns among your team. Talking with customers on a regular basis, providing ways for distributors to understand their customers better, reading reviews or testimonials from previous customers, looking at the trends in the marketplace and industry are a few.

Effective and robust customer engagement processes are also an important factor. The campaigns must not only be attracting new customers, but they should also let them know what your business has to offer them. That is, let them know the value of your business. This can highly improve them engagement rate for your business. 

The primary goal of every direct selling company is to build better relationships with their distributors and customers and provide them with a better engagement experience while interacting with their brand. Apart from the old and tried traditional methods, companies can try new and innovative methods that ensure customer and distributor engagement. Companies can organize events, programs or communications that encourage distributors and customers to take action on your company’s products or services by providing relevant content tailored to them while creating brand advocacy and trust between both parties.

Publishing relevant and useful information and posts on social media platforms is a great way to attract people to your brand. Thus it becomes one of the best methods to bring in more quality leads and prospects. Direct sales businesses can build personas of their audience from these leads based on their engagement rates, click through rates, likes, messages. comments, and reactions and classify and group them into different segments.