Seminar
Marketing & Promotion - What's The Magic Formula
To Get The "Butts In The Seats"? Part
II
Seminars
promotion and marketing - how do you do it without
breaking the bank?
Hopefully
you've already read Part
I of this article, because the "ugly
reality" is that there is no cheap way to
do it - there is a myth that exists only in people's
minds that if they simply let people know about
their seminar, people will flock to it.
Nothing
could be further from the truth. Marketing a seminar
to "the unwashed masses" (i.e., the
general public) is an excruciatingly expensive
proposition with absolutely no guarantee of any
results...
...except
draining your bank account.
Now
- even if you did an inexpensive marketing campaign,
and even if it was very compelling sales copy,
and even if it was very tightly focused on a hungry
target market, even then you'd be lucky if you
sold enough seats to pay for your marketing.
So
I promised a "Magic Formula", and actually
I'm going to give you two!
Here's
the first "Magic Formula", and this
assumes you've got VERY good sales copy, and assumes
that you've got a hungry target market, and a
very tightly niched set of leads and prospects
to get your marketing message to.
You
will need to be prepared to lose money on your
seminar and look at it as a "loss leader"
so that you can make money on the back end.
That
means that you will NOT recoup your marketing
and promotion expenses, and that your actual seminar
costs and expenses will come out of your pocket
and not be recaptured via your actual seminar.
You
will make your money AFTER the seminar in your
consulting fees, in sales of your products, generating
revenues with your services.
So,
your fees for services and prices on products
then have to be high enough to justify the costs
such that just one or two new clients or customers
will make up for your seminar costs.
Stay
tuned for part II of the "Magic Formula"
to successful seminar marketing and promotion...
Here's
how to quick-start your seminar success:
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