Systemising Marketing: Attracting Your Ideal Customers
- Herman Veitch
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
Hunting or Farming? How to Systemise Your Marketing to Attract the Perfect Client
You've built a great business, but attracting the right customers—the ones who value your structured systems and pay your worth—can feel like a constant scramble. For the business owner, relying on random referrals is no longer scalable. You need a systemised marketing process that reliably brings in your ideal client.
This article is about the crucial starting point: strategic analysis and choosing the right approach to consistently fill your pipeline.
Phase 1: Strategic Analysis and Planning
Before you spend a single dollar on an ad or post on social media, you need a plan. The goal here is to define exactly who you're talking to and why they should listen.
1. Defining Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
This is more than just demographics; it's about understanding their pain points and goals. You already know your Ideal Client Profile (see the blog on the voice of the customer) is overwhelmed with scaling and seeks efficiency. Your marketing system must address this directly.
Pain Points: Focus your message on the "struggles with decision-making" and "inefficiencies" they feel.
Core Value: Emphasise the "efficiency and effectiveness" your systems offer.
2. Hunting vs. Farming: Choosing Your Customer Strategy
How you approach customer acquisition must be systemised. It often falls into two main camps:
Hunting Strategy (Quick Wins): Aggressively pursuing immediate sales opportunities (e.g., targeted ads, cold outreach). This is often necessary for short-term revenue spikes.
Farming Strategy (Long-Term Growth): Nurturing leads and building long-term relationships through valuable content and community (e.g., blogging, newsletters, community networks). This is crucial for sustainable growth.
The Scaler's System: The most effective marketing system for scaling businesses uses a blend: Hunting for immediate revenue and Farming to build long-term authority and trust.
Phase 2: Building Your Marketing Mix (The 4 Ps Introduction)
The framework for your entire marketing system is the marketing mix, traditionally known as the 4 Ps: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. Strategic analysis feeds into how you define each of these:
Product: What unique solution are you offering?
Price: What value does it reflect?
Place: Where do customers find your solution?
Promotion: How do you communicate its value?
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself." — Peter Drucker. Systemising the 4 Ps is how you achieve this fit.
Did you know? Businesses that clearly define and target their ideal customer see an average 20% higher conversion rate than those that use broad, untargeted strategies.
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