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	<title>Comments on: We Should Always Market Like There&#8217;s a Recession</title>
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		<title>By: Pamela Weir</title>
		<link>http://www.markettothemoment.com/2009/03/05/we-should-always-market-like-theres-a-recession/#comment-1898</link>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Weir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Steff
Thanks for your comment. 

I believe a relationship-based marketing strategy is more valuable than any advertising you can buy.
It&#039;s important to get back to basics and focus on a message that speaks directly to our customers not above them, or to their thinning wallets.
Listening to our customers is the first step. 

As you said &quot;it&#039;s as easy as creating a community around your business customers WANT to be a part of.&quot;
We always remember the companies that went out of their way to make us feel important and understood. 
Can you really convey that in an ad?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Steff<br />
Thanks for your comment. </p>
<p>I believe a relationship-based marketing strategy is more valuable than any advertising you can buy.<br />
It&#8217;s important to get back to basics and focus on a message that speaks directly to our customers not above them, or to their thinning wallets.<br />
Listening to our customers is the first step. </p>
<p>As you said &#8220;it&#8217;s as easy as creating a community around your business customers WANT to be a part of.&#8221;<br />
We always remember the companies that went out of their way to make us feel important and understood.<br />
Can you really convey that in an ad?</p>
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		<title>By: Copywriter Steff</title>
		<link>http://www.markettothemoment.com/2009/03/05/we-should-always-market-like-theres-a-recession/#comment-1897</link>
		<dc:creator>Copywriter Steff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Pamela, for a wonderful post. We live in such a consumer-driven, impersonal world nowadays, the businesses that listen to our needs and make us feel like they&#039;re here for US, rather than the other way around - they&#039;re the businesses we return to, again and again.

One of the easiest costs a company can cut during the recession is the advertising budget. But that doesn&#039;t mean they should stop advertising. The best advertising costs nothing - word-of-mouth buzz about your products - and it&#039;s as easy as creating a community around your business customers WANT to be part of.

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;Copywriter Steff’s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://small-business-copywriter.com/5-profit-website/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;5 Things Every non profit website needs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Pamela, for a wonderful post. We live in such a consumer-driven, impersonal world nowadays, the businesses that listen to our needs and make us feel like they&#8217;re here for US, rather than the other way around &#8211; they&#8217;re the businesses we return to, again and again.</p>
<p>One of the easiest costs a company can cut during the recession is the advertising budget. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they should stop advertising. The best advertising costs nothing &#8211; word-of-mouth buzz about your products &#8211; and it&#8217;s as easy as creating a community around your business customers WANT to be part of.</p>
<p><abbr><em>Copywriter Steff’s last blog post..<a href="http://small-business-copywriter.com/5-profit-website/" rel="nofollow">5 Things Every non profit website needs</a></em></abbr></p>
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