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Read This Before You Get Into Women Marketing

Ah, women! What do women want? You can either ask Mel Gibson or you can learn from this.

How do you market to women? If you are really that observant, you are probably aware of the fact that some companies are getting into women more effectively while others have not been very successful. The more successful ones are re-designing their processes to make it more women-friendly. The unsuccessful ones do as little as use photos of women on their sites and call it a day.

Let me enumerate some mistakes that you must avoid if ever you consider venturing in something that would catch the fancy of these fair creatures. These tips are meant to serve as a quick checklist to follow as you design a new campaign. Read on:

1. Assumption: Thinking that women are just a "niche".

Fact: Women are the primary consumers in the United States.

Women are not just a niche. They in fact, represent an economic powerhouse, making over 85% of the consumer purchases (in the United States) and influencing over 95% of total goods and services. Women also purchase 50% or better of traditional "male" categories like automobiles, consumer electronics, and PCs.

2. Assumption: Thinking that the female consumer marketing opportunity requires less funding.

Fact: Women are economic powerhouse so reaching them should be a budget priority.

As a consumer group, women are a force to contend with. Efforts to connect with your women consumers overall should have a fully dedicated source of funds behind them.

3. Assumption: More men are on-line than women.

Fact: Women are increasingly becoming the majority of Web users and do the most on-line shopping in the US.

In 2000, women became a slight majority of Web users in the United States for the first time in history (51% female/49% male). More importantly, women make up almost half of first-time Web buyers.

4. Assumption: Women like to be entertained with on-line shopping (like they do at malls).

Fact: Women prefer to be well-informed and focused while purchasing on-line.

If you truly know how a woman makes a purchase, all your efforts would focus on making them an informed decision-maker. This may include site navigation, archives, and customer service. Surprisingly, women are actually different from what are being projected  meandering and social mall cruising lots.

The above facts have been culled from studies about how women make purchases. These should help you save significant time and money whether you are examining your current marketing strategy, or building a new initiative, or even coming up with a new plan for your commercial color printing ad.

What does a woman want? Well, you have to find out. Reaching women more effectively isnt rocket science, but it is still a little bit complicated, dont you think?

Kaye Z. Marks is a writer and an observer. She is continuously fascinated with the developments in commercial color printing technologies which greatly help the advertising and marketing of small to medium businesses. Visit http://www.justprint.com to get help on implementing this topic on your advertising/marketing campaign.

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