Fusion Marketing (or, "how to get other people to market your business with you")
Every business, big or small, would love to generate more sales and spend less doing it. Fusion Marketing does just that - by creating relationships that get other people and businesses marketing for you.
Fusion Marketing is a way of thinking about your marketing and your business. It's something we use all the time both for our own business and for our clients. Here's our definition (please post a blurb if you've got a better one!)
The Fusion Marketing Principle
Every business, individual or organisation has both resources and needs/wants. By combining your marketing resources with others, everyone can more easily achieve their needs.
You can fuse with other businesses, your customers, the man on the street, the media, even your competitors.
Squidoo is a great Fusion example:
1. It fuses the talents of thousands of lensmasters to create an interesting site
2. It shares out the wealth (resource) to encourage people to promote it to their networks (resource)
3. It works with good causes and fuses their reputations with it's own and does a huge amount of good at the same time
This lens is about showing how fusion can work for businesses of all sizes and pointing to some great examples.
Fusion Marketing is a way of thinking about your marketing and your business. It's something we use all the time both for our own business and for our clients. Here's our definition (please post a blurb if you've got a better one!)
The Fusion Marketing Principle
Every business, individual or organisation has both resources and needs/wants. By combining your marketing resources with others, everyone can more easily achieve their needs.
You can fuse with other businesses, your customers, the man on the street, the media, even your competitors.
Squidoo is a great Fusion example:
1. It fuses the talents of thousands of lensmasters to create an interesting site
2. It shares out the wealth (resource) to encourage people to promote it to their networks (resource)
3. It works with good causes and fuses their reputations with it's own and does a huge amount of good at the same time
This lens is about showing how fusion can work for businesses of all sizes and pointing to some great examples.
Get more fusion ideas and examples at these sites
Fusion is everywhere, but more particularly it's on these sites:
- Really Practical Marketing
- My business site. We do a bit of fusion ourselves you know.
- Referrals Mean Business
- Referral programs are a great example of creating fusion with your customers, business contacts and supporters.
This blog post talks about the difference between PASSIVE and ACTIVE referrals. - Buzzoodle
- Learn how to create "internal fusion" - get your whole organisation using their own resources (networks, the people they meet, their 'face time' with customers) to create a buzz about your business.
- Fusion Diapers
- See a great example of Fusion in practice as Pampers partner up with UNICEF in Ireland.
- Jay Levinson on Fusion
- A great introductory article about Fusion marketing by the 'father' of guerrilla marketing Jay Conrad Levinson
- Wine Fusion
- A blog article about Forbes Wine Club and WineExpress
- 7 steps to a great referral program
- Referral programs are a fundamental part of any fusion campaign. This blog article and extract from a piece by John Jantsch show you how to create one in 7 steps.
- What is guerrilla marketing?
- A simple intro article to guerrilla marketing from Entrepreneur.com
- Entrepreneur Article on Fusion
- More from Entrepreneur this time all about Fusion
- XBox Fusion
- Dosh Dosh article about how XBox is working with charitable foundation to distribute xbox kiosks into childrens hospital wards
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Lamar_Morgan
Oct 24, 2010 @ 8:38 am | delete
- Also, if you have a clever marketing strategy for a small business or need some yourself, a great place to go is "Marketing Sparks." You can access it at www.budurl.com/Sparklers.
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Lamar_Morgan
Oct 24, 2010 @ 8:36 am | delete
- If you happen to operate a storefront venue (restaurant, coffee shop, etc.) you need to get yourself on Foursquare.com and showcase a Foursquare Cling Sticker on your storefront window. For more on this, visit the Squidoo lens - www.budurl.com/clings.
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Nov 19, 2007 @ 4:57 pm | delete
- Love your fusion resources and your book suggestions. My lens is 'small business, big profits' - I'd love for you to stop by and if you do - please be sure and say hello!
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Aug 2, 2007 @ 11:40 am | delete
- Hi marknagurski, Great lens. I really enjoyed articles . Taking inspiration , I have also created my lens, it got some great resources on affiliate marketing. It got some great articles, give you insight knowledge about this industry. To view the lens , click here
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NicoleBandes
Apr 24, 2007 @ 2:13 pm | delete
- Just wanted to let you know you have been added to my Lens as a marketing resource. Check it out at Relationship Marketing Lens.
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financegirls
Apr 10, 2007 @ 6:21 pm | delete
- fusion marketing sounds like a great marketing strategy,thanks for sharing this=)
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