All Things Guerrilla: Guerrilla Marketing

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Guerrilla Marketing: All Things Guerrilla

All Things Guerrilla
Guerrilla marketing is key to the success of any small business and entrepreneur, without a huge marketing budget.   More small business and entrepreneurs should practice guerrilla marketing tactics in their efforts to gain recognition and a reputation in their market, as well as profits.
According to Wikipedia.com, guerrilla marketing is defined as:
An unconventional system of promotions that relies on time, energy, and imagination rather than a big marketing budget. Typically, guerrilla marketing campaigns are unexpected and unconventional, potentially interactive and consumers are targeted in unexpected places. The objective of guerrilla marketing is to create a unique, engaging and thought provoking concept to generate buzz and consequently turn viral. (¶1)
From this we can see that guerrilla marketing involves a lot of ingenuity and belief in self.
Guerrilla marketing once was a fringe movement in the world of advertising, but now is more popular and mainstream since the 1980’s, when marketing expert Jay Conrad Levinson introduced the concept to the world at large. Jay Conrad Levinson’s credited as the father of guerrilla marketing, ideas paved the way for small business’ to compete in the marketing arena with big companies (Delana, 2008).
Guerrilla marketing has a major profit orientation and emphasis. Because guerrilla marketers don’t have unlimited funds, marketers must incorporate financially conscious ideas in order to accomplish work tasks. This is done through the full use of time, energy, information, knowledge and above all, imagination.

According to Entrepreneur.com:
Guerrilla marketing is based on human psychology and the way people think and react vs. judgment and guesswork. Guerrilla marketing employs a focus on markets and target audiences vs. trying to be all things to mass markets. Instead of out and out competition,... [continues]

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