Section 1: Understanding your customer and the market
Section 2: Your vegan marketing toolbox
Section 3: Creating and carrying out your marketing plan

Your physical environment

If you have a shop or store that you sell from then this is full of opportunities to roll out your marketing ideas.  Any place that you want customers to walk in to should be an experience, and it should be remarkable in the true sense of the word – something should make them stop and remark when they walk in.  Something should make them have to pull their phone out to take a photo to share it on social media when they walk into your shop.  Collaborate with a local vegan artist to make your walls their canvas.  Have a giant pig soft-toy that welcomes people as they walk in.  Create a sign outside that will people will stop in the street to photograph.  Have a chalk board next to your till and ask customers to write what they are the most grateful for in their lives right now as they are waiting to pay.  If you have a vegan cafe, how can you make sure that every person that walks into your cafe has a reaction and shares it on social media?  This isn’t just a throwaway comment, it’s a really serious question that should be at the core of your marketing.  You need your business to be remarkable.  How can you can create a vegan cafe that people will travel across the country to visit just because they saw a photo of it on social media? 

 

And this doesn’t just apply if you have a shop. Look at your working environment and make it remarkable. I’ve been to people’s offices where they have made wall art using old vinyl records they bought from eBay for next to nothing. Pick up interesting items online or in bric-a-brac shops. Find large, high-impact art for your walls, and if it has a vegan message even better. Not only will they make your backdrops more interesting when you are recording videos and posting on social media, but they will make you feel more creative and motivated too.

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