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Our advertising methods were outdated, so we became interested in scent marketing.
January 17th, 2010 by admin
The Internet is a great place to learn about new branding strategies. I was doing some research a few weeks ago, and I came upon something called scent marketing. Many businesses develop a unique brand fragrance that they use to keep customers coming back. We have a jewelry shop in a small town, and I’ve decided to try a machine scent, so that we can see how effective it will be.
I think this is something we’ll have to try for a while before we know how well it works. I’ve heard from some people that the results are instantaneous, but that seems unlikely to me. I think it will be quite difficult to come up with a brand fragrance for a jewelry shop. There were many machine scent packages to choose from, but only a few of them sounded appropriate for our storefront. The literature on branding strategies has me convinced that this is a good idea, but I’m not going to be a true believer until I see results.
No matter what brand fragrance we end up choosing, I’m glad we’re finally exploring some real advertising technology for our business. We’ve relied too long on old-fashioned methods like newspaper ads and flyers. Now we’re finally using the cutting edge branding strategies that have been available for years. I can’t wait to get started shopping for a machine scent to use in our place of business.