Eco-friendly Marketing Strategies

Eco-friendly Marketing Strategies

Corporations around the world are changing their marketing to adapt to the global environmental crisis, collectively switching towards more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives to save the planet. Consumers are doing the same, with many more searching for more eco-friendlier products. A significant part of the consumer population wants to start looking for goods to buy that will either remove their carbon footprints or bring it to a minimum.

For corporations to effectively join this new marketing style, they need their products to transition into more sustainable and eco-friendly options for customers and the environment.

Switching your business to a green brand is not something you can magically do overnight. But, with commitment, it is possible to make it happen. Here are eco-friendly marketing strategies to make your organization more sustainable and green.

1. Incorporate Digital Marketing

The most advanced and up-to-date strategy is to replace all the traditional marketing strategies and signage with digital alternatives. Aside from being trendier and more modern, it will also save a lot of the paper used in newspapers. You can essentially eliminate any materialised form of advertisement. Online advertisement has become easier and faster. With emails and social media, you can quickly engage with audiences by having an active online presence. You can answer any questions related to your brand, and how you are working towards an eco-friendly organisation. The use of commercial signs is also recommended.

 

2. Include Green Products

Green products are products that are made from eco-friendly materials. They are also meant to be sourced ethically.

Expand your product range to include eco-friendly and ethically sourced goods and services as your main selling points. Your company can either add a more sustainable alternative to a product/ service or entirely replace it.

You can also look at other brands, get inspiration from their marketing strategies and implement those ideas into yours. You can even learn from their mistakes to be a better match for your competitors.

 

3. Get Actively Involved

Creating a green product is the first and simplest step toward making your organisation eco-friendly. However, consumers are more impressed when an organisation is actively involved in saving the environment using actions, both internally and externally.

There are many ways to achieve this including involving the entire workforce in switching to environmentally friendlier alternatives, promoting your eco-friendly goals, incorporating plastic-free initiatives in your organisation, and investing in sourced products within the market.

Get involved in donating to NGOs working to save the environment or simple environmentally friendly charity events. Promote this idea to everyone around you.

 

4. Choose a Sustainable Selling Proposition

Proving your brand is devoted to saving the environment will establish trust and draw customers to invest in it. One way to do this is to create a selling proposition to support your eco-friendly brand. Brainstorm some principles that resonate with potential consumers that support your cause. Be honest with your audience and walk them through every step from supplying to branding and then delivering. Advocate for animal cruelty-free products and the anti-animal testing policy.

 

5. Keep your audience informed about the process

When you sell a product at a higher price than what it was sold for before, your consumers will not immediately figure out the reasons behind it. To avoid this confusion, your customers need to be informed about the process of keeping products sustainable. When you highlight a product's manufacturing activity and costs, your customers will know that you have implemented eco-friendly materials. Discuss better labour pays for factory workers and all the beneficial humanitarian aspects of your brand to justify selling your sustainable products at a higher price. 

Transforming your products into green products should be the first step - you cannot promote environmental change when your corporation is not participating in that process. Once you have implemented eco-friendly options and sustainability in your goods or services, it's time to go further and promote green routines in your brands. This will set a good example and create trust between you and your customers.

Choose a proposition and a line, and then stick with it. Inform your consumers about the costs of making goods more sustainable and green. Use social media instead of newspaper ads to market your items since social media is the fastest way and does not require manufacturing paper.

After implementing these strategies, your organisation should be well-known for its eco-friendly branding.

 

We hope this article helped provide you with insight into environmentally friendly marketing ideas and inspired you to make the change.

Thank you for reading!

 

Written by: Isabella Roy 

Isabella Roy is a writer, who alongside content writing, also takes part in fiction writing. In addition to writing, she also has experience with all sorts of research, particularly in marketing & branding related fields. She has always been a fan of writing and learning about new topics. Outside writing, you’ll find her spending time with her cat, Laura.