4. Marketing Context
Event Industry growth rate- 20% p.a
Management Fest becomes a marketing tool of the Institute
Increased Internet Usage
- Expected to increase to 500mn in 2018
- Mobile penetration of active Internet users is 220mn
88% of users share content on their social profiles
5. Marketing Objectives
Create Brand Awareness for Shatranj
Search Engine Optimization to increase rank, traffic and
conversion
Drive students to register for the event
Generate more footfalls for the event
6. Typical Prospect
Students
College and B-school students
Age: 18-26years
Corporate
Age: 25-45years in Pune (Corporate Quiz)
Associates who will help us promote/ publicize our event
7. Assumptions
A good renowned jury attracts more footfalls
A good reward gets more footfalls
Appears as an extra-curricular on one’s resume which will
drive him to participate
8. Role
Appears as an extra-curricular on one’s resume
Compete with the best minds of different college
Professional Networking tool
All-round development
10. Measurement Criteria
Increase awareness by broader fan base on Social Media sites
Increase in the SEO rank for organic search
Number of registrations through digital media- Sprout Social
and Google Analytics
12. Shatranj
Sentiment Reach Co. Posts Feedback Avg
response
time
Facebook
Page
0 12 2 0 -
Twitter 0 1 Just Started
LinkedIn 0 7 0 0 0
Search • For Keyword “Shatranj,” Does not appear in first 10 pages
• For Keyword “Flame Shatranj”, Search results for 2 pages show
Shatranj
• For Keyword “Shatranj Pune”, shows up on Page 4
• For Keyword “Management Fest”, does not appear in the first 10
pages
• For Keyword “College Fest”, does not appear in the first 10 pages
14. Why Digital?
48.3% students in India use Internet 2-3 times a week, 40% use it
daily, and 5.6% use in 2-3 times a month
47.4% of students use Internet for communication, and 37.4% for
entertainment
Facebook used by more than 85% of college students in India
More than 33mn users for Twitter and 26mn for LinkedIn in India
15. Digital Campaign Objectives
SEO/SEM
- Increase Rank on SEO for Organic Search
- Search Engine Marketing to create more leads
Facebook
- Create Awareness
- Engage more students on the Shatranj page
- Drive students to register for the event through the
registration link
16. Twitter
- Increase Followers
- Use trending hash tags to create awareness
- Create Excitement with commonly used hash tags
- Lead them to the registration link
Other Sites
- To drive audience to our registration link
17. Target Market
Students
College and B-school students
Age: 18-26years
Corporate
Age: 25-45years in Pune (Corporate Quiz)
Associates who will help us promote/ publicize our event
18. How to Engage?
Single well Designed and Attractive Landing page for all the ads
24hours response guarantee
Interactive Content Strategy to drive traffic on the registration
link
23. Shatranj
Strengths
- Registered Trademark
- Present on event sites
- Institutional support
- More than 700 fans on
Facebook
Weakness
- No official website
- Least Social Media presence
on FB, Twitter and other sites
- Very low rank on organic
search
- Outdated Information (last
year’s)
- Very Limited Awareness
24. Kurukshetra
Strengths
- Good Simple Website
- Use of Celebrities to drive
students
- Past History
- Sports Fest
- Good Social Media presence
on FB
Weakness
- Least Social Media presence
Twitter and other event sites
- Least Engagement on the
social media sites
- Very low rank on organic
search
25. Umang
Strengths
- Past Established History
- Number of footfalls and
registrations
- Strong Social Media
presence
- Good Engagement with its
fans/followers
Weakness
- Very low rank on organic
search
26. Social Media Goals
Facebook
- Create Awareness
- Engage more students on the Shatranj page
- Drive students to register for the event through the registration link
Twitter
- Increase Followers
- Use trending hash tags to create awareness
- Create Excitement with commonly used hash tags
- Lead them to the registration link
Other Sites
- To drive audience to our registration link