The following presentation provides an introduction to Madhouse Associates (www.madhouseassociates.co.uk).
Madhouse is an Integrated Marketing Communications agency based in Manchester that provides a full range of digital and print marketing services to clients such as Toyota, Motorola and Interflora.
1. An Introduction to Madhouse Associates Chris Kershaw New Business Manager Chris.kershaw@madhousehq.co.uk +44 (0) 161 819 6600
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3. The positioning session Immersion into the product, its features and benefits Immersion into our target audience(s) Immersions into the competitor set and the wider market place The gap identifier; why our target audience would choose to buy our products instead of our competitors The big idea session – generating lots of ideas that could all be ways in which we communicate our offering to customers Selecting the proposition – through a process of refining we select one or two propositions that capture a new and exciting way to communicate our offering to our audience(s)
4. The strategy session Take the proposition from the positioning session Segmenting our target audience – using the profiles established in the positioning session and segmenting down further into niche groups Setting objectives – both business and communications Engagement – our strategy statement on how we intend to engage with our customers Measurement – set key performance indicators (KPI) that reflect the objectives of the strategy statement Tactics – how we are going to bring our strategy to life. This part of the session includes all aspects of rolling out messages to audience (s) The big plan – our plan of actions in rolling out our tactical activity
5. Website development approach Create a task analysis – what are our business goals and how will website support these. What are our users goals, what tasks must they complete in order to achieve these goals Create content inventory – categorise and describe the information on site offered to our users Agree requirements – what are the features, functions and content of the site that will optimise conversion of goals set in task analysis Learn about users – we create personas and scenarios of our users Create Information Architecture (IA) – so that users can quickly scan the navigation links on homepage as an indicator of the site content Define navigation – to make sure we inform our users quickly of what and where information is located on the site Create site map – a visual representation of the IA of our site Create a wireframe – a visual illustration of one webpage or the full site to show where each item should appear on page Conversion Optimisation and Usability testing – carried out post build to watch and monitor user activity Prototype testing – carried out pre-build to check user journey Write copy – taking into account how users read content online
44. Maximising impact of the communications Marketing collateral extensions could include: Customer Relationship Management activity Email Direct Mail Sales/information support Brochure hard copy PDF brochure download Website landing page