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Blue Moon Activewear
1. F R A M E W O R K S C R E A T I V E S
Blue Moon Activewear
Digital Marketing Plan
Elgin Braggs Morgan Farruya Spencer Merryman Kristen Spencer
2. Blue Moon Activewear
Owner: Cheri Chod
Fitness fanatic
Location: St. Louis, MO
Clayton’s Crescent Plaza
Shopping Center
1 location
Specialty Store
Activewear
Hours: Mon - Fri: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Established 2010
Company Overview
3. What’s In Store?
Blue Moon Activewear specializes in selling women’s activewear
and accessories. Cheri’s focus was to provide her customer with a
wide range of functional and stylish activewear brands for every
woman.
Brands:
• ALO
• Avani Activewear
• Bella Luxx
• Calvin Klein Performance
• Electric-Yoga Wear
• Falke
• Helen Knows Best
• LovethisLife
• lucy
• prAna
• Prismsport
• Public Myth
• Pure Karma
• SkirtSports
• Soybu
• Stonewear Designs
• Tees by Tina
• Twist Yoga Wear
• Yoga Jeans
Company Overview
4. Target Customer
Demographics
Gender: Women
Age: 20-40 yrs.
Education level: Some college and higher
Income level: $50,000 and higher
Geographics
Individuals residing in and around St. Louis, MO
Psychographics
Active lifestyle
Value fitness and fashion
Yoga
Company Overview
5. Current Marketing Strategy
Traditional Mix
Features in local magazines
St Louis Magazine
St Louis Post-Dispatch
Alliance with influencers
Emily Goble: Yoga Instructor/Blogger
Digital Mix
Facebook
Run by store owner and employees
Posts are inconsistent
Postings are links to e-newsletters
Currently 319 likes
E-newsletter
Website
Informational
Company Overview
6. SWOT Analysis
Strengths
• Great local base, owner is a local
• Sells premium activewear brands for women of all
sizes
• Hosts events for customers, such as yoga sessions
• Use of traditional marketing strategies
• Location
Weaknesses
• Inconsistent updates on Facebook
• Minimal social activity with target consumer
• Website is only informational
• Store hours (accessibility)
Mon - Fri: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Opportunities
• Open the option for online shopping
• Strengthen customer relationships by optimizing
the retailer connection with consumers through
social media
• Open additional locations
Threats
• Competition, more prominent activewear brands
and retailers
(Lululemon, Nike, etc.)
• Not enough brand awareness
Company Overview
7. Outline of Our Mission
Update Website
Update Newsletter
Digital couponing: Email and Social Media
Social Media: Facebook, Pinterest
Search Engine Optimization
Digital Managment
Proposed Strategy
9. Website Revamp
Squarespace
Inexpensive and easy
User friendly, sell product online
Increase time, place, and possession utility
What comes with it?
Unlimited: pages, galleries, blogs, storages,
bandwidth, and contributors
Fully integrated e-commerce
Real time carrier shipping
Label printing vua ShipStation
Integrated accounting by Xerox
A developer platform
Mobile website/store
Custom Domain
Fully functional Analytics
Annual cost: $288.00
Proposed Strategy
10. Email Marketing
Constant Contact is an email marketing
program that allows you to put on
campaigns and promotions for your
website subscribers
Reach 500 contacts monthly
Lunar Club
Digital reward for signing up
Emails about store updates, fitness tips,
trends, etc.
Annual cost: $540.00
Proposed Strategy
11. Digital Couponing
Printable coupons or quick response (QR) codes are popular methods used to reel in consumers.
Correctly advertising and placing these digital coupons will effectively broaden clientele
1. The first step would be
uploading an image and
generating barcodes
2. After designing the coupon,
develop capture fields
containing customer data. The
campaign would be set up
with beginning and end dates
3. Choose either a single coupon
banner or a coupon gallery;
add specific retail sites and
embed the code within blogs
and social media networks to
show the widget
4. Appropriately track optimized
analytical data to follow the
consumers behavior
Get 25% OFF your next purchase
Proposed Strategy
12. Digital Couponing
What will you be
able to track on
CouponFactory’s
analytical optimization
dashboard:
• Impressions
• Prints and Mobile Views
• Geographical Locations
• Clicks
• Referring URL
• Customer Data
• Conversion Rates
Proposed Strategy
13. Digital Couponing
Couponfactory.com will allow the retailer to use one service to
curate the coupons and appropriately track very detailed
information to ensure that this strategy is effective.
3 suggested package deals consisting of digital coupons, specific landing pages, and analytical impressions
What’s recommended is the 2nd package deal, which would contact
between 501 and 2500 people. Using this method alone will have
almost doubled the online presence of Blue Moon by exposure alone.
$60
Proposed Strategy
14. Social Media Strategy
Facebook
E-promotions given for those that like page
Posts will have updates on store and
merchandise
Remain a consistent presence
Utilize ads on Facebook
Used to increase page visits
Costs everyone is shown ad
300 views/day
Set own budget
Annual cost: $1,095.00
Proposed Strategy
15. Social Media Strategy
Pinterest
Profile will have different boards
created to capture the different
segments of consumers
1. ‘Fitness at Home’ : Workouts
aimed at tightening the core and
working out the lower body.
2. ‘Looks We Adore’ : Looks put on
display and will be exclusively
online.
3. ‘Eat Right, Feel Right’ :
Nutritious meals with a recipe
listed & at home yoga tutorials and
tips.
4. ‘Recent Trends’ : Recent trends
that correlate with fitness and
activewear.
5. ‘Accessories’ : Available
accessories sold in store.
Proposed Strategy
16. Digital Management
Intern
$8.00/hr and 15 hours/weekly
Hire individual skilled in digital
operating systems
Update social media and website
Management still required to
update
Hootsuite
$8.00/month
Used to manage all social media
seamlessly
Annual cost: $6,336.00
Proposed Strategy
17. Search Engine Optimization
Google Adwords
Website will be linked in a
recommended box when people
searches are related to Blue
Moon’s products
Costs are at personal discretion
META Tags
No cost
Embed key words within site
Back up for Adwords
Annual Cost: $750.00
Proposed Strategy
19. Updated SWOT
Strengths
• Great local base, owner is a local
• Sells premium activewear brands for women of all
sizes
• Hosts events for customers, such as yoga sessions
• Optimizes customer relationships through rewards
systems and social media
• Location
Weaknesses
• Single physical location
• Store hours (accessibility)
Mon - Fri: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Opportunities
• Explore other forms of social media, such as
Instagram or Twitter
• Possible release a private brand
• Open additional locations
Threats
• Competition, more prominent activewear brands
and retailers
(Lululemon, Nike, etc.)
• Not enough brand awareness
Proposed Strategy
20. F R A M E W O R K S C R E A T I V E S
THANK YOU
Elgin Braggs Morgan Farruya Spencer Merryman Kristen Spencer
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