Marketing Communications Integrating Offline and Online with Social Media
PART TWO Communications Tools 263
12 Selling, sales management and key account management 265
Introduction 266
Managing the sales force 270
Extending the sales force 273
Advantages and disadvantages 278
Summary 278
References and further reading 279
Further information 279
13 Advertising online and offline 281
Introduction 282
New advertising 283
Managing an advertising campaign 289
Case study 13.1: T-Mobile 300
Case study 13.2: HEA drug education 304
Advantages and disadvantages 308
References and further reading 308
Further information 309
14 Publicity and public relations – online and offline 311
Introduction 312
New and old PR tools 317
Advantages and disadvantages of PR 328
Case study 14.1: Virgin Mobile’s new tariff 334
Case study 14.2: Meet the Stars in a Muzu.TV intimate environment 337
Advantages and disadvantages summary 338
References and further reading 339
Further information 339
15 Sponsorship – online and offline 341
Introduction 342
New and old sponsorship tools 343
Managing a sponsorship programme 345
Advantages and disadvantages of sponsorship 349
Case study 15.1: TSB’s Roy of the Rovers 352
Advantages and disadvantages summary 353
References and further reading 354
Further information 355
16 Sales promotions – online and offline 357
Introduction 358
New sales promotions 361
Managing a sales promotion 364
Case study 16.1: The V&A digital art promotion 370
Case study 16.2: Rap anti-knife campaign 371
Case study 16.3: Muzu.TV film soundtrack promotion 374
Advantages and disadvantages 376
References and further reading 377
Further information 377
18 Exhibitions – online and offline 401
Introduction 402
Managing exhibitions 402
12 reasons for poor performance 410
Case study 18.1: Sedgwick at RIMS Monte Carlo 410
Advantages and disadvantages 412
References and further reading 413
Further information 413
20 Packaging 425
Introduction 426
The designer’s tools 429
The packaging design process 435
Case study 20.1: Brand range development in India 438
Advantages and disadvantages 441
References and further reading 442
Project of selling and sales management of MagazineDurgadatta Dash
Includes all the phases of sales along with sales pitch, sales force evaluation, sales forecasting, sales quota and budgeting and territory design along with the organizational structure.
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Our pioneering research and analytic methods help business measure equity, perception and position a brand appropriately among its target audience
Our analytic are designed to help a business understand the efficiency of the marketing & communication plan
In a nutshell, we provide an integrated platform in order to arrive at an informed decision
The above report explains the importance of marketing concepts in travels and tourism industry. Thomson holidays which is tourism company and wants to create a culture holiday package of 6 days , this report helps the company to assess the role of marking research and strategic marketing planning to attract the customer towards the package offered.
Entrepreneurial Marketing - MITPortugal Program May 2013Frank Days
One of my business school classmates asked me to guest lecture on entrepreneurial marketing and share my experiences as a tech startup CMO. I tried to tailor it to the fact that most were early stage startups with limited resources.
Project of selling and sales management of MagazineDurgadatta Dash
Includes all the phases of sales along with sales pitch, sales force evaluation, sales forecasting, sales quota and budgeting and territory design along with the organizational structure.
Therefore Consulting and Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (TC&S) is a technology enabled marketing research and analytical solution provider
Our pioneering research and analytic methods help business measure equity, perception and position a brand appropriately among its target audience
Our analytic are designed to help a business understand the efficiency of the marketing & communication plan
In a nutshell, we provide an integrated platform in order to arrive at an informed decision
The above report explains the importance of marketing concepts in travels and tourism industry. Thomson holidays which is tourism company and wants to create a culture holiday package of 6 days , this report helps the company to assess the role of marking research and strategic marketing planning to attract the customer towards the package offered.
Entrepreneurial Marketing - MITPortugal Program May 2013Frank Days
One of my business school classmates asked me to guest lecture on entrepreneurial marketing and share my experiences as a tech startup CMO. I tried to tailor it to the fact that most were early stage startups with limited resources.
To appreciate the context of entrepreneurial marketing as distinct to traditional marketing
To examine the entrepreneurial marketing concept – philosophy and consumer orientation
To establish the areas vital to a marketing plan
To establish the concept and need for customer segmentation
To identify the key elements of an effective market survey
To outline the processes and entrepreneurial tactics in marketing esearch
To examine marketing on the internet and the emerging use of social media and mobile marketing for entrepreneurial firms
To differentiate green marketing from traditional marketing practice
To discuss the key features of a pricing strategy and how customisation influences the perception of price by the customer
Core Concept of Marketing, Nature and Scope of Marketing, Importance, Selling Vs Marketing, Marketing Concepts, Segmentation, Basis of Segmentation, Targeting, Strategies of Targeting, Positioning, Strategieis of Positioning, Consumer Markets and Buying Behaviour, Consumer Behaviour, Buying Decision Behaviour
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
First Things First: Building and Effective Marketing Strategy
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Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
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Key Takeaways:
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The Forgotten Secret Weapon of Digital Marketing: Email
Digital marketing is a rapidly changing, ever evolving industry--Influencers, Threads, X, AI, etc. But one of the most effective digital marketing tools is also one of the oldest: Email. Find out from two Houston-based digital experts how to maximize your results from email.
Key Takeaways:
Email has the best ROI of any digital tactic
It can be used at any stage of the customer journey
It is increasingly important as the cookie-less future gets closer and closer
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
2. Sales!!
Doesn’t that sound boring , monotonous !!!
Instead
New business development
Account manager
Key account manager
Relationship manager
Marketing executive are often preferred
4. SELLING
• The purpose of selling is not just to sell.
• Master salespeople gather intelligence and build
relationships !
• Team selling may become more popular as –
research and development,
production, distribution,
sales,
marketing head
even legal and financial people work with the customer.
5. CONSULTATIVE SELLING
Looking at customers as partners with
whom a company wishes to develop a
long-term, repeat-business relationship
requires a shift in the business paradigm
from ‘selling to them’ to ‘working with
them.
6. KEY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT (KAM)
• Key account management means managing the
most important customer relationships.
• Requires highly skilled senior salespeople or senior
management.
• Solutions selling and collaborative selling.
• Negotiating skills
• Legal skills (an understanding of legal issues and contracts).
9. MANAGING THE SALES FORCE
Types of salespeople
Recruiting
Training
Motivating
Controlling
10. THE 7P APPROACH TO SELLING
SKILLS
-approach identifies areas for skill improvement
1. Prospecting (looking for potential customers);
2. Preparation (objective setting, continual customer
research, etc);
3. Presentation (demonstration, discussion);
4. Possible problems (handling objections);
5. ‘Please give me the order’ (closing the sale or getting the
order);
6. Pen to paper (recording accurately all relevant details);
7. Post-sales service (developing the relationship).
11. RECRUITING
• Determining the right size and structure of the sales force.
• What is the optimum call frequency?
• Who should service the account?
• Recruitment is a continual process that demands skills, cash
and time.
# The New York Sales and Marketing Association (2002)
revealed that 71 per cent of customers buy from a
salesperson simply because they like and trust the
salesperson.
12. TRAINING
• Training is an ongoing affair, not a
one-off activity. It is a continuous
process. Like thinking, it requires
practice
• The three pieces of knowledge that
the professional salesperson must
have are:
1. Product knowledge (marketing mix,
features and benefits, and unique
selling propositions – USPs).
2. Market knowledge (customers and
competitors).
3. Company knowledge (history,
structure, etc).
13. MOTIVATING
• Publishing the monthly sales figures against
targets for each sales rep and circulating the
figures among the sales team.
leading to competition among members, which may inhibit them
from sharing ideas,contacts, leads and even closing techniques.
• Psychic income offers - being valued,
recognized, rewarded and challenged .
• Even a clap on the back, a thank-you !
14. CONTROLLING
Controlling the sales force involves analysing sales:
1. by product
2. by market or region
3. by salesperson
Sales can also be analysed by profitability or the
contribution each order makes towards the overall
profitability of the organization - encouraging the
salesperson to sell higher-margin products or services rather
than succumbing to the temptation of –
1) giving discounts
2) pushing easier
3) low- margin items.
15. TELEMARKETING
- used for appointment setting, lead generation, list building or cleaning, market
research, customer care and even shareholder communications.
MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING
- system of selling goods directly to customers through a network of self-employed
sales people.
manufacturer distributors,
more distributors more distributor .. . . . . .
Each distributor is on a particular level of discounts.
-effectively earning income on their own direct sales to the distributors they have
recruited.
16. SUMMARY
• Sales Force is a key marketing resource that can
determine the success or otherwise of any
organization.
• Sales teams and marketing people need to work
together more closely to share intelligence and leads
in a systematic process.
• Managing the sales resource requires clear
management skills.
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18. Advertisingis changing all the time.
morphing into dialogues,
social media,
user-generated content
and a myriad of wonderful new ways of communicating
with customers.
These includes -
1. Contextual advertising,
2. Behavioural advertising,
3. Location-based advertising,
4. User-generated ads,
5. Long-form and short- form ads,
6. Apps, social TV,
7. Postmodern ads
19. NEW ADVERTISING
METHODS
1. Contextual advertising and
behavioural
advertising
2. Location-based advertising
3. User-generated ads
4. Long-form ads
5. Short-form ads
6. Sponsored TV
7. Apps
8. Integrated mobile apps,
9. TV and social TV
10. Postmodern ads
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22. MANAGING AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN
Full marketing plan,
- an advertising plan
- an integrated social media plan.
Situation –
What are the current sales trend, market share trend and overall market trend?
Are there any regions or segments that buy more than others?
How big are the competition’s sales (per region and per distribution channel)?
What is the profile of the customer and of the non-customers who might be
converted?
Who is the target market now and in the future?
Who are the heavy users?
When do they buy?
Where do they buy?
How is the brand positioned in the minds of various target markets?
23. PRODUCT INTERROGATION
1. Is there anything unique about the pro- duct (a unique selling
proposition – USP)?
2. product characteristics,
3. user characteristics,
4. ways of using,
5. benefits of using,
6. dis- advantages of non-usage,
7. competitor comparisons,
8. product heritage,
9. customer cases,
10. newsworthiness and more.
24. # Social media potential -Some social media tools can be used to
identify hot topics, phrases and even words (eg Google Zeitgeist and Google Trends).
# Trend
identification
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28. Introduction
• What is PR?
• Public Relation and Marketing
• Product PR and Corporate PR
• PR is more than communication
• PR Mix
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29. New and Old PR Tools
• Media Relations and Publicity
• News Release
• Online Newsroom
• Press Conference and interviews
• Video News release
• Syndicated Radio Interviews and down
the line interviews
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30. New and Old PR Tools (contd)
• Blogs, Facebook and Twitter
• Photography
• Publicity Stunts
• Viral Marketing
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33. Advantages and Disadvantages of PR
• Differences of editorial coverage over advertising
1. No media cost
2. Higher Credibility
3. Lack of control
• Uncontrollable publicity – any publicity is good
publicity?
• Controlled integration of publicity
• Crisis Management – avoid legal action
• Control – measuring media relations
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34. Footballer takes on the press
• John Terry was granted a super-injunction to stop
newspapers reporting details of his alleged affairs.
• But when the judge overturned the ruling a week
later, the scorned media went in for the kill.’
- Luckett (2010)
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37. New and Old Sponsorship Tools
Let’s take an example
1. Sponsoring a catch – fan catches 33,000 pizzas
2. Sponsoring bad sex – Hamlet Cigars
• sponsored Literary Review’s
• Annual Bad Sex Grand Booby Prize.
• The award is given to the writer whose novel
contains the worst description of the sex act.
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38. Managing a Sponsorship Programme
• Situation – the target audiences
• Objectives
• Sponsorship strategy
• Tactical plans
• Action
• Control – monitor, measure and evaluate
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39. Objectives
• Increase awareness
• Build an image
• Improve or maintain relations
• Increase sales and open closed markets
• Increase sales (sampling and direct sales)
• Attract distributors or agents
• Create promotional material
• Circumventing advertising bans
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40. Strategy
Tiger Woods and a watch
• Tag Heuer and Tiger Woods
• £1.5 million
• Tiger Woods’s and Tag
Heuer’s brand values:
timing, focus and
commitment.
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41. Advantages and Disadvantages
• Advantages
• cost-effective (compared to advertising)
• help to build a brand
• goodwill and affection
• global markets
• (eg the World Cup) or local niches (eg a local art theatre)
• Disadvantages
• Sponsorship cannot close sales; only creates awareness.
• limited message - brand name
• Message cannot be controlled
• Ambush Marketing
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43. Key Points
• Almost anything can be sponsored
• Almost any target audience can be reached through
sponsorship
• Choose sponsorship programme carefully and
separate the initial excitement from the numerical
analysis
• Cost effective – range of different objectives
• Maximize leverage
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44. Key Points
• Does not have total control over the message
• Think global, act local
• Budgets should be secured
• Keep employees informed
• Run a small pilot scheme
• Beware of ambush marketing
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47. Promotion Strategy
Promotional
Strategy
A plan for the optimal use of
the elements of promotion:
Advertising
Public Relations
Sales Promotion
Personal Selling
Competitive
Advantage
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48. 1. Movement towards Relationship marketing.
2. Recessions- Price conscious customers.
3. Powerful Retailers.
4. High Television Advertising.
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70. EXHIBITIONS
• Exhibitions are the only medium that brings the whole
market together – buyers, sellers and competitors.
• All under one roof for a few days.
• Products and services can be seen, demonstrated or
tested, and face-to-face contact can be made with a large
number of relevant decision makers in a short period of
time.
• Exhibitions are a powerful Marketing Communication
Tool, but they require detailed planning whether offline,
online or in virtual worlds.
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76. Packaging
Importance of packaging .
Functions(Protect ,Convenience,Communicate)
six variables (shape,size, colour, graphics,
materials and smell).
Case Study (Boroline Vs
BoroPlus)
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77. Websites and Social Media
How to satisfy customers ?
1) High quality content; 2) Easy navigation; 3) quick
downloading; and 4) updated info .
1) High quality content
● Scenario planning (Relevance Info)
● Personas; (Capturing User’s Experience)
● Sizzle; (Virtual Tours , Camera Company , Bacardi ,Harley
Davidson Etc)
● Customer engagement
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78. 2) Easy navigation
●Simple (7 is best)
●Consistent (Page layouts,etc)
●Sign Posts
How to convert visitors to customers ?
●Call to Action(Strong Incentive)
●Price Lining
●Simplified process (Easy Form Filling)
●Reduced Customer Anxiety(Provide Contact Details ,
Money Back Guarantee , COD)
●Contact Strategy
●Relevant Landing Pages
●Digital Body Language
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79. Successful Social Media(Social Media Optimization is
new SEO.)
●Create a Presence
●Listen
● Join the Conversation
●Content Strategy
●Measure and Report
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