Posts Tagged ‘online marketing’

Three Simple, but Effective Marketing Strategies

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Integrate Your Marketing Efforts – As an internet marketing consulting firm we oftentimes find that online communications are somehow segregated from other communication vehicles. By simply integrating, or at least informing your online marketers of what is taking place online they can better help to make sure that your online efforts can benefit.

At Marketing Performance we have developed a list of seven ways that marketing programs can be better integrated. You can view our free down loadable white papers Tips on Increasing Your Marketing ROI

Develop Key Performance Indicators – Essentially key performance indicators or KPI’s are how you define success in your organization. While obviously sales is the primary metric, it is also critical to develop other metrics that allow you to measure your organization more upstream and hence develop greater predicative measurement tools that can help you pinpoint trends before they impact the bottom line. Also KPI’s can help you better analyze your marketing efforts in quantifiable ways that can provide value to the organization.

A few examples of KPI’s that we’ve helped companies integrate include measuring number of site visitors in a given sales territory or region, analyze visitor content interest (what products are the most popular and which are being ignored).

Expanded Exposure to New Markets for Free – Through a strategic use of search engines it is possible to capture new markets in ways that build long-term revenue and marketshare. Several Marketing Performance clients have actually entered brand new markets through this strategy that leveraged their current internal experience as well as long-term strategic directions.

How is Your Brand Health?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

branding

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a key set of fundamental metrics — which can be actively managed — linking the health of a brand to revenue and consumer commitment.

Executives like to talk about strong brands as platforms for sustained growth. In the management literature, the link between brand equity and shareholder value is well accepted. So, why is the responsibility for brand-building not more actively managed in the executive suite?

In our work across sectors, we see companies often failing to “walk the talk” — unable to grasp the link between brand health and revenue commit­ment from customers. They treat brand-building superficially, believing that what matters is making brute-force impressions through large advertising campaigns.

Yet brand health is based on more than image and, through a set of key interrelated measures, can be linked to business performance.

How does the concept of brand health compare to the notion of brand equity?

Brand equity is linked to shareholder value. It is an intangible, long-term measure of a company, which is of little use to executives making investment trade-offs that affect top-line growth. By contrast, brand health is linked to current and future value with consumers and differences in com­petitive position. It is tangible and vital to managing brands and business performance on a forward-looking basis. (more…)

Did email win the election for Obama?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Email is such a vital part of today’s marketing mix. Already, much has been written about President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign and its highly effective use of new media and direct marketing tactics to tap into and engage with a wide base of supporters. Many say this strategy gave Democrats the crucial edge needed to win this year’s election.

It wasn’t just Obama’s presidential campaign that used email effectively this year; it was the Democratic National Committee program as a whole. They followed email marketing best practices to engage and inform their subscribers, as well as solicit donations.

Here are a few lessons we can all take away from the DNC’s email program from the past year: (more…)