Friday, January 8, 2010

SUSTAINABLE MARKETING


Marketing includes a number of concepts. Operational marketing mix marketing through viral marketing, the overall approach is to define the most appropriate management in the company to offer the lowest bid on the relevant market. The stakes are high. The concept has evolved over time, different schools compete but the final conclusion is the same: it mutates some years now a general view to a more targeted marketing and personalized. The customer is central to the process, as was the objective of yesteryear. It is therefore fundamental to the consumer and can therefore be welcomed.

The economic environment since the end of 30 glorious years has changed the system. We have moved from mass production to respond to mass consumption, a consumer pleasures. It is now entering a new era: the rational and responsible consumption.

Marketing must now take into account this development. The sustainable marketing was born. Closer to the concerns and needs of consumers and listening to a market, this new marketing must become more "sincere" and less to ensure a mercantile business model sustainable and profitable in the very long term.

The ongoing aggression of attractive offers are gone. The challenge is to better know your customer and understand and anticipate its behavior. The blow to handle communication programs can sometimes be productive cons. Some even speak of waste. Sustainable Marketing is to satisfy a customer by offering a genuine offer of confidence. Everything is said. The markets are regaining confidence and allocate budgets around the concept of customer satisfaction untaxed.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

4Points Wishes


Dear Sir / Madam

We feel really warmth to recall about this wonderful year passing by which made us bond together…

We felt much honored to serve you and we pray god to make this good relationship continue forever….

Thank you for your patronage!

Our heartfelt New Year wishes to you and your family…

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Commandments of Outdoor Creative


Mr. Pratap Bose from O&M 10 considerations that should go into the making of outdoor creatives.
The messages should be brief consisting of 3-5 words.
The message should legible. Capitals are used for display headings. Lower case a suitable for longer head-lines and sentences. Ornate lettering may reduce legibility. The minimum type height on a normal 20’x10’ hoarding should be upwards 30 cms.
Colors are used to contrast each other. Complementary colors, like red and green, are not readily visible.
Build a uniquely recognizable format or layout and repeat it often enough. It requires briefest eye contact to identify the brand.
The brand name works harder if it precedes the slogan.
Use graphics to organize the text.
The key word or phrase can be highlighted in a color box.
Faces used should not overwhelm the brand name. The pictures that are most effective are pictures of ordinary people.
Teaser campaigns can be effective in outdoor, although they account for a small proportion of outdoor campaigns.
The disruption of expectation: The consumer today enjoys a challenge and has the ability to deal with the abstract. The more innovative, the intriguing and the more humorous the creative execution of an outdoor ad is, the less media weight it needs. Conversely, the more mundane the creative the more media weight it requires.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Evaluation of Outdoors


Outdoors do require a proper evaluation system for providing site comparisons. The OSCAR (Outdoor Site Classification and Audience Research) study by MODE, Aaren and O&M in Bombay was a step in this direction. The study was carried out to evaluate hoarding sites in the City of Mumbai and develop as weight age index based on such criteria as visibility, height and illumination, angle, competition, deflection and obstruction. The aim was to indicate a gross OTS (opportunity-to-see) for each hoarding. The other criteria that should be included in the evaluation process are the number of pedestrians and vehicles passing by, the special characteristics of the site, nearness to other nearby messages that might interfere, the ambiance that can negatively affect the brand image and availability of effective night time illumination. Evaluation for moving media should consider the traffic and population of individual routes and an analysis of the life-styles of the people along the route.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

FUNNY THING OUTDOOR


Outdoors
Vantage Advertising (P) Ltd. is a Madras-based organization having contact points in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai. It specialized in ‘great outdoors. Its own ad copy reads “Outdoors are funny things. We haggle with the landlords, squabble with corporations, triangle with the environmentalists, and wrangle our way through. We take our site plans to the client. He mums and haws. He chews on it. He insists on a price-reduction. Before long, the stie is taken by another client. Sensation. ‘What a great site?’ Recrimination. ‘Why didn’t you offer it to me first?’ And the first client we went to says, “I’ll double the rental.”

Strange Thing, Outdoor
“Outdoor is a strange thing. We provide employment directly and indirectly to lacs to people in the country. Painters, structural workers, space sellers, neon sign makers, a myriad of ancillary helpers earn their livelihood through outdoor. We work under the blazing sun and bitterly cold winds. Not to speak of braving squalls thunder storms. We perch precariously on multi-storeyied precipices and we traverse lonely highways. That’s our business. Goes with the territory. Surprisingly few people actually know about our business.

Peculiar Thing, Outdoor
Outdoor is a peculiar thing. We’ve helped build some of the world’s famous brands. From Times Square and Piccadilly to Chowpatty and Chowranghee. The names are nightly increasing brand value. More often than not, outdoor is treated as a support medium. Yet some brands have used outdoor as their primary medium. We can do a lot more, and make that advertising bucks go a long way. Oh, ye planners of little faith come and see the light. Sign up, Bangalore emphasize the supportive function of outdoors to TV. Their headlines are ‘If you want people to remember your TV spots, try outdoors.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Outdoor Media


In the United States, Europe and China, outdoor advertising is fairly widespread. In India, however, it is mainly used by manufactures, government agencies, social and charitable organizations, hospitals, newspapers, magazines, advertising agencies, commercial houses for subscription displays, and the municipal authorities for civic purposes. The major earners from outdoor media are the railways, municipal corporations, state and central governments, and transport companies. The major objection to outdoor advertising is that it ruins the aesthetic beauty of cities and the countryside and distracts drivers on main roads and highways. A highway driving in India is an obstacle race compared to highway driving in the United States and Europe, where the putting up of hoardings is strictly controlled, and the messages relate to facilities along the way.

Hoardings are used in many ways in India. For instance, there are hoardings where 24-sheet printed posters are made use of it. In the large towns, painted hoardings are more common than in the small towns where printed posters are preferred. Some advertisers use 3-D effects in their hoardings so that they are more easily noticed. There are about 30,000 hoardings in the entire country, and more than half of these are in the large cities; the other half in the small towns, and hardly any in the rural areas where three quarters of the population lives.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Trade Journals


Trade journals or technical magazines cater to a particular group of professional group of professional groups, traders or business persons. Examples of such journals are small circulation journals such as ‘Purchase’, Industrial Product Finder, Chemical Product Finder, Indian Trade Journal. Each industry, business and profession has its own trade publications. The greatest advantage of trade journals as advertising media is the opportunities they offer for reaching readers with specific interests. Such advertising is bound to be more enthusiastically received and carefully scrutinized than advertising in general- interest publications. The greatest disadvantages are that these journals suffer from advertising clutter, poor quality printing, and a low circulation.

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