When planning a promotional campaign in mind that a general campaign consists of three desired outcomes:
Result 1: Your promotional message reaches your target audience and target.
Result 2: Enter your message is understood by your audience.
Outcome 3: His message stimulates the receptors and act.
The question is how do you achieve these results with your campaign? The process is easy, but it takes "planning" time.
Here are seven steps that will get their campaign off to the right start.
* Step 1: Assess Opportunities Marketing Communications.
It is important this first step to analyze and understand the needs of your target market. Who is your message going out? current users, among those influencers, decision makers, groups or the general public?
* Step 2: Which communication channels do you use?
In the first stage of planning that you must have defined markets, products and environments. This information will help you decide which channels of communication will be most beneficial. Will you use personal communication channels such as face to face meeting, telephone contact, or perhaps a personal sales presentation? Or is that communication is not personal, such as newspapers, magazines, direct mail or work better?
* Step 3: Determine your goals
Keep in mind that your goals in a promotional campaign are slightly different from his campaign. promotional purposes shall be expressed in terms of behavior in the long or short term for people who have been exposed to your promotional communication. These objectives should be clearly stated, measurable and appropriate to the phase of market development.
* Step 4: Determine the Promotion Mix
This is where you need to allocate resources among sales promotion, advertising, marketing and sale of personal path. Do not skimp on one of these areas. You must create an awareness among buyers for its promotional campaign for success. Promoting a well-rounded will use all these methods in some capacity.
* Step 5: Develop your promotional message
This is the time you get to sit with his team and focus on content, feature, structure, format and source of the message. Remember to use in promotional campaigns and execution always work together.
* Step 6: Developing the promotion budget
This is the exciting part. You must now determine the total promotion budget. This is to determine the cost breakdowns for territory and promotional mix elements. Take some time to break down tasks and determine the accessibility, percent of sales, competitive parity. By breaking these expenses you will have a better idea of measuring the potential success of your campaign.
Step 7: Determine the effectiveness of campaign
Once you are assigned marketing communications, promotional strategies should be defined in a formal written document. This document should include situation analysis, copy platform, the schedules for the effective integration of promotional elements, with elements in your marketing mix. You will also need to determine how you will measure the effectiveness, since it is implemented. How to measure actual performance to planned objectives. You need to collect this information by asking your target market whether they recognized or retrieve specific advertising messages, which remind about the message, how they felt about the message, and if their attitudes toward the company was affected by the message.
Result 1: Your promotional message reaches your target audience and target.
Result 2: Enter your message is understood by your audience.
Outcome 3: His message stimulates the receptors and act.
The question is how do you achieve these results with your campaign? The process is easy, but it takes "planning" time.
Here are seven steps that will get their campaign off to the right start.
* Step 1: Assess Opportunities Marketing Communications.
It is important this first step to analyze and understand the needs of your target market. Who is your message going out? current users, among those influencers, decision makers, groups or the general public?
* Step 2: Which communication channels do you use?
In the first stage of planning that you must have defined markets, products and environments. This information will help you decide which channels of communication will be most beneficial. Will you use personal communication channels such as face to face meeting, telephone contact, or perhaps a personal sales presentation? Or is that communication is not personal, such as newspapers, magazines, direct mail or work better?
* Step 3: Determine your goals
Keep in mind that your goals in a promotional campaign are slightly different from his campaign. promotional purposes shall be expressed in terms of behavior in the long or short term for people who have been exposed to your promotional communication. These objectives should be clearly stated, measurable and appropriate to the phase of market development.
* Step 4: Determine the Promotion Mix
This is where you need to allocate resources among sales promotion, advertising, marketing and sale of personal path. Do not skimp on one of these areas. You must create an awareness among buyers for its promotional campaign for success. Promoting a well-rounded will use all these methods in some capacity.
* Step 5: Develop your promotional message
This is the time you get to sit with his team and focus on content, feature, structure, format and source of the message. Remember to use in promotional campaigns and execution always work together.
* Step 6: Developing the promotion budget
This is the exciting part. You must now determine the total promotion budget. This is to determine the cost breakdowns for territory and promotional mix elements. Take some time to break down tasks and determine the accessibility, percent of sales, competitive parity. By breaking these expenses you will have a better idea of measuring the potential success of your campaign.
Step 7: Determine the effectiveness of campaign
Once you are assigned marketing communications, promotional strategies should be defined in a formal written document. This document should include situation analysis, copy platform, the schedules for the effective integration of promotional elements, with elements in your marketing mix. You will also need to determine how you will measure the effectiveness, since it is implemented. How to measure actual performance to planned objectives. You need to collect this information by asking your target market whether they recognized or retrieve specific advertising messages, which remind about the message, how they felt about the message, and if their attitudes toward the company was affected by the message.
