Going beyond traditional marketing communication is critical for creating successful campaigns.
In a complex world with information caches growing at a staggering rate there exists a need for filters and simplification. Today’s business professional cannot spend hours combing the web and essentially “panning for gold”. Success is linked to knowledge, current and applicable knowledge. More than anything customer comments today center on benchmarking and exceeding expectations. Focusing on what the competition is doing today is only the first step, it must be followed by implementation of ideas that are as good as or better than those noted in benchmarking.
Marketers today must reach their customers and prospective customers in a way that is most suitable, and in many cases profitable, to both the business and the customer. Direct mail efforts will continue to play a major role, but must be enhanced and complimented by email communications, podcasting, blogs, social networking and RSS feeds. All these efforts require coordination and evaluation, simply being in a space doesn’t mean the execution is optimized. Doing each of these communications, with a planned objective and accurate performance measurement, will keep your business growing in a time when success is measured by double digit figures. Businesses today face considerable challenges, operating according to the status quo will not meet the expectations of today’s owners and investors. Those businesses that meet expectations will do so with forwarding thinking, out of the box mentalities.
With the current workloads in most IT and Marketing departments outsourcing some of these functions may prove advantageous. Recent surveys show a shortage of manpower to handle the current complexities of multi-channel marketing and a lack of knowledge and experience to execute campaigns successfully. Bringing in outside assistance could be the best alternative.
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As the multi-channel marketplace grows in complexity there are a few bedrock principles that continue to make sense.
The mystery of channel preference
It is increasingly more difficult to manage communication with customers and prospects because of the following conditions; new channels are introduced as technology advances, old channels are made obsolete and perceptions change, branding and image are no longer controlled solely by that company or it’s marketing department, and the pace of business in general is accelerating.
Getting “hands on” with today’s marketing efforts
For many years the operations and activities of the catalog marketers have stopped as their data files have been delivered to their services bureaus or printers.
