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Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Building a Guerrilla Marketing Plan The process of creating and delivering desired goods and services to customers. Involves all of the activities associated with winning and retaining loyal customers. A solid business plan needs to contain both a financial plan and a marketing plan. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Building a Guerrilla Marketing Plan Guerrilla marketing strategies: Are unconventional, low-cost, and creative marketing techniques that allow a small company to realize a greater return from its marketing investment than do larger rivals. Do not require large amounts of money to be effective – just creativity. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

A Guerrilla Marketing Plan Pinpoints the specific target markets the company will serve. Determines customer needs and wants through market research. Analyzes a firm’s competitive advantages and creates a marketing strategy to build a competitive edge. Helps to create a marketing mix that meets customer needs and wants. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Pinpointing the Target Market One objective of market research: Pinpoint the company's target market, the specific group of customers at whom the company aims its products or services. Marketing strategy must be built on a clear definition of a company’s target customers. Example: Hot Mama Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Pinpointing the Target Market Target customer must permeate the entire business – merchandise sold, background music, layout, décor, and other features. Without a clear image of its target market, a small company tries to reach almost everyone and ends up appealing to few. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Market Research Determining customer needs. Demographics Market research is the vehicle for gathering the information that serves as the foundation for the marketing plan. Never assume that a market exists for your company’s product or service; prove it! Market research does not have to be time consuming, complex, or expensive to be useful. Web-based market research – online surveys Trend-tracking Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Tracking Trends Read many diverse current publications Watch the top 10 TV shows See the top 10 movies Talk to at least 150 customers a year Talk with the 10 smartest people you know Listen to your children and their friends Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Market Research How to Conduct Market Research: Define the objective. Collect the data. Individualized (one-to-one) marketing Primary research Secondary research Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Market Research How to Conduct Market Research: Define the problem. (continued) How to Conduct Market Research: Define the problem. Collect the data. Individualized (one-to-one) marketing Data mining Analyze and interpret the data. Draw conclusions and act. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Relationship Marketing (Customer Relationship Management) In addition to the text Involves developing and maintaining long-term relationships with customers so that they will keep coming back to make repeat purchases. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Relationship Marketing (Customer Relationship Management) In addition to the text Steps: Collect meaningful customer information and compile it in a database. Mine the database to identify “best” customers. Use the information to develop lasting relationships with “best” customers. Attract more customers who fit the “best” customer profile. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

The Relationship Marketing Process Conduct detailed customer intelligence to pinpoint most valuable customers and to learn all you can about them, including their lifetime value (LTV) to the company. Analyze If you have done everything else correctly, this step is relatively easy. Superb customer service is the best way to retain your most valuable customers. Sell, Service, & Satisfy Build Relationships Based on what you have learned, contact customers with an offer designed for them. Make customers feel special and valued. Connect & Collect Make contact with most valuable customers and begin building a customer database using data mining and data warehousing techniques. Learn Learn from your customers by encouraging feedback from them; develop a thorough customer profile and constantly refine it. In addition to the text Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Steps in CRM In addition to the text Collect meaningful information on existing customers and compile it in a database. Mine the database to identify the company’s best and most profitable customers and their buying habits. Use the information to establish lasting relationships with these customers. Attract more customers who fit the profile of the company’s best customers. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Four Levels of Customer Sensitivity In addition to the text Level 4: Customer Partnership Level 3: Customer Alignment Level 2: Customer Sensitivity Level 1: Customer Awareness Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles Find a niche and fill it. Use the power of publicity Don’t just sell; entertain! “Entertailing” Strive to be unique. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Connect with customers on an emotional level. Build trust Define a unique selling proposition (USP) Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Unique Selling Proposition A key customer benefit of a product or service that sets it apart from its competition. Answers key customer question: “What’s in it for me?” Consider intangible or psychological benefits as well as tangible ones. Communicate your USP to your customers often. USP Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Branding and a USP Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Building a Brand “Drivers” “Antes” “Fool’s Gold” “Neutrals” In addition to the text High “Drivers” Features that are both important to customers and are highly differentiated from those of competitors These are the attributes on which a company must focus to build its brand.1 “Antes” Features that are important to customers but all competitors provide them Every company in the market must “ante up” on these features. Relevance “Fool’s Gold” Features that are unique to your company but do not drive customers’ loyalty to your product and services Don’t make the mistake of trying to build a brand on these features! “Neutrals” Features that are irrelevant to customers These features are useless when it comes to branding. Low Low High Differentiation Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan Source: Adapted from “What Really Matters in Building a Brand,” The McKinsey Quarterly, May 2004, www.mckinseyquarterly.com/newsletters/chartfocus/2004_05.htm

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social marketing. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Social Media Used as Marketing Tools Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Embrace Social Marketing Social networks sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, allow entrepreneurs to connect with potential and existing customers at little or no cost. 44% of entrepreneurs use social media to connect with existing and potential customers. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Benefits of Social Media Marketing Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social networking. Start a blog. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Blogging Nearly 134 million people in the U.S. read blogs and 39% of companies use blogs as part of their marketing strategies. Economical and effective online communication. Blog Guidelines: Be honest, balanced, and interesting. Post blog entries consistently so that readers have a reason to return. Ask customers for feedback. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Blogging (continued) Strive to cultivate the image of an expert or a trusted friend on a topic that is important. Use services such as Google Alerts that scan the Web for a company’s name and send e-mail alerts when they find posts. Promote the blog via e-mail and promotional Web Sites. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social networking. Start a blog. Create online videos. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Online Videos YouTube reports that visitors view 3 billion videos per day. Online video guidelines: Think “edutainment.” Be funny. Post videos on multiple social media sites. Involve customers. Keep it short. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social networking. Start a blog. Create online videos. Host a special event. Focus on customer satisfaction. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Focus on Customer Satisfaction Surveys show 79% of unhappy customers tell others about their experiences. 48% of shoppers say they won’t patronize stores where they know others have had negative experiences. For every complaint a company receives, 17 other complaints go unspoken. Disgruntled customers often post their experiences online. 80% of shoppers have changed their minds about a purchase after reading negative information online. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Focus on Customer Satisfaction To achieve stellar customer service and customer satisfaction: Examine your company’s service cycle Set standards and measure performance See customer complaints as a mechanism for improving customer service Listen to customers Define superior service Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Focus on Customer Satisfaction When you create a negative customer experience, apologize and fix it – fast Empower employees to offer superior service Train employees to deliver superior service Hire the right employees Get top managers’ support Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Focus on Customer Satisfaction Treat employees with respect and show them how valuable they are Use technology to provide improved experience View customer service as an investment, not an expense Reward superior service Give customers an unexpected surprise Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Principles of Customer Experience Management (CEM) In addition to the text Every customer interaction should be: Intimate Personal Consistent, courteous, and professional Responsive Helpful information and advice Involvement of caring, well-trained people Long-term relationship view Emphasis on sustaining an ongoing relationship Nurturing the company/customer relationship Satisfied, loyal, repeat (and profitable) customers Source: Adapted from “Wake-Up Call: To Fix CRM, Fix the Customer Experience Now!, BearingPoint White Paper (www.bearingpoint.com, Fall 2005, p. 5. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social networking. Start a blog. Create online videos. Host a special event. Focus on customer satisfaction. Retain existing customers. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Retain Existing Customers A company must land 12 to 20 new customers to offset the impact of one lost loyal customer! Research shows that repeat customers spend 67% more than new customers. Attracting new customers costs the typical business seven to nine times as much as keeping existing customers. Practice customer experience management. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Retain Existing Customers (continued) Companies that are successful at retaining their customers constantly ask themselves (and their customers) four questions: 1. What are we doing right? 2. How can we do that even better? 3. What have we done wrong? 4. What can we do in the future? Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social networking. Start a blog. Create online videos. Host a special event. Focus on customer satisfaction. Retain existing customers. Be devoted to quality. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Devotion to Quality World-class companies treat quality as a strategic objective, an integral part of company culture. The philosophy of Total Quality Management (TQM): Quality in the product or service itself. Quality in every aspect of the business and its relationship with the customer. Continuous improvement in quality. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

How Do Americans Define Quality in a Product? Reliability (average time between breakdowns) Durability (how long an item lasts) Ease of use Known or trusted brand name Low price Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

How Do Americans Define Quality in a Service? Tangibles - equipment, facilities, people Reliability - doing what you say you will do Responsiveness - promptness in helping customers Assurance and empathy - conveying a caring attitude Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Create an identity for your business through branding. Embrace social networking. Start a blog. Create online videos. Host a special event. Focus on customer satisfaction. Retain existing customers Be devoted to quality. Pay attention to convenience. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Attention to Convenience Successful companies go out of their way to make sure it’s easy for customers to do business with them. Questions to ask: Is your business conveniently located near customers? Are your business hours suitable to your customers? Would customers appreciate pickup and delivery services? Do you make it easy for customers to buy on credit or with credit cards? Do your employees treat customers with courtesy? Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Attention to Convenience (continued) Are your employees trained to handle business transactions quickly, efficiently, and politely? Does your company offer “extras” that would make customers’ lives easier? Can you bundle existing products to make it easier for customers to use them? Can you adapt existing products to make them more convenient for customers? Does your company handle telephone calls quickly and efficiently? Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Concentrate on innovation. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Concentration on Innovation The key to future success. One of the greatest strengths of entrepreneurs. It shows up in the new products, techniques, and unusual approaches they introduce. Entrepreneurs often create new products and services by focusing their efforts on one area and by using their size and flexibility to their advantage. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Guerrilla Marketing Principles (continued) Concentrate on innovation. Emphasize speed. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Emphasis on Speed Use principles of time compression management (TCM): Speed new products to market Shorten customer response time in manufacturing and delivery Reduce the administrative time required to fill an order. Study: Most businesses waste 85 to 99% of the time required to produce products or services! Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Emphasis on Speed (continued) Re-engineer the process rather than try to do the same thing - only faster. Create cross-functional teams of workers and empower them to attack and solve problems. Set aggressive goals for production and stick to the schedule. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Emphasis on Speed Rethink the supply chain. (continued) Rethink the supply chain. Instill speed in the company culture. Use technology to find shortcuts wherever possible. Put the Internet to work for you. Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan

Ch. 8: Building a Powerful Marketing Plan