Tag Archives: Marketing Mix

E-Business Website and Branding

Develop a strategic marketing plan for your e-business
Rather than concentrating on the small events during the marketing cycle, you need to come up with a strategic plan that encompasses all the issues that determine the success of your business. The website is just one of a series of tools that you might be using to promote your website. The marketing team should have an input in the design of the page so that they can point out some of the practical shortcomings which can be developed within the program. It is through these initiatives that you can secure long term competitive advantage.

Building Brand Awareness with Mix of Traditional and New Media Strategies

With today’s technology, there are a variety of affordable ways to do business advertising without breaking your budget. However, you shouldn’t rely only on high-tech advertising methods like streaming media, social networking, and email campaigns. This is because you run the risk of missing markets where potential consumers still rely on and trust only traditional marketing methods. Considering this, it makes sense to use a combination of traditional and modern day business advertising to promote your product or service. Let’s look at some of the ways businesses do this today.

Brand Awareness is one of the goal of successful advertising. Developing brand awareness can be somewhat complex but in simple terms it means advertising so that a brand is among the first to be recalled in a consumer’s mind. However, it’s not just about exposing consumers with your brand everywhere they look or go. It is actually a mix of visual recognition plus what consumers expect out of the brand. In other words, if they recognize a brand and automatically know how it benefits them then there is a greater likelihood that they will buy it without much thought. Of course there are other influences such as cultural but for the most part a marketer wants a brand to stir up a positive (and automatic) emotional response in a consumer.