TARGET PRACTICE: GETTING YOUR MESSAGE TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE

Written by Meredith Pond


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Targeting your advertising may not get through to as many people as you think is necessary. In most case, however, you'll actually get more bang for your buck by getting through torepparttar people who are most likely to buy. If your ad is seen by 20,000 people, but only 300 of them arerepparttar 121577 sort of people that would really be interested, you've just wasted 19,700 exposures- like doing a national news broadcast when only Tennessee is tuned in.

Sending your ad to a targeted list of people ensures you getrepparttar 121578 highest percentage of response possible. So even if fewer people getrepparttar 121579 message, you're likely to get more responses for your money. While it may be more expensive and more difficult to target your advertising, you're sill getting a better deal and building a valuable base of loyal customers.



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Redefining Distance to Market Products or Services

Written by Lee Traupel


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5)Some web-enabled presentation challenges includerepparttar need to keep people involved – you can do this easily by leveragingrepparttar 121576 chat capabilities, dynamic polling, and standard Q&A components built into repparttar 121577 application. The higher their interest level (as in real world meetings)repparttar 121578 better your meeting or presentation will be.

6)Marketing presentations can be easily archived and made available to others on a 24/7 basis – this archiving can includerepparttar 121579 standard presentation, enhanced with video or audio components, depending on repparttar 121580 sophistication of your presentation. Be prepared to pay an extra charge for this – butrepparttar 121581 marketing ROI can be significant, especially when you factor in how little most companies charge for an archiving service versus your front end costs.

7) Virtual marketing enables a whole set of web-enabled processes – you will haverepparttar 121582 ability to easily capture your prospect/customer's e-mail address and standard contact points via a registration process, involve them and capture preferences via polling in your presentations and "push" follow up communications during your presentation/meeting or later. But, it's very important to include standard "privacy" statements in your materials and adhere to them as you move forward through your business processes.

8) How does video conferencing impact your assessments of web-enabled presentations or collaborations? This depends on your budget, number of people attendingrepparttar 121583 presentation, presenter and attendee locations and other intangible that are specific to your business. In general, video conferencing works better for very small (under five people) presentations or meetings, due to some ofrepparttar 121584 inherent challenges of this medium.

Lee Traupel has 20 plus years of marketing experience He is the co- founder of a Northern California and Brussels Belgium based, privately held, Marketing Services and Software Company, Intelective Communications, Inc. http://www.intelective.com Intelective focuses exclusively on providing services to small to medium sized companies that need strategic and tactical marketing services. He can be reached at Lee@intelective.com


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