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Developing an Annual Marketing Plan and Marketing Strategy

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Fulcrum Marketing is a strategic B 2 B marketing agency Talegaon Dabhade Pune. Our team of marketing consultants also specialise in marketing planning and B 2 B marketing for all types of business of any size.

MARKETING STRATEGY

Effective marketing organisations must be driven through sound business strategy. Fulcrum produce marketing strategy that is always well embodied by your business strategy.

The best marketing strategy does not start with creative, it starts with a marketing process.

The Fulcrum Marketing Strategy Development Process is a thorough problem solving and marketing strategy development program that focusses on solving your growth challenges and maximising the return from your company’s marketing operations.  It is particularly useful for innovating within a market or creating a position of market leadership.

Overview

Indentifying key sources of growth, challenging the current business operations and identifying key growth creating activities are crucial for businesses which want to grow.

The process looks at your whole business with the aim to maximise the potential by focussing on:

  • reviewing your market conditions
  • reviewing your current market challenges and capabilities
  • identifying and maximising competitive advantage
  • creating and amplifying market positioning
  • developing new revenue sources
  • maximising market communication techniques

Action Orientated

Fulcrum works alongside senior management to develop achievable and actionable strategies and build the company plans around them. Real results are achieved when your management team have consistent and ongoing interaction with the Fulcrum team. At the end of the process, you must own the strategy and be able work the plan yourself. You are left with a growth system which is repeatable over time to achieve consistent growth. Companies effectively implementing this program often achieve more than 25% ongoing growth per annum.

Your Challenges

Business owners, senior executives and managers are frequently facing growth related issues such as: – Turning around a declining sales trend – Identifying and entering new markets – Launching new business and product lines – Identifying emerging growth opportunities – Managing the risks of growth If you have any of the above issues, then the Fulcrum Marketing Strategy Development Process is for you.

Approach

The process considers what could be rather than only what is. Whereas, a regular marketing strategy process might simply consider what a customer tells you and respond, Fulcrum considers how a customer might react when given a slightly or radically different proposition to the one currently in the market.

Benefits

Each strategy generates actionable tasks to achieve medium and long-term revenue and growth targets. Brief but highly strategic plans are created that drill down into action items. You are then lead through specific actions to implement, or the Fulcrum team implement them for you.

Development Process

Experience the Fulcrum Marketing Strategy Development Process. It is a tailored program designed to provide companies with the highly-focussed strategy development and implementation resources necessary to address specific growth challenges and opportunities.

1. Seek and learn.

Information Gathering – The first step is to gain an understanding of the market in which you are participating; target audiences, competitor offerings, current pricing and more. Review the business realities – Gain an understanding and commitment to potential resources available to make it all happen. Review the market realities – What limitations might we be dealing with and how far can we push the market potential?

2. Set the hypothesis.

Hypothesis development – Develop the potential strategic alternatives and understand what would need to happen for them to become reality. Reality test – Review the strategies for practical application, decide which are practical now and which could be left for a future date and understand what resources are necessary to make these alternatives. Solidify strategy – Make some strategic decisions to understand which alternatives provide the growth desired, build an understanding of the risks involved, ensure all strategies can work together and consider the reality of them working within the business.

3. Set the course.

Key strategies – Articulate the strategies and provide means for measurement and communication. Plan action – Develop broad and specific actions stemming from the strategies.

4. Build a foundation.

This stage involves developing a compelling ‘marketing tool box’ that clearly defines your value to the target audience and creates appropriate messages and triggers to sale.

5. Implement and educate.

The stage after the plan development involves completing agreed actions and driving deep engagement and understanding throughout the company, whilst developing the ongoing implementation activities, including allocation of resources.

Business-to-Business Marketing Strategies

What do business professionals think about marketing in the business-to-business (B2B) environment? We examined survey results and reports* that compiled data on the topic, and created a list of eight B2B marketing strategies commonly recognised as successful regardless of industry.

  • Referral Programs
  • Word of Mouth Plus
  • Trade Shows
  • Online Advertising
  • Remarketing
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Content Marketing
  • Inbound Marketing

Choosing the Right Marketing Agency: Marketing Execution Vs Marketing Strategy

If you pretty much know what marketing you need to do and how it is going to be accomplished then most likely you need some type of marketing agencyto do it for you. Depending on what the activities are, you will choose a different type of agency. For example, if you are more likely to be doing TV, radio or magazine advertising you will likely need a traditional advertising agency. If it sits more in the digital realm, with a lot of Google AdWords or YouTube commercials, then a digital advertising agency is probably for you. Alternatively, you may simply need a graphic designer to bring your ideas to life.

Making Marketing Plans Happen

A marketing plan is paramount for achieving business growth. The purpose of a marketing plan is to assess the current market position of your business and develop marketing strategies and actions to undertake to meet your business objectives. Putting together a strategic plan that develops your business around your competitive advantage, and ensures that you are in a position to take advantage of your strengths, is a key to continued business prosperity. Of course, once you have the plan, making it work is the next step.

Developing an Annual Marketing Plan and Marketing Strategy

Make your business New Year resolution to start the year with an integrated marketing plan that clearly outlines your business objectives and the marketing strategies and tactics you plan to use to achieve them

An annual marketing plan helps keep businesses on track with goals and objectives for the year and ensures that marketing opportunities and budgets are maximized. Developing a marketing plan that you revisit every year is the key to success year after year.

A solid annual marketing plan should be structured with a disciplined approach to reaching your business goals and objectives, yet flexible enough to adapt to changing market conditions and business opportunities throughout the year.



Start Annual Marketing Planning by Reviewing Previous Year Marketing Performance

Before you begin the annual planning process for the coming year’s marketing efforts, you’ll want to take a close look at how you performed over the current year. Even if you did not have a structured marketing plan in place previously, you should be able to review past marketing activities and results.

Here are some questions to ask when evaluating the performance of a previous annual marketing plan or year’s activities:

  • Did you achieve desired results from your marketing efforts (such as improved brand recognition, X number of leads generated or sales/revenue figures)?
  • Which specific marketing activities were effective?
  • Which specific marketing activities were not effective?
  • Should you reallocate resources to better performing targets, markets or marketing tactics?
  • Has your target market, audience or geographic area changed over the year?
  • Were you able to stay within a marketing budget at the end of the year?
  • What areas of your marketing budget do you need to cut costs in for the coming year?
  • What areas of your marketing budget do you want to invest more in for the coming year?

The answers to questions about your previous year’s marketing plan will play a big part in building an annual marketing plan for the coming year. Each year adjustments should be made to your marketing planning efforts that incorporate learning from the past – what works or what doesn’t work.

Develop Essential Components of an Annual Marketing Plan

A marketing plan is a written document that contains a business’ marketing strategies and tactics. The first step in developing an annual marketing plan is getting organized. Make a list of all the marketing components or categories that are important for your business.

Typical components in a marketing plan include:

  • Advertising (print and/or online)
  • Branding and Graphics (promotional giveaway items, photography, video production, graphic development)
  • Collateral (sell sheets, brochures, business cards)
  • Events (trade shows, webinars)
  • Direct Marketing (email, direct mail, list generation, promotional incentives/contests)
  • Public Relations (press release distribution, PR agency)
  • Research (focus groups, surveys, marketing reference books)
  • Social Media (social media networks)
  • Website (search engine optimization, web development/hosting)

Of course the actual components for your business may vary depending on your business, industry and marketing budget. The important thing is to identify all the potential components in your annual marketing plan so you can decide how you plan to address those components for your business. Even if you do not plan to allocate budget for a category – like social media – it should be included if you have any marketing efforts planned for the category so strategies and tactics can be outlined in an integrated planning approach.

Define Marketing Plan Strategies, Tactics and Budget

Once marketing components are outlined for the business, all potential strategies and tactics should be defined per category or component.

Here is an example of defining strategies and tactics for the “advertising” category:

Marketing Category: Advertising
Strategy #1 – Drive traffic to website via online advertising
Tactic # 1 – Google Adwords
Tactic #2 – Banner ads on industry association website
Tactic #3 – Internet yellow pages ads

Each tactic will also need to have an allocated budget, if applicable. The marketing plan should include fields to capture your allocated budget, actual spend and budget variance so that you can track throughout the year and make any adjustments needed. For example, if you are tracking under budget in one category you can shift funds to another category where you may be tracking over budget.

Flexibility to adapt an annual marketing plan throughout the year is important to adapt to a changing business environment and be “opportunistic” in marketing efforts. Be sure to take advantage of tracking mechanisms for marketing efforts whenever possible – such as unique 800 numbers or website analytic reports – so that you can make adjustments to maximize performance of campaigns (or dump marketing efforts that are not producing desired results). Goals should also be set for all areas of a marketing plan so that you can measure the performance of marketing tactics against business objectives.

SALES METHODOLOGIES

Personal selling is a promotional method in which one party uses skills and techniques for building personal relationships with another party that results in both parties obtaining value. Personal selling occurs whenever an individual salesperson sells a product, service or solution to a client.

Sales methods

There are many different sales methods that can be used to complete a sale and form the required relationships. Determining which sales method is more effective depends on what you are selling, who you are selling to and when you are selling it.

AIDA Method

AIDA is an acronym that stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. This is a method that looks at the steps a client will undertake from when they first becomes aware of the product or service, to when they are making a purchase decision.

Attention – Get the other person’s interest
Interest – Spark their curiosity
Desire – Create the need
Action – Get them to commit to something

Need satisfaction

The need satisfaction technique is a question and answer technique to make the client to recognise the need for your offering. This then leads to the client agreeing that they have a need to be fulfilled, which leads to you showing them how your offer can satisfy their needs. This method is based on a win-win approach for both the sales person and the client.

Depth Theory

Depth Theory is when a creation of trust occurs between the buyer and seller. The seller uses expertise in their product, service or industry to create trust between themselves and the buyer. The client will see the salesperson as an expert in that area and will trust them to solve the issues that they have.

 Step process

The 7 step process is a plan of action that starts at the planning and preparation to make the sale and leads to after sale follow ups. The 7 steps are:
1.   Planning and preparation
2.   Introduction or opening
3.   Questioning
4.   Presentation
5.   Overcoming objections/negotiating
6.   Closing
7.   After-sales follow-up

communication and B 2 B marketing management

Effective communication and advertising management is important to not only correctly identify a target audience, but also to reach this audience efficiently through different information channels. There are many benefits of successfully managing these marketing communications, including, but not limited to:

  • A higher Return on Investment  (ROI)
  • Reaching more of your target audience
  • Reduced costs for B 2 B marketing
  • Types of market segmentation:
    • Demographic segmentation: gender, age, income, education, occupation
    • Geographic segmentation: city, state, country
    • Psychographic segmentation: attitudes, values, attitudes, lifestyle
    • Behavioural segmentation: purchasing patterns, loyalty status

Implementing a B 2 B marketing Strategy

 

Implementing a Marketing Strategy Execution Plan, known to Fulcrum and our clients as a “Sprint Plan” is the most effective way to prevent this highway-less journey , B 2 B marketing agency Talegaon Dabhade Pune. A Marketing Strategy is a set of strategic goal-focused plans for a certain period of time.

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Implement your marketing plan

Your marketing plan must do more than just say what you want to happen. It must describe each step required to make sure that it happens.

Schedule
The plan should include a schedule of key tasks. This sets out what will be done, and by when. Refer to the schedule as often as possible to avoid losing sight of your objectives under the daily workload.

Team And Resources
It should also assess what resources you need. For example, you might need to think about what brochures you need, and whether they need to be available for distribution. You might also need to look at how much time it takes to sell to customers and whether you have enough salespeople.

Cost
The cost of everything in the plan needs to be included in a budget. If your finances are limited, your plan will need to take that into account. Don’t spread your marketing activities too thinly – it is better to concentrate your resources to make the most of your budget. You may also want to link your marketing budget to your sales forecast.

Control
As well as setting out the schedule, the plan needs to say how it will be controlled. You need an individual who takes responsibility for pushing things along. A good schedule and budget should make it easy to monitor progress. When things fall behind schedule, or costs overrun, you need to be ready to do something about it and to adapt your plan accordingly.

 

Marketing Execution – Plan, Execute, Track, Measure

Everyone likes to talk about creating a marketing plan. It’s the fun part of marketing, the creative aspect of your planning process and B 2 B marketing agency Talegaon Dabhade Pune. But strategy without execution won’t help your business succeed. In fact, marketing execution is how you achieve results.

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B2B Marketing: 

Fulcrum is a magnet for businesses with well-defined goals and a desire to harness the latest advantages that marketing and technology can offer.

Face To Face Marketing : 

face to face field marketing is also called personal selling or door to door marketing, customers are met directly in order to sell their products, using this method of field marketing.

Product Sampling :

Fulcrum are a highly recommended provider of product sampling staff. We specialise in the implementation of sampling campaigns using our in house sampling team and logistical know-how.

Dealer Marketing: 

Dealer marketing is of utmost importance for the success of any brand. For most brands, dealers, distributors and resellers are critical links to success.

Direct Marketing:  

we can help with everything from planning and design to production and delivery ensuring your direct marketing campaigns are delivered on time to the highest quality.

Guerrilla Marketing:

When it comes to guerrilla marketing the gloves are off. They are usually low budget campaigns but with the right imagination and ideas they offer up some unprecedented results

Retail Marketing:

Fulcrum is a dynamic-retail marketing agency born in tradition, fueled by innovation, and living at the intersection of commerce and imagination.

Direct Selling : 

Much like product demonstrations these campaigns have brand reps or ambassadors at the center of them. The difference is it’s more about the selling of the product

Retail Audits & Merchandising:

Auditing takes the reps out off the front line and away from the consumer. Auditing teams are used by marketers to monitor traditional marketing strategies that they put in place across retail.

Door To Door Marketing :

Nothing beats the reality that one gets when you can interact with potential clients face to face physically moving from door to door within a community or household to household,

Product Demonstrations:

As mentioned already, demo days are a popular tool of field marketing. These campaigns can stretch from as little as one week to 6 months however some are continuous and full time.

Street Marketing: 

We will still need to spend time interacting with people, face-to-face, Street Marketing. Personal interaction is what makes the world go around

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Talegaon Dabhade ,  Pune

Talegaon Dabhade is a historic city situated in the northern parts of Pune City. This beautiful town is surrounded by the lush-greenery and the scenic view of Indrayani River and Sahyadri Range. Talegaon Dabhade is situated between two metro cities of maharashtra – Mumbai (122 km), and Pune (35 km) The locality is very close to the industrial zones and IT hubs of Pune and comes under the jurisdiction of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC). It is a preferred locations for interested investors on the lookout for affordable residential properties which also provide good connectivity. Talegaon Dabhade is close to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Commission (PCMC) industrial belt and Hinjewadi IT Park. Also, owing to its proximity to Mumbai, the region houses a number of commercial and industrial zones and many multinational corporations have their offices here. Pimpri, Chinchwad, Pimple Gurav, Bhosari, Sangvi, etc. are the prominent localities, situated close to Talegaon Dabhade. It is located on the Bangalore-Mumbai Expressway, thus, fetching buyers not only from Pune but from Mumbai and Bangalore as well. The biggest USP od Talegaon Dabhade is its location. Its natural beauty and unpolluted climate makes Talegaon Dabhade a popular town for your holiday/weekend homes. Some of the key residential projects in Talegaon Dabhade are My Home Talegaon, XRBIA Abode, VTP Urban Life, Namrata Aikonic, Saarrthi Swadesh, namrata Ecocity among others.

Talegaon Dabhade is a historic city situated in the northern parts of Pune City. This beautiful town is surrounded by the lush-greenery and the scenic view of Indrayani River and Sahyadri Range. Talegaon Dabhade is situated between two metro cities of maharashtra – Mumbai (122 km), and Pune (35 km) The locality is very close to the industrial zones and IT hubs of Pune and comes under the jurisdiction of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC). It is a preferred locations for interested investors on the lookout for affordable residential properties which also provide good connectivity. Talegaon Dabhade is close to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Commission (PCMC) industrial belt and Hinjewadi IT Park. Also, owing to its proximity to Mumbai, the region houses a number of commercial and industrial zones and many multinational corporations have their offices here. Pimpri, Chinchwad, Pimple Gurav, Bhosari, Sangvi, etc. are the prominent localities, situated close to Talegaon Dabhade. It is located on the Bangalore-Mumbai Expressway, thus, fetching buyers not only from Pune but from Mumbai and Bangalore as well. The biggest USP od Talegaon Dabhade is its location. Its natural beauty and unpolluted climate makes Talegaon Dabhade a popular town for your holiday/weekend homes. Some of the key residential projects in Talegaon Dabhade are My Home Talegaon, XRBIA Abode, VTP Urban Life, Namrata Aikonic, Saarrthi Swadesh, namrata Ecocity among others.

Connectivity

It has good connectivity via road, Express Highway and railway which provides easy access to PCMC, Pune & Mumbai.

Talegaon Dabhade is about 23 km from Hinjewadi via NH 48. The area is easily accessible from Mumbai via the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and is well connected to the Mumbai–Nashik Road.
It enjoys excellent connectivity to Pune International Airport which is located at a distance of 45 km via Mumbai-Pandharpur Road/Old Mumbai-Pune Highway.
Vadgaon, Talegaon Dabhade, Ghorawadi, Kanhe are nearby railway stations to Talegaon Dabhade. However, Talegaon Dabhade Railway Station is the major and nearest railway station to Talegaon Dabhade, which is situated at a distance of 1.9 km via Talegaon Dabhade Chakan Road.

Factors for past growth
Affordability is the key factors for growth of Talegaon Dabhade. With rising property prices in Pune and the outskirts of Mumbai, the upcoming areas such as Talegaon Dabhade, present an healthy picture. The area is mainly preferred owing to affordability and availability of properties for home buyers.

The industrial belt of Chakan and the automobile manufacturing such as Larsen & Toubro, Bajaj, General Motors units in the surrounding areas has pushed the demand for residential flats which is mostly from the migrant population settling down here. A fair number of workforce work in nearby industrial belt, wanted to have their residences close to their workplace. As a result, huge demand for 2BHK flat for rent in Chakan.

Factors for future growth
Since, Talegaon Dabhade is situated on the Mumbai-Pune highway, it enjoys favourable connectivity. Due to this it has attracted many companies to invest in this area, Investment by these companies has created a large employment opportunities for citizens. As a result, demand for rental properties has increased too.

According to the latest news, FoxConn – one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturing company is planning to set up a manufacturing units here. This units will be spread over 1500 acres of land, which are likely to create at least 50000 jobs making Talegaon Dabhade one of the most sought after locations in Pune.

Proposed & Planned Infra
Proposed Ring Road around Talegaon Dabhade.
There is a plan to expand the industrial growth of the region. The existing plots in all the four phases of Chakan and first phase of Talegaon Dabhade MIDC have been allotted.
Proposal for new roads/improvements.

Employment hubs near Talegaon Dabhade
Aakar Foundry Pvt Ltd
Dumax Trading Company
Veeprho Laboratories Pvt Ltd.
Finolex Plasson Industries Pvt Ltd
INA Bearings India Pvt Ltd
International Tech Park
Software Technology Parks of India

Teerth Technospace

Social & Physical Infrastructure
Talegaon Dabhade offers very good social infrastructure to its residents. Some of the reputed schools In Talegaon Dabhade include St. Ann’s High School, Indrayani English Medium High School, Podar Jumbo Kids, Hutchings High School, Swami Vivekanand School and Jain English Medium School among others.
Healthcare facilities are also good in the locality. Some of the prominent hospitals providing healthcare facilities to the residents of Talegaon Dabhade are Pawar Hospital, Samarth Hospital, Layans Bhandari Hospital, Sevadham Hospital and Eye Clinic to name a few.
The shopping needs of the residents are catered by malls in O-Mart, P.L. Khandge Plaza, Javan Mall, Ansh Plaza etc. It also houses retail outlets of famous national and international brands such as More Shop, Amul Retail Outlet, More Supermarket, My Jio Store, Raymond Retail Shop etc.

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 How do you get started with a marketing plan for a small business?

 

First, know your audience or “target market” and understand their needs.Second, position yourself to meet those needs with a solution-oriented marketing plan.Decide on how you’ll connect to customers and begin developing your brand.

 

 What is the best way to learn your audience or “target market”?

You must conduct market research: both primary and secondary research.Primary research is research you do yourself.  It’s a good way to learn more about your specific market. Secondary research is research such as statistics and information from other sources like libraries, Chambers of Commerce, local and federal government publications, etc.  This is best for getting a general overall view of the market or industry you’ll be operating within.

 

What is the best way to conduct market research?

 

 You can conduct primary research by reaching out to current, former, or even potential customers and asking them pertinent questions about their needs via surveys, focus groups, or in-person interviews.  If your budget allows, you might consider hiring a market research firm who might conduct telephone polls and focus groups. Secondary research (the least expensive of the two) can be conducted by visiting libraries, internet searches on sites of the U.S. Census, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Small Business Administration, Chambers of Commerce, and local governments.

Once a business owner knows their target market, and how to meet their needs, what should be the next step in the development of the marketing plan?

 Defining your brand and tailoring your products and services to your target audience are the next steps. This includes developing your brand’s vision, mission, and company message in ways that are meaningful to your core audience, and this includes branding your company’s insignia on logos and creating websites. Armed with what you learned from your market research, tailor your product and service offerings catalog to meet the stated needs of your target market.

With a defined brand, targeted market, and products or services ready to sell, how do I put my marketing plan into action steps?

 

 Start by clearly stating your goals (e.g. attracting new customers, retaining old customers, encouraging repeat business).  Prioritize long and short-term goals (set time limits and stick to them). When describing how you plan to achieve your goals.  Be specific; break it down by activity (branding, promotion and sales strategy, email marketing, affiliate marketing, networking, etc.).  Create monthly and weekly sales goals and activities to execute your strategic marketing plan and achieve your revenue goals.

What is the best way to execute my action plan?

Start by reviewing your priorities and the timelines you’ve set, and address each priority in order of importance.

 How can I implement a small business marketing plan on a limited budget?

 

 Maximize your dollars spent and look for creative ways to implement marketing steps that don’t cost money (e.g. social media, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging, podcasting, video blogging).When hiring someone for marketing help, use your hourly rate and time saved as the litmus test and price threshold for what you’re willing to pay.  For example, if you charge $100/Hour as a Consultant and you estimate it will take about 10 hours for you to review your customer records, could you find someone to effectively do the work for you for $1000? If so, then it’s definitely worth it to use them, since it will free up your time and you can continue running your business and servicing your customers.

 

 If my number #1 priority is getting new customers, how can I do that?

 

To attract new customers, you could offer an incentive or free giveaway for them to sign-up for your newsletter (e.g. 10% off first purchase, special report, or free sample.) Then use the newsletter to keep in touch by providing helpful information and informing them on new products and services. Use a blog and/podcast series with topics of interest to your core audience. You could also begin an affiliate marketing program with a complimentary business that refers business in exchange for a commission of sales.

 What are some other ways that I can creatively market to my business?

 

Contact the media to pitch stories about your business or your customers who have been successful using your product or service; Offer to speak for free at local speaking events (e.g. Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce, Women’s groups etc.); Start a community for your core customers on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

What are some of the big mistakes entrepreneurs make in small business marketing?

 

 Be sure to track marketing efforts.  Make note of where customers learned about you and how they found you. Conduct ongoing primary market research by asking for customer feedback; Use surveys as another marketing tool in your arsenal (e.g. The MiniMarketing Survey).Be sure tooffer customers an incentive to complete surveys (e.g. Free item/service).Use feedback to help shape future marketing efforts.

 

 

 

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Fulcrum Marketing Services in Pune are the catalyst to bringing your advertising vision to life. While many ideas start in a boardroom, you need experienced marketers on the ground who are able to conceptualize, plan and execute a well thought-out marketing campaign in the field.

we supply the experience, connections, relationships, and knowledge needed to maximize the potential return on investment for each of our clients as well as help identify and pursue select market opportunities as they come available, out of home marketing agency | one to one marketing Activity in pune. Our local insight allows us to create exceptional investment potential for our partners and clients and enhanced living experience for our residents.

CREATING COMMUNITIES WHERE PEOPLE ARE EAGER TO LIVE AND RELUCTANT TO LEAVE

We define and position apartment homes for success. We are passionate about the residential experience and the qualitative and quantitative points that drive us to make strategic decisions that inform what a home should be — specific to its marketplace.

Results are realized through both the speed of lease-ups and financial performance of the on-going stabilized investment.

MARKET RESEARCH
We crunch the numbers, ask the questions, assess current trends and forecast future trends with detailed, up-to-date research to understand our markets; Ensuring our clients have the right data points to make the best decisions going forward.

MARKET POSITIONING
What’s the experience living here? What’s the story and name of this place? Our experience and insight allows us to identify and position each project’s distinctive offerings as its market niche. We provide an understanding that goes deeper than looking at trends. We create sought-after, thoughtfully executed apartment communities that are compatible with their surrounding neighborhoods.

MARKETING STRATEGY
Overall success relies on a thoughtful marketing strategy. In a constantly changing environment, we develop and implement each marketing initiative specific to your audience and budget. Reaching consumers in a way that educates and informs; ultimately creating product desirability and excellent rates of return.

 

 

A Day in the Life of an Activations Manager

No one could ever accuse life in activations of being boring. In fact, that is one of the things I love most about my job – every day is different, even activations we have done many times have enough variables for things to be completely different each time. There is something very special about taking the smallest nugget of an idea or brief from client, and managing its development through to the big day – ACTIVATION DAY!

There is always so much excitement the day before an activation. We hope that all the months of planning result in something truly wonderful for our clients and that they get the return on investment that they hope for.

 

So as we settle in for a (restless) night’s sleep, we await the morning…

 

04:00 – Alarm goes off.

 

04:10 – Snooze alarm goes off, get out of bed.

 

05:00 – Leave home.

 

05:15 – Fetch promoters at the office.

 

05:30 – Fetch last 2 promoters at another general point, as they couldn’t get to the office in time due to no public transport at this hour.

 

05:40 – We are on our way!

 

06:30 – Arrive at destination XYZ.

 

06:35 – Find site manager, introduce myself, and find out where to set up.

 

06:45 – Manage our amazing Ops Team in setting up an assortment of Bedouin tents, gazebos, giant inflatables, table, branding, banners, etc.

 

07:00 – While this is going on, I need to round up my promoters. I will assign them to their posts, ensure that they are in optimal condition to offer their very best service to us and the client!

 

08:00 – By now the set-up is pretty much complete, bar a few changes that might need to be made, or crises to be averted – generator won’t start, weather issues, a vital piece of equipment in the wrong vehicle, etc.

 

08:30 – It is go time – the activation is about to start. Why does it feel like I have had a full day already?

 

09:00 – Time for me to grab a cup of coffee. First time I’ve had a minute to myself all day! This is when I usually work out a break schedule for my hard-working promoters. To ensure that they remain energetic and enthusiastic all day, we need to ensure that they are drinking enough water and that they have at least 1 break to eat a hearty meal.

 

09:00 – 15:00 – The activation is in full swing. The promoters are on top of their game, running the activation exactly how they were trained. This is why we insist on using promoters that have not only been through our training academy, but also attended an activation specific briefing the week before the activation. This eliminates any confusion on the day.

A prepared team is a well-oiled team.

The less margin for error we have, the more successful the activation on the day. As the Activations Manager, my job is to manage any consumer queries that are out of the ordinary, settle any issues that may arise and ensure that the activation area is spotless and professional all day. I am also there to interact with the client should they wish to visit the activation on the day. The Ops Team is at the ready all day – they are there to replenish stock, supply giveaways, maintain the cleanliness of the area and assist with any heavy lifting. They are usually available on a 2 way radio, which is most effective for a busy activation where cell phone network connectivity could be compromised.

 

15:00 – This is when the Ops Team start to evaluate how much stock and giveaways they are bringing out. With just a few hours of the day left they need to make sure we have enough supplies at the ready, but not too many to make packing up a big deal.

 

16:00 – This is when we the team gets a powerful surge of energy before the completion of the activation. This is the time to really push the activation objectives, and ensure that we have reached EVERYBODY that we possibly could have. This is the make-or-break time of the activation!

 

17:00 – Time to pack up. By now, the whole team has really bonded over the course of the day. Everyone gets stuck in to ensure a quick, efficient set down. Once all the small elements are packed away, promoters go to change out of their uniforms, with the Ops Team tackling the big elements.

 

18:00 – The site is empty, the sun has gone down, and it is time for me to find the event organizer, offer my thanks for a great day, and get out of there.

 

19:30 – Drop promoters off at home/at the office for their transport.

 

20:00 – Arrive home exhausted, wind-swept, possibly sunburnt, but with a feeling of great accomplishment. Once I have soaked my weary bones and had a bite to eat, I fall into bed with a happy heart and enjoy a well-earned rest.

 

Depending on the duration of the activation, that alarm may be set for 04:00 for tomorrow again!

 

 

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