Online Revealed Canada Internet Marketing Conference Early Bird Registration Closing this Friday, March 28th.
The 3rd annual Online Revealed Canada conference is quickly approaching and Early Bird Registration Discounts are only available through this Friday, March 28, 2008. Early Bird Registration for the preeminent Canadian internet marketing conference is available for $599 through Friday, when it will increase to $699. The Canadian online travel and tourism marketing conference will be held at Calgary”s Hyatt Regency from May 12-14, 2008.
The agenda for Online Revealed Canada includes over 25 speakers, workshop leaders, and Canadian travel professionals. With speakers from Yahoo! Canada, Travelocity, the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), Orbitz, Marriott Canada, Travelzoo and many more, this innovative search marketing event will cover a variety of topics including search engine optimization, paid search marketing, social media marketing, website analytics, new media technology and other trends in marketing tourism online.
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Marketing management involves choosing target markets that not only get new customers but also retain the existing ones. It is a business subject, which is based on research and study of practical applications of marketing techniques and management of the marketing resources. The one who excels in this field is known as marketing manager. The job of the marketing manager is to influence the timing and level of customer demand so as to help the sales. It actually depends on the size of the business and environment in the corporate industry. Like if he is working in a huge production company, he will be the general manager of a particular product category assigned to him and he will be responsible for profit and loss with respect to the product. And in small business there is no marketing manager as his job is taken over by the partners of the company.
Creating and communicating best customer values can increase the number of customers. The steps taken and resources utilized to maintain existing customers and get new customers fall under marketing management. The scope is quite large because it not only consists of developing a product, but also retaining it. The term marketing management has many definitions. It actually depends on individual firms and how the marketing department functions and activities of other departments like operations finance, pricing and sales.
Before deciding about a marketing strategy, the company must do an in-depth study about their business, and the market. This is where marketing management merges with strategic planning. Usually the marketing strategies are of three types, customer analysis, company analysis and competitor analysis. Using the customer analysis, the market is broken down into different types of customers. The marketing management realizes the characteristics and other variables of each group. They are geographical location, demographic, customer behavior pattern and need. Like a group of people can be recognized who can be less price sensitive, purchases often and are growing. Such groups can be worked on by heavy investments as they are worth the money and time. They cannot only retain such customers and make new customers in this group but they can go to the very extent of turning back customers who dont belong to this group. Understanding the needs makes customers expectations to be met per their satisfaction, better than the competitors, which will lead to higher sales and obvious profit.
Company analysis highlights the cost structure and resources of the company and cost position when compared to competitors. The accounting executives use it to learn about the profit earned by a particular product. From time to time, audits are conducted to study about the strengths of various brands of the company.
Marketers using competitor analysis build detail customer profiles. It gives a clear picture about the strengths and weaknesses of the firm, when compared to a competitor. The competitors cost structure, resources, competitive positioning, degree of vertical integration, product differentiation, and profits are studied in detail and are compared to what company is doing in those regards.
The marketing management to do marketing analysis carries out marketing research. The most common of such researches are qualitative marketing research, quantitative marketing research, experimental techniques and observational techniques.
After all the studies and researches are conducted, its easier for the marketing manager to make strategic decisions and they then can design a marketing strategy to increase the profits and revenues of their company. The other goals can be profit over the long run, market share, and revenue growth.
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WorldMate Hires Vice President of Marketing and Appoints Former . Lastminute.com CEO to Advisory Board. Lastminute.com CEO to Advisory Board 25/03/2008 12:00:00 Business Wire US9092141087 WorldMate, Inc., the leading provider of travel services for business people on the go, announced today that Jonathan Michaeli has joined the company as vice president of marketing, and Brent Hoberman has been appointed to the company s advisory board. As vice president of marketing, Michaeli will be responsible for the development and implementation of the company s marketing initiatives and product strategy. He brings more than 10 years of marketing and product management experience for software and Internet companies to his new role, including several years in the online travel arena while working for Princess Cruises and National Leisure Group (NLG). Most recently, Michaeli has held leadership positions in marketing focusing on e-commerce and user-generated content.
LiveWorld Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2007 Financial Results: Company Sees Double-Digit Growth Year-Over-Year ….
SAN JOSE, Calif. & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LiveWorld, Inc. (OTCBB:LVWD - News), a leading online social network marketing agency, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2007. For fiscal 2007, LiveWorld reported revenues of approximately $10.9 million, up from approximately $9.8 million reported for fiscal 2006, or growth of 10% year-over-year. This includes 89% year-over-year growth excluding revenues from the company”s two largest clients, AOL US and eBay. The Company continued to demonstrate progress in winning new clients through the expanded sales of its flagship private-label social network solution, the LiveWorld Community Center.
What”s all this hubbub about niche marketing? Why is every successful marketer preaching niche marketing as being vital to your profitability as a marketer online or offline?
In answer to that, let”s paint a little picture… Imagine you have an idea for a great product, an idea so great you decide to turn it into a product and sell it. You”re going to make millions so you labor away hour after hour creating a masterpiece, well… Its a masterpiece in your eyes.
Hours of feverish activity, a month goes past, then another, and finally the great day arrives when you launch your product. You have a superb product and the best sales website on the internet. Another month goes buy, then two and… Not one sale!
In desperation you hire an experienced marketer for their advice, but what they tell you, crushes you…
‘You don”t stand a snowballs chance in hell of making any sales!’
You see you have picked a massive market to sell to; you are competing against big established suppliers who are seen as experts. The market trusts them because they are well known and have great reputations. It”s David against Goliath only David forgot his sling.
If this has happened to you, you”re not alone. This little scenario plays itself out day after day. Each month thousands of people find themselves in this situation.
Doesn”t it infuriate you to see others seemingly doing exactly what you did, but they make money? From their product launch they bank the profits. Want to know what they did differently?
They found a niche market, created a product specifically for it and they sell that product to that niche only. Don”t make the mistake of thinking niche marketing is something new, savvy marketers have always sold to niches. It”s only recently that niche marketing has been so heavily publicized.
Niche marketing is the process of finding small profitable segments of a much larger market and involves a lot more effort. Established suppliers to larger markets are usually not prepared to spend this time and effort required to seek out smaller segments, leaving them ripe for the picking.
One way of explaining the niche marketing concept is to picture a tree - it has a big trunk which leads to branches leading to even smaller branches and finally tiny twigs. Take the topic of fishing which can be likened to the trunk of the tree having branches leading away from it including:
- Deep Sea Fishing
- Salt Water Fishing
- Game Fishing
- Fresh Water Fishing
The smaller branches leading from Fresh Water Fishing include:
- Fishing Baits
- Bass fishing
- Fly Fishing
The tiny twigs leading from Fly Fishing include:
- Trout Fishing
- Steelhead Fishing
- Fly Tying
This is a good example of niche marketing because people who fish tend to be nuts about the subject. Drill all the way down to the tiny segment of Steelhead fishing and there are still avid enthusiasts who will go to any expense to catch the ‘big one’, including buying books or e-books.
One point worth noting is that any book or e-book on Steelhead Fishing had better be full of useful advice (i.e. the advice works), so you had better be an expert and know what you”re talking about if you intend to write one…
Finding niche markets is not as easy or obvious as you might think. Sitting down with a piece of paper and drawing a tree listing all your ideas is NOT the way to go. You are listing your ideas… your ideas won”t sell!
You need to find what your potential customers want, and to do this you need to conduct some research, here are a few ideas to get you started:
1) Visit a few online forums related to your interests. Take note of the questions people are asking and how many times similar questions are asked.
2) Visit a few book stores and go to the magazine section. Take note of the types of magazines on sale. Ask the sales assistant which magazines sell the most.
3) Take a look on eBay and spend some time going through the categories related to your interest. Take note of popular items and how often they sell.
By finding a small segment of a much larger market in which people are actively buying, and where there are not too many competitors, is the best chance you have of making money from selling your own product.
