Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marketing. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

5 Steps to Monetize

Recently, a lot of questions about how to monetize a site or blogs come into my mail, from basic requirement, preparations until step by step process. Honestly speaking, it required a careful strategic planning, it is not done in one night or instantly. It was a process carefully planned based on your own goals, type of site/blogs/business models/product or services.

basically monetize is about generating revenue from your asset, converting benefits into payment and become a cash. Few assessment would needed first to identify the step by step process such as type of your product, your own business model, identify the marketing channel, did you have your own community? if not, then building traffic is a must, etc etc, and each of the process required their own KPI (Key Performance Indicator).

To simplify the answer, perhaps this infographics below can help you "how to monetize"

Monetize
Ways to Monetize
Source : Infographics


Wednesday, February 27, 2013

What inspire and drive you to buy a new product?

new product
New Product await to launch


New products are a key source of growth and profitability for manufacturers. Unfortunately, the vast majority of new products disappear from the shelf within the first three years of their introduction.

Nielsen’s evidence suggests about two out of every three products are destined to fail no matter where you operate around the globe.

perhaps you don't know yet which new product to buy and wait for a most persuasive awareness that drives you to buy.


below is the informations source that always influence us to purchase the new product.

Source : Nielsen

Source Informations



Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Gamifications : Winning Technique for Engagement

Gamifications is a term for using a game like mechanism and thinking in a non-game context in order to engage user or solve a problem, learning or getting the Data, including improve user experience and gain ROI.

it can be based on rewarding the point for use by sharing their locations, sharing photo just like Foursquare and Facebook.

This technique include :
Achievement badges, leader boards, progress bar, achievement level, redeeming  trading, claiming, gifting, sharing, exchange point, virtual currency,   challenge, performing some task.

And now, marketing are often used this technique to engage their customer in Website or social media. Why Gamifications is Winning? check this below.


Gamifications
Gamifications is Winning




Monday, February 11, 2013

How Casino Make Money

Everybody loves an entertainment, include adult. 

Casinos are one of the favorite entertainment for adult. we often spend some money in there for fun, but for the casinos this is a Business, they are offering fun, excitement, adrenalin rush, and Hope. did you know what is the detail?


Casino Revenues
Casinos Revenues

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Jack of all Trade - The Key for Future

Business Development

Business Development is the Jack of all Trade

According to wikipedia : Business Development is conceptualized as or related to discrete projects, specific modes of growth, and organizational units, activities, and practices. Sorensen integrates these different perspectives with insights from CMDs, senior business developers and venture capitalists from successful high-tech firms from Europe, North America and India into one general construct. In this perspective, business development refers to:

"the tasks and processes concerning analytical preparation of potential growth opportunities, the support and monitoring of the implementation of growth opportunities, but does not include decisions on strategy and implementation of growth opportunities" (Sørensen, 2012, p. 26)


Skill sets and experience for business-development specialists usually consist of a mixture of the following (depending on the business requirements):

  • marketing
  • legal
  • strategy
  • finance
  • proposal management or capture management.
  • sales experience

so it is required at least 4 different Skill with each skill consist a set sub skill like :
- Marketing : Brand, Communications, Mapping, agile project management
- Legal : Knowledge of Substantive Law and Legal Procedure
- Strategy : for Customer, Client, Competitor, Market Behavior, etc.
- Finance : Forecast Sales, Balance Sheet, etc


Creation of long term value
While according to forbes

Business development is the creation of long-term value for an organization from customers, markets, and relationships.

so business development have many things to-do, to-think about it, and it looks like skilled in many things. 



Jack of all Trade

here comes the terms Jack of all Trade : 

A person who is skilled at a variety of different things, but not to the same level as a person who is specialised in one of these things.

i'm agree with this terms, its better than Master of One. Actually it feels 



To add another resources, here is some articles about Trade of all Jack and why all  Business Development should adapt to this change in this future : 





What kind of CMO are you?

What kind of CMO are you
We often hear about Chief Marketing Officer or Marketing Director. Known as one of the most difficult job in the world.

Not all the role of CMOs are the same, CMOs must have an ability to synchronize his/her own capabilities with the organizations Objective and goals : ROI, sustain growth, Innovations, etc. without this ability, the CMOs Can't survive in the fierce competitions in the market.

Based on the experience, observations and working together with several CMOs. Below is a Basic type of CMO and their basic expertise. this combinations will determine the future of the Organizations.



Basic Type of CMO :


Strategist
Strategist

  • Strategist / Thinkers :
    • This type is an experience with "been there, done that", but sometimes not really implementing or share his/her experience.
    • Got a vision and Goal, Built Long term and Short term objective.
    • Good at Branding program, Building Awareness, Hiring Agency & PR Firm
    • Always creating an Unique Campaign for Awareness (you can see after 5 years, they still focus on this "Awareness" Things)
    • less spending time with the Sales Team in the field, because they are busy with the meeting and discuss about the Value rather than the Result. end up with a lot of activities without generating any cash.
    • Smart, Creative, Charming, know much theory  "Know-How-To" type person, and seems like a problem solving guy


Doers
Doers
  • Doers :
    • This type is a fighter and "Spartans". they turn the strategic planning into the Tactical move and actions plan
    • Willing to work with the Team and en-roll their sleeves to help out
    • Concern about the Sales Figure
    • sometimes lack of Vision & Mission, can't think how-to-create a strategy. but always take a Quick actions based on situations in short period (Short term), not in the Long Term because sometimes they can't do the forecast like a Strategist.
    • Agility, Passion, Know-Where-To-Go type Person, a Practical type



Strategist & Doers
Good CMO should be a
Strategist & also a Doers
A good CMOs should be a combinations of these 2 basic type : 
  • A Strategist also a Doers, vise versa
  • A visionary leader for future with experience in the past. Do the thinking and also providing the details and "Lead by Example".
  • Tend to be Creative and Good in Numbers for Sales Figure with Unlimited Passion
  • Far more flexible, have a different set of skill and experience in the past
  • Good at managing people and servicing the customer
  • They'll stick their chin out and do what’s necessary to make things right if something went wrong.




Basic Expertise :



Business Developer
Business Developer
  • Business developer :
    • Pipe lining, Mapping, forecasting, planning
    • research, based on data instead of assumption
    • Numbers, more process & measure the output, also give recommendations
    • balance between the short term and long term goal.
    • Resourceful 

  • Financial Expert :
    • Numbers & Numbers, Sales Figure, expert in balance sheet, forecasting
    • More short-term Gain 
    • Value is always measure by numbers, but sometimes didn't know how to measure a value of a "Good Will"
    • Focus on Output rather on Process

  • Creative People :
    • Imaginations, think lateral and problem solving
    • strong in visual, passionate, charming and sometimes adorable
    • Artistic, somehow Moody 


  • Media / PR people :
    • Don't like conflict, use win-win solutions as problem solving
    • a very Good communicator (writing, listening & Speaking) and also connector
    • people to people approach, managing people
    • Team Player

  • IT / Programmer :
    • Logic, Zero & One
    • Not really Flexible, often are rigid
    • very good at detail and explanations since they are used to think for "algorithm"


What if we combine these basic type and basic expertise? what kind of result we can get?
  • Strategist combine with Media / PR People = what kind of CMOs in the future?
  • Doers combine with Business Developers = Type of CMOs ?
  • Strategist combine with Business Developers = Type ??
  • Doers with IT/Programmer = Type ??
  • Strategist with Creative People = Type ??

CMO
Of course this is just some observations and based on the personal experience with some CMOs. No valid data is given here, result is just based on the Observations only.


What kind of CMOs you would become is depend on your skill set and past experience with future vision.








Monday, February 4, 2013

8 alasan kegagalan Marketing

Planning


Banyak marketing plan yang gagal dilaksanakan, atau bahkan jika sudah dilaksanakan, hasilnya menjadi mengecewakan. Concept Low Cost High Impact yang diagung-agungkan akhirnya menjadi High Cost No Impact. Marketing Manager disalahkan, Pihak Agency atau pihak external yang membantu terkena getahnya. Bahkan tidak jarang terjadi pemecatan dan pergantian.

Tentu saja alasan kegagalan tersebut cukup banyak, tapi semuanya hanya akan menghasilkan sebuah kekosongan untuk jawaban yang tidak pasti.

Hal ini bisa saja terjadi di perusahaan skala kecil maupun skala besar, untuk menghindari kegagalan tersebut, berikut adalah beberapa alasan kegagalan sebuah marketing plan :

  1.  Menggunakan Asumsi
    Kesalahan paling dasar dan dosa terbesar adalah menggunakan ASUMSI baik sendiri maupun hanya berdasarkan kata beberapa orang. Tidak ada data yang jelas baik secara kuantitatif maupun kuantitatif. Tidak mengetahui Industry, Market, Segmentasi dan bahkan Competitor.

    Program yang dibuat hanya berdasarkan angan-angan dan kira-kira saja. Begitu dilaksanakan, sudah pasti gagal.
  2.  Salah sasaran dan fokus
    Karena menggunakan Asumsi, kebanyakan program marketing dibuat hanya karena ingin menyenangkan pihak tertentu, baik itu atasan maupun client demi sebuah perstige yang baik. Atasan, perusahaan tempat bekerja maupun pihak lainnya, terkadang tidak merepresentasikan sebuah market tertentu.
    Terlalu  Fokus ke “Brand Mission” dan juga “Product Superiority” justru cenderung hanya menghasilkan impact yang sedikit saja, karena tidak memperhatikan apa yang sebenarnya di inginkan oleh market dan opportunity yang ada.
  3. Over Promise
    Brand message yang disampaikan terlalu muluk, terlalu indah dilihat dan di dengar. Tapi kenyataanya belum tentu bisa ditepati. Misalnya  tagline sebuah customer service : kami siap 24/7 untuk melayani anda. Kenyataan adalah sabtu dan minggu libur.
  4. Over-bearing
    Kesalahan lainnya yang sering terjadi adalah overbearing, yaitu menjadi sombong atau terlalu berlebihan dalam mengerjakan segala hal.  Biasanya hal ini terjadi dalam skala perusahaan kecil menengah atau yang terlalu rakus sehingga tidak REALISTIK. Mereka mencoba untuk mengerjakan segala hal untuk mencapai semua pada saat yang bersamaan. Akibatnya adalah kelelahan, tidak fokus dan gagal serta saling menyalahkan.

    Sebaiknya setup saja beberapa goal dan biasanya 2-3 goal yang ingin dicapai dalam waktu tertentu, dan fokus terhadap goal tersebut. Dan Goal tersebut haruslah REALISTIC.
  5. Over-reaching
    Mencoba untuk mejadi segalanya, untuk semua-nya pada saat kapan saja. Idealisme yang tinggi dan sudah pasti gagal. Karena product anda dibeli oleh customer berdasarkan preferensi tertentu, kebutuhan tertentu dan segment yang berbeda-beda. Concept “One Size Fit All” sudah tidak berlaku lagi.

    Alangkah lebih bagusnya jika sudah mengetahui market mana yang dituju dan sesuai dengan Behaviour mereka.
  6. Terlalu General dan Samar-samar
    “Menjadi yang terbaik”, “Roti terbaik”, “yang paling di inginkan”, “memberi lebih” biasanya akan susah dilaksanakan dan “struggle to be actionable”. Alasannya mudah saja, bagaimana mengukur sebuah intangible goal?  Contoh yang lebih jelas :
    a.       Menjadi bank yang baik dalam 3 tahun mendatang
    b.
          Target 10% pelanggan baru dalam setiap quartal
    c.
           Menaikkan revenue pelanggan 10% dalam 1 tahun ini.
  7. No Ownership
    Marketing plan yang sudah dijalankan berhenti begitu saja. Iklan yang sudah di tayangkan, promosi yang sudah dilakukan tidak dilanjutkan lagi.  akibatnya pelanggan hilang, antusias berkurang, dan brand tenggelam dalam persaingan. Yang harus dilakukan adalah design dan rancang terus program marketing anda, jgn berhenti begitu saja. Karena marketing itu adalah kegiatan yang erat kaitannya dengan pelanggan dan berlaku seumur hidup.
  8. Berdasarkan Budget semata, bukan TUJUAN
    Program marketing yang dibuat berdasarkan budget, iya memang benar, dan harus seperti ini biasanya. Tapi yang paling penting adalah berdasarkan Tujuan bukan hanya Budget saja. Bila tau tujuan yang jelas seperti point yang telah disebutkan diatas, maka alokasi budget anda lebih terukur dan efektif. Dengan kata lain, Budget mengikuti Tujuan.
Untuk semua jenis perusahaan baik skala kecil maupun menengah di industry manapun, sebaiknya perhatikan dan fokus pada marketing plan yang dibuat, gunakan data dengan bijaksana, cari insight dan indepth yang bagus, Kenali market  dan segmentasi, berikan sesuai kebutuhan mereka. Jgn berdasarkan kepentingan pribadi perusahaan semata. Maka hasilnya akan sangat luar biasa.


Sudah siapkah merancang marketing Plan 2014 – 2020? Ini tantangan yang menarik untuk dibahas.



Sunday, February 3, 2013

What is Digital Marketing

In this info-graphics  it is very clear about what is Digital Marketing. in-fact you can google it, and learn from google.com.

But for the  Next Question, what kind of Industry and Business type are using Digital Marketing? what is their success factor? what is their conversion rate to the sales? if there is a direct impact to the sales figure. 


Digital Marketing

Monday, June 4, 2012

8 Tips Menyusun kampanye pemasaran

mungkin sudah banyak di bahas di berbagai topic maupun blog dan situs lainnya tentang bagaimana caranya membuat sebuah kampanye pemasaran.

untuk menerapkan sebuah kampanye pemasaran tidaklah susah atau perlu sebuah rumus pasti. namun yang jelas ada beberapa hal yang harus diperhatikan seperti :

  1. Latar belakang atau situation analysis.
    ini merupakan langkah awal untuk menentukan apa strategy dan objective berikutnya berdasarkan analisa keadaan dan situasi sekarang, sedikit lakukan benchmarking untuk melihat kondisi minimal 1 tahun kebelakng mengenai apa saja yang telah dilakukan, kompetitor analysis, paling simple lakukan SWOT Analysis

  2. Objective yang biasanya terdiri dari (Bisnis Objective, Marketing Obj, Sales Obj dst dst).
    Setelah meninjau situasi berdasarkan point diatas, ada baiknya tentukan target maupun objective secara nyata, tentukan apa yang bisa dilakukan dan dikerjakan saat ini. Misalnya untuk Marketing Objective : Sampling 100.000 Product atau Akuisisi Market A dengan mengajak Partner A dst
  3. Tentukan Communication Objective juga beserta Advertising Message.
    untuk melakukan aktivitas marketing, tentunya harus ada komunikasi yang jelas dan pesan yang disampaikan jelas. misalnya berdasarkan Marketing Objective diatas harus sampling 100.000 Product, maka utk mendekati Market A, Advertising Messagenya menjadi "Utk kamu yg bla bla, akan mendapatkan Bla Bla. messagenya jelas dan benefitnya jelas
  4. Brand Positioning Strategy.
    Nah ini juga kudu diperhatikan, Positioning Brand-nya apa? dibandingkan dengan competitor? Unique product? segmented Target? Category Leader? Gunakan Rumus ABC katanya. yaitu :
    A : Audience
    B : Benefit
    C : Compelling Reason Why?
  5. Develop Creative Strategy.
    Banyak yang bingung dengan creative strategy ini, biasanya ga mau ribet, langsung saja bikin Iklan, langsung saja eksekusi, pokoknya indah dipandang mata. padahal sebenarnya bisa jadi salah kalau tidak hati2. beberapa tips untuk Develop Creative Strategy adalah :
    - apa opportunity / problem yang harus di perhatikan?
    - apa yang akan kita lakukan sebagai hasil dari advertising / iklan tersebut? apa hasil response yang di inginkan?
    - komunikasi tersebut ditujukan kepada siapa?
    - dst dst
  6. Implementasi
    Tahap terpenting dalam kampanye adalah implementasi, sudah disusun creativenya, objectivenya, . Tapi jangan lupa untuk menjelaskan program yang akan dijalankan tersebut, mekanisme program yang memperhatikan objective-nya, message dan creative. jelaskan serinci mungkin karena biasanya dengan memperhatikan detail yang ada. berarti kita mengetahui apa yang kita kerjakan dan memperkirakan hasilnya.
  7. Set Media Objective dan Strategy.Tentukan juga Objective dari media yang akan digunakan, serta strategy untuk memilih media dan pendekatannya. ada media yang bersifat national dan lokal bahkan segmented. apabila salah memilih, maka akan menjadi tidak relavan lagi komunikasi pemasarannya.

    Digital Media Plan
    ini yang paling sering dicari akhir-akhir ini. kenapa? karena beriklan digital lebih hemat, murah dan terukur hasilnya. serta Realtime. bahkan anggaran bisa di sesuaikan dengan hasil yang ingin di capai,

    Jenis iklan yang sedang trend dan sering di pasang :
    SEM / Adwords
    Run on Network / Webnetwork
    Social Ads
  8. Budgeting.
    Jangan lupa untuk membuat budgeting yang diperlukan untuk menyusun kampanye tersebut, tanpa budget tentunya program tersebut tidak akan jalan bukan?
Diperlukan waktu dan ketelitian sewaktu menyusun kampanye tersebut, pastikan market yang dituju juga sudah benar. agar tidak terjadi komunikasi yang sia-sia dengan market yang salah. kalau kata orang sih bisa jadi MarMisKom (Marketing Miss Komunikasi).

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