Truly efficient and effective marketing must be Excellent at every customer touchpoint. EQ will assess, strategize, and implement practices that optimize your Excellence Quotient.
Businesses look to grow through marketing – a new site, a print campaign, social media, etc. But these are tactics -- the key is strategically identifying attributes that differentiate the business against others – and then communicating them. The start to the Excellence Quotient is strategy for brand-level messaging ...
Explore the Market
Investigate the 4 critical drivers for assessing your position:
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Industry Trends
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Target Perceptions and Needs
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Competitors' Strengths and Weaknesses
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Company Strength and Weaknesses, Culture, and Offerings
Qualitative & Quantitative Research yield Strategic Imperatives:
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Interviews with executives, influencers, and peers
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Focus Groups and One-on-one Interviews
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Media Analysis: current content available or in-market, as well as on Social Media
Explore the Market
Explore Your Brand
Craft Brand-level Messaging:
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Unique, unassailable Position
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Competitive Advantage
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Core Messages and support
- Brand Character: attributes, values, and voice
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Differentiate through corporate, internal, sales, and marketing strategies and tactics:
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Business Plans, Marketing Plans, Sales Plans
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Executive Coaching
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Naming and naming conventions
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Brand Identity, logos, descriptors
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Product development, concepting
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Financial planning, COGS modeling, pricing
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Target Segmentation and definition
Educate the Market
Target the right customer using the right tactic in the right media at the right time
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Media Planning and buying, implementation
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Press releases, authoring
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Advertising in print, online, social media, outdoor, point-of-sale, event
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Content Marketing online, email, blog, contributing, social media publishing
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Website architecture, design, implementation, shopping cart, SEO
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Social media best practices, integration, ROI
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Contests, promotions, and couponing to incite trial
Engage Your Target
Engage Your Target
Live the brand with outstanding customer service and delivery -- make customers your best brand ambassadors
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User interface and online customer experience
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Packaging, event/physical customer experience
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Promotional programs, customer loyalty, rewards, and incentives
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Sales training, channel partner communications/co-op
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Sponsorships and spokesperson programs
Execute the Sale
Evolve
Observe, assess, and improve based on customer needs and the shifting market.
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Pre- and post-campaign studies
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Analytics setup, analysis, implications/recomendations
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Campaign Evolution