Tricks of the trade for successfully promoting your event

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Tricks of the Trade for Successfully

Promoting Your Event

What Type of Event Do You Have?

STP

STP

Market Segmentation

Dividing a market into distinct groups with distinct needs, characteristics, or behavior who might require separate products or marketing mixes.(Kotler)

STP

Segmenting Consumer Market •Geographical segmentation •Demographic segmentation

-Most popular segmentation •Psychographic segmentation

-Lifestyle, social class, and personality-based segmentation

•Behavioral segmentation (Kotler)

STP

Segmenting Business Market •Demographic segmentation

Industry, company size, location •Operating variables

Technology, usage status, customer capabilities

•Purchasing approaches •Situational factors

Urgency, specific application, size of order

•Personal characteristics Buyer-seller similarity, attitudes toward risk, loyalty (Kotler)

STP

Target Market

Consists of a set of buyers who share common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve(Kotler)

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Selecting Target Market Segments

•Undifferentiated (mass) marketing •Differentiated (segmented) marketing •Concentrated (niche) marketing •Micromarketing (local or individual) (Kotler)

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Positioning: •The place the product occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing products. •Typically defined by consumers on the basis of important attributes. (Jack Trout/Al Ries)

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Choosing a Positioning Strategy Identifying Possible Competitive Advantage Differentiation Can Be Based on:

•Products •Services •Channels •People •Image

Magnitude

AIDA

AIDA

PROMOTION MIX

Product: Event

Price

Place

PROMOTION

People

Process

Selling /Telemarketing

Advertising

Direct Marketing

Publicity and PR

Sponsorship/Road shows

Packaging

Word of Mouth

Email Marketing

Social Media

Marketing Mix

Advertising

Publicity and PR

Packaging

Social Media

Direct Marketing

Sponsorship/Road

shows

Word of Mouth

Email Marketing

Selling/

Telemarketing

Awareness Interest Desire Action

Promotion Tool August September October November

Packaging

Website

Publicity and PR

Print Display Ad – Manila Bulletin

Direct Marketing

Sponsorship/Road shows

Word of Mouth

Email Marketing

Social Media

Selling /Telemarketing

Promotion Plan

Case Study 1

Marketing Industry

Segment

CRM, Loyalty Dept., CMO

Target Market

Winning Customer is Good, Keeping

them Best Positioning

Metro Manila Magnitude

Road Shows Direct Mail

Exhibition Email

Marketing

Facebook Telemarketing

Blog Print

Case Study 2

Tourism Industry

Segment

PCO, PEO, Hotel, Venues, DMC

Target Market

The Leading Institution for the M.I.C.E. Industry

Positioning

Philippines Magnitude

Word of Mouth

Email Marketing

Tele Marketing

Print

Facebook

3 Lessons in Promotion

Be a Purple Cow

Look for Your Own Blue Ocean

The Greater the Fit, The Greater the Results

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Orly Ballesteros is the current Chief Operations Officer of Exlinkevents – a Professional Convention , Exhibition and Events Organizer in the Philippines. His current passion is Instagram, sharing stories with his kids about books they finished reading, and strolling with his wife in the mall.

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