Sunday, December 6, 2009

Online PR management

Online PR management has become the buzz word since the advent of the igh speed internet era where everyone is connected online. Most of the conventional mails have been replaced b the email since the usage of mails have has a profound impact in the new age economic scenario. This enabled huge companies to reduce cost and improve efficacy. This means that most of the companies and employees are online in addition to thousand of internet users glues to computer monitors. This creates an a large online user base who are internet savvy and it would be worthwhile to take the internet pr route for better online presence and user acceptability. Public relations management becomes important in the context of elections bidding process, nomination etc due to the large population of internet users and gaining acceptance from them would be the first step in making use of the connectivity that the internet provides in terms of public relations. Making uses of social media is the most effective way to create and maintain Online PR with the masses. Twitter , Facebook and other revolutionary tools have come a long in making internet based pr much more viable and realistic.

Markets and Strategies based on ROI

Marketing and Return of Investment or Marketing ROI come under marketing performance management a method used to determine the relative effectiveness of marketing in determining the returns of investment due to marketing and allied strategies. The MPM analyses investments made under marketing , analysis of strategies forged targets achieved ,goals etc in effectively deciding the investment benefits and formulates other strategies for developing effective marketing strategies.
These marketing strategies are further put to test analysed on various parameters to check how each of them fared well to bring in the revenue based on those marketing skills worked out. Marketing based on revenue received or Marketing ROI would not be a good idea to pursue because the effort spend on marketing may be hard to realize at first and would show progress only on a long term basis. The right strategy in marketing with focus on long time benefits should draw customers and should bring in revenue. Once the marketing is streamlined no overt marketing strategies would be necessary to draw in the crowd as the name would have been an established one.
Once the brand becomes established all one need to do is to maintain a moderate amount of marketing to keep the audience in the loop. This would ensure the name of company will remain within the focus of the audience and would not require much marketing efforts.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Marketing ROI some clarifications

Marketing ROI is a very serious affair. Many financial heads of the company are sceptic when it comes to ROI based on marketing strategies. Many solutions or methods have been devised to optimise the ROI based on marketing. Many of these methods have found to be but many have found to be less effective and at times counterproductive.

Whatever may be the reason many companies pursue marketing not just for the ROI in the long term but also to promote their brand increase brand value and speed up customer support and increase overall brand perception in the long run. This has found many takers among the corporate world in terms of  marketing strategies. The Marketing ROI or return of investment is something that though worries financial strategist in allotting money for marketing it is something they believe is worthwhile.
The difference in marketing are visible in terms of sales, brand value increase in customer base and other factors that promote a company’s name. ROI and marketing are tow ends of the spectrum.
One is way to reach the other. Good marketing coupled with a strong support bases and quality products assures ROI in the long term. Short term benefits are not that great and may be discouraging but for an enterprise on the path of growth proper techniques in marketing ensures good ROI in the long run.

Internet PR and some clarifications

Internet marketing and internet pr or internet based public relations are of the new world order after the advance  of the internet. The internet has caused a revolution in terms of how companies reach their audience and users in these times of internet penetration to a mas audience. However Public relations based on internet lack a personal touch and therefore needs a lot of sustained work to create a rapport with the customers base.

Internet PR means the need for exclusive agencies specially dedicated to Pr affairs in the form of social websites and other medium through which they create a wide customer base and rapport with the audience in large.

Internet Pr is a good way to reach a large number of internet audience . These users make sure that the thread is maintained live of a long period of time . Communities among them maintain the spirit of conversation and induces others into the initiative of providing more and more content and PR.

Internet PR management involve the creation of decustomised blogs, communities targeted to specific audience use of microblogging sites like twitter and in general updating contents on a wide variety of internet platforms.

In general one should be constantly be updating oneself or one's firm on various platforms to keep one ahead on the world wide web. This would lead to an effective internet PR strategy.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

B2b Ads

B2B advertisement is much more complicated for the cost factors will be up on both the sides of the purchase. The customer in itself is a seller in some way and the client will strive to keep the cost minimalistic. This should be a challenging task while one gets involved in selling products to a business. The service or the product sold to other business ventures should be well quoted and the terms and condition well specified. He reason for B2B advertisement falling short of ROI is the due to the reason that the client base is very less.

If the services advertised are only to a niche class the chance that the number of clients to be even just one is very large. This ensures heavy competition from peers and one has to be the best in his/her skills of pitching the product or service to the client to beat potential competition.

It is a ruthless world and the best always bags the deal, so effective planning combined with quality services and after sales support are necessary to ensure that the client is happy and is ready to form a long term association in the future. This is of vital importance to maintain the customer base in the log run.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Internet Based PR strategies

Internet based PR efforts go a long way in cementing the relations between individuals and enterprises. Since the advent of internet we see that internet has the medium of choice or is being the medium of choice in dissimilating information. The reason is  of course it can support a wide variety of mediums. 
The information is storable retrievable and so on creating an online presence goes a long way in promoting the interests of the company. Most of the companies have internet PR or social meadia wings as these are more commonly known as. They help the firm to develop an arresting presence online and create a rapport with the audience. 
The important  thing that we need to understand is that the internet audience  is much more informed than a non internet audience for the simple reason that internet offers multiple views on the same point and this makes him well informed and therefore a positive PR strategy on the internet is an absolute must if any firms plans to stay afloat in the near future. 
The benefits of internet PR are many but what matters is the quality that is to be delivered to maintain a healthy and positive presence online.

Popular Debate on Marketing and Return on Investment

Marketing ROI or return of investment is something that any marketing head will dread. Most often the returns on marketing are questioned and have led to intense debates between finance and marketing heads across the boardrooms. Return of investment is a debatable topic but most of the companies vouch the benefits of marketing.

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Apart from creating and maintaining brand value the kind of customer base that a marketing strategy can bring is immense maybe the ROI on marketing would not be as promising or as desirable in the initial years but sustained efforts should help in raking the revenue. Marketing is a time bound process and no efforts should be spared to make it worthwhile to bring in the revenue.

Marketing ROI strategies have evolved from plain paper to internet. The paradigm shift has necessitated wide ranging strategies to incorporate the changes that the modern media demand. Return of investment is something that should be played for the long term.  Short term investments on marketing can be quite inconclusive and evolving market strategies on a short term basis  can prove to be disastrous and something that one doesnít need to indulge in. Keeping these in mind Marketing strategies can be played for the long term and one can be assured of ROI.