Manager's Guide to Marketing, Advertising, and Publicity

273 Pages·2009·1.43 MB·English

by  Barry Callen

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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1. What Marketing Communications Can Do for You 1
The Importance of Good Marketing Communications 1
What Is Marketing Communications? 2
What Is a Target Market? 4
What About Your Competitors? 5
How Marketing Can Benefit Your Business 5
Marketing Results Can Benefit Your Career 10
Classic Business Situations Where Marketing Can Help 11
Framing Marketing Expectations: Miracle Cure
or Money Rathole? 19
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 1 21
2. Don’t Make These Mistakes 22
Our Sales Are Down! Run Some Ads Now! 23
Our Competitor Is Doing It—Let’s Do It Too 27
We Do This Every Year—Don’t Rock the Boat 28
Welcome, New Players! Let’s Make Some Improvements! 29
Smart Marketing Mindset: The Continuous Experiment 31
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 2 31
3. Planning—Step by Step 33
Define a Realistic Business Communications Objective 33
When to Advertise: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 34
What to Advertise: Lead with Your Strong Suit 38
Integrate All Your Products, Services and Communications 39
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Results: You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure 40
12-Step Marketing Planning Process 42
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 3 49
4. Basic Principles of Marketing Communications Strategy 51
Principle One: Marketing is About Probabilities,
Not Predictability 52
Principle Two: When You Dance with the
Customers, Let Them Lead 53
Principle Three: Integrate and Align Everything 53
Principle Four: The Heart Trumps the Head 54
Principle Five: Emotional Truths Are Invisible Truths 56
Principle Six: Barry Callen’s Teeter-Totter Theory
of All Human Behavior™ 57
Principle Seven: If You Want to Get Rich,
You Have to Niche 59
Principle Eight: Stand for Something or You’ll Fall Down 60
Principle Nine: Zig When Others Zag, and Vice Versa 60
Principle Ten: One Ad, One Idea 62
Principle Eleven: Be Both Relevant and Unique 62
Principle Twelve: Don’t Swim Upstream 63
Principle Thirteen: First, Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit 63
Principle Fourteen: Avoid B.S. 64
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 4 65
5. Types of Marketing Communications and Expertise 66
Direct Response Marketing 66
Database Marketing 68
Cause Marketing 70
Event Marketing 71
Permission Marketing 72
Promotional Advertising 72
Brand Advertising 73
Employee Branding 74
Public Relations 75
Graphic Design 75
Online Marketing 77
Guerrilla Marketing 78
Integrated Marketing 80
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 5 81
Contents vii
6. Positioning and Brand Personality 82
What Is Positioning and Why Is It Important? 82
Position or Be Positioned 83
Whom Do You Serve? Market Segmentation 85
What Job Do You Do for Them? Drill Bits,
Holes, and Happiness 88
How Are You Different? USPs and Reasons to Believe 89
Brand Personality: Hitler vs. Mother Teresa 93
Put It All Together in an Emotional Positioning Statement 94
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 6 95
7. PitchPerfectTM Message Strategy for More
Powerful Persuasion 97
The Purpose of Message Strategy 100
What Is PitchPerfect™ Message Strategy? 100
PitchPerfect™ Message Strategy Requires
Forced Choice to Be Effective 103
Tips for Finding Better Answers to Each Question 104
Put It All Together 108
Multiple Message Strategies 110
Differentiating Message Strategy from
Messaging, Positioning, and Branding 113
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 7 114
8. Creating Breakthrough Advertising Campaign Ideas 116
Stand Out in the Clutter 116
What Is a Campaign Idea, and Why Do You Need One? 118
How to Spot an Idea 121
How to Create Ideas 126
How to Evaluate Ideas 133
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 8 136
9. The Most Important Creative Elements of an Ad 138
Name 138
Logo 146
Headline 149
Tagline 152
Reasons to Believe 155
Call to Action 163
Visual 165
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 9 166
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10. Media Planning and Buying 168
Media Planning 168
Media Objectives and Strategies 169
Media Mix 174
Media Scheduling and Execution 174
Media Buying 175
In the Final Analysis 175
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 10 176
11. Traditional Print and Broadcast Advertising Media 177
Magazine Display Ads 177
Newspaper Display Ads 181
Brochures 183
Posters and Flyers 185
Billboards 186
Yellow Pages 188
Direct Mail 189
Radio 190
Television 193
Combining Media 194
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 11 195
12. Public Relations 196
Public Relations Is All About Credibility 197
Working with the Media to Tell Your Story 198
Creating Effective Press Materials 202
Developing Memorable Events to Maximize
Publicity Opportunities 203
Getting Started with Crisis Communications 205
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 12 220
13.Online Marketing209
Be User-Centric 210
Use the Advantages of the Medium 210
Micro-Marketing 212
A Conversation Medium 212
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 13 220
14. Market Research? 221
What Is Market Research? 221
Where Does Research Fit in the Marketing Process? 222
How to Approach a Market Research Project 223
Contents ix
Types of Market Research 224
Surveys 224
Focus Groups 229
Individual Interviews 233
When You Shouldn’t Do Research 235
Selecting a Research Consultant 235
Limits of Market Research 236
Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 14 238
Index 239