TEchNOLOGy TRaNSFER MODEL - Javna agencija
TEchNOLOGy TRaNSFER MODEL - Javna agencija
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9<br />
Product and Service Dissemination<br />
9.6.3.6 Other means of dissemination<br />
The means of communication to transport the most important messages to the selected target groups are manifold. Let’s highlight<br />
a few here:<br />
• Events: Trade shows, fairs, road shows, industry forums, networking events<br />
• Offline Media: Project brochure, PowerPoint presentation, print ads<br />
• Online marketing: Website, search engine marketing, webinars, social networking<br />
• Public Relations: Press release, press conference<br />
• Viral Marketing: see Online Marketing, Personal Communication<br />
• Direct Marketing: Email campaign, cold-calling campaign, mailings<br />
• Strategic partnerships / cooperation / networking / industry clusters<br />
Events / trade shows<br />
Trade shows and fairs allow potential customers hands-on access to products. These platforms are very useful for a focused access to<br />
target groups and competition. The fairs are also very useful to assess your competition and to examine recent trends and opportunities.<br />
When using a cooperation of your exhibition with partners it is possible to establish a stronger industry position.<br />
Brochures and folders<br />
The communication by written media in printed form is a useful tool, which symbolizes credibility and professionalism. Here are<br />
some hints for creating a brochure:<br />
• Know what your reader wants – write it from the reader’s point of view<br />
• Motivate your reader to look inside – focus on cover design, stress benefits<br />
• Contents page – what’s in it? – pick out the important sales points, well structured content, no insider jargon<br />
• Describe your product – List of product features including “which means that:…” benefit; more than 1 benefit per feature<br />
• Make it a keeper – provide hints, back stage information, tips from the pros.<br />
• Alter the shape – A4? Shape of your product?<br />
• Make it personal – write in a direct “I’m-talking-only-to-you” style<br />
• Add atmosphere – share your feelings, ad photos, images and graphics<br />
• Get selling…fast – do not only educate your readers<br />
• Talk about your readers needs – Talk about your reader, not yourself<br />
• Give directions – good structure, provide clear signposts or headlines<br />
• Ask for action – provide responding possibilities and mechanisms<br />
Online Marketing<br />
An increasingly critical communication channel – to reach not only consumers, but also small groups of decision-makers - is the<br />
online sector.<br />
The foundation of one’s online appearance is a website to present the product including utilization of all technical functionalities<br />
(videos, animation, download-areas, photos, shop-applications, etc.)<br />
The website should also be optimized from the search engines perspective:<br />
• Page Titles – Make sure that your site’s page titles say something other than just your company name or “welcome.”<br />
• ext-Based Navigation – Search engines cannot read images. If your site’s navigation system is done with images (most are), you<br />
will need a text–based navigation system<br />
• Prominence of Targeted Keyword Phrases – It is not enough to have your keyword phrase(s) somewhere on the web page, the<br />
placement and prominence given to them also affects your search engine placement – CONTENT IS KING!<br />
• Site Map - Developing a site map that includes a well-organized list of links to all the important pages of your site<br />
• ALT and META data – These are tags not seen by the site’s users; they are embedded in the site’s html code<br />
• Clean up the Code – Navigation rollovers and other JavaScript-based code should be taken out of the code of each page and put<br />
into an external file<br />
• Maximize Quality Link Popularity – Link Popularity is the term given to the number of other sites linking to yours<br />
Search engine marketing (Keyword-Marketing) enables one to reach target groups that specifically search for similar products.<br />
Social Media<br />
Social media is a collaborative tool used for communication. It relates to the media—that is, those storage/transmission tools that<br />
relay data—but refers to that which allows users/members to be social and interact with one another. That said, social media in the<br />
online world relates to any online application that empowers two or more people together. In the age of the social Internet, we refer<br />
to the tools and content created by people using these interactive technologies as ‘social media.’<br />
There are a lot of social media networking platforms besides facebook and xing where you can select different target groups and<br />
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