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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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