Direct Marketing

Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able
to:
1. Define direct marketing and discuss its
benefits to customers and companies
2. Identify and discuss the major forms of direct
marketing
3. Explain how companies have responded to
the Internet and other powerful new
technologies with online marketing strategies
4. Discuss how companies go about conducting
online marketing to profitably deliver more
value to customers
5. Overview the public policy and ethical issues
presented by direct marketing
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Session Outline
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The New Direct-Marketing Model

Growth and Benefits of Direct Marketing
Customer Databases and Direct Marketing
Forms of Direct Marketing
Online Marketing
Integrated Direct Marketing
Public Policy Issues in Direct Marketing

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The New Direct-Marketing Model

Direct marketing consists of direct

connections with carefully targeted
individual consumers to both obtain an
immediate response and cultivate lasting
customer relationships

No intermediaries
An element of the promotion mix
Fastest-growing form of marketing

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Growth and Benefits of Direct

Marketing
Benefits to Buyers

Convenience
Ready access to many products
Access to comparative information about
companies, products, and competitors
Interactive
Immediate response

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Growth and Benefits of Direct

Marketing
Benefits to Sellers

Tool to build customer relationships

Low-cost, efficient, fast alternative to
reach markets
Flexible
Access to buyers who may not be
effectively reachable through other
channels
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Customer Databases and Direct

Marketing
Customer Database
Customer database is an organized
collection of comprehensive data about
individual customers or prospects,
including geographic, demographic,
psychographic, and behavioral data

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Customer Databases and Direct

Marketing
Customer Databases
Uses:

Locate potential customers

Generate sales leads

Learn about customers

Develop strong long-term relationships

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Direct-mail, Catalogues
Telephone marketing
Direct-response television marketing- DRTV
Kiosk marketing
Digital direct marketing
Online marketing

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Direct-mail marketing involves an offer,
announcement, reminder, or other item
to a person at a particular address

Personalized
Easy-to-measure results
Lower cost outlay than mass media
Cost per contact more than mass media
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Forms of Direct Marketing

Catalog direct marketing involves
printed and Web-based catalogs
Benefits of Web-based catalogs

Lower cost than printed

catalogs

Unlimited amount of
merchandise

Real-time merchandising

Interactive content

Promotional features

Dynamic

Challenges of Web-based
catalogs

Require marketing for the Pull

Difficulties in attracting new

customers

Spam filter

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Telephone direct marketing involves using the
telephone to sell directly to consumers and
business customers

Outbound telephone marketing sells directly to

consumers and businesses
Inbound telephone marketing uses toll-free
numbers to receive orders from television and
print ads, direct mail, and catalogs

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Benefits of Telephone
direct marketing

Purchasing
convenience

Increased product
service and
information

Interactive

Challenges of Web-based
catalogs

Unsolicited outbound
telephone marketing

Do-Not-Call Registry

TRAI restrictions

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Direct-response television (DRTV) marketing
involves 60- to 120-second advertisements that
describe products or give customers a toll-free
number or Web site to purchase and 30-minute
infomercials such as home shopping channels

Less expensive than other forms of promotion

Easier to track results

Very effective in Tier 3 & 4 cities in India

High percentage of returns of goods orderedreverse logistics

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Kiosk marketing involves placing

information and ordering machines in
stores, airports, trade shows, and other
locations

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Digital direct marketing technologies

Mobile phone marketing

Podcasts

Vodcasts

Interactive TV

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Mobile phone marketing includes:

Ring-tone giveaways

Mobile games

Ad-supported content

Contests and sweepstakes

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Podcasts and Vodcasts involve the

downloading of audio and video files via
the Internet to a handheld devices and
listening to them at the consumers
convenience. They are sponsored or
interspersed by advertisements

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Forms of Direct Marketing

Interactive TV (ITV) lets viewers interact
with television programming and
advertising using their remote controls
and provides marketers with an
interactive and involving means to reach
targeted audiences

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Online Marketing
Marketing and the Internet
Internet is a vast public web of computer
networks that connects users of all types
around the world to each other and to a
large information repository

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Online Marketing
Online Marketing Domains

Business to consumer (B2C)

Business to business (B2B)
Consumer to consumer (C2C)
Consumer to business (C2B)

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Online Marketing
Online Marketing Domains
Business to consumer (B2C) involves
selling goods and services online to final
consumers
Business to business (B2B) involves
selling goods and services, providing
information online to businesses, and
building customer relationships
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Online Marketing
Online Marketing Domains
Consumer to consumer (C2C) occurs on
the Web between interested parties over
a wide range of products and subjects

Blogs

Offer a fresh, original, and inexpensive way to

reach fragmented audiences
Difficult to control

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Online Marketing
Online Marketing Domains
Consumer to business (C2B) involves
consumers communicating with
companies to send suggestions and
questions via company Web sites

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Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers

Click-only marketers
Click-and-mortar marketers

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Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Click-only marketers operate only online without
any brick and mortar presence

E-tailers

Search engines and portals

Shopping or price comparison sites

Internet service providers (ISP)

Transaction sites

Content sites

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Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
E-tailers are dot coms that sell products and
services directly to final buyers via the Internet

Amazon

Expedia
Search engines and portals are ports of entry to
the Internet

Yahoo!

Google

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Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Internet service providers (ISP) provide
Internet connections for a fee

AOL

Earthlink
Shopping or price comparison sites
provide product and price comparison
information

Yahoo! shopping
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Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Transaction sites take commissions for
transactions on their sites

eBay
Content sites provide financial, news,
research, and other information

New York Times.com

ESPN.com
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Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Click-and-mortar companies are brick-and-mortar
companies with an online presence
Advantages of click and mortar companies include:

Known and trusted brand names

Strong financial resources

Large customer bases

Industry knowledge

Reputation

Strong supplier relationships

More options for customers

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Online Marketing
Setting Up an Online Presence
Creating a Web site requires
designing an attractive site and
developing ways to get
consumers to visit the site,
remain on the site, and return to
the site
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Online Marketing
Setting Up an Online Presence
Types of sites

Corporate Web site

Marketing Web site

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Online Marketing
Setting up an Online Presence
Corporate Web site is designed to build
customer goodwill and to supplement
other channels, rather than to sell the
companys products directly to:

Provide information

Create excitement

Build relationships

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Online Marketing
Setting Up an Online Presence
Marketing Web site is designed to engage
consumers in interaction that will move
them closer to a direct purchase or other
marketing outcome

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Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
To attract visitors, companies must:

Promote in offline promotion and online

links

Create value and excitement

Constantly update the site

Make the site useful

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Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
The seven Cs of effective Web site design
1.
Context
2.
Content
3.
Community
4.
Customization
5.
Communication
6.
Connection
7.
Commerce

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Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
Context is the sites layout
Content is the sites pictures, sound, and
video
Community is the sites means to enable
user-to-user communication
Customization is the sites ability to tailor
itself to different users or to allow users
to personalize the site
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Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
Communication is the way the site enables
user-to-user, user-to-site, or two-way
communication
Connection is the degree that the site is
lined to other sites
Commerce is the sites capabilities to
enable commercial transactions

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Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
The eighth C
To keep customers coming back, the site
needs to constantly change

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Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Forms of online advertising

Display ads

Search-related ads

Online classifieds

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Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Display ads

Banners are banner-shaped ads found on a Web

site

Interstitials are ads that appear between screen

changes

Pop-ups are ads that suddenly appear in a new

window in front of the window being viewed

Rich media ads incorporate animation, video,

sound, and interactivity

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Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Search-related ads are ads in which textbased ads and links appear alongside
search engine results on sites such as
Google and Yahoo! and are effective in
linking consumers to other forms of
online promotion

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Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Other forms of online promotion include:

Content sponsorships

Alliances

Affiliate programs

Viral advertising

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Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Content sponsorships provide companies with
name exposure through the sponsorship of
special content such as news or financial
information
Alliances and affiliate programs are
relationships where online companies promote
each other
Viral marketing is the Internet version of word-ofmouth marketing and involves the creation of a
Web site, an e-mail message, or another
marketing event that customers pass along to
friends
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Online Marketing
The Future of Online Advertising
Online advertising provides a useful purpose
as a supplement to other marketing
efforts and is playing an increasingly
important role in the marketing mix

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Online Marketing
Creating or Participating in Web Communities
Web communities allow members to
congregate online and exchange views on
issues of common interest

iVillage.com

MyFamily.com

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Online Marketing
Using E-mail
Marketers are developing enriched
messages that include animation,
interactivity, and personal messages with
streaming audio and video to compete
with the cluttered e-mail environment

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Integrated Direct Marketing

Integrated direct marketing involves the
use of carefully coordinated multiplemedia, multiple-stage campaigns

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Public Policy Issues in Direct

Marketing

Customer irritation, unfairness,

deception, and fraud
Privacy
Security

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Public Policy Issues in Direct

Marketing
Irritation, Unfairness, Deception, and Fraud
Irritation includes annoying and offending
customers
Unfairness includes taking unfair advantage of
impulsive or less-sophisticated buyers
Deception includes heat merchants who design
mailers and write copy designed to mislead
consumers
Internet fraud includes identity theft and financial
scams
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Public Policy Issues in Direct

Marketing
Invasion of Privacy
The concern is that marketers may know too
much about consumers and use this
information to take unfair advantage

Sale of databases

Microsoft

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Public Policy Issues in Direct

Marketing
A Need for Action

California Online Privacy Protection Act

(OPPA)
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act
(COPPA)
TRUSTe

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The End

Direct Marketing- Scope

Important tool of IMC
Use of consumer direct channels
without using marketing middle men

Channels
Direct mail

Catalogues

Telemarketi
ng

Interactive
TV

Kiosks

Websites

Mobile
devices

Features & Benefits

Convenience
Time saver
Vast choice of merchandise for customer
Price comparison
Order goods for themselves and others
Build a continuing relationship with each
customer- Marketers benefit
Customize & personalize offer- Sellers
benefit

Features & Benefits..cont

Measurable response
Strategy & offers less visible to
competition
Selective and targeted mailing list
Cost effective

Major vehicles for DM

Face to face selling- oldest form

Direct mail- sales people with wings
Telemarketing
Kiosk marketing
E- marketing

Direct Mail
Options
Carpet bombing- mass mailing, low rate of
response, treated as junk mail
Data base marketing- define prospect
base, high response rate
Interactive marketing- use of telephone 7
web
Opportunity to up-sell and cross sell
Real time personalized marketingcustomisation

The stages of
Direct Mail campaign
Objectives- response rate
Target markets & prospects- sharply
defined
Offer elements
The product
The offer
The medium
The distribution channels
Creative strategy

7 secrets of Direct Mail

Saying the right thing to wrong people

results in no sale
The List
The Envelope
The covering Letter
The Offer
Testing
Tracking
Follow up

Any Questions?