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Strategic Dynamics, Inc.
9741 East Lofty Point Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
Phone: 480-488-3639
Fax: 866-865-3778
Email: Strategic Dynamics

Demand Generation

You have a great product. It is priced effectively and readily available through your channel partners. But how should you promote it to create demand? You need a marketing communication plan.

An effective marketing communication plan tells the target market your product is available and explains how it will benefit them. The plan generates leads for your distribution channel and directs prospects to where they can purchase your product.

The type of marketing communication you use depends upon your company’s specific marketing objectives, your understanding of the target market and the response you desire from the receiver of your message — e.g., awareness, interest, desire or action. Once you have determined these variables, you can choose the most appropriate medium for person-to-person and mass communication.

The most widely used approaches to marketing communication, listed by objective, are as follows:

To achieve this Objective…
Use this Marketing Approach
Create awareness Advertising
Project an image Public relations
Generate leads Direct marketing
Affect behavior Sales promotion
Stimulate desire or action Personal selling

Below are examples of the tools available within each marketing communications approach.

Advertising
Public Relations
Direct Marketing
Print ads
Packaging
Literature
Ad reprints
Yellow Pages
AV material
Videotapes
Buyers’ guides
Cooperative advertising
Point of Purchase Displays
Testimonials
Client references
Banner ads
Press kits
Publications
Events
News releases
News stories
Charitable donations
Community involvement
Identity media
Lobbying activity
Seminars
Speeches
Catalogs
Mailings
Telemarketing
Fax & e-mail broadcasts
Web site
Newsletter
Interactive CD
Business reply cards
Calendars
Posters
New-customer kits
Guest books
Sales Promotion
Personal Selling
Premiums & incentives
Financing options
Trade-in allowances
Continuity programs
Rebates
Couponsrebates
Product samples
Entertainment
Sweepstakes & contests
Price-off Sales
Packaging
Product demonstrations
Demo inventory
Trade shows
Sales meetings
Slide or video presentations
Incentive programs
Net meetings
Video-conferences

We can help you develop a marketing communications plan that will meet your objectives in the most cost-effective manner.

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