Direct marketing is a type of marketing that distinguishes from other types because of its two main defining characteristics. First, it attempts to send its messages directly to customers without using intervening media. This also includes commercial communication such as direct mail, e-mail marketing with consumers or businesses. Second, it is focused on driving a specific “call-to-action.” This aspect of direct marketing involves an emphasis on trackable, measurable, positive answers from consumers.

In direct marketing there are further types different from each other in terms of methodology and results. However, doing your internet business, you need to choose only that method which can produce the best outcome for your efforts. This is where you can explore the technique of using direct mail marketing services to have a bright future in the business.

For attracting and gaining new customers you can choose any of the following stratagems of direct marketing:

1. Direct Mail

A method most frequently used in direct marketing is direct mail. Direct mail allows you to devise marketing sections in different forms. It includes envelope mailers, catalogues, self-mailers, snap mailers, dimensional mailers, brochures, and postcards. Before writing direct mail make it sure that you have specific market target that you want to achieve.

2. Telemarketing

Telemarketing is another method of direct marketing that has the advantage of speed in a marketing campaign. It enables you to contact with your clients using telephone. Whenever you make a telephone call, first introduce yourself and then go on to your purpose. Briefly describe your product or service and add how it solves the clients’ needs. At the end you can also ask for a face to face meeting, or to get permission to send them information via e-mail.

3. Direct Response

In direct response, the customer responds to the marketing message directly. An example of this would be infomercials where the clients view a television presentation of a product. They can purchase this product with a credit card over the telephone or internet.

4. Personal Selling

Personal sale calls is another technique of direct marketing. First conduct a research on the companies or the target that you are trying to sell your product. For this you can buy a list from a reputable list company. If you take this list make sure that you have complete information on your target market.
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But, in order to make email marketing work for you, you need to follow certain golden rules:
Rule #1: keep away from transfering spam emails
There are several ways for you to spam – intentionally or unknowingly but at the same time you have to avoid this at all cost. Email marketing all the time runs on trust so by no means try to cheat the consumers by transfering spam emails to them, when send the spam emails customers will not accept then the your email marketing services will reach the blacklist of the customers, so always be faithful towards consumers.
thus for this problem there is solution that is before sending the email to the customer first ensure whether the email goes to spam folder for that a spam filter software is obtainable which helps you a lot. Don’t annoy the consumer by transfering too many emails each day, thus dispatch the emails once in a week or twice in a week for the comfort of the consumer by this you can increase your subscription rates.
Rule #2: Personalisation rules
In Email Marketing it is comparatively unproblematic to personalise by by means of a code into your email template retrieving the data from your mailing file if you have the name of your subscriber or client – benefit from it.
nearly all of us like being addressed directly, seeing or hearing our name, made feeling relevant and valuable. If an email is right away addressed to us, we are more likely to be attracted than if it is sent to “Whom it may concern”.
Rule #3: by no means loose the customer
If you like it or not – it is your customer’s choice if he wants to receive your email and even legally you are obliged to allow anyone on your email distribution list to opt-out. This means, that you have to give them the option to notify you to stop emailing you – either by clicking a link or by replying to your electronic message.
the customers will not think about your reputation damage. if the consumer want to unsubscribe you have to show the way otherwise the mails are dispatched to blaklist. Or in other words, he marks you as spam. And if many people do that you will get a reputation as spammer and your emails have an rising chance to be jammed in spam filters of people who truly want to hear from you.
Rule #4: send useful information
they will unsubscribe or stop reading the messages when they get several emails at a time hence forward the mails in once in a week. all the time dispatch the significant and advantageous information to the client in order to increase your response rate.
Rule #5: Always be a trustworthy company to the customer
acceptance of email by the client is very essential, therefore for that reason most the companies try to make their email interesting but in that intention they forget the basic point that the client will first notice the subject line of the email, so if the subject line is relevant to the customer within no time customer reads the email and accepts further emails. If you lose him at this stage, he will never read what you have to offer. always think and follow the best ways to let the customers to open the emails, always win the trust of the consumer, which is always beneficial to purchasers as well as to you.

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3 M’s of Business model Marketing

3M’s are Money, Management, Marketing

Buying and Selling of and exchannge of goods for an agreed amount.

Marketing is the promotion of products oe service especially advertising and branding.

4 P’s of Marketing

* Product
* Price
* Place
* Promotion

Marketing 3C model

* Customer
* Company
* Competitor

3 conceptions of marketing

Production concept
Selling concept
Marketing concept

Short Term Factors in Marketing System

Product
Place
Price
Promotion

Long Term Factors in Marketing System

Technological
Legal
Cultural
Economic

Components of a Marketing Plan

1. Market Research/Analysis
2. Marketing Objectives/Goals
3. Marketing Mix/Strategy
4. Marketing Budget
5. Market Monitoring and Evaluating
6. Plan Check List

Types of Marketing

Internet Marketing
Offline Marketing
Word of Mouth Marketing
Guriall Marketing
Email Marketing
Viral Marketing
Print Advertising
Direct Mail
TV and Radio
Organic Search
Pay Per Click
Social Media Marketing
Banner Advertising
Network Marketing
Services Marketing
Evangelism Marketing
Relationship Marketing
Experiential Marketing
Mobile Marketing

New Media Marketing types

• Internet
• Mobile phones
• IPODS
• PDAS

Types of Marketing Research

Exploratory Research : better understanding of the problem dimensions.
Descriptive Research : general understanding of the marketing problem
Causal Research : used to identify cause-and-effect relationship.

Top Marketing Rules

Rules are Meant to be Broken if needed
Marketing Must Result in Sales and growth
Be unique
Keep a deadline

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The term strategic window is the limited periods during which the “fit” between the key requirements of a market and the particular competencies of a firm competing in that market is at an optimum. In this paper we will use VXL Instrument’s case to elaborate the concept.
What is VXL’s Business?

VXL Instruments is enabling companies around the world build a flexible, secure, manageable and cost-efficient IT infrastructure. Its range of thin client devices helps enterprises beat the cycle of desktop obsolescence, free internal resources from non-productive functions, and save millions of dollars that is spent in securing systems. The thin client is a server-centric computing model in which the application software, data, and CPU power resides on a network server rather than on the client computer.VXL Instruments won “Highest IT-Hardware Exporter Award in Non-SSI category” for year 2006-2007.
VXL’s Dilemma

VXL Instruments is leading manufacturer of thin client devices and commands 11% share in global market. Its major chunk of sales comes from export to US and EU. The company is trying to explore new market in India for its thin client devices. Competitors like Wyse and HP offer diverse range of product not only in west but also in India. Therefore, it’s high time that company starts thinking about Indian market.
How to market TC in India?

Company’s products like TC23xx and TC73xx are reliable and cost-effective. The (thin client) TC can help in eradicating various pain in server based computing. It is very useful in case of SME’s (Small and medium scale enterprises) where computing requirements are pretty specific. In case of sectors like hospitality, we need to explore various value unlocking features so that they can charge a premium. The major challenges are following:

1. How to provide maximum utility without making product too much complex?

2. How to convince existing clients to change from fat clients to thin clients?

3. How to market TC in India?

Actually the answer of third question will give us a frame work for finding the answers for first two questions.

I will consider VXL a minimum risk taking company. It’s more product centric than customer centric. Therefore, its products are world class but market penetration is not that impressive. Presently, VXL markets its products through client interaction and third party distributors like Priya Limited. This approach reduces marketing expenses but the approach has its own limitations.

In 2005, Mumbai-based distributor Priya Ltd invested $2 million (around Rs 10 crore) in equity in VXL Instruments. The investment was part of the trade finance arrangement that gave VXL $9 million (around Rs 45 crore) aimed at funding its growth.

VXL chalked out expansion plans and a growth strategy with a view to increase its market share of thin client to 25 percent by 2007-2008. It has made inroad in different verticals like ERP, Health, Telecom, Education and Banking with client list including SAP Belgium, Birmingham City Hospital UK, DOT India, British Telecom, IIM Lucknow, IIT Roorkie, Haga Bank Jakarta and HDFC India etc. But presently its market share is much below its target.
Product Awareness & Customer Perception

We can roughly divide the customers into two categories:

* Techno Savvy Customers with financial Muscle: These type of customers, already know about the products (TC) and we need to convince them that thin client is a better option over Fat client. For example Velankani group’s upcoming 5-Star hotel in Electronic City, Bangalore. The Velankani’s are in IT and infrastructure and they are aware about technology and its implementation. According to Mr. R. Shiva Kumar (Manager Information System, Velankani), these types of customers should better be approached when the product is in its embryonic stage. Once they acquire fat clients (FC) for their project, they won’t be interested in TC due to switch over cost. Here we need to market TC as a device which will not only reduce the total cost of ownership but also provide simple solution for all comfort requirements.

* Less Techno Savvy with Medium Range Investment Capabilities: These types of customers don’t have their own IT department. They generally play safe and go for the fat client technology being used by other players in their segment. More over they consider their computing needs are minimal and don’t find IT investments much attractive. Here, we need to educate them about various advantage of server based computing and advantage of TC over FC. These types of firms should be approached for providing total solution.

Market Redefinition

Frequently, as markets evolve, the fundamental definition of the market changes in ways which increasingly disqualify some competitors while providing opportunity for the others. The trend towards marketing “system” of products as opposed to individual piece of equipments provides many examples of this phenomenon. We will discuss this point with the help of Docutel case.

Docutel: This manufacturer of automatic teller machine (ATM’s) supplied virtually all the ATM’s in US up to late 1974. In early 1975, Docutel found itself losing its market share to large computer companies such as Burroughs, Honeywell, and IBM as these manufacturers began to look at the banks’ total EFTS (Electronic Fund Transfer System) needs. They offered the bank a package of equipment representing a complete system of which the ATM was only a component. In essence their success can be attributed to the fact that they redefined the market in a way that increasingly appeared to disqualify Docutel as a potential supplier.
Conclusion

Market redefinition is not only limited to the banking industry; similar trends are underway in scientific instrumentation (Steel, Cement, and Aluminium Industries), process control equipments (Siemens, Vesuvius and SMS redefined the market); the machine tool industry, office & household equipment (VXL is already a player) and electronic control gear as some of the other examples. In each case, manufacturers basing their approach on the marketing of individual hardware items are seeing their “strategic window” closing as computer systems producers move in to take advantage of emerging opportunities. HP has capitalized sufficient TC market by virtue of some aggressive M&A. In India companies like HCL Technologies and Satyam are planning to enter in TC market as a total solution provider. Wipro is also exploring opportunities in SME. We can expect Wipro to venture in this segment, in near future.

As the competition grows SME’s are also becoming lean. Most of firms are following make-to-order philosophy of manufacturing. All these need free flow of materials, information and finances imperative. As the practices are changing, many new applications of networking technology have evolved. Here, we can see a scope for VXL being a consultancy provider and not a mere product manufacturer.

References:

* http://www.vxl.net

* The Windows Embedded Family: An Integrated, Scalable Platform for Building Thin Client Devices(Microsoft)

* Strategic Window: Derek F. Abell(Journal of Marketing)

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• Marketing stimulates the aggregate demand thereby enlarges the size of market.

• Marketing in basic industries, agriculture, mining and plantation industries helps in distribution of output without which there is no possibility of mobilization of goods and services which is the key point for economic growth. These industries are the back bone of economic growth.

• It also accelerates the process of monetizing the economy which in turn facilitates the transfer of investible resources.

• It helps in discovery of entrepreneurial talent.

• Intermediate industrial goods and Semi-industrial products etc. essentially marketed for industrial purpose in order to develop the industrial sector with a view to economic growth.

• In Export trade and services like tourism and baking marketing plays eminent role in order to grow the economy.

Now days economic and social changes are necessary for bring about the development of a nation. Social changes are brought about in a planned manner through social marketing technology. Social marketing can be defined as the design, implementation and control of programmers calculated to influences the acceptability of social ideas and involving consideration of product planning, pricing, communication, distribution and marketing research.

With the rapid growing marketing business, technology is playing a more important role in the demands of analyzing and utilizing the large scale information gathered from customers. To predict the consequent business strategy by using technology, it is required to evaluate the customer performance, discover the trends or patterns in customer behavior. For this purpose the in modern world using the technology at a maximum level by e-commerce, internet marketing and services etc.

Even though in several developing countries, Government involves in marketing efforts in order to provide equitable distribution at minimum social costs by setting ceiling and floor prices of foods grains and industrial raw materials, setting maximum whole sale and retail prices of scarce consumer products etc. which ensures the smooth flow of essential goods and even influencing the decisions pertaining to distribution and advertising. Even though the economic recession affects the market at a larger extent, it plays major role in economic growth.

The end result will be the maximization of growth of the economy in order to provide higher standard of living for all and the development of a economic levels of the people that fosters entrepreneurialism.

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