In today’s complex market
environment, a business faces many decisions about how to reach
potential
customers with limited dollars. Any number of communication
channels may have a role to play. When skillfully applied,
channel integration can prove very successful, but first you
have to know your customers.
What’s the
best way to take a mayoral candidate from 15% name recognition
to City Hall in less than a year? In the recent Terre Haute mayoral
election, it was the integration of the efforts of many people
to implement well-planned strategies that did the job. Of course
at the heart of it all was a very good candidate.
Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology’s Office of Annual Giving wanted
to create a reflection plaza with inscribed bricks to
surround a new campus sculpture. The direct mail appeal
created by MillerWhite let alumni and friends reflect
on what their own brick could look like and enticed many
of them to order a brick for the plaza.
This article, chock full of Super
Bowl numbers, takes a look at how important that high-priced
television advertising during the big game can be to the
big marketers. Your answers to our quiz on some of the commercials
you watched that night can be a possible indicator of whether
it was all worth it.