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- asking usual customers to visit the Web site and sign-up by means of an on-line form
- inserting printed flyers into bags of take-away --this should work better for fast-food and pizza makers
- mailing cards where customers have to fill out their own data to join the list
- free and discount offers with clearly marked deadline
- a real customer profiled who is speaking about his/her food experience at restaurant
- news and invitations for subscribers only
- special receipts coming from the restaurant chef --to try even at home...
- Get your message to your select audience
- Persuade your audience to take some action on that message
- Track and record what happens—the action or lack of it.
Analyze it so you know what really happened in the market place this time, and plan with these measurable results what you're going to do next time."
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Forget thinking that you can't always get what you want on the Internet. Don't just get what you need, ask for everything and more... Whether it be searching through an inspired hommage to Philip Kotler's Marketing Management, politically re-defining the latest Hypercapitalism (Jeremy Rifkin), betraying the palpable fascination with glitz of the grandes marks (Kevin Roberts), intrigueing by the creative thinking step by step (Edward de Bono), unveiling the naked intimacy of personal strategies in one's career (Tony Alessandra), selecting the finest tactics to construct a brand-X (Rob Frankel), handcrafting lethal weapons out of unconventional strategists (Jay Levinson), embellishing the coolest culture of competitive advantage (Michael Porter), flaunting the subversive decadence of customer loyalty (Dan Janal), or (finally) donning the mask of public relations -- it's all about knowing what you want and... keep'em guessing. Shortly, stereotypes no longer apply into digital markets. I hope that this new attitude of questioning and interacting the best marketing 'don' will last. DMLR's listing of international Gurus features present champions of these principles.
II. Marks 2 Brands. The BusinessWeek/Interbrand annual ranking of the world's most valuable brands shows the preferences of consumers from e-business to computers, from cars to entertainment, from beverages to food... Now I have processed that global brand scoreboard to bring you a Top100-chart where every brand is named by web location and every brand-value is actually compared with each other! Watch at Marks 2 Brands.
III. Letter from Larry Chase. Dear Colleague, I'm very sorry for this inconvenience, but I had to change my email address due to spam issues. To prevent spammers from "harvesting" my new email address, I've posted it as a graphic at the web address below. Please go to http://www.wdfm.com/gifs/larrychaseemail.gif in order to get my new email address. Again, I'm sorry for this inconvenience, and thank you for your time and patience. Cordially, Larry Chase Publisher: Web Digest For Marketers Subscribe and get my "Essential Search Engine Marketing Resource Guide" at http://searchengineformarketers.com
IV. Restaurants. This is a quick guide on how to use an email newsletter as promotional tool for restaurants and pizzerias. A reachable objective for this kind of (local, regional) business could be expressed as follows: * monthly newsletter emailed to people in order to get repeat diners * People receiving the newsletter from a restaurant are sure the best engine to promote it to friends, but how to gather the names for the list? Before starting the email newsletter be aware of the contents inside every issue. The best way to involve the customers in reading the restaurant's newsletter is sending monthly personalized messages about
V. Direct Marketing. I was shocked to read on-line about the recent death of Ray Jutkins and offered my condolences to his family. He was a fine person even if I did catch him up in 2000 over the Net only... There is a double legacy by Mr. Jutkins I would like to inform you because it's strictly related to direct marketing, the field he was truly an absolute expert on. The first one is he wrote a book titled "Power Direct Marketing", published by NTC Business Group, I had bought, read, and reviewed on www.dmlr.org some years ago... Now the final legacy by Ray is the fact all the chapters of his book are available online so everyone can learn from that experienced salesman how to do a better direct marketing job! Please start and work it out on Power Direct Marketing PS. "By definition, direct marketing includes these components:
VI. Linked Resources. PR & Communications Manager of FEDMA --Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing-- has recently confirmed the link to www.dmlr.org from their page dedicated to DM Magazines, Journals and Portals. Indeed an e-mail was gently sent on Jan. 4th by Catherine Brett (cbrett@fedma.org). More exactly they have set up a 40-web address listing whose path is FAQs > Useful Addresses > DM Magazines etc. Or, if you prefer, go direct to that page here http://www.fedma.org/code/page.cfm?id_page=219
VII. MyQuiz. What guru among those listed here on track I said: "Branding is not about getting your prospects to choose you over your competition; it's about getting your prospects to see you as the only solution to their problem."? (Find answer in DMLR*News next issue). |
Roberto Dondi --word processing, HTML and the ropes.