Dispel tradition, think long-term

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Companies within the computer and high-tech industries cannot rely on technological superiority alone to ensure market recognition and continued support from customers. Enterprising companies are using tele-services, Internet sales and database marketing to promote the brand-names of their products and enhance industry awareness of that product advantages. Database technology can now be used not only to trace the purchasing patterns of customers but also to anticipate the computing needs of a company's most valued clients. Direct marketing techniques provide high-tech companies with quantifiable returns on investment and allow marketers to better understand the reasons that particular marketing campaigns may not be working. The marketing and IT divisions of a company should be aligned in their knowledge of any company's direct-marketing efforts.

author: Woods, Thomas

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Dead chicken parts and other tools

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It is often a company's top management who hinder and restrict the potential benefits that some innovative marketing campaigns can bring, soliciting second opinions from too many additional sources. A company's marketing executives must often overcome loosely reasoned objections, advice and suggestions from other top personnel not trained in marketing strategies, making the entire process extremely burdensome. Marketing personnel who are attempting to receive a CEO's support for a particular campaign should attempt to collect as many anecdotes as they can from actual customers and use that material to buttress their position. Marketing managers should remain insistent that their CEOs consistently echo the underlying message of a new marketing campaign in order to convince customers that the company iis attempting to provide useful solutions.

author: Zhivago, Kristin
Planning, Marketing executives

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Results? Rethink readership wins

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Their are certain marketing techniques that sell computers more effectively than other strategies when advertising in print publications, including double-page spread advertisements. In fact, ads that use what are commonly considered basic and abrasive marketing techniques are shown to amass a greater readership than those that are static or fail to include controversial material. However, companies must balance the overall readership numbers that their ads attract with the cost-efficiency scale of producing those ads, but new companies in growing markets should concentrate on attracting as much attention as possible. Companies should also beware of publications that misrepresent the actual readership demographics of their magazines.

author: Davis, Aaron
Forecasts and trends, Market Trend/Market Analysis

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subjects list: Computer industry, Marketing, Management issue
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