Integrated Marketing Strategies are also described as “loyalty” or “relevance” marketing, or as “targeted direct marketing”. This is a systematic method of getting access to the presently available potential customers for Paramount Studios. It relies upon building, maintaining, and sensitively using a customer-focused database. Such a database allows the organization to change seamlessly from a product focus to a marketing focus – and finally, to the true customer focus that builds customer satisfaction and loyalty.
In the campaign designed for the purpose of promoting ticket sales of Paramount Studios’ latest thriller, a combination of traditional and modern approaches to marketing has been adopted. The integration of sales promotion and direct marketing involves a particularly big clash, combining dissimilar disciplines practiced by different types of people. Direct marketers tend to think long term about building relationships, while sales promotion has traditionally focused on boosting short-term return. Direct marketing is about one-to-one relationships, while sales promotion is focused on the offer. But put together, the approach can offer great opportunities for commercial success.
The first media chosen for my campaign will be Internet. Internet has unparalleled reach in today’s world and is accessed by billions of people worldwide for information and entertainment. There can be no better place to promote the new thriller than internet.
These days, integrating e-mail across various channels of communication has become a top priority for many marketing strategists, and their challenge lies in determining how best to utilize this tool in their integrated marketing strategy. Recent trends show that the internet is increasingly being used for shopping. In this context, combining search and email features together can be very effective. For example, a media arrangement that combines direct marketing mailing with email can captivate a a customer’s or prospect’s attention and move them along in a buying cycle, which could then result in a sale of the movie ticket.
Employing such enterprise marketing management systems as are offered by multimedia companies-such as Aprimo, Eloqua Corp., Vtrenz, Bronto Software, etc are quite appropriate for the marketing campaign of Paramount Studios. With the help of these systems, Paramount Studios can come up with a sophisticated cross-channel campaign; also the performance measurement and analysis of such campaigns can be carried on the back end. In other words, the EMM systems provide the technology backbone to tie marketing efforts together into one central system.
Further, our internet strategy will start with the establishment of a comprehensive web portal about the movie that will offer posters, information about character, previews / trailers and will also sell merchandise related to the movie. The web portal will be very interactive, user friendly with lots of flash to provide an entertaining preview about the movie.
Best of all, the site will a direct link with the thriller’s direct mail program and back it up with messages in its corporate Television advertisements. With less than twenty percent of households in the United States having internet connections, this potential conflict with TV has not yet emerged and hence makes our marketing strategy a sound one.
Internet users in the United States are basically affluent professionals or students, and although they buy movie tickets online they are not the only audience that will be targeted by our integrated marketing campaign. Included in the target audience are such demographic groups as homemakers, retired people, who are increasingly spending more time on the Internet. Even if this does not result in a significant increase in sale of tickets, the ultimate objective of Paramount Studios – one of building relationships with their consumers – will nevertheless be fulfilled.