WHAT IS MARKETING ?
Marketing is the wide range of activities involved in making sure that you're continuing to meet the needs of your customers and are getting appropriate value in return.
HOW MARKETING IS SO MISUNDERSTOOD ?
Far too often, organizations try to develop a product to meet customers’ needs without ever really verifying what the customers wanted in the first place. Instead, those organizations make a strenuous effort to “sell” the product through rigorous, ongoing advertising, promotions and publicity -- through "outbound" marketing. These organizations may have built a beautiful ladder – but it may be entirely on the wrong roof! Far too often, that lesson comes from painful experience.
Experienced organizations have learned that it is not their opinion that matters most regarding whether their product is needed or not. The opinion that matters most is that of the customers. These organizations have learned that they might not know what they don't know about their customers. That precious knowledge about the customers comes from "inbound" marketing -- through market research to clarify customers' needs and what they are willing to do to get those needs met. If the inbound marketing is done well, the outbound marketing is particularly easy -- and effective.
Coca Cola
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia.[3] The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 - March 12, 1929), who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North America, Coca-Cola Refreshments.
Coca Cola have many advertising strategy, one of them which is really attractive and impressing is “ Share The Derby : Coke Machines Unite Rival Football Fans in Milan “
One iconic city. Two iconic football teams. Welcome to Milan, Italy – home to one of the world’s fiercest sporting rivalries.
When the famous red and black of A.C. Milan meets the blue and black of Internazionale (Inter), the city goes into lockdown, bracing itself for the biggest cross-town derby in all of sport.
Friends and families become foes. Shops shut their doors to customers from “the other side.” The rivalry’s almost spiritual scale is reflected by the match’s local name, Derby della Madonnina, in honor of the statue of the Virgin Mary on the top of Milan’s famous Duomo.
In the latest legendary clash of the titans earlier this month, Milan edged out Inter 1-0. The match was a little different, however, thanks to Coca-Cola Italy’s quest to build bridges and share goodwill between Milan’s tribal sets of fans. A new film shows the results of an uplifting experiment conducted in December 2013 at a previous Milan derby, when Coca-Cola placed two vending machines in the opposing fans’ areas of the San Siro stadium. One machine was at the Inter fans’ entrance and the other at the Milan end.
But these were not ordinary machines. Connected through video and audio, they didn’t dispense drinks to the person standing in front of them. Instead, they allowed patrons to “share” a Coke with an opposing fan across the stadium. With the push of a button, fans could send a Coke to someone standing at the other machine. They could refresh and, heaven forbid, share a Coke with “the enemy.”
Before long, the goodness and sense of fair play in the heart of every fan shone though, and peace broke out in Milan. Fans enthusiastically sent Cokes tumbling into each others’ machines, laughing, taunting playfully and sharing messages through the live video link. In less than an hour, both machines were empty, ensuring that fair play and togetherness were the real winners before the match even started.
“This shows that simple ideas and everyday insights can engage and motivate people in a powerful way. At the same time, they also give us moments of happiness to be shared,” says Fabrizio Nucifora, marketing activation director, Coca-Cola Italy. “In this special case, the main protagonist is football, with its values of participation, passion for the colors of the team, fair play and fun. These all perfectly reflect and embody the messages that Coca-Cola wants to promote.”
Claudia Navarro, integrated marketing communications director for Coca-Cola Central & Southern Europe, said the campaign encapsulates the way Coca-Cola engages with consumers by using stories grounded in universal truths and values.
“For Coca-Cola, this universal value is the idea of positivity,” she says. “We always see the world, the tensions in the world, what’s going on around us, through the lens of optimism. Those are the stories that people want to hear, tell and, most importantly, share."
Therefore, as we know it, marketing always is an important strategy for the companies to promote their products. Marketing plays a major role. Behind every marketing strategy is always a content, a goal they aim at. Consequently, we chose this marketing stategy. And for us, it really is a great and successful strategy.
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