Outbound Marketing
Outbound marketing is one of the traditional and oldest form of marketing where in the company will initiate to pass on the information of their product or service to the customer with the natural search engine marketing efforts. Whether the content is published in the newspaper or if it is telecasted in the television, or by cold calling, it is still regarded as one of the most efficient way of marketing by the industrial professionals. It is most efficient on the older customers because they are comfortable with watching TV’s or listening to radios or by reading newspapers and most of them are not aware of using the internet facility in the older generation. So, this leaves an impact on them to buy the product or service.
Outbound marketing also helps in business-to-business marketing or higher-end product deals, where sometimes the customer would ultimately like to seek with the personal interest in meeting the manufacturer or service provider or trade events.
Types of Outbound Marketing
- TV ads
- Radio Advertisements
- Telemarketing
- Cold-Calling
- Window Displays
- Email Marketing
- Trade Shows
- Sky Writing
- Newspaper Advertising
- Sandwich Boards
- Direct Mail (brochures, postcards, catalogues)
- Branded Marketing (newsletters, key chains, pens, even flash drives)
Factors influencing Outbound Marketing
Market variations and strategies
Since there are huge numbers of markets, there should be different strategies used and different campaigns should be held for different market structures.
New product development
If there are any new products introduced in the market, it requires more effort to explain about the products and its functions and persuasions.
Budget
One should consider the budget of the advertisements of the company and act according to it. It should act within its limit and work with the lot of efforts to complete within that budget.
Market accessories
The channels and promotions of the distributions should be expanded more to reach out to the customers.
Competitors
If there are number of competitors prevailing in the market then more efforts should be made in the promotion of the company.
Communication is one-way
as there is only one way communication marketer has to make sure that the attractiveness and the efficiency of the add is very much and to the extent of informing the customer fully about the product so that the customers should not remain of any doubts.
Activities to be followed by Outbound Marketer
Planning
Marketer has to do planning and manage overall strategy and specific campaigns required for the business to be processed smoothly and efficiently.
Creation
Creation of physical and electronic materials, including advertisement designs, copywriting and the layout design has to be prepared to be presented in the types of outbound strategies.
Manage
Managing relationships with the media, which includes providing the press with articles and answering queries from them and giving whole lot of information.
Organize
Organizing events for the specific customer presentations, conducting events, conferences and stands at trade shows to develop more publicity.
Report
Assessment and reporting on the succession of campaigns and products in the marketplace. If it’s not successful then changing the plan of the campaign.
Interaction
Marinating the relationships and interactions with the partners of the business, including key customers, channel distributors, sales people, retailers and other intermediaries involving.
Blocking techniques
Increasing blocking techniques will help to avoid unwanted calls and frauds and fake calls to the marketer (Do not call list, blocking numbers, Spam filter, etc.)
