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    Marketing Idea No. 178 - Sports marketing
    2008-08-03 01:26:46
    Sports and marketing has co-existed for a long time without one standing in the way of other. That held true, even when Janet Jackson had the greatest wardrobe mal-function of the history of sports marketing in the greatest stage of then all – the Super Bowl. All in the name of PR and ratings! Whether we [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 177 - How to build Brand CEO
    2008-07-30 03:56:28
    Excerpts Quoted from India Today Take a look at this: according to a study done in the US by Burson-Marsteller with 1,400 key corporate executives and their critical audiences, the CEO’s reputation represents 45 per cent of a company’s reputation; 95 per cent of analysts buy a stock based on the CEO’s reputation; 94 per cent [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 176 - The Mango Country
    2008-07-16 00:29:06
    Although we see a lot of different variants in fruit juice, Indian subcontinent is unofficially a mango country. Meaning, of all the juices, mango juice is the highest selling category. Hence we see the recent boom in mango juices, from Frooty to Fruitika. However, looking into future business expansion, these mango juices can launch even newer variants. [...]
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    Marketing idea No. 175 - How to position local airlines industry in Post-Biman days
    2008-07-10 05:11:04
    While our aviation industry is in the middle of a boom (both in terms of number of new carriers and increase in jet fuel price), the scary perception of flying from the “Bangladesh Biman” days remains. And thats mainly due to the fact that none of these new entrants have positioned themselves carefully. Looking at the Indian [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 174 - How retailers can act like doctors
    2008-07-04 01:09:31
    Here are two new world orders to chew upon. 1. The power is shifting from the hand of the manufacturer to the hand of the retailer 2. Organized retail is the next big marketing frontier WIth great power comes great responsibility and even greater influence. Just ask the customers of Walmart and Blockbuster entertainment. Wal-mart and Blockbuster entertainment are [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 173 - Bouncing Toys and arranging kiddy parties
    2008-07-02 04:54:24
    This maybe a cool time for kids to grow up, but parents would think otherwise. Gone are the days when you would sit beside the window worriedly and wait for your kid to return home after a dirty game of cricket. Today’s kids hardly leave home, (no) thanks to internet with PC invasion and lack [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 172 - Jamdani saree and beyond
    2008-06-30 23:41:14
    If looks could kill, Bangladeshy Jamdani-clad women could have started a massacre.   Jamdani has traditionally been one of THE symbol of Bangladeshi heritage, a sort of romantic reminder of the Muslin. While its charm and simple elegance in complicated weaving is timeless, time has come to look at Jamdani and say…whats new?   Two opportunities lie in [...]
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    Marketing idea No. 171 - MTV Splitsvilla and the art of adjustments
    2008-06-28 12:21:10
    Its a crazy world and none knows it better than the marketers who launch new products everyday. Despite tons of research and that weird little word called gut feel, many new products simply dont click. For those who often wondered how to salvage a sinking ship midway through its voyage, MTV Splitsvilla last night showed how to conduct [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 170 - How to write customer friendly product labels
    2008-06-19 09:08:34
    Our obsession with jargons mean that we always try to communicate through our kind of language, not the kind that customers would understand. Who should blame us? After all, 4 years of business school ensures that we are conversant with just about every essential management jargons. And its reflections are everywhere. Even in the product labels. Here’s [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 169 - How to grow an online business
    2008-06-14 01:14:16
    Online communication in Bangladesh has always been an add-on, an after thought. With an Internet penetration below 5%, thats of course what its fate would be. In the given scenario, what can Online businesses do to grow? Taking the 360 degree communication true to heart, the best way for Online businesses to grow would be to have [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 168 - Why you should never do a teaser campaign
    2008-06-09 01:00:36
    Remember Digen Barma? He was the peer certified cool dude, who created so much hype back in the 90s as a mysterious character. Then after so much teasing when it was revealed that Digen Barma is none other than a fictitious character created to promote Frooty, everyone felt cheated. This???!!! After so much hype…its all [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 167 - A holiday resort with an attitude
    2008-05-31 01:23:19
    Country in recent times have seen a boom in hospitality services. A lot of resorts have sprung up in the last couple of years all providing quality and friendly services.  And as more and more people take Thomas Hardy’s learning to heart and arrange for a temporary escapade far away from the maddening crowd, its a [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 166 - How to tell a story through packaging
    2008-05-22 03:21:16
    Brand Marketing and Comunication, in its simplest form, is all about storytelling. When we are engaging an audience to watch a 30 second commercial, we are rewarding him by entertaining him for 30 seconds. When we are asking him to go through a print communication, we are telling him an intriguing story. The line between advertisement [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 165 - Introducing Support Group services like relationship counselling etc.
    2008-05-18 00:56:13
    It was always staring right into my face, but when a close associate asked me the question only then i really noticed. Why does so many people give such detailed, personal and emotionally revealing status in Facebook?  The answer is simple. In an increasingly impersonal world, people have a stronger than ever desire of connecting and bonding with people. In a [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 164 - What good marketers know
    2008-05-17 01:33:18
    Written by Seth Godin What Every Good Marketer Knows: Anticipated, personal and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk. Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand. Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers. Share of wallet is easier, more profitable and ultimately more effective a measure than share of [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 163 - How to play along during load- shedding
    2008-05-13 09:10:22
    Dhaka has officially transformed from the city of mosques to the city of rickshaws to the city of load shedding. The dwellers of the dark city has forever accepted the fact that just like 2 hours of their lives that they are losing to traffic jam everyday, another additional two hours will be gone in [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 162 - Take a break
    2008-05-07 04:28:37
    When your bottom line is hurting and your all important performance culture is crumbling in the face of slack employee behaviors….have you ever thought of taking a break?   Probably not. When the heat is on, most people tend to react by over stretching, putting in more shifts, tripling office time and everything else that comes with [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 161 - The Anti-Facebook Positioning
    2008-05-02 00:13:18
    Thanks to the overencampassing nature of Facebook, brands now can position themselves as the “giving you the opposite of Facebook” kind. While on the surface, Facebook seems tailor made for staying close to everyone, what it really does is cocoons you inside your comfort zone. When you can share gossip with 10 people thorugh wall posting [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 160 - Fashion Branding and developing a signature
    2008-04-11 04:32:33
    The fashion brands in Bangladesh are caught in a similar narrow space. They are either fighting the battle in ”ethnic wear” space or the ”new gen-yo” space. Which is why, without the label, can you tell which clothing belongs to which fashion house? I sincerely doubt it. A breath of fresh air in this regard is the ”Tanzim” line of clothing from Ecstacy. With bold branding (All clothing has the name ”Tanzim” written at the back in a big bold manner), this clearly stands out. Tommy Hilfiger did the same with his succesfull brand back in the early 90s. WHen the black culture is just emerging as the powerful trend of the 90s, Hilfiger made cloithing exclusively for the black people and staying true to the black & bold nature, all his clothing had ”Tommy Hilfiger” logo in a larger than life fashion. Thats one way of doing it. 
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    Viral Marketing Idea Friday - Start Some Controversy!
    2008-04-04 19:05:02
    I just could not help myself with todays “viral marketing idea” post. This is almost so unbelievable (but not) that its crazy. You will learn why (in just a minute) how there is something wrong with me, and even in the situation I was in, I could not stop thinking about how I [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 159 - Home support service marketing
    2008-04-04 12:04:41
    These days we see a lot of corporate support services. One group is supplying the cleaners, one is doing the catering, one is supplying drivers; so and so forth. Given the success that these corporate support service brands have enjoyed, its a question why these B2B services cant be replicated for consumer market. We are all struggling when [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 158 - How to make the least valuable customers feel like they are at top of the world
    2008-04-01 00:49:04
    The basic idea of all kinds of customer relationship management is treating different customers differently. If that may be the case, should we treat low value customers like second grade citizen?  You cant. And that’s where CRM activities miss the bus. You cant give the CEO the window seat and company executive the aisle seat [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 157 - How to market media
    2008-03-27 01:24:31
    In the last few years, a lot has happened in the media arena. Number of newspapers and TV channels have multiplied, radio has emerged as the up and coming media, advertising spending has gone up to 10 times in the last 10 years. While the quantity has surely increased, did all these channels found out a [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 156 - Haley’s comet and the “Once in a lifetime” factor
    2008-03-22 05:13:41
    You can be the next big thing from Apple or Google, but can you beat the excitement or hoopla that comes from seeing the Haley’s comet or a blue moon? Not a chance. Haley’s comet is the authentic once in a lifetime chance of seeing something that you can never ever see again in YOUR LIFETIME, no [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 155 - The rise of alternative lifestyle
    2008-03-15 05:24:44
    In a recent study conducted by Grey Worldwide among 16 major Asian nations, some startling facts about Bangladesh was unearthed. According to the study 1. Majority of the Bangladeshi people put health over money as priority. (How about that for a developing nation where majority people live beneath the poverty line?) 2. Dual income household is no [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 154 - The Power of 1000 Fans
    2008-03-13 00:26:53
    Written by Kevin Kelly  The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators. [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 153 - The Push Vs. Pull retail marketing
    2008-03-13 00:07:50
    In the era of retail marketing, everything under one roof seems to be the way forward. Walmart has crushed its opponents through its superior supply chain management. From toilet tissue to DVD, whatever you need, you go to Wal-Mart.   But if you stock-pile your inventory, you increase your cost and reduce your profitability. A recent study [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 152 - Food = Fun
    2008-02-29 23:36:48
    Written By Seth Godin  Many of us want fun and respect and love and success and kindness and hope. What brilliant marketers do is add the =. A hundred years ago, food wasn’t much of an industry. Today, packaged, profitable, processed food has transformed every element of our culture. The Super Bowl is a food holiday. Visit (if [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 151 - A Branded Doll and the Doll culture
    2008-02-26 00:27:34
    While Barbie doll is a cultural icon that stands the test of time, its also a testament of a foregone marketing opportunity on our part.   If any country in the world that needs to be known for its doll-culture it should be us. The females of the society are born and brought up with the 1 [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 150 - How Political Marketing Can Learn from Consumer Marketing
    2008-02-24 03:10:11
    Written by John Quelch  For all the coverage of the Presidential primaries, only half of eligible voters will likely cast ballots in November. While 20% of U.S. adults are political junkies, the rest can’t spare the time, don’t think their vote will matter, see no important differences among the candidates, or are turned off by the [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 149 - New spaces in furniture marketing
    2008-02-24 00:32:18
    While I was buying furniture for my apartment, it struck me – how difficult this whole exercise is turning out to be! And the reason behind that was, I was looking for something that is not there in the market. So what was I looking for? Basically I was looking for something different that would stand [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 148 - The Truth about Service is Out There
    2008-02-18 22:36:13
    “Quality” and “Service” has been the aspirin of the mediocre marketers for a long time. Whenever asked exactly why customers should trust and prefer their brand over the others, they usually come up with the above two lame excuses – its either quality or service or both. But quality is given. And friendly service is [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 147 - The Art of Greatness
    2008-02-13 23:44:50
    Ask yourself, is your product great? Or is it just good enough? Don’t just be good. Be great. The world is full of good enoughs. Do yourself and us a favor and don’t increase the list. There is a good enough film opening up everyday in the theater. But there is only 1 film that holds the [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 146 - Filtering the Blogosphere through a search engine for blogs
    2008-02-13 04:35:07
    Understanding and accepting that Internet is the next frontier, believing and proposing that blogging is here to stay- what should be the logical next step? A search engine for blogs in Internet. What Google did for webpages, someone needs to do that exclusively for blogs. Because right now there are just too many blogs in the blogosphere and someone [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 145 - Dont be a One Hit Wonder
    2008-02-12 07:23:26
    Why does Pakistan showcase a bunch of fast bowlers (Remember Mohammad Zahid? How about Kabir khan?) who all promised so much for a brief time and then passed into cricketing blackhole? Why does so many bands fail to reproduce a single hit after going platinum in their debut album? Why does so many fantastic child [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 144 - To-let and other items for sale
    2008-02-09 23:30:47
    This idea is contributed by Ridwanul Karim  The simplest, most economical and most effective advertisement in the world has to be the “To-Let” sign that hangs from any house that is up for sale and rent. Maximum exposure to the “Target audience” with minimum fuss. Job done. Taking inspiration from that, we can use this simple technique [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 143 - A Beautiful Hair Day
    2008-02-06 23:17:50
    Outsourcing is a natural outgrowth of delegating what is less important and keeping what is more. We are just busy with too many things to look and keep up with everything – so why not let someone else worry about it while you put a tight leash around his neck? And such mentality is not [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 142 - 8 reasons why free is not the best thing for you
    2008-02-03 22:24:23
    Written by Kevin Kelly  Immediacy – Sooner or later you can find a free copy of whatever you want, but getting a copy delivered to your inbox the moment it is released — or even better, produced — by its creators is a generative asset. Many people go to movie theaters to see films on the [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 141 - Permission Marketing
    2008-02-03 22:07:46
    Written By Seth Godin  Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them. It recognizes the new power of the best consumers to ignore marketing. It realizes that treating people with respect is the best way to earn their attention. Pay attention is a [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 140 - Its the “Question”, stupid!
    2008-01-31 04:28:16
    While marketers and consultants spend millions, at times stretching to billions of dollars, to  find the right answer and solution, the truth lies bare – it’s the question, stupid! Ask yourself, are you asking the right questions before looking for the right answers? Do you know what your problem is before you crystallize the solution? Before [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 139 - How to create a great local cable tv business
    2008-01-29 04:27:43
    For all the debate on “the impact of western culture and satellite channels” in our country, cable TV  has completed its 15th year of purposeful existence in this country. From the tyranny of one state owned channel, we are truly liberated through the power of remote control. And behind this works the suppliers who are [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 138 - How to heal a battered mind
    2008-01-27 02:49:13
    The urban jungle is extending its wings and life in Dhaka will never be the same.   We are gradually shifting from a single mode, family oriented, 9 to 5 office going life towards a multi-tasking, dual mode (workaholic at office, letting hair lose at party), career focused, focus shifting orientation. As our life becomes more and [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 134 - How to create a fantastic magazine brand
    2008-01-17 00:44:43
    In terms of creating and maintaining good magazines, Bangladesh could have gone places. But currently the whole situation is stuck in a quagmire.  When the overall book readership is going south in the country, its little surprising that magazine readership is also suffering a free fall. A few factors are also contributing to this 1. The Name - From [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 133 - Creating a new music genre to help the aspiring music bands
    2008-01-13 22:58:34
    When band music announced its arrival we all sit up and took notice. When underground music suddenly became the most interesting sound above the ground, we all gathered around and joined in the party. But after a while its all starting to sound the same. One of the main reason is just like product marketing, [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 132- The Unbecoming of “Made In USA”
    2008-01-13 04:15:24
    The country association has always been great brand building tool. As part of a generation that craves for Swiss chocolate, Japanese Hi-fi, American Shoe and Italian clothes – we put our heart and soul in the entrusted seal – “Made In…..”. When we see our gaming console is from Japan, we know we are in [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 131 - Money, money, money
    2008-01-08 23:00:21
    Much has been said about the irrelevancy of formal education. Donald Trump even went as far as making a “Reality TV” show out of it when he lined up one college educated group against another high school drop outs in the second season of the highly successful “The Aprentice” to fight for the suremacy. There [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 130 - If beauty lies in presentation, where on earth are the packaging materials?
    2008-01-07 22:24:08
    Like a ghost from the past that never lets go, the wrapping paper business in the country has successfully haunted us for decades. While we only sigh seeing the beautiful christmas gifts in TV, wrapped in even more beautiful wrapping papers, we often wonder why we have to stick with the ancient “Red” glitter paper for so long! Have [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 129 - The learning from “Real Beauty”
    2008-01-06 06:47:33
    If the role of branding was to create aspirations, then brands have definitely succeeded with flying colors. But, if the role of branding is to ensure trust, authenticity and believability, then we are probably miles away from the desired destination. And one of the reasons behind it might just be our choice of models / [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 128 - How to create a great brand through co-operatives
    2008-01-03 04:28:23
     The success of India’s most popular crispy bread “Lijjat Papad”, is an unusual story to say the least. But its also one that can teach us brand custodians the power of simplicity. With a meager Rs. 80 loan, Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad co-operative started its business some 40 years ago. Today it’s a [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 127 - The Marketing power of “Remakes”
    2008-01-01 03:23:39
    Here’s a formula that stands the test of time.  Pick a old, famous film / song / drama Remake it by adding a contemporary touch by throwing in new age tunes / remix / actors of this generation Attract the oldies who watch it for nostalgic value and attract the new generation who watch it because they heard [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 126 - Are you looking at your salesperson’s age?
    2007-12-30 23:08:04
    Here’s one of the reason why your competition’s products are selling better than yours - your sales person’s age!! Research shows that the closer the age of the salesperson is to the age of the actual customer, the higher the probability of the sale being complete. This shows the massive amount of trust that customers put [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 125 - Branding Doctors
    2007-12-30 02:31:28
    While the number of diagnostic centers and hospitals are increasing, confidence on the doctors is taking a nosedive in the country. AMong the care-seekers, the lucky ones are travelling abroad. The unlucky ones are the survivors who have lived to tell a medical horror story, one more harrowing than the other. Isnt it high time that [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 124 - How to build a big brand through small touches
    2007-12-27 00:06:58
    If we strip it down, building big brands followed a similar path in the past. Its either through fantastic advertisements or through a fantastic innovation. But if we want to build a big brand today, are these the two roads available to us? Well, pinpointing the road is one thing. But taking that long stretch and inviting [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 123 - Contraceptives in a vending machine
    2007-12-26 00:38:56
    Imagine asking for contraceptives in a shop! Starting from the adolescent days of curious shopping till the grown up years of necessity buys, purchasing contraceptives is never a mean feat. It might feel like just few daring steps and a simple matter of asking for a particular brand, but in reality its one less buy that [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 122 - Media Planning in the age of cable channels
    2007-12-25 07:33:13
    In the era of globalization, Satellite TV, cable channels and Harry Potter - does traditional media planning works? The answer is a tricky “No”. While multi-national FMCG companies have a history of taking regional ads and dubbing it in our local language, its a trend that will only increase. And quite rightly so. When consumers are exposed to [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 121 - How to reinvent a dying industry
    2007-12-18 05:52:32
    When one partciular industry dies out due to the threat of another industry, the only way out is redefining the boundary of that business and creating a whole new identity for it. By that, this dying industry can reach out to a whole new set of people. Does industries die? Well why dont we ask that to the [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 120 - The power of the “Rumor” mill
    2007-12-17 01:44:21
    Its common knowledge that word of mouth is THE undisputed tool for brand building, if not now, it will be sometime in the middle of the unpredictable yet very near future. What is uncommon is using it for real right now. And thats just what has been happening. If you dont believe what you are hearing, [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 119 - Can Baily Road accomodate a shoe shop?
    2007-12-13 07:43:24
    We have all heard about geographical segmentation, but that usually deals with a BIG geographical area. But what if we take into account small sections of the cities? Is there enough in it to pay particular attention to location for different marketing decisions? Well for starters, its nothing new. There is a particular reason why we find popular [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 118 - Brand Archetypes
    2007-12-12 03:49:36
    An archetype is a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. Its most famous proponent is swiss psychologist Carl Jung who used “Archetypes” to explain personality. According to him, no matter from which society legends or characters are created from, at the end they [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 117 - Tie your employee benefit to customer benefit
    2007-12-11 11:17:19
    Upton Sinclair once said, “You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it”. I will go one better. I would say all our preachings of “Superior Customer Service” and “Fantastic Brand Experience” are all thin air, if the performance of the brand is not tied up with the day to day [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 116 - Can we make formulas in branding?
    2007-12-10 07:25:45
    Over the years we had a love affair with formulas, be it the ones we mastered for maths exams or the ones we thought will get us through the day in crunching calculus. Its pure science at its best. But can something as common sensical, beautiful yet unpredictable as branding can be tied into a [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 115 - Can you be really frank about your product, even if it has side-effects?
    2007-12-06 05:27:06
    What do you do to launch a brand in the super-competitive, brand-saturated North American market? The pharmaceutical industry itself is mega-competitive globally. But within the sector lies the ultra-competitive diet product category. In the United States there are more that 3,000 brands vying for supremacy in this line. GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second largest pharmaceutical company, [...]
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    Marketing idea No. 114 - Create mystique and secrecy
    2007-12-05 00:44:42
    Does your brand have a secret ingredient? It always pays to create mystery around your brand. Dont think so? Check the examples 1. Coca Cola and its “Merchandise 7x” is one of the 100 year old brand secrets locked up in a bank in Atalanta. Still everyone wonders, what coke is really made off… 2. Kentucky Fried Chicken [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 113 - Storytelling works better than product shots and comparisons
    2007-12-04 03:02:52
    Want to market your brand better? Then tell a story. That’s the top finding from an intensive three-year study entitled “On the Road to a New Effectiveness Model” released this month. The Advertising Research Foundation and American Assn. of Advertising Agencies, both based in New York, set out to measure consumers’ emotional responses to TV advertising. [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 112 - Marketing 101 lessons from Manchester United and Liverpool
    2007-12-02 04:33:50
    If branding can take inspiration from any other sector, it has to be from the sports. Because if relationship between brand and customer is the core of branding, there is few, if any, that can match the intensity of the fanatic relationship between a football club and its fans.  Have doubts? Just see the ever increasing [...]
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    Marketing idea No. 111 - Its all in the eyeball baby - hot insights into advertisement research
    2007-11-27 03:05:23
    A global study that took into account how our eyeballs react to advertisements have come out with some great findings: Ads in the top and left portions of a page will receive the most eye fixation. Ads placed next to the best content are seen more often. Bigger images get more attention. Clean, clear faces in images attract more [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 110 - Alternative universities for alternative professions
    2007-11-26 23:12:56
    Confirming our nickname as “hujugeye” nation, we cling to the conventional wisdom like there is not much truth beyond it.  Before my time, the engineers and doctors of BUET and other institutions had a field day. They were the top professions, netting in the top girls of our society, with the top salaries. Then there [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 109 - Branding “uri-nation”
    2007-11-25 00:31:28
    This idea is contributed by Sadique Salim    Its official. The city of mosques has become the city of billboards. At times you cant see through towards the skyline without being tempted by one of the square shaped advertising hoardings. It’s a question of too many….too alike! Deny it….at your convenient time….but aren’t all billboards look exactly [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 108 - Sometimes a tissue is more than just a tissue
    2007-11-22 00:27:58
    Kleenex, the market leader in soft tissue category, took the whole market a step forward  when they claimed way back, “Don’t put a cold in your pocket”. It was simple and fantastic. With handkerchief, you blow your nose, keep it in your pocket, then blow some on it again. But with a piece of tissue, [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 107 - The power of solo, single minded distribution
    2007-11-20 02:30:09
    In a mind blowing book called “The Long Tail”, Chris Anderson talked about how the power of “hits & blockbusters” are eroding and how the power of the “small”, “combined” can outwit, outperform and outlast the big.  This was demonstrated in a small distributional battle only a few days ago. And the big almighty in music, [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 106 - Turn your brands into comic book heroes
    2007-11-19 05:42:38
    This idea is contributed by Mohammad Jobaed Adnan We have fond memories of comics industry – but that’s all there is …….memories. After all, local comics as it is a dying breed. But there is enough romance in it  to give it a last push.  In western countries, comics is a multi-billion dollar business. Spanning two giant [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 105 - Branding Vs. Marketing
    2007-11-18 04:01:06
    Sounds contradictory! After all both marketing and branding co existed in almost all text books for decades. So what has happened all of a sudden?   To start it off – their soul lies in different places. While marketing is all about the Ps ( Products, places, price, promotion), brand are not available in the market place. [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 104 - When only seeing is really believing
    2007-11-17 04:09:05
    Since we have come down so hard on marketing research, a lot of people has asked so what should we do if we cant rely on research? The answer might be as simple as “watching”. While observational research is not a new kid in the block, its importance has increased in recent years. Why, one might ask. Well, [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 103 - Make your brand star in a real reality show!
    2007-11-15 05:14:23
    This idea is contributed by Rizwana Tasneem Isn’t it always the case where, in a supermarket, most people head straight for the brands they are accustomed to using, without even considering the others? It’s like a default behaviour. Much of this brand loyalty is due to laziness and a why-bother attitude.  And this is one of the greatest [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 102 - A different model for web based advertisements
    2007-11-12 02:32:47
    Surprise surprise…facebook has added advertisements in their pages! It was a long time coming and it finally arrived immediately after Microsoft buying a stake in Facebook. Enough of popularity curves…lets cash in! But be it Facebook or any other Internet start up, advertisements in online application will never work the traditional way. The reason? People dont [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 87 - Recycle, Recycle, Recycle
    2007-10-19 09:51:11
    Bangladesh is in the middle of a OOH (Out of Home) industry boom, as we see a lot billboards springing up here and there everyday. Of course its doing wonders for the advertising industry as a whole, its also presenting options for some new industry to grow. One of them might be - surprise, surprise - [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 86 - Happy Birthday to customers
    2007-10-17 18:36:51
    One of the biggest problems of database marketing and cutomer relations management (CRM) is not gathering sufficient information - but what to do next with that customer information. The most effective player in the field has been British American Tobacco in Bangladesh. Forced to hide in below the line activities, BATB has proved that with genuine [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 85 - Different logo for different seasons
    2007-10-13 15:16:42
    This idea is contributed by Mohammad Jobaed Adnan  If the product can be customized for different target, can the logo be customized for different occasions and purposes? The brand managers of the world might have an heart attack, but we should. The holy grail of branding has long been the logo. Every brand have one. Every brand logo have a meaning. And [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 84 - 7 latest consumer lifestyle trends in ‘07
    2007-10-12 15:51:56
    Trend 1 Consumers are seeing their home as a “sanctuary” where they can run and take shelter from the big, bad world from time to time, rather than a place of “aspiration” and “decorative lifestyle” Trend 2 Trust will be the biggest deciding factor in brand success where the big winners will be the megabrands ( which customers [...]
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    Marketing Idea No. 83 - The Love affair with Labels
    2007-10-11 06:13:16
    We always need to kid ourselves that it’s “quality” that wins the day for us.    Say that to Pepsi and they will tell you what that kind of thinking did for them. In the Pepsi challenge which took place more than 20 years ago, people overwhelmingly said Pepsi tastes better than Coke. Still a quarter of [...]
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