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Broadband Marketing Strategy & Tactics
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What Is Marketing?
• Education
• Translation
• Motivation – the call to action
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Why Is Marketing Important?
• People have to know about network
• People have to understand benefits
• If no one uses broadband, you’re hosed!
• Poor marketing = few users, low revenue
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How Will Marketing Succeed?
• Project team learns or hires the skillset
• Understand your various markets
• Plan thoroughly
• Execute well
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How Will Marketing Fail
• You don’t understand stakeholders
• Your messaging sucks
• People have the wrong expectations
• Underestimate competitors
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Good Marketing Begins with Great Vision
• What is the network to accomplish
• How will the primary stakeholders benefit
• How will you measure success
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Know What You’re Marketing
• Benefits
• Infrastructure
• Services
• The community
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Know Who You’re Marketing To
• What did needs assessment uncover
• Shape marketing messages accordingly
• Constituents evolve, come and go
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What You Ask Is Key
• If you have broadband, how can you help
yourself, help others?
• How would broadband change what you do,
how you do it?
• What are impacts of this change?
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Create Marketing Roadmap from the Answers
• Answers define technology
• Translate technology to benefits
• Created vehicles to deliver the messages
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ID Marketing Partners
• Who can make/save money, operate better
• Who’s dedicated to the public good
• Who has marketing leverage
• Who’s willing to commit
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Grab Your Partner Dosey Doe
• Partners offload marketing expenses
• They enable faster market penetration
• They create barriers to competition
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Typical Targets
• Government agencies
• Medical/Healthcare community
• Businesses
• K-12 schools, colleges, universities
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Marketing Starts Long Before Service Begins
• Constituents need clear picture of network and
its benefits
• They need to understand progress, delays
• Will you have an aggressive PR effort
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Build Following While Building Infrastructure
• Articulate the value proposition
• Offer incentives for early commitment
• Prepare internal operations
• Kick butt & take names
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Launching the Service
• The pilot project as marketing foundation
• Make it a big #$%@#! deal
• Roll out the usual suspects
• Make the network a marketing vehicle
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What’s in Your Tool Box?
• Are marketing points strong, consistent,
used by everyone and every thing
• Will media relations carry the day
• What role will marcom play
• KISS me, fool
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Think Globally, Act Locally
• Integrate with other communication
• Be sure to deliver on the promise
• Turn satisfied customers into mini-
marketers
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Execute Well Designed Launch
• Encourage word of mouth
• Constantly gather data
• Adapt and perform
• It’s the economy, stupid
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Brace for the Backlash
• Know thy enemy
• Use incumbents’ strength against them
• Understand power of “hometown team”
• Never, ever compete on price!
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Marketing Your Community
• On par with costs, education & workforce
• It’s not the tech, it’s what you can do with it
• Coordinate your efforts
• Make the network a marketing vehicle