What ran just fine a few years ago is likely ready for the scrap yard today, or at the very least, it could probably use a thorough overhaul. While some methods of online marketing are still just as useful as they were back in "the early years," many of them have been rejected as non-performing and outdated, replaced by other, more efficient means. At Marketing Brings Results, we believe in the strategic management of your online presence, and we've got a number of ways to do that for you. The services we supply include:

• Marketing Plans, Budgeting, and Implementation of those plans.

• Pursue, negotiate and execute potential brand/product partnerships and sponsorships to raise visibility, awareness, and tour support for a band/artist. This would include cross promotions & contests, and product advertising tie-ins.

• Consumer Product Marketing campaigns with a Music Focus; pairing music artists with brands.

• Music submission to Advertising Agencies, Film & TV Production companies, Ring-tone/Telecom and Video Game Companies for potential placement.
**Assistance (as needed) with the licensing process.

• Special Event planning and execution of those plans. • Creation and implementation of Consumer & Retail Advertising campaigns.

• Creation and implementation of Artist or Product specific marketing materials; distribution of those materials to target markets and consumers (**Check out the PRESENCE Comic Book & skateboard on the Artists page!).

• Internet Music placement & marketing with major portals like AOL, Yahoo Music.

• Tour Consultation and Tour Marketing, including Soundscan Venue Sales Program. (**Must pre-qualify for Soundscan program; we are NOT a booking agency but we can book tours or tour dates).

• Sales & Marketing Liaison with Distribution companies (music specific).

• Provide monthly e-mail progress reports on all efforts. The objective of our firm is to market and sell its products or services profitably.

We take care of all advertising, promotions, marketing, sales, and public relations responsibilities.

Our Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers coordinate the market research, marketing strategy, sales, advertising, promotion, pricing, product development, and public relations activities.

Advertising managers also oversee advertising and promotion staffs, which usually are small, except in the largest firms. In a small firm, managers may serve as liaisons between the firm and the advertising or promotion agency to which many advertising or promotional functions are contracted out.

In larger firms, advertising managers oversee in-house account, creative, and media services departments. The account executive manages the account services department, assesses the need for advertising, and, in advertising agencies, maintains the accounts of clients.

The creative services department develops the subject matter and presentation of advertising. The creative director oversees the copy chief, art director, and associated staff.

The media director oversees planning groups that select the communication media—for example, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, or outdoor signs—to disseminate the advertising.

Promotions managers supervise staffs of promotion specialists. These managers direct promotion programs that combine advertising with purchase incentives to increase sales. In an effort to establish closer contact with purchasers—dealers, distributors, or consumers—promotion programs may use direct mail, telemarketing, television or radio advertising, catalogs, exhibits, inserts in newspapers, Internet advertisements or Web sites, in-store displays or product endorsements, and special events.

Purchasing incentives may include discounts, samples, gifts, rebates, coupons, sweepstakes, and contests.

Marketing managers develop the firm’s marketing strategy in detail. With the help of subordinates, including product development managers and market research managers, they estimate the demand for products and services offered by the firm and its competitors. In addition, they identify potential markets—for example, business firms, wholesalers, retailers, government, or the general public.

Marketing managers develop pricing strategy to help firms maximize profits and market share while ensuring that the firm’s customers are satisfied. In collaboration with sales, product development, and other managers, they monitor trends that indicate the need for new products and services, and they oversee product development.

Marketing managers work with advertising and promotion managers to promote the firm’s products and services and to attract potential users. Public relations managers supervise public relations specialists. These managers direct publicity programs to a targeted audience. They often specialize in a specific area, such as crisis management, or in a specific industry, such as health care. They use every available communication medium to maintain the support of the specific group upon whom their organization’s success depends, such as consumers, stockholders, or the general public. For example, public relations managers may clarify or justify the firm’s point of view on health or environmental issues to community or special-interest groups. Public relations managers also evaluate advertising and promotion programs for compatibility with public relations efforts and serve as the eyes and ears of top management. They observe social, economic, and political trends that might ultimately affect the firm, and they make recommendations to enhance the firm’s image on the basis of those trends.

Public relations managers may confer with labor relations managers to produce internal company communications—such as newsletters about employee-management relations—and with financial managers to produce company reports. They assist company executives in drafting speeches, arranging interviews, and maintaining other forms of public contact; oversee company archives; and respond to requests for information. In addition, some of these managers handle special events, such as the sponsorship of races, parties introducing new products, or other activities that the firm supports in order to gain public attention through the press without advertising directly.

Sales managers direct the firm’s sales program. They assign sales territories, set goals, and establish training programs for the sales representatives. Sales managers advise the sales representatives on ways to improve their sales performance. In large, multiproduct firms, they oversee regional and local sales managers and their staffs. Sales managers maintain contact with dealers and distributors. They analyze sales statistics gathered by their staffs to determine sales potential and inventory requirements and to monitor customers’ preferences. Such information is vital in the development of products and the maximization of profits

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