Today more so than ever, it has gotten increasingly harder to make a dent in a market if you weren't the first one there or had the most money. With accessibility to the public amplified to unimaginable proportions, companies are having to do a lot more the get marginal results. This difficult predicament that these companies are faced with is forcing them to find different avenues and tactics to stand out amongst the crowd, to be a light in a sea of darkness.

In today's over-cluttered market place, businesses are finding it hard to stick out from the crowd and form connections that resonate with people. Along with the immense competition, consumers do not respond well to being sold to as has been done in the past. They feel that traditional promotions are gimmicky and insincere. One way that companies are trying to combat these issues is through the use of brand ambassadors.

Ozanam Industries is a not-for-profit organization set up by the St Vincent’s de Paul society, which employs hundreds of Australians with disabilities in New South Wales. With significant years of experience in the industry, the company specializes in delivering reliable, high quality, cost-effective and customer-focused services to leading companies, State Government departments and community groups. Ozanam Industries’ range of services include mail house services, show bag assembly, packaging solutions, shrink wrapping and supply industrial grade cleaning cloths from recycled textiles.

With a special place in our hearts for the not-for-profit sector, Marketing Eye has worked closely with Ozanam Industries to provide website and graphic design support that has ensured the unique value of the brand is leveraged and communicated for maximum exposure in the market.


 

Yoga Australia develops, promotes and supports yoga teachers and educates the community on the benefits of practicing yoga.

The outsourced marketing efforts of Marketing eye were a complete marketing, branding and design overhaul, concentrated on communication, awareness, and retention of members. This was executed through a redesign of their website, event marketing and leveraging relationship marketing with health funds and other relative organizations. Also the creation of marketing collateral of brochures, newsletters, FAQs and branded merchandise.

Nurses Memorial Centre is a ‘living memorial’ to the heroism and sacrifice of Australian nurses who gave their life or spent years in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War. The major aim of the Centre is the advancement of the health of the community through the provision of education scholarships. 

The Centre offers scholarships to all Australian nurses and midwives with a strong motivation to undertake postgraduate studies, enabling them to gain additional skills and experience that will benefit the broader health and wellbeing of the community. In a nutshell, the Centre endeavours to inspire nurses to lead with resilience, courage and determination.

Marketing Eye worked with the Centre to produce a marketing strategy that aligns its aims with its key messages. Engaging a marketing consultancy firm allowed the Centre to promote their cause by creating engaging email campaigns to spread their key messages and draw attention to their goals.

 

 

Founded in 1984 the mission of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation is to outsmart cancer by providing word-class scientists with the equipment they need to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of all types of cancer. The donations ACRF receives go to research with the power to outsmart cancer.

Throughout my time at school studying marketing over the years, I would have to say that there are parts of marketing left out of the lessons and topics consistently. We are all aware of pieces of marketing like promotion and advertising, but there are so many other aspects of the field that are not equally known. Channel marketing is a vital and intricate part of the marketing process, and without it, would not be the same, and possibly could seize to exist. Whether you are a student of marketing- like myself- who wants to know more about this seldom noted topic or you are are a business owner who is wanting to simply know more about the world of marketing and what it has to your operations, there is a lot to be learned about how channel marketing works.

The job of a marketer has changed and morphed over time. The position used to be more simple and straightforward, only focusing on a few things. With the advances in technology and the connectivity that the internet has provided for people all over the world, marketers are asked to do more tasks in less time. The marketer of today has become a hybrid position, the result of a marriage between business and creativity. The two main points or goals marketers are to maintain or increase their company's brand while doing the same for their revenue. These two areas are often polarized and at times not align with each other.

“Advertising is the same thing as marketing” most of us at some point have either heard this statement from someone else or have even said it ourselves. I know for a fact that I had at one point when I was in my marketing class in high school, and we started a lesson on advertising, and I had wondered that in my head throughout the lesson. That question sparked a fascination in my head and even followed me to college, where I decided to study both of the subjects. I love both topics very much, they have given me insight different aspects of the field that I would not know about if I had chosen to focus on just one, and its that experience that I believe gives me the credentials to attempt to explain not only the differences in the topics but also how they complement each other.

Marketers, by nature, are "people people'. Not saying that every single one is an extrovert who pitches ideas like a used car salesman, instead, they are continually working towards finding what the best way to convey value onto the desired market is. If marketers are to effectively construct a strategy, campaign, or any other type of related activity, they first need an understanding of who their audience is. There are many ways, especially in today's age of technological advancement, that people can get these insights without really knowing too much about the thought process of the brain itself. Sure, it is smart to make marketing decisions based upon quantifiable reasons, but they are also other substantial factors that can and in my opinion, should be taken into consideration during this process. Furthermore, along with those technological advances, there have been advances in the medical field as well that play a massive part in the decision making of marketing plans.

In today's competitive market place, companies are finding it more crucial and more critical to establishing their brand and making sure it fits their image. With so much competition spanning across almost all sectors, companies are forced to step up their game in a sense a stick out of the crowd. Members of the current generation show increased the placement of value of a companies brand and what it stands for. Deciding how to rebrand your company can be a daunting task. Especially if your company has experienced some rough patches along the way, there are many things to be done and ideas to be considered during the process. Here are five steps that along with other practices, should have your company in a good starting with its branding.