Selasa, 30 Juni 2015

Can Soda Companies Engage in Social Marketing?

NAMA      : ANAS FATHIN

KELAS      : 4EA06

NPM           : 10211698

 

Can Soda Companies Engage in Social Marketing?

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group pledged yesterday to cut beverage calories in the American diet by 20% by 2025 through promoting bottled water, low-calorie drinks and smaller portions.
From The Wall Street Journal, “Under the voluntary agreement…the companies said they would market and distribute their drinks in a way that should help steer consumers to smaller portions and zero- or low-calorie drinks. They also have committed to providing calorie counts on more than 3 million vending machines, self-serve fountain dispensers and retail coolers in stores, restaurants and other points of sale.” E.J Schultz at AdAge added: “Marketing could play a key role in the effort, with the beverage companies saying in a statement that they will 'engage in consumer education and outreach efforts to increase consumer awareness of and interest in the wide array of no- and lower-calorie beverages and smaller portion sizes available.'"

AdAge reports that the companies would also put special emphasis on communities where there is less access to lower-calorie beverages. They may, for example, feature only reduced-calorie beverages at highly trafficked store areas such as checkout displays. Communities in Los Angeles and Little Rock, Ark., are expected to be the first places where these targeted efforts will occur.

The press release from the
American Beverage Association also notes: “Each beverage company may undertake additional activities including: introducing and expanding new lower-calorie products and smaller-portion packages; product placement such as end aisle and checkout displays featuring only reduced-calorie beverages; merchandising efforts such as repositioning reduced-calorie beverages on shelves; providing coupons and other incentives promoting no/lower-calorie options; and taste tests/sampling programs in and out of store.” [Ed Note: I’ll underscore the mays’ that are embedded in many of these promises.]

This news can be either welcomed or criticized. Who better than the marketers of these products to put their energies into ‘doing the right thing’ and making a contribution to reducing the obesogenic environment in the US? For example,
in an analysis of the association of soft drink consumption, overweight, obesity and the prevalence of diabetes in 75 countries, it was found that a 1% rise in soft drink consumption was associated with an additional 4.8 overweight adults per 100, 2.3 obese adults per 100 and 0.3 adults with diabetes per 100. These findings were consistent across low- and middle-income countries as well.

Another perspective could be more cynical: are these companies trying to put a PR spin on what is already a losing cause for many of their products? Mike Esterl in the WSJ article highlights that soda's share of U.S. beverage consumption peaked at 29.6% in 1998 and stood at 23.1% last year.  "Consumption trends are moving in this direction already, so they might be promising something that will happen no matter what they do," said Kelly Brownell, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, in
USAToday.

Related to this point of corporate self-interest, not social responsibility, is the question of whether focusing consumers on choosing smaller containers will actually boost their bottom-line. There is some research to suggest this could be the case. In
a behavioral simulation with undergraduate students using three different settings (fast food restaurant, movie theater and stadium), participants were offered in each simulated setting (1) 16 oz, 24 oz, or 32 oz drinks for sale, (2) 16 oz drinks, a bundle of two 12 oz drinks, or a bundle of two 16 oz drinks, and (3) only 16 oz drinks. The researchers found that participants bought significantly more ounces of soda with bundles than with varying-sized drinks. Total business revenue was also higher when bundles rather than only small-sized drinks were sold. They concluded that businesses have a strong incentive to offer bundles of soda when drink size is limited (remember those smaller portion sizes that are promised?).

The companies won't be penalized if they can't keep their promise, but the pledge's results will be tracked by an independent third party. Let's see just what outcomes this evaluation measures - and which ones are overlooked.

A couple of more points about this initiative. First, it’s better than the status quo - but by how much? I see little attention given to
demarketing sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs). Rather, the corporate strategy is repositioning the ‘competition’ (options that each company also owns), engaging in point-of-choice education (calorie labeling on vending machines) that doesn't have evidence for its impact on choices or consumption of SSBs [and is something the FDA is already proposing requirements to do anyway], and even more communication and promotion.

Can these companies’ marketers actually change people’s behavior and help them make healthier choices - or will they stay in the corporate box of increasing the bottom-line? And at the end of the day, are they really accountable for anything but acknowledging that SSBs are a losing product category among more-and-more consumers?
Sumber : http://socialmarketing.blogs.com/r_craiig_lefebvres_social/2014/09/can-soda-companies-engage-in-social-marketing.html


Planning a Social Marketing Program

NAMA       : ANAS FATHIN

KELAS      : 4EA06

NPM           : 10211698


Planning a Social Marketing Program
Developing a marketing plan explicitly, and implicitly, captures many of the core assumptions and understandings of social marketing. In its essence, a social marketing plan is a translation document that distills...
1. Understanding of the epidemiology of the disease
2. The context in which the intervention is being planned
3. Organizational strengths and competencies
4. Partners' capabilities
5. Behavioral determinants
6. And audience insights

...into strategies and tactics that lead to positive impacts in health behaviors among priority audiences. What is included and excluded in it, how terms are defined, its implications for research and evaluation, how interventions are designed and resourced, and what it says as a statement for 'what is social marketing' are taken quite seriously, and literally, by many (and I have been in more than several impassioned debates and discussions over the years on all of the above).
Phil Kotler and Nancy Lee have taken the lead on developing a model outline of a social marketing plan that they will present at the World Social Marketing Conference later this month. The outline builds on the one presented in their book along with their principles of success for social marketing programs that I have talked about before. This latest version was reviewed, and contributions to it made, by a larger group of social marketers including Alan Andreasen, Carol Bryant, Mike Newton-Ward, Michael Rothschild, Bill Smith and myself. This, I am told by Nancy, is the final version, and with her permission I am posting it below for you to review, comment on and hopefully adopt in your practice of social marketing.

Executive Summary
Brief summary highlighting plan stakeholders, background, purpose, target audience, major marketing objectives and goals, desired positioning, marketing mix strategies (4Ps), and evaluation, budget, and implementation plans.
1.0    Background, Purpose and Focus
    Who’s the sponsor? Why are they doing this? What social issue and population will the plan focus on and why?
2.0    Situation Analysis
2.1    SWOT:  Organizational Strengths & Weaknesses and Environmental Opportunities & Threats
2.2    Literature review and environmental scan of programs focusing on similar efforts: activities & lessons learned
3.0    Target Audience Profile (See Note #1 below regarding alternative terminology.)
3.1    Demographics, geographics, relevant behaviors (including risk), psychographics, social networks, community assets and stage of change (readiness to buy)
3.2    Size of target audience
4.0    Marketing Objectives and Goals
4.1    Campaign Objectives: specifying targeted behaviors and attitudes (knowledge and beliefs)
4.2    SMART Goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time bound changes in behaviors and attitudes
5.0    Factors Influencing Adoption of the Behavior (See Note #2 below regarding the iterative process.)
5.1    Perceived barriers to targeted behavior
5.2    Potential benefits for targeted behavior
5.3    Competing behaviors/forces
5.4    Influence of important others
6.0    Positioning Statement
How do we want the target audience to see the targeted behavior and its benefits relative to alternative/preferred ones?
7.0    Marketing Mix Strategies (Using the 4Ps to Create, Communicate and Deliver Value for the Behavior.)
7.1    Product:  Benefits from performing behaviors and any objects or services offered to assist adoption
Core Product:  Desired audience benefits promised in exchange for performing the targeted behavior
Actual Product: Features of basic product (e.g., HIV/AIDS test, exercise, # daily fruits & vegetables) 
Augmented Product:  Additional objects & services to help perform the behavior or increase appeal
7.2    Price:
  Costs that will be associated with adopting the behavior
  • Costs:  money, time, physical effort, psychological
  • Price-Related Tactics to Reduce Costs:  Monetary & Nonmonetary Incentives and Disincentives
7.3    Place:  Making access convenient
Creating convenient opportunities to engage in the targeted behaviors and/or access products and services
7.4    Promotion:  Persuasive communications highlighting product benefits, features, fair price and ease of access
  • Messages
  • Messengers
  • Creative/Executional Strategy
  • Media Channels & Promotional Items
8.0    Plan for Monitoring & Evaluation
8.1    Purpose and audience for monitoring and evaluation
8.2    What will be measured:  inputs, outputs, outcomes (from Steps 4 & 6) and impact
8.3    How and when measures will be taken
9.0    Budget
9.1    Costs for implementing marketing plan, including additional research and monitoring/evaluation plan
9.2    Any anticipated incremental revenues, cost savings or partner contributions
10.0    Plan for Implementation and Campaign Management
Who will do what, when – including partners and their roles?
OF SPECIAL NOTE: (1) Alternative terms include: Target Market (the traditional term), Priority Market, Priority Audience. (2) The process is an iterative one. For example, you may need to revise objectives and goals after hearing of barriers and benefits in Step 5, or promotional ideas based on final budget realities in Step 9. (3) A separate plan will be needed for each target audience, even though part of one campaign. (4) Research will be needed to develop most steps, especially formative research for Steps 2-6 and pretesting for finalizing Step 7.
Sumber : http://socialmarketing.blogs.com/r_craiig_lefebvres_social/2008/09/planning-a-social-marketing-program.html

 



Jumat, 10 April 2015

Tips for Managing A Home-Based Business

Nama        :        Anas Fathin
Kelas         :        4EA06
NPM          :        10211698


Tips for Managing A Home-Based Business

            Running a business from home is a tricky thing because, on one hand, you have decided to work from home for the flexibility; while on the other hand, everyone (including you, sometimes) seems to think working from home means a vacation with a computer. Taking advantage of the flexibility of working at home does not mean that you must answer to everyone’s beck and call, or be distracted by each little thing. This is easy to say, but hard to do when you are in the moment. At the moment, if the phone rings and you must choose between finishing a business-related email or answering the phone, the phone may seem more pressing. In order to increase your productivity, it is important to run your business like a business, and not like a hobby that you do after rolling out of bed.
            First of all, do away with wearing pajamas to work. Whoever said that what you wear doesn’t matter is a lie. What you wear reflects the way you are feeling, to a large extent. This doesn't necessarily mean that you should wear a suit around your house – unless, of course, your clients are coming to your home office for appointments. It just means that, by wearing your pajamas and sweat pants all the time you will not feel as though you are really in the mood to put forward your most productive self. Shower in the morning, put on some clothes that do not have jumping sheep on them, and sit down at your desk feeling like a professional
            Next, think about the time you do your work as a schedule that you need to plan out. If you find that you are planning your work around doing everyone else’s dirty work, then you are not dedicating yourself to your job. Your schedule should include the time you get up, when you will start working, and when you will take your breaks. Make sure that the time scheduled for work is fairly uninterrupted. This may mean investing in a second phone line, and moving your home office away from the television or other parts of the house where you may be distracted.
            Make sure that the people you are committed to understand that you are on a schedule. If someone calls to ask you out to a leisurely lunch, think first about whether or not you would be able to do this if you were working a regular job. Scheduling leisure time on schedule days off means that you are putting time and effort into your work, and this will be reflected in your income.





Pasal - Tips untuk Mengelola Sebuah Bisnis Home Based

Menjalankan bisnis dari rumah adalah hal yang rumit karena, di satu sisi, Anda telah memutuskan untuk bekerja dari rumah untuk fleksibilitas; sementara di sisi lain, semua orang (termasuk Anda, kadang-kadang) sepertinya berpikir bekerja dari rumah berarti liburan dengan komputer. Mengambil keuntungan dari fleksibilitas bekerja di rumah tidak berarti bahwa Anda harus menjawab semua orang beck dan panggilan, atau terganggu oleh setiap hal kecil. Hal ini mudah untuk mengatakan, tapi sulit untuk dilakukan ketika Anda berada di saat ini. Pada saat ini, jika telepon berdering dan Anda harus memilih antara menyelesaikan email yang berhubungan dengan bisnis atau menjawab telepon, ponsel mungkin tampak lebih mendesak. Dalam rangka meningkatkan produktivitas Anda, penting untuk menjalankan bisnis seperti bisnis, dan tidak seperti hobi yang Anda lakukan setelah bergulir keluar dari tempat tidur.
Pertama-tama, menyingkirkan mengenakan piyama untuk bekerja. Siapa pun yang mengatakan bahwa apa yang Anda kenakan tidak penting adalah dusta. Apa yang Anda kenakan mencerminkan cara Anda merasa, untuk sebagian besar. Ini tidak berarti bahwa Anda harus mengenakan setelan jas di sekitar rumah Anda - kecuali, tentu saja, klien Anda datang ke kantor rumah Anda untuk janji. Ini hanya berarti bahwa, dengan memakai piyama dan celana keringat sepanjang waktu Anda tidak akan merasa seolah-olah Anda benar-benar dalam mood untuk mengajukan diri paling produktif Anda. Mandi di pagi hari, mengenakan beberapa pakaian yang tidak memiliki melompat domba pada mereka, dan duduk di meja Anda merasa seperti seorang profesional
Selanjutnya, pikirkan tentang waktu Anda melakukan pekerjaan Anda sebagai jadwal yang Anda butuhkan untuk merencanakan. Jika Anda menemukan bahwa Anda sedang merencanakan pekerjaan Anda sekitar melakukan semua pekerjaan lain kotor, maka Anda tidak mendedikasikan diri untuk pekerjaan Anda. Jadwal Anda harus mencakup waktu yang Anda bangun, ketika Anda akan mulai bekerja, dan ketika Anda akan mengambil istirahat Anda. Pastikan bahwa waktu yang dijadwalkan untuk bekerja cukup terganggu. Ini mungkin berarti berinvestasi dalam saluran telepon kedua, dan pindah kantor rumah Anda jauh dari televisi atau bagian lain dari rumah di mana Anda mungkin akan terganggu.
Pastikan bahwa orang yang Anda berkomitmen untuk memahami bahwa Anda berada di jadwal. Jika seseorang memanggil untuk meminta Anda keluar untuk makan siang yang santai, berpikir pertama tentang apakah atau tidak Anda akan dapat melakukan hal ini jika Anda bekerja pekerjaan tetap. Penjadwalan waktu luang di jadwal hari libur berarti bahwa Anda menempatkan waktu dan usaha ke dalam pekerjaan Anda, dan ini akan tercermin dalam pendapatan Anda.