In this way they are getting a 360 degree of their customers over the purchasing lifecycle (Field, 2008).
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) in a Web 2.0 Era
The experiences of BabiesRUs in managing digital and print media in a multichannel strategy illustrate how critical it is to manage each channel to its unique strengths while paying attention to customers' changing preferences for how they purchase products. This retailer has been successful by concentrating on the respective roles of online media to drive upper funnel interest and traffic, with print media and couponing to drive lower-funnel selling and repeat purchase activity. The combination of these approaches also allows for flexibility in how consumer's choices in how they purchase are changing very rapidly -- too rapidly to predict in fact. That is why IMC strategies must concentrate on how to have enough agility of selling process to compensate for any rapidly changing preferences over time. BabiesRUs has done this by underscoring the trusted advisor role in their advertising and this trust unifies the entire strategy so it executes well and sales happen regularly across their store network.
The best practices in multichannel retailing center on using analytics to manage the sales process by customer segment, by product segment and also by method of communications, which is all achievable when a digital platform is used for managing the marketing strategies of companies (Hongcharu, Eiamkanchanalai, 2009).
Conclusion
Based on an analysis of the BabiesRUs website using the free online analytics application Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/) the results shown in the following table validate that the multichannel strategy of combing online and print mediums is working. The company is successfully in moving into the higher income, younger segments of parents they are clearly targeted through their online and print advertising strategies. These statistics from Quantcast bear out how successful the strategy is being for the retailer.
Quantcast Analysis, February, 2010
References
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