Solution two of two!

A Competitor intelligence service

– an individually tailored, cost-effective, monthly market intelligence reporting service.

After many years spending time in organisations of all shapes and sizes, monitoring competitive activity appears to be a haphazard activity for many of us! We are often clear about what is happening within our organisation and also what are customers needs are but somehow it seems that who are key competitors are and what they are doing is not seen as so important.

This service is aimed at those organisations who know they need to monitor what is going on from a competitive perspective but don’t have the time or people to do it!

A clear monthly report gives an overview of market and competitive activity and a set of recommendations for actions to be taken, where appropriate.

Don’t be overtaken by your competitors - keep your eyes on their activities with this service so you can stay ahead or overtake them!

For more detail download the presentation below…

Competitive Intelligence Service

To find out more call Steve on 01223 864011 or send an enquiry here

One of two core marketing solutions

Marketing Action Planning – A 3 step, cost effective, way to effectively match a given organisation’s capabilities to its marketplace(s)

Bax Interaction continues to focus on services that make client organisations’ marketing work.

These include:-

• Diagnostic marketing research. Depth interviews and focus groups to deliver actionable insight.
• Creating strategic marketing, corporate and internal communications plans and advising on implementation
• In-house, marketing training programmes
• Marketing and business advice on an ongoing basis to client organisations. This often includes assisting with recruitment and selection, one to one mentoring and recommending new approaches and agencies.

Now BIL has honed its offering into two core solutions to meet the needs of most organisations in understanding how to make marketing work for them!

There are two, scalable, core solutions for organisations of all shapes and sizes. These have been developed from market feedback and can be tailored to match the exact needs of a given organisation.

The first is a 3 step marketing action planning solution.

Step 1 Provides an analysis of the current situation
Step 2 Marketing research to provide insight on any knowledge gaps
Step 3 A marketing plan to address the agreed, identified priorities

Many clients will take Step 1 to inform their thinking and then review their overall aims prior to embarking on steps 2 and 3.
A presentation showing the features and benefits of each step can be downloaded and viewed here…

BIMAP - Bax Interaction Marketing Action Planning

To find out more now - call Steve on 01223 864011 or complete the enquiry form here

April Fool?

The Market Research Society Code of Conduct changes come into effect today.

It will be interesting to see what impact the changes made to the use of incentives will have especially.

It is no longer acceptable for organisations to use their own products or services as incentives for participation in research.

The reasons for this change are well documented by the Society and were needed to keep the distinction between research and direct marketing clear.

There are those who would argue, however, that those participating in research are not stupid and recognise that providing an incentive that is at cost to an organisation is both sensible from a budgetary perspective and a way of building a relationship with an existing or prospective customer.

The counter to this of course is the nasty taste of selling under the guise of research or ’sugging’ as it is known.

The jury is out. Will the perception of the research industry be further impacted by this change?

We will see.

Bax Interaction and Doontime make web marketing work for

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Following the launch of the new service announced earlier

this year Bax Interaction in partnership with Doontime has

created a brand new site for the new sector based service launched on the 5th September by PEM Technology.

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The site features a number of innovations including a fully integrated

forum, news articles and website seamlessly linked and driven by separate software ‘engines’.

This is the first

site of this kind that has been created by Doontime and aims to reflect the up to date focussed approach that PEM

Technology is taking by launching a specialist set of services for the technology sectors.

Commenting on the

completion and launch of the site, Chris Walklett, Head of PEM Technology, commented

“ Because of the nature of

this new service line and the type of user, we wanted a website which had a technology focussed feel to it but with a

flexible and interactive platform. Under the direction of Steve Bax at BIL, Doontime created the PEM Technology site and

had it up and running ready for its launch at the Cambridge Enterprise Conference. There was a lot of work involved, and a

rather tight and immovable deadline, but as Steve knows our business and our staff well, we achieved our objective and are

delighted with the outcome.”

Visit the new site at www.pemtechnology.co.uk

and see for yourself!

To find out more about PEM Technology please explore their

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Marketing Planning That Works!

Bax Interaction’s MD, Steve

Bax, spoke at The Very Early Lunch Club in Bury St Edmunds recently.

The audience were asked who had a current

marketing plan and only 2 of the 26 attendees actually did! Of these just one had been communicated to all in the

organisation and this was because it was an OMB (Owner Managed Business)!

As Steve commented, this is not at all

surprising and the very reason that he was talking on this subject!!

Steve talked through the reasons why so many

fall at the first hurdle of creating a marketing plan, the process involved, the key things to audit, how to generate an

effective SWOT analysis, examples of objectives, the strategy and the promotional mix and finally the control and review

process.

He summarised with the following words of advice:-

1. There is a need for CREATIVITY to make sure

you are heard

2. Don’t be ‘woolly’ – be focused – ensure that you are clear about where you are going so

that you can communicate this internally and THEN to the outside world!

3. Don’t forget the needs of ALL customers

– i.e. Personnel, shareholders, stakeholders, customers, potential customers

4. Have some sort of plan – even a

side of A4 is better than no plan at all!

5. Don’t get hung up on the marketing speak or the models and theories.

Planning works as long as you keep its limitations in perspective!

6. Avoid ‘follow the leader strategies’ –

look for the gaps and go for them!

7. Work your plan – it is not for decoration – there are no academic marks

for effort! It should ‘live’

8. Ensure that you get the ‘buy in’ from all your stakeholders – this comes from

INVOLVING them in the process – measuring performance and recognising/ rewarding their and your successes!

9.

Know your competitors – know your competitors – know your competitors

10. Do regular ‘reality checks’ on

what your customers and market REALLY think about you – Do you ASSUME!

Don’t be afraid to fail – if at

first etc. It works for other successful organisations – with a little bit of encouragement and time it can work for you

too!

For a full transcript please contact BIL on

info@baxinteraction.co.uk or leave a comment below!

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Bax Interaction is appointed by Europa Science to ensure the success

of its first conference

Bax Interaction Limited (BIL), has been appointed by Europa Science, a young publishing

company specialising in European scientific, technical and medical markets, to provide sales and marketing support to

ensure the success of its first conference.

The conference, entitled Machine Vision in European Manufacturing, is

the first of its kind and is aimed at all those involved in the purchase and specification of vision systems for use in

manufacturing industries across Europe. The conference is being staged by one of Europa Science’s publications, Imaging

and Machine Vision Europe, and is seen as a natural development of the high profile that this title has in the

sector.

This conference is endorsed by the UK Industrial Vision Association, supported by the European Machine

Vision Association and is targeted at a select audience of directors and senior managers from the manufacturing sector. An

all-inclusive package is offered to delegates to provide a first-class conference experience in a UK centre of

innovation.

The conference will be staged at St John’s College in Cambridge on the 13th and 14th September

2007.

World-class speakers on the subject of machine vision applications have already been secured from Daimler

Chrysler AG Group Research and the European Machine Vision Association with more to be added in the very near

future.

Commenting on the appointment, Steve Bax, the MD of BIL, said “ We are delighted to have been appointed to

assist in the successful delivery of this exciting new conference. This new event on the calendar is taking a refreshing

approach to adding value for the delegates by focusing on presenting real life experiences from those who have applied

vision systems to their manufacturing processes. This is very different from the more traditional trade conference approach

where the supply side speaks! The BIL team will provide the specialised sales and marketing support that Europa Science

needs to ensure that their first conference is a measurable success for the delegates and their companies, the speakers and

Europa Science itself.”
For more information on the Machine Vision in European Manufacturing Conference and Europa

Science please contact Warren Clark at warren.clark@europascience.com

alternatively visit www.imveurope.com/mvem

For more information on Bax

Interaction and how it can make marketing work for your organisation please contact Steve Bax at

href="mailto:steve@baxinteraction.co.uk">steve@baxinteraction.co.uk or call him on 01223 864011 alternatively visit the

site at www.baxinteraction.co.uk

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