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From Insights to Great Messaging (HALF DAY, ONE DAY)

Do you understand what you are trying to communicate? If not, STOP.  Start by uncovering insights about your customers; learn what your customer values then worry about how to communicate that value to the customer.  Be clear on what value your customer/consumer wants, then think about positioning your brand. Next define the market (who the relevant buyers are) and identify the attributes your buyers want (answering the question - what job does the customer want done?).  Finally use this knowledge to write a great assignment brief. Your agency will not understand what's in your head to the degree that you do. You have to take the time to draft an assignment brief that clearly and passionately describes the communications job you want done.

Putting consumer insights into action is the key to accelerating brand growth. But all too often customer facts are mistakenly viewed as insights. As a result, marketing cannot drive innovation or gain a competitive advantage. Only when new ideas are based on insights that provide a deep understanding of why consumers do what they do, can marketers truly be innovative.

Therefore, this course looks at the latest trends in customer insights. How do find out what your customers want? Why they buy? How do they choose? Why do they come back for more? How can you inspire your customers to become - and stay - brand loyal? You will learn how to get the answers to these and other vital questions and as a result be able to achieve greater results for your marketing investment.

This course will also look at the various ways to mine insights through trends, observation and research to uncover critical customer insights. Insights are the engine for innovation that can lead to a significant competitive advantage. You'll learn how to start mining data for insights and how to start to turn your company into an insight-driven organization.

But most importantly you will learn how to create actionable next steps - knowledge is nice, creating new activities that drive profitable growth is truly valuable.  This in the end is the focus of this course.  Doing more of the right things right.

Who Is This Course For?
Designed for executives in business-to-business or business-to-consumer companies who have the authority to initiate change for their brands or across their organizations as well as those who know the importance of putting customers first. This course is particularly valuable for brand managers, marketing analysts, researchers, strategic planners, R&D responsible for the implementation of customer insight strategies as well as marketers wishing to gain a greater understanding of the principles behind effective innovation driven from customer insight.

Key Takeaways

Suggested Half-day Workshop Options

* The training agenda for any on-site program is finalized following a discussion with the training instructor to ensure it is relevant for your team.

Training Module*

Takeaway*

1. Introductions to Session & Instructors

  • Objectives for the session.
  • Goals of participants.
  • Understand how course creates real world linkage between harnessing innovation to drive customer based business solutions

2. The Power of Innovation

  • Big Ideas have value only if they connect with audiences
  • Explore the source of ideas
  • Understand how to nurture ideas
  • Measure the power of ideas

3. Letting the Consumer Lead the Way

  • Understanding consumer insights
  • Recognizing consumer insights
  • Make the link between a consumer insight and a brand insight
  • Consumer insights at game changers
  • Why insights are important

4. Insight as a Competitive Advantage

  • Innovation and insights are the lifeblood of today's marketing business
  • Brands need to seen and managed as assets
  • Products, services and brands only make sense if they are viewed as essential to consumers' lives
  • The key is to innovate, communicate and express you consumer insight in creative that reaches and motivates your audience
  • David vs. Goliath-insights at giant killers

5. Mining for Insights

  • Understand types of insights
  • Customer insights trump all others
  • Research
    • The pros and cons in identifying a true consumer innovation insight
    • Creativity in identifying what can be
  • Quantifying insights

6. Building a Culture of Innovation

  • The insight hungry culture/organization
  • Changing the rules of the game
  • Getting management buy-in

7. Turning Insights into Action

  • Vetting ideas - Voice of Consumer
  • Getting management support to go forward
  • Team and collaboration as process
  • Activating winning strategies
  • Creating Blue Ocean strategy brands: The value/cost dynamic

8. Marketing Insights that Matter

  • Expressing the idea
  • Managing Consumer touch points
  • Harnessing marketing tools and partners
  • Metrics, learning and the endless quest for next
  • Sharing the win with Team and Stakeholders
  • Doing it all over again, but better

Course Options

There are currently no scheduled classes for this course. However, all courses are available for onsite delivery. To find out more about how ANA can deliver this course to your business, call us at 212-697-5950 or training@ana.net.

Upcoming Classes

Optimizing Agency Relations
Monday, June 4, 2012
New York, NY

Maximize Ad Production Spending
Begins: Monday, June 4, 2012
New York, NY

Elevating Your Creative
Begins: Monday, June 11, 2012
Chicago, IL

Social Media
Begins: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Chicago, IL

Optimizing Agency Relations
Monday, September 10, 2012
New York, NY

Assignment Briefing
Monday, September 10, 2012
New York, NY

Advertising Financial Management
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
New York, NY

Social Media
Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
New York, NY

Create a Killer Marketing Plan
Monday, October 22, 2012
New York, NY

Elevating Your Creative
Begins: Monday, October 22, 2012
New York, NY

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