MARKETING Research, Analysis & Recommendation
When we partner with you we want to learn every aspect of your business. You're the expert in your field, and together we can create a pretty unstoppable force. There are a lot of aspects to consider, but we believe that success comes from a detailed understanding of your situation. We derive our recommendations by doing the following:
Marketing Strategy
- Evaluating the available communication opportunities
- Establishing main selling benefits and subordinate benefits
- Developing strategic marketing goals
Creative Strategy
- Initiating strategic creative brainstorming sessions
- Setting up collaborative design sessions
- Making website design recommendations
- Integrating creative messaging
Online Assessments
- Turning marketing strategy into engaging interaction with your customers through your website and online touch points
- Ensuring your web strategy addresses pain points for each identified core customer
- Recommending functionality based around proper online strategy
- Setting analytics to properly exhibit ROI
- Evaluating current SEO efforts
- Recommending keyword sets and SEM budgets
Social Media Assessments
- Setting long term measurable targets
- Determining what resources are required to execute effectively
Mobile Strategy
- Evaluating mobile options for marketing
- Evaluating your market for conversions in a growing new demo
Vendor Evaluations
- Advertising campaign vendor partnership evaluation
- Social media vendor partnership evaluation
- Search engine vendor partnership evaluation
- Deployment readiness evaluation
Our Process:
Research
1. Market research & evaluations
- Research history of industry in the US
- Research history of industry in Knoxville
- Evaluate key features of successful companies and/or products
Logo
1. Development of new or updated logo and tagline (if needed)
- Reviews of competitors branding and similar businesses in larger markets
- Two Client Revisions
- Complete final art
Communications Platform Analysis
1. Competitor Review
- Evaluate competitor communications
- Study their positioning within the market
- Determine where your business fits
2. S.W.O.T. Analysis
- Identify strengths and provide recommendations for areas of improvement
3. Target Customer Identification
- Define and analyze target customers by priority
- Report Demographic, Psychographic and Geographic data
- Provide recommendations
Brand Recommendations & Report
1. Communication Goals
- The strategic plan will outline communication goals
2. Recommendations
- TradeMark will work with you to define the marketing mix and establish the brand effectively
3. Action Calendar
- TradeMark will develop a 1-5 year marketing calendar for you
4. Budget
- TradeMark will recommend an overall marketing budget for communications
With the completed strategic marketing analysis, your business will have a definite direction. No more guessing and checking. You'll be able to make decisions based on solid actions points that will grab the attention of your target audience.

