11.11.2019 Views

Marketing_Management_14th_Edition-min

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

MANAGING PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS | CHAPTER 19 537<br />

L.L.Bean has a decades-long legacy<br />

of fully satisfying customer<br />

needs—guaranteed!<br />

orchestrate each element of their campaigns. Here is an example of an award-winning campaign<br />

that did just that. 7<br />

New Zealand<br />

Yellow Pages<br />

New Zealand Yellow Pages One of the Direct <strong>Marketing</strong><br />

Association’s top ECHO award winners in 2009 was New Zealand’s Yellow Pages Group. With<br />

a theme of “Job Done,” the group recruited a young woman to be the focus of the campaign<br />

and gave her the task of building a restaurant 40 feet above the ground in a redwood tree,<br />

using only help found via the Yellow Pages. A TV ad, billboard, and online media launched the<br />

campaign, and a Web site provided updates. Access to the striking pod-shaped structure Treehouse was<br />

provided by an elevated treetop walkway. The restaurant actually operated from December 2008 to<br />

February 2009 as part of the campaign. Highly popular, the campaign was credited with increasing the use<br />

of Yellow Pages by 11 percent to record levels.<br />

We next consider some of the key issues that characterize different direct marketing channels.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!