4. Marketing strategy: Segmentation and targeting alternatives
By campaign theme targeted to identified markets (entrepreneurs,
advanced engineering supply chain, EHQ etc)
By sub-sectors of greatest promise in markets of greatest promise
By “market taker” targeted to established markets or “market
maker” targeted to both established markets and potentially BRICS
(e.g. entrepreneurs, Tech City, “HOTHOUSE” etc.)
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5. Marketing strategy: Core message alternatives
“GREAT”
Experimental/”HOTHOUSE”
Safe but competitive choice
Springboard to global and European growth
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6. SMART Marketing objectives: by end March 2013
[We do not control product or price but can influence place, promotion
and process]
Segmentation - emphasise the most promising segments and
keep a decline list
Quality - ensure sales support collateral is of sufficient quality and
sales force fully resourced (see ROI evaluation on slides 25 and 26)
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7. SMART Marketing objectives: by end March 2013 (continued)
• Customer Journey stages - Create awareness for “pre the
sales pitch” and triggers for action “post the sales pitch” through
comparatively selected digital, above and through the line channels,
and PR (evaluate by channel)
• Pipeline building - Ensure through countersigned business
case/templates all discrete marketing projects support the sales
effort or entry to pipeline following self referral
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8. Recommended activities and justifications
• A summary justification is shown on the following slides for each
activity. Each activity meets a customer need or takes advantage of
emergent trends and opportunities
• Timings and steps planned or taken are indicated
• Main evaluation methods are shown
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9. Intelligence gathering and customer research
• This will inform marketing activity
• Competitor review planned and entrepreneur perception survey
carried out
What are the factors that make a location attractive to entrepreneurs and encourage
entrepreneurship?
Do you think the UK can be considered such a location? If yes, or no, please say why you
have this view.
How do you view the support which the UK currently provides to encourage
entrepreneurship compared with other locations globally?
• Evaluation by contribution to entrepreneur and other campaigns
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10. Web messaging
• Easy to segment and cover three prongs of FDI Marketing: UK,
UKTI, and sector/sub-sector
• Continuous work based on a parallel messaging architecture project
• Ongoing evaluation against hit rates and unique visitors and click-
through, rapid adjustment possible
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11. “HOTHOUSE” mainstreaming and link to “GREAT”
• Learnings from “HOTHOUSE” pilots in France, Germany, USA and
Canada can now make “one to many marketing” a sustainable part
of FDI business strategy. Elements of HOTHOUSE can gain
additional funding and developed as digital GREAT marketing
• MC FDI team’s report being compiled, digital “GREAT” bid
submitted
• Hard and soft measures should both be part of evaluation
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12. DIGITAL INVITATION TO ENTREPRENEURS, CREATIVE, MEDIA & TECH
INVESTORS (Hothouse follow on) (Inward Investment)
Concept: Target digital savvy entrepreneurs, focusing on creative,
tech & media, using digital channels to develop a new pipeline
of potential investors. Target highly digitalised markets: US,
Canada, France, Germany, HK, Singapore, India.
How it will work:
- use digital channels (online multipliers, thought leader bloggers, twitter, etc to bring
‘many’ to ‘us’)
- leverage google, linked in, twitter to creative buzz and generate more leads and find
the most lucrative (need urgently to put measures in = huge progress & innovation
opportunity)
(Market research; paid digital media; targeted digital dissemination of messaging with the right tools, software licences
100k; creative development & production, incl. translations & local customisation, mobile accessible web pages; UK event
offer for entrepreneurs & investors)
Cost: £4 million
Return: Increased awareness of the UK offer to our target audience generating 180
active investment leads. Landing 60 investments over 2 years, bringing £420 million
of capital expenditure into the UK. Source: (UKTI FDI database)
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13. GREAT DIGITAL & PR CAMPAIGN PLAN FOR ADVANCED ENGINEERING
(INWARD INVESTMENT)
Concept: This campaign will win new inward investments and re-
position the UK advanced engineering sector in the eyes of
potential investors who see the UK as a service driven economy.
How it will work: Working with BIS. Focus on C suite and
government decision makers using a targeted digital media and PR
campaign. Target markets: Japan, Korea, US, Canada, Germany.
Cost: £1.8m
Return: Generate a measurable increase in awareness of the UK
offer amongst our target audience and generate 75 active
investment leads. This will translate into 25 investments over 2
years, bringing £175 million of capital expenditure into the UK.
Source: (UKTI FDI database)
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14. Attracting More SME’s to CHINA – MISSION 100 (EXPORTING)
Concept: We will identify the next 100 ‘export hungry’ companies by
running a UK competition using the web (including partners) and a
Sunday Times press ad – the top 100 entries will win a grant to
support them attending a 5 day China Trade Mission.
How it will work: UKTI, VB and FCO in collaboration with CBBC
- introduce them to a network of supply chain companies;
- host VIP evening at the Embassy meeting UK/Chinese government officials;
- provide pre mission education, familiarisation and business
requirement statements.
Cost: £250k
Return: £82M export revenues & £11.7M net profit
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15. The China Story
• 58 FDI projects initiated in last decade… peaking at 13 in 2009…
but down in recent years, e.g. 7 in 2011
• Projects sourced from 41 companies – Mindray Medical
International prime mover with 13 (31%)
• Projects delivered 3,482 new jobs (globally) with capex of
USD$883m
• Leading source cities are: Shenzhen, Beijing, Tianjinand Shanghai
• Western Europe secured 50% of all projects
• Germany leads the way with 50% of WE projects.
• US and UK joint second with 18% each
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16. Marketing delivery of ID ‘Pathway 3’ campaigns
• Eight campaigns have been identified by ID Campaigns and Special
Projects Directorate based on work done by the Investment
Services Team market intelligence unit and agreed by ID
• Templates have been completed for entrepreneurs, EHQ, business
process outsourcing, supply chains (with particular emphasis on
advanced manufacturing), and offshore wind. November/December
events are planned for entrepreneurship, BPO and offshore wind.
• Metrics are set out in each campaign template document but the
parts of the campaign MC provides (e.g. brochures, events) would
also be evaluated
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17. Mini campaigns and development of marketing resources for hubs and
posts
• The mini-campaigns are useful at all stages of the customer journey
and can be used across segments. They can be adapted by hubs
for local market conditions
• First campaign concepts on tax shown to hubs. Awaiting roll-out
• Evaluation by feedback from hubs
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18. PR, advocacy and social media – holding the conversation
• Third party endorsement and thought leadership could sway senior
decision makers, social media is medium/long term play that could
work for us as China-India human resource investment did
• PR manager investigating blogging strategy, influencing the
influencers will form part of ID entrepreneurship campaign, we have
core script but need materials bank
• Social Mention and similar packages can track positive, negative
and neutral mentions in social media
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19. Sub-sector infographics for external audiences
• The c.35 subsector propositions will then be accessible to clients
and drive decisions to investigate a UK investment
• All sub-sector propositions to be summarised and available as
infographics by end of March 2013 then updated on a rolling basis.
Top eight to ten will have more detailed treatment.
• Evaluation by feedback from hubs and overseas sales teams
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20. Inward investment videos
• Short videos are state-of-the-art marketing that appeal to the new
generation of entrepreneurs but are stronger in some sectors than
others, especially creative industries and software, so longer videos
also planned
• Plan to make a series of some ten longer videos in-house and edit
BBE testimonial footage
• Evaluation is rapid from client feedback and cost of investment in a
single video is relatively low
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21. Multi-sector brochure and quality of life kit
• The creation of a multi-purpose brochure will cover a variety of
business needs. A quality of life kit will enable the UK lifestyle to be
promoted to inward investors
• Work on the multi-sector brochure has now resumed
• Evaluation by stock reports, survey monkey
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22. Development of online map as a marketing tool
• The map can enable active engagement with the UK offer and put
the investor in the driving seat. New features such as clusters, case
vignettes and details of Enterprise Zones will show the richness of
the UK offer and lead to firm inquiries
• Upgrade based on earlier specification to be complete by March
2013 subject to budget
• New visitor numbers capturing mechanism is in place
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24. Evaluation and risk
• FDI success is linked [retrospectively] to economic performance but
by marketing in one segment and not another comparable segment,
overall marketing effectiveness could be gauged
• Evaluation should be both summative (during projects) and
formative (at the end to apply learnings to future projects)
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25. Marketing ROI metrics: methods to capture out-takes
Web metrics
Social media metrics
Stock order figures broken down to identify companies and
intermediaries
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26. Marketing ROI metrics: methods to capture outcomes
PIMS survey of investor decision drivers
Feedback from sales force
E-surveys of sales force
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27. Team roles and responsibilities
David Lines – Campaign Team Leader
+44 207 215 4957
Budget and relations with Investment Services Team
Overall team planning and content implementation including material for Strategic Accounts
Offshore windpower campaign lead
European HQ campaign lead
Jamie Clements – Senior PR Manager
+44 207 215 2491
Tech City PR lead
Core script and briefing lead
Press tours and link to BIS News
Entrepreneur campaign lead
BPO campaign lead
Nicola Parry – Marketing Manager
+44 207 215 4951
Umair Ahmad – Digital Marketing Manager
+44 207 215 8587 Advanced Engineering campaign lead
HOTHOUSE and creative sectors lead
UKTI Investment webpages lead
Life science lead
Team social media lead
Mini-campaigns lead inc. posts’ feedback
Sustainable construction campaign lead
Team performance monitoring
Lead for relations with UKBA and visa marketing
Message architecture lead
Lead for PSO Markets’ FDI Marketing
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28. UKTI MC Inward Investment Campaign Team Marketing Plan: DRAFT 130812