Marketing Tasks & Workflow_2018

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Piql Marketing | Repeating tasks

Conferences & Events

Task

Description

When/how often

Relevant links

Responsible

Activity plan

An overview over international conferences & events within our two main markets where we can consider participating. Needs to contain information of participants/audience, deadline for abstract etc.

Quarterly update the plan for as far ahead as possible in terms of available information..

Activity plans: https://bit.ly/2GPyyDh

Marketing Manager

Abstracts/applications for presenting/attending conferences

Write abstracts/applications that meets the requirements of the conference in question, and make sure it is sent before deadline.

Follow the timeline for each conference according to the activity plan.

Former applications: https://bit.ly/2GQJ25B

Communication Manager

Practical arrangement of conferences & events

Who will represent us, shipping of stand equipment, mar- keting materials, print & shipment of brochures etc.

Follow the timeline for each conference according to the activity plan.

Brand & Design Manager

Partner Forum

Marketing has the overall responsibility for budget, agenda and arrangment. Location, topic, presenters & agenda will be discussed and agreed with the BD and management teams. Implementation of such and the practical arrange- ments lies with the responsible person. Depending on event, the content will be decided by either R&D Manager, BD Manager or Managing Director. Marketing provides support in terms of agenda & other practical arrangements.

Planning starts early spring, the Forum will typically be held august/september

Former Partner Forums: https://bit.ly/2GUY5qY

Brand & Design Manager

Other internal events (Technical training, BD training, official visits)

Whenever such an event occurs

Brand & Design Manager

Piql Marketing | Repeating tasks

Online communication Task

Description

When/how often Relevant links

Responsible

www.piql.com in general

Use Google Analytics to analyze the impact of our website, and evaluate whether it needs a content upgrade or change of focus.

Ongoing

Piql tone-of-voice: https://bit.ly/2HryGGb

Marketing Manager

www.piql.com news section

Write and publish articles with content relevant to Piqls business to the problems we solve in our two key markets.

Ongoing

Communication Manager

Piql Newsletter externally

Write & distribute app. 10 Newsletters annually for external connections. Should not be too extensive, can be combined with a news story written for the website. Should link to our website or offer some other action. Tool: Mailchimp

Monthly

Communication Manager

Piql Newsletter internally

Write & distribute app. 10 newsletters to Partners & Resellers to share updates from BD, R&D or marketing at HQ.

Monthly

Communication Manager

Facebook

Share updates from Piqls business or other content relevant to the markets in which we operate. Make sure we answer any comment or question that might come our way.

Ongoing

Communication Manager

LinkedIn

Same as Facebook. In addition LinkedIn can be used for sharing longer and more information-heavy posts as a tool to establish Piql as the expert of information preservation & ultra-secure data security. When posted on Piqls own LinkedId page, the responsible person needs to log in to Runes LinkedIn and share with his network.

Ongoing

Communication Manager

Twitter

Same as Facebook but in shorter format. Can also be useful to link to our website. Pay attention to the organisations/persons we follow, and be active in liking and sharing other posts.

Ongoing

Communication Manager

Yammer

All internal communication with Partner network shall go through Yammer - for sharing material and spreading news. The most effective method to generate activity, is to distribute emails from the relevant Yammer-group.

Ongoing

Everyone shares their own updates

Piql Marketing | Repeating tasks

Market Research

Task

Description

When/how often

Relevant links

Responsible

Competition

Keep an eye on the products & services we are competing with and share useful information with the team in quarterly presentations. Tools: Meltwater

Ongoing

Marketing Manager

Market size & trends

Ongoing

Marketing Manager

Support other HQ departments Task

Description

When/how often

Relevant links

Responsible

PoC labels

Produce PoC-labels

On demand

Brand & Design Manager

Project applications

Evaluate, proof-read and contribute with content & illustra- tions for project applications related to R&D projects.

Whenever such an event occurs

Entire team

Review presentations

Quality check all presentations that are to be held externally in terms of content & design.

Whenever such an event occurs

Brand & Design Manager Communication Manager

Piql branded software

Support & quality check design of the client interface of all software developed as a part of Piql Services.

Whenever such an event occurs

Brand & Design Manager

Piql Service development

Ensure the consistancy of the brand and company identity in the case of extending the Piql Services to new markets.

Whenever such an event occurs

Marketing Manager Brand & Design Manager

Forward new leads

Export contact details of visitors to our website whom has signed up for our online demo, and forward them to the BD person in charge of selected region.

Weekly

Brand & Design Manager

Piql Marketing | Repeating tasks

Piql Partner Network

Task

Description

When/how often

Relevant links

Responsible

Buy national Piql-domain, set up emails, email signatures, business cards & website.

Onboarding new Piql Partners

Whenever such an event occurs

Marketing Policy: https://bit.ly/2HaMJm1

Brand & Design Manager

Ensuring brand consistency

Make sure the Partners follow our brand guidelines and strategy when representing Piql; presentations, conferences, direct communication etc. Provide templates.

Ongoing

Design Manual: https://bit.ly/2GRnGoI

Brand & Design Manager

Marketing Support strategy

Keep an updated overview over the specific measures that HQ can offer our Partners in terms of marketing in their local markets.

Ongoing

Marketing Manager

Support with writing abstracts/applications for local conferences.

On demand

Communication Manager

Lending out exhibition equipment for local conferences, with shared shipping cost, or help provide their own equip- ment.

On demand

Brand & Design Manager

Marketing support

Support production of neccesary marketing material (Brochures, film strips etc.), external cost to be covered by Partner.

On demand

Brand & Design Manager

Translating marketing material to native language.

On demand

Brand & Design Manager

Distributing invitations, newsletters or surveys on behalf of Piql Partner to contacts provided by them. Tools: Mailchimp & SurveyMonkey

On demand

Brand & Design Manager

Piql Marketing | Repeating tasks

Give aways

Task

Description

When/how often

Relevant links

Responsible

Monitor stock

Make sure we have our standard items in stock.

Ongoing

Brand & Design Manager

Consider new items

Contuniously evaluate if we need new items.

Ongoing

Brand & Design Manager

Special events

Tailor specific give aways for special events.

Whenever such an event occurs

Brand & Design Manager

Piql Marketing | One-off tasks

All

Task

Description

When/how often

Responsible

Horizon2020

Make a detailed plan over the deliverables expected by Marketing including a timeline & allocation of tasks to the different members of the team.

May/june 2018

Marketing Manager together with Katrine

Horizon2020 - communication

Create a clear strategy on how we plan to communicate the project externally for the whole 2 years.

May/june 2018

Communication Manager

Update standard brochure & sales presentation

Update the content & layout of current standard brochure & sales presentation (PP). Makes sense to make separate tools for our two main markets. Use our new website as starting point.

To be decided once we have established the Horizon2020 work-plan

Communation Manager Brand & Design Manager

Segment flyers

Create segment flyers to supplement our generic brochure, and a document with more in-depth segment descriptions to spread segment knowledge amongst our Partners, so they know the characteristics, challenges and what added-value we offer within each segment.

To be decided once we have established the Horizon2020 work-plan

Communation Manager Brand & Design Manager

Overview of all documents, brochures & videos

Create an overview of all official documents created by marketing, business development and R&D. Indicate for whom & when the document is useful.

To be decided once we have established the Horizon2020 work-plan

Brand & Design Manager

AdWords

Evaluate the results of our AdWords campaign and consider continuation of such campaigns. Would Partners take the cost for local campaigns?

Summer 2018

The entire team

Piql System in Slovakia

Support preparations for a launch-event, and create repeated publicity on behalf of Piql Slovakia in the next coming year

Start June 2018

The entire team

Internship programme/ Piql Academy

Develop content for training interns & Partners from the marketing perspective.

According to project timeline

The entire team

Structure & training Yammer

Look at and possibly adjust the structure to ensure the most intuitive and user-friendly set-up. Make instructions.

Fall 2018

Communication Manager

Piql Marketing | One-off tasks

All

Task

Description

When/how often

Responsible

Service descriptions of plug-in Services

Create a one-pager for each plug-in service, describing the service, the workflow and some technical details like f.ex. file formats, to be used towards potential clients. Distribute to Partners through Yammer and uploaded to webste.

To be decided once we have established the Horizon2020 work-plan

Brand & Design Manager

PoC & test-strip packaging

Create a standard for packaging of PoC’s & test-strips. Ensure that the solution can be easily copied by all the Partners.

To be decided once we have established the Horizon2020 work-plan

Brand & Design Manager

Give away strategy

Create a clear vision on what impression we want to leave when handing out give-aways in terms of quality and type of items. The give-aways should reflect our brand & values.

To be decided once we have established the Horizon2020 work-plan

Brand & Design Manager

Piql Marketing | For consideration

All

Task

Description

When/how often

Responsible

Webinars

Evaluate if an online webinar could help build us as experts and also attract and educate opninion leaders or new clients.

The entire team

Values

Consider activties to communicate our brand values internally and within the Partner network, possibly also externally. Has not had much focus since the launch of Piql.

The entire team

Regional Partner Forums

Evaluate if and how to arrange regional Partner Forums in addition to the global Partner Forum we already have. Regions can be Europe, Americas & Asia.

The entire team

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