Business type: Direct Marketing/Direct Mailing House
Introduction:
My Client 's background is from Direct Marketing/Direct Mailing House. They are new to the Irish market and they want get notice and reputation in Irish market and was worried about losing customer due to non - presence in web world. So they decided to host their company website related to what they are, what they do, there new strong team, there new clients and there achievement, where they are based etc.
Analysis and planning:
Few analysis and planning we asked few questionnaire to client to get more detail about their business and activity in the organisation such as * What does your organisation do? * What is the organisation’s history? * What are the goals? * What differentiates you from your competitors? * Who is the target market? * What copy needs to be included? Who is providing this? * What pictures/photographs/diagrams? * What about colour? * Will pages need to be printed? * What is the budget, timescale, deadline? * Who will maintain the site?
The main intention of this project is to create an online website for Direct Marketing/Direct Mailing House to support other corporate business to promote their products and services. Ireland has become hot stop for service industries. Day by day service industry is growing in Ireland and all these service industries required direct marketing support. So here the direct marketing/direct mailing companies play big role for connecting customers with these big companies promoting their products and services without annoy. The main purpose of this website is to achieve the reputation across the island, sales, response lead generation and traffic to website.
Entering into Direct marketing/Direct mailing is tough as there are few strong competitors around the country particularly in Dublin. Client has done research on this and have give me few name to look around about how their websites
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