Air France‘s Case You have just been hired by Rob Griffin to help him better understand the effectiveness of Air France’s online sponsored search efforts. He has requested answers to the following questions: 1. Please calculate the effectiveness of each of Air France’s marketing campaigns across the 7 different publishers categories (3 points). Publishers | Avg. Cost per clicks | Tot. Clicks | Media Costs | Tot. Bookings | Tot. Revenue | Net Revenue | Net Rev per Cost | Avg. of Sales per Click % | Avg. of Trans. Conv. % | Yahoo-US | 2 | 45,598 | $46,198 | 662 | $882,289 | $836,091 | 18 | 1.45% | 183% | MSN-Global | 2.15 | 11,217 | $12,160 | 129 | $145,524 | $133,364 | 11 | 1.15% | 113% | MSN-US | 2.87 | 10,808 | …show more content…
The use of phrase keywords also contributes to number of bookings like the phrase “DC to France Sale” which have the highest conversion rate compare to others. Different with Google, Yahoo has moderately earned more income from the words of city such as Florence, Paris and Rome. This may be resulted from the difference search methods that Yahoo mainly focuses on web contents keywords. Overture more likely to gain revenue in words that relate with cities in eastern part of Europe like Athens, Tunis, Amman. Overture loses money on broad unspecific words. Thus, Overture should focus on the exact keywords which have connection with flight and travel to eastern part of Europe. MSN-US and MSN-Global costs mainly derived from phrase keywords except “Air France Brand” keywords. For example, phrase keyword of “travel to France” generates moderate number of 346 clicks, but none of the clicks succeed in sales conversion. Another example is “flights to Paris”, other publishers succeed in booking of positive net revenue with the keywords, while MSN-US and MSN-Global lose money. * Broad and focus keyword Broad keyword usually gains many clicks from the campaigns. By analyzing publishers’ performance data, we concluded that Yahoo-US, Overture-Global, MSN-US and MSN-Global are publishers that have strength in broad campaign keywords. Number of clicks for broad keywords represents minimum 90% of total clicks
for search engines with High probability of booking and Low CPC; (2) for search engines
A fanatical focus on first page Google rankings and traffic generation without a corresponding conversion rate optimization program makes achieving an acceptable return on investment form search marketing a pipe dream. Many companies are wasting money on SEO services and Google AdWords because they fail to optimize their website for maximum conversion rates.
Companies take serious care when marketing their products or services to consumers. Consumers, therefore, are exposed to hundreds of advertisements each day with each ad specifically placed to maximize exposure to its potential target market. In the internet age, consumers are targeted more than ever. The following paper details four products or services and the targeting strategies behind them. These products and services are: Netflix, Apple’s iPhone 7+, Edushape’s Marublous Marble Run, and Chobani yogurt.
Question 1 * From the scenario, suggest two (2) marketing strategy options that Golds Reling, Inc. could implement. Next, select the option that you believe will be most effective for the new product launch. Justify your response.
The Royal Aero Club strategic marketing plan uses outbound marketing to attract the product and services by an advertisement campaign aimed towards the local market. Additionally, the advertising campaign commenced with 16 newspapers and local radio to concentrate on pushing its advertisement in 13 weeks. Therefore, in measuring the performance of this advertising campaign it is essential to use profitability and feedback analysis and marketing metric such as sales analysis – sales by product and sales by customer.
Rob Griffin, the senior vice president and U.S. director of search for Media contacts, a media consulting firm, is faced with the task of optimizing search engine marketing (SEM) for Air France as the company seeks to compete in the hyper-competitive U.S. market. Even though Griffin is satisfied with the performance of his company, he wants to make the team to remain the leading position and provide the results that Air France wanted. At the time of the case, SEM has become an advertising phenomenon, with North American advertisers spent $ 9.4 billion in the SEM channel, up to 62% in 2005. In the past, Media contacts h had concentrated on Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo for the search engine
While the use of SKAGs (Single Keyword Ad Groups) is gaining in use, we have neglected another important aspect of control in Paid Search accounts. Due to the lack of a quantifier like quality score for keywords and ads, the ability and concern to manipulate a single location within a targeted area of a campaign has been overlooked. While demographics play an important part in the optimization of return on investment, location optimization is for the most part automated. We can set location bid adjustments, include and exclude locations, but lack the ability to fully control ad spends in a specific market without generalization.
Evaluate the overall success of this marketing campaign and justify the use of the promotional methods
In 2007 Air France operated in the fiercely competitive business of international and domestic airline travel services. Catering to both business and leisure travelers, Air France turned to Internet marketing campaigns and search engine optimization to reach large customer segments in multiple countries including the United States. To be successful, Air France had to understand how to maximize the net revenue and the ROA of its Internet marketing campaigns by evaluating alternative strategies. The airlines hired Media Contacts to help it achieve this goal.
In order to confirm our finding, we further analyzed statistical data from another web company – netmarketshare. It is a website that could provide users the market share of different operating systems, web browsers etc. The result for different operating systems of their market share from October 2014 to October 2015 was shown in fig. 2. (For more information about the statistical results, please refer to their websites: https://statcounter.com/ for our first figure and http://www.netmarketshare.com/ for our second figure).
Table of Contents {text:bookmark-start} Definning e-commerce {text:bookmark-end} There are nearly as many definitions of e-commerce as there are contributions to the literature. (Damanpour, 2001) defines e-commerce as “any net business activity that transforms internal and external relationships to create value and exploit market opportunities driven by new rules of connected economy”. E-commerce is a “disruptive” innovation that is radically changing the way organizations do business (Macgregor and Vrazalic, 2007). In other words a organization who do majority of their sales via internet, electronic procurement and electronic payment. As in the given case of RYANAIR AIRLINES. {text:bookmark-start} Ryanair Airlines in brief
In order to survive in the competitive market, every company needs to adopt significant marketing tools in order to sell their products and services. Advertising is among the top marketing tools which used multinational companies in order to attract more customers towards their products.
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