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Phases Of Convergence Marketing Strategy
March 5th, 2010 | 
Author: In the last posting we explored the first of Rosen’s three phases for convergence marketing. Let’s now look at phases 2 and 3.
Phase 2 Compressing the Sales Cycle
This phase is based on the company’s respect for the potential customer. Rosen calls this ‘nurturing’ the customer, which uses elements of permission marketing. (Never heard of it? You should consider investing in a Marketing Update. Check the Update tab at the top of this page).
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Tags: Attitude, Book of the Month, Branding, Convergence Marketing, Convergence Model, Corporate Finance, Customer Feedback, groundswell, Investment, Market Needs, Marketing Plan, Marketing Strategy, Product and Service, Sales Person Criteria, Selling Skill, Traditional Business Model | 
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How Convergence Marketing Works ?
One of the key values from the Book of the Month for January, Convergence Marketing, by Richard Rosen, are the original models it contains. Let’s explore one of these where he looks at the differences between the traditional model of advertising and the convergence model. Here is the model.
Rosen explains that the Traditional Model is based on the AIDA principle from the 1960s. AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action, which he has renamed Awareness, Preference, Consideration and Sale for his own purposes.
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Existing Business Functions and their Groundswell Alternatives
Very early in the book Groundswell, the authors tabulate the way in which organizations may have to change to accommodate the groundswell. I give you the table below.
| You already have this business function | Now you can pursue this groundswell objective | How things are different in the groundswell |
| Research
Marketing Sales Support Development |
Listening
Talking Energizing Supporting Embracing |
Ongoing monitoring of your customers’ conversations with each other
Participating in and stimulating two-way conversations your customers have with each other, not just outbound communications with your customers Making it possible for your enthusiastic customers to help sell each other Enabling your customers to support each other Helping your customers to work with each other to come up with ideas to help improve your products and services |
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What Are You?
Are you a creator, a critic, a collector, a joiner, a spectator or an inactive? I bet you don’t know. And I have to confess I don’t know for sure what I am either.
And does it matter?
Now that question I can answer, based on the ideas proposed in Groundswell, our book of the month for January. Yes, it does matter. In fact it matters a lot!
The classifications are those defined by Forrester Research in US for classifying the people in the groundswell. Let’s check out what it all means.
Forrester Research created the concept, which is explained in the table below. They use the classifications in their research for their customers.
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