The skills and characteristics required to have to be an effective marketing professional
Professional: reading the market “Of all the changes a modern marketer needs to cope with, digital has caused the most disruption. It’s crucial to understand this new era of diversifying consumer behaviour and multi-channel thinking. “But we must not overlook the fundamentals: knowing how to read a market through a rigorous situation analysis and mapping…
«The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing» by Al Ries and Jack Trout
This book will be great guideline for marketers if they want to stay the real professional in their sphere. And the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning Al Ries and Jack Trout noted that: «You can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics,…
5 useful Telegram channels
These channels are a real must have for every internet marketer. Cossa (t.me/cossaru) — media about marketing and digital transformations. The channel is cool because there are informative cases. Covers all the latest media news about marketing and digital transformations. Russian marketing (t.me/smmrus) is a rich channel about the digital world. In this channel you…
Kazakhstan’s most successful top 10 companies
1.Magnum Cash&Carry retail storeMagnum repeats the story of Walmart. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It operates through 33 shopping centers in Almaty, Astana, Kaskelen, Karaganda, Taldykorgan, Shymkent and Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. Magnum led sales in 2016, recording a value share of 2%, and also saw the biggest increase in…
Rakhat confectionary and Lotte’s well-mapped strategic plan of acquision of it
Rakhat Confectionery was founded in 1942 by Anatoly Popelyushko. Rakhat, with a 75-year history, is one of Kazakhstan’s largest manufacturers of confectionery products. The company, has production facilities in Almaty and Shymkent, has 4,500 employees. Its portfolio includes more than 400 confectionery products of 14 different groups. Rakhat manufactures diabetes care products including chocolate, candy,…
The world’s most advanced shopping technology: Amazon Go
«Use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout. (No, seriously.)» We all already know that in order to make a purchase in supermarkets, especially on holidays, you have to stand on a long line and wait for your turn to come. It’s boring…
Creative Advertising:Coca-Cola creates first ever «Drinkable advertising»
«Training the prospects’ brains to associate the brand with a good feeling rather than the product itself» — this is the main key of world brands to stay on top of successful companies. Researches show that people rely on emotions and feelings rather than information, to make brand decisions — and that emotional replies to ads…
Legends in Marketing: David Ogilvy
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. -David Ogilvy David Mackenzie Ogilvy is a classic of advertising and one of the most successful businessmen in the world. His advertising products became part of the advertising environment and set standards…