JB Hi-Fi Marketing Strategies and Convergence Marketing Report

This report provides an in-depth analysis of convergence marketing strategies, emphasizing the integration of traditional and digital marketing approaches. It explores the concept of convergence marketing, highlighting the importance of customer-centric campaigns and the effective use of various marketing tools. The report uses JB Hi-Fi as a case study, examining its marketing mix (product, price, promotion, and distribution), competitor analysis, and promotional strategies. It further delves into e-marketing techniques such as online advertising, SEO, email marketing, and mobile marketing, along with examples of successful integrated convergence marketing campaigns, such as those employed by Dacia and TVibes. The conclusion underscores the significance of selecting marketing tools based on cost-effectiveness and their contribution to sales, advocating for the effective utilization of promotional techniques to achieve business objectives.

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Introduction
The fact that traditional marketing alone never works in the current business environment,
characterized by digital technology, (Bansal, & Prestige Institute of Management and Research,
2009), makes every marketing agency to struggle to find new conceptual bases on which to
design and deliver marketing programs. Due to the rapid growth in the internet technology,
marketing convergence has become a necessity organization. The fusion of electronic marketing
(E-marketing) and the traditional marketing, by use of internet, has created various strategies and
marketing tools. Creating a convergence marketing campaign requires marketers to centrally put
the customer in the campaign(Bhasin, 2017).
Use of convergence marketing, provides an organization with practical and innovative guide
for all management levels in order to balance brand-building tools with powerful direct
marketing techniques. Convergence marketing ensures that all marketing goes direct. Through
combining of brand and direct marketing, it strengthens the power of direct, involving both
responsibility and relevance of the message, bringing about desired results (Rosen & Rosen,
2009).
JB Hi-Fi, through effectively evaluating the factors sustainable for creating the desired
impact on the target market, has been able to be one of the fastest growing businesses in the
Australian and New Zealand markets. Evidently, this firm is always geared towards positively
impacting on the environmental conditions through developing strategies that can reduce the
undesirable long run impact on the ecosystem. Moreover, the company, in developing its
marketing campaigns, focuses on maintaining legislative rules regarding trade, thus the
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representation of the firm as a corporate citizen. This is not only an ethical marketing practice,
but also, in itself helps the organization in achieving popularity in the desired markets.
Marketing tools
Marketing mix
It’s one of the most popular tools used by marketers in identification of the target market
appropriately. It enables marketers identify those factors that can create competitive advantage in
the desired market. JB HI- FI’s marketing mix can be described as follows:
Product- the organization, aiming to have maximum impact on the market, has included top
electronic brands such as Microsoft Xbox, Sony and Casino products. Furthermore, it highlights
its products in a colorful way to attract and get the attention of its focus market; the youth aged
12- 35 years.
Price- by effectively using low cost pricing strategy, it improves its penetration in the market.
The company’s slogan “Always cheapest price”, shows that it is in search of gaining competitive
price advantage from its competitors. This helps attract customers from the intended target
market appropriately. Moreover, the company’s selection of economic pricing technique has an
objective of penetrating different market portions.
Promotion- JB HI-FI primarily focuses on direct marketing and sponsorship programs in
order to grab the attention of the potential market customers. Also, the company focuses on
effectively using personal selling technique for long period customer retention. It also focuses on
using advertising technique effectively, this works to increase market popularity level. JB HI-FI
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uses print media, it has an official website to enhance effective use of advertisement techniques
and make sure that the promotional message reaches its potential customers.
Physical distribution- JB HI-FI tries to develop distribution stores in all the prime areas in the
market. Currently, the company has 124 and 10 retail outlets in Australian and New Zealand
markets respectively. This helps the company increase its revenue levels appropriately.
Competitor analysis- JB HI-FI uses economic pricing technique to attain pricing competitive
advantage in the highly competitive market. By being ready to sell its products even at a loss, it
has become very hard for the competitors to achieve pricing strategies advantage (jbhifi.com,
2018).
Promotional strategy
By JB Hi- Fi using the Clive Anthony’s name, it applies a discount strategy in its electrical
superstores in Australia, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. The company’s stores are
the most preferred due to the relatively low prices of their products. These two strategies enable
the company to attract more customers and realize 26% growth in profits compared to the
financial year 2008/2009. Moreover, the use of the company web site for advertisement enables
access of the company products by online shoppers thus increasing the company sales
(managementstudyguide.com).
Thus, it would be recommended for the company to continue using its website along with
discount strategy to ensure continued sales increase.
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Various E-marketing techniques adopted by companies include: banner advertisements,
online advertising, online sales promotion, pop-up advertisements, blogs advertisement, e-mail
marketing and mobile marketing.
Online advertising- according to Cunningham, & Brown, (2010), some online
advertising methods include:
a. Pay- per-click (PPC) - a way to enhance the business appearance in search engine
listings and to provide the company with instant information on the effectiveness
of its listings.
b. Search engine optimization (SEO) - involves making adjustments and designing
the company Web site to make it friendlier in search engines and increase the
company’s position in the search engines organic section.
c. Company landing pages- refer to the direct pages that people go to when they use
a certain keyword to do a search, and then click on the posted link from the search
engine. These pages give the users the information specified by the keywords that
the users have used to find the firm without making them search for the
information through the company’s home page, which may be too difficult for the
people to pursue.
d. E-mail blasts- allow the recipients to download, for instance, a coupon, thus
helping the company initiate a relationship with these recipients.
Banner advertising- Banners help create increasing brand awareness levels- culminating in
top-of-mind awareness, without the customers necessarily clicking through the company’s
website. Banner advertising along with other communication elements serve to facilitate
increasing brand awareness levels, thus improving brand quality. Moreover, more exposure to
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banner ads by the customers, leads to increased purchasing probability of the advertised products
and services (Shimp, & Andrews, 2013).
Sales promotion- Sales promotion strategy is implemented on the basis of the nature and
composition of the market. Online promotional activities are necessary to attract and retain
customers to a company’s products and services. Promotional activities include: using online
advertisement banners, internet newsgroups, and social media networks, broadcasting emails,
sponsoring online chats, internet mailing list, and distribution of electronic press release.
Mobile marketing- the use of smart phones has enabled the development of personal
relationships with their customers, instead of mass marketing. Efficiency in communicating the
message, the message being accessible and easy to view and make use of, contributes to
effectiveness of mobile marketing. (Bhasin, 2017)
Examples of Integrated convergence marketing campaigns
Example 1: Dacia
Platform used: Facebook
Goal: generating market leads and brand awareness creation.
The company placed ads relating to their Sandero, Stepway and Logan car models on Facebook.
Focused on both users of desktop and mobile. Wide variety of ad testing was done through
incorporation of past activity data. This optimized the impacts o the advertisement depending on
the position of the customers on the buying cycle.
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Results: cost per lead reduced by 45% in comparison to standard display ads, ad recall increased
by 27- point, brand favorability uplift of 6- point and purchase intent increasing by 6-point uplift
(digitalmarketinginstitute.com).
Example 2: TVibes
Platform used: Facebook
Goal: establishing engaged and loyal app users.
Solution: Integrating Facebook into the company’s social app made it easier for the followers to
be able to create accounts, log into them and explore various channels created by their friends,
conveniently from their Facebook home pages.
Results: half the number of new apps installed was driven by Facebook, an increase in customer
loyalty and conversion from the Facebook driven installs by 10% and a rise in Facebook user
engagement rates by 20% (digitalmarketinginstitute.com).
Conclusion
The choice of the best tool depends on the cost-effectiveness and the contribution
made by the decision to the increment of the company’s sales. To fulfill all the business
objectives appropriately, effective use of marketing or promotional technique is
necessary. Convergence marketing is one of such examples of effective utilization of
marketing technique.
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