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Experiential marketing missed opportunity?

by Capers Hammond
Tuesday, December 6, 2005. 07:37AM
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I was in Los Angeles this past weekend and on Friday night I took my sons to the All American Rejects concert at the Wiltern. It was a general admission show so a good many people were in line. As we stood there about 10 people were wandering around from Mobile Media and they were asking if anyone was a Cingular customer. If you were, they gave you some free ringtones and also gave you the opportunity to be chosen for one of 10 meet and greets with the band before they performed. Very good idea, but they had absolutely nothing for people who weren’t Cingular customers. Seems like with acquisition so important they would have had something to incent others to join , maybe 1 out of the ten meet and greet opportunities could have gone to the non Cingular customers. Maybe these kids will want to change because of all the freebies that they see other people getting, but I think they could have made a much bigger impact by including non customers as well. Maybe there was no way technically they could have distinguished the two but it just felt like a lost opportunity to me. What do you think is exclusivity good or bad in experiential marketing settings?

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Wednesday, December 28, 2005. 07:09AM by Capers Hammond
Olivia, I am passing on your thanks to Spell Checker!
Tuesday, December 27, 2005. 02:26PM by Olivia McKinsey
By the way, thanks for spelling Acquisition correctly. :)
Tuesday, December 27, 2005. 02:24PM by Olivia McKinsey
Ah ha! I love incomplete thinking. Makes my job easier. Cing could have event sent non-subscribers stuff after the concert and to make them WANT to switch. With cell phone penetration reaching 75%+, it's not a matter anymore of just getting people to sign up. You have to make it more enticing for switcheroos. Little stuff like that seems to make the difference. But, like I said, makes my job easier!
Tuesday, December 6, 2005. 04:15PM by Mark Roberts
It is a simple process to give perks to existing customers while still marketing to the rest. If you are paying people to go market, they should have schwag for everyone and funnel them towards Cingular. Like 1 free ringtone for non-subscribers and deliver materials offering an exceptionally good conversion offer (I.E. Free Razr with signup). Or make the meet and greet a door prize for everyone and put offers on the entry ticket... use it to capture personal data... maybe give Cingular customers 10 entry chances and everyone else 1, to reward existing customers and entice prospective subscribers.