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The Match Game 
Your Market with the Right Media
  • Society for Healthcare Strategy and
  • Market Development


  • October 11, 2002
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Presented by Pam Schneider


    • Pam Schneider, Senior VP, Client Services Director
    • Rick Johnson & Company, Incorporated
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About RJC
    •   About RJC


    •   New Mexico’s largest full-service marketing, advertising, public relations and interactive agency
    •   Founded 1977
    •   Staff:  51 (FTEs)
    •   Headquartered in Albuquerque
    •   Clients across U.S.
    •   10 Departments
    •     4 Divisions
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Our Healthcare Experience
  • Our Healthcare Experience


      • Healthcare Systems
      • Clinics
      • Physician Groups
      • Specialties - Oncology, Rehabilitation, Cardiology
      • Health Plans
      • Managed Care - Medicare
      • Single Physician Offices
      • Foundations
      • Auxiliaries
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What Are We Going to do Today?
  • What Are We Going to do Today?


  • Media and Media Vehicles
  • Match Media to Markets
  • Q&A
  • You Are Outta’ Here...



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Some Fundamental Questions
  • Some Fundamental Questions You Must Ask Yourself About This Topic...


  • Who is my market(s)?
  • What do I need to know to make the match?
  • Why isn’t this simple?



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Definitions Surrounding Media
  • Definitions Surrounding Media


  • Mass Media - non-personal channels of communication that allow a message to be sent to many individuals at one time. (no interpersonal contact)


  • Medium - is the general category of available delivery systems, which includes broadcast media, print media direct mail, outdoor advertising and other support media


  • Media Vehicle - The specific carrier within a medium category.  For example, Time and Newsweek are print vehicles, “20/20” and “60 Minutes” are are broadcast vehicles.
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Types of Media Available
  • Types of Media Available...


  • Television Airplane Fly Behinds
  • Radio Shopping Carts
  • Newspaper Apparel/Shoes
  • Local Publications Hot Air Balloons
  • Magazines Sides of Buildings
  • Direct Mail Business Cards
  • Outdoor Signage
  • Web Bus Benches


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How Do You Match Media to Your Market
  • How Do You Match Media to Your Market?


  • Fundamental Question…Who is your target audience?
  • Research Up Front or Err on the Back End.


  • You have to know who you are trying to reach and where you are most likely to reach them.
  • What makes this target audience tick
  • Are they young, are they old, are they something in between?
  • Are they your garden variety couch potato?


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Your Target Audience 2
  • Matching Media to Your Market
  • Fundamental Question…Who is your target audience?


  • Are you trying to reach them during the day or at night?
  • Where do they hang out?
  • Do they drive?  Do they fly?  Do they walk?
  • Do they watch football?  Do they watch ballet?
  • Do they purchase pharmaceuticals on-line?
  • Do they purchase lottery tickets?
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Your Target Audience 3
  • Matching Media to Your Market
  • Fundamental Question…Who is your target audience?


  • What age are they?
  • What generation do they fit into?
  • Do they respond to TV?
  • Do they respond to radio or newspaper?
  • Do they listen to news/talk radio?
  • Do they get their information on-line?


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What is Media?
  • What is Media?


  • "Media" refers to various modes of conveying information. For example,books, newspapers, CDs, microfiche, and websites are all different types of media.


  • Search engine results will lead you to pages about books, CDs,sounds, or many other types of media.
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Media Planning
  • Media Planning


  • Not Easy or Everyone Would Do It.
  • Planning Includes:  mass media such as television, newspapers, radio and magazines ( and the choices available within each of these categories)
  • Out-of-home media such as outdoor advertising, transit advertising and electronic billboards.
  • Support media includes direct marketing, interactive media, promotional products advertising and in-store point-of-sale (POS or POP) options


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Media Planning 2
  • Media Planning


  • Seems Easy Enough
  • Selection of Media is involved because of the nature of the media themselves
  • Television has Sight and Sound
  • Radio is Sound only
  • Print has the potential to be seen a number of times
  • Each media has its own characteristics
  • Alternatives within the same medium - like Rosie and Oprah or Time and Newsweek


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Media Planning 3
  • Media Planning


  • What else affects the Media Planning Process?
  • Some media are more useful than others in conveying a message - depending on the message
  • For Example:  MCI tends to rely more heavily on broadcast media, while Hewlett-Packard prefers print media.
  • McDonald’s will rely on television and radio with some print to supplement campaigns


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Characteristics of Media
  • Characteristics of Media


  • Each media has its own characteristics that make it better or worse for attaining specific objectives.
  • Interactive Media - includes online, internet, CD-ROM, kiosks, and interactive TV
    • Interactive moves the receivers from being passive participants to active ones.




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Characteristics of Media - INTERACTIVE
  • Characteristics of Media - INTERACTIVE


  • Future for interactive TV is promising - it isn’t here yet…
    • Sophisticated programming is years away
    • Costs are too prohibitive
    • Technology is not ready
    • No evidence that people want to interact with their TV sets
    • Belief is held that the Internet will adapt successfully to TV interactivity.




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Characteristics of Media - INTERACTIVE 2
  • Source Turn to FIRST for Information/News on Topics:  Internet/Web
  • Men Women
  • Latest Technology Trends 20%   14%
  • Product Comparisons 19%   14%
  • Stock Prices 19%   11%
  • Vacation Ideas 11%   10%
  • Health Information 10%     9%



  • *32,000,000 internet subscribers


  • Source:  Yankelovich Monitor 2001


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Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION
  • Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION


  • Television Media - often called the ideal advertising medium
  • It combines visual images, sound, motion and color
  • It allows the advertiser the opportunity to develop the most creative and imaginative appeals of any medium
  • TV has numerous advantages over other media, including creativity and impact, coverage and cost effectiveness, captivity and attention and selectivity and flexibility.
  • Print can show you the features of a car but TV can put you in the driver’s seat and give you an actual sense of driving
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Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION 2
  • Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION


  • TV allows you to reach mass markets, often very cost efficiently
  • Companies with wide spread distribution and availability of their products and services use TV to reach the mass market and deliver at a low cost per thousand.
  • TV is intrusive - it imposes itself on viewers as they watch their favorite programs.
  • TV is considered a non-selective medium
  • Some selectivity is possible based on programming content, broadcast time and geographic coverage.
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Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION 3
  • Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION


  • Stations in New Mexico - Albuquerque


  • KOAT •   KASY
  • KRQE •   KTEL
  • KOB •   KLUZ
  • KASA •   KAPX
      •    KWBQ


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Characteristics of Media - TELEVISION 4
  • Source Turn to FIRST for Information/News on Topics:  TV
  • Men Women
  • Breaking News 77%   81%
  • Weather Reports 76%   80%
  • Traffic Conditions 39%   45%
  • Trends in Entertainment 38%   40%
  • Political Analysis 38%   38%
  • Health Information 18%   16%


  •   News and Weather were the highest rankings in all generations.
  •   Political Analysis was highest with the Mature Generation at 45%.
  •   Health Information ranked fairly low across all generations.
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Characteristics of Media - RADIO
  • Characteristics of Media - RADIO


  • Radio - is primarily a local advertising medium
  • Radio has highly specialized programming - appealing to very narrow segments of the population
  • 11,000+ radio stations in this country
  • 4,906 commercial AM stations
  • 5,285 commercial FM stations
  • Over 576 million radios in use an average of 5.6 per household


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Characteristics of Media - RADIO 2
  • Characteristics of Media - RADIO



  • TWELVE AM STATIONS IN STATE
  • THIRTY SIX FM STATIONS IN STATE


  • SEVEN AM STATIONS IN ALBUQUERQUE
  • TWENTY ONE FM STATIONS IN ALBUQUERQUE


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Characteristics of Media - RADIO 3
  • Characteristics of Media - RADIO


  • Radio reaches 77 percent of all Americans over the age of 12
  • Average American listens to radio 3 hours and 18 minutes every week day and nearly 6 hours every weekend.
  • Radio offers advertisers certain advantages for communicating messages to their potential customers
  • Radio advantages include cost and efficiency, selectivity, flexibility, mental imagery and integrated marketing opportunities.
  • Radio can reach consumers other media can’t


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Characteristics of Media - RADIO 4
  • Characteristics of Media - RADIO


  • Radio is a great way to reach non-English speaking ethnic markets
  • Radio has so many formats that you can reach almost any market
  • Classical Adult Contemporary
  • Christian Hard Rock
  • Alternative Album Oriented Rock
  • Oldies Country
  • And the list goes on and on...



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Characteristics of Media - RADIO 5
  • Source Turn to FIRST for Information/News on Topics:  Radio
  • Men Women
  • Traffic Conditions 44%   38%
  • Weather Reports 12%   10%
  • Breaking News   8%     8%
  • Sports Scores   9%     5%
  • Fun and Entertainment   3%     5%
  • Health Information   1%     1%


  •   Radio is used during drive time traffic (on the way to and
  • from work)


  • Source:  Yankelovich Monitor 2001
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Characteristics of Media - PRINT
  • Characteristics of Media - PRINT


  • Print - Magazines and Newspapers
  • Role is different from broadcast media because it allows the presentation of detailed information that can be processed at the reader’s own pace.
  • Not intrusive like radio and TV
  • Require some effort on the part of the reader for the advertising message to have an impact.
  • Usually referred to as “high involvement” media




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Characteristics of Media - PRINT 2
  • Characteristics of Media - PRINT


  • Newspapers are received in nearly two-thirds of American households daily.
  • Magazines reach a selective audience.
    • Valuable in reaching specific types of consumers and market segments



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Characteristics of Media - PRINT 3
  • Characteristics of Media - PRINT


  • Magazines - have grown rapidly to serve the educational, informational and entertainment needs of a wide range of readers in both the consumer and business markets.
  • Magazines are the most specialized of all advertising media.
    • Some have mass appeal like Reader’s Digest, Time and TV Guide
    • Most are targeted to a very specific audience
    • Industry specific trade publications
  • Magazines - one of the main reasons to use is Selectivity


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Characteristics of Media - PRINT 4
  • Characteristics of Media - PRINT


  • Magazines can reach a specific target audience
  • They do this through Demographic and Geographic Selectivity
    • Demographic based on editorial content (Self, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmo appeal to women -- Sports Illustrated, Playboy and Esquire appeal to men)
    • Demographic based on Special Editions - (Mature Life in the Albuquerque Journal, Newsweek 50 Plus)
    • Geographic Selectivity lets you focus ads in certain cities or regions (New Mexico Magazine, New Mexico Business Journal, Sunset, Southern Living)

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Characteristics of Media - PRINT 5
  • Source Turn to FIRST for Information/News on Topics:  Newspaper/Magazine
  • Men Women
  • Movie Times 50%   55%
  • Book/Movie and TV Reviews 33%   39%
  • Fashion Trends 23%   39%
  • Fun and Entertainment 23%   27%
  • Health Information 13%   15%


  •   Print is an alternative for health information because ads can be copy heavy
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Characteristics of Media - OUTDOOR
  • Characteristics of Media - Outdoor


  • Outdoor has probably existed since the days of cave dwellers.  Egyptians and Greeks used it 5,000 years ago.
  • One of the most pervasive communication forms.
  • Most frequent users of outdoor over the years was Tobacco and Liquor
  • Success of outdoor is its ability to remain innovative through technology.
  • - 3-D forms and extensions
  • - Electronic Billboards
  • - Inflatables
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Characteristics of Media - OUTDOOR2
  • Characteristics of Media - Outdoor


  • There are many advantages to Outdoor including:  Frequency of exposure, geographic flexibility (placement), creativity, ability to create awareness, efficiency, effectiveness and production capabilities.


  • Outdoor also has some disadvantages including:  Waste coverage (not everyone driving by is your target), limited message capabilities (8 words) - exposure time is short, wear out (high frequency of exposure), cost (decreasing availability)
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Characteristics of Media - DIRECT MARKETING
  • Characteristics of Media - Direct Marketing


  • Direct Marketing - A system of marketing by which an organization communicates directly with customers to generate a response and/or transaction.


  • Direct Marketing Media - include direct mail, telemarketing, print and broadcast.


  • One of the fastest growing forms of promotion in terms of dollar expenditures - rapidly becoming the medium of choice for many marketers.
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Characteristics of Media - DIRECT MARKETING 2
  • Characteristics of Media - Direct Marketing


  • Impetus behind Direct Marketing may have been the growth of the U.S. Postal Service - which made catalogs available to all of us.
  • But not catalogs alone…
  • Consumer Credit Cards
  • Direct Marketing Syndicates - list development, statement inserts, sweepstakes etc.,.
  • Changing structure of American society - “Money Rich and Time Poor”
  • Technological Advances - Internet
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How Does This Apply to Healthcare Specific Markets?
  • How Does This Apply to Healthcare Specific Markets?


  • Determine which target market should receive the most media emphasis


  • Now, Ask yourself the following question:
  • “Through which media and media vehicles can I best get my message to prospective buyers/users?”


  • The issue is to get coverage of the market.
  • The optimal goal, is full market coverage.


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How Does This Apply to You?
  • How Does This Apply to You?


  • Your goal is to extend media coverage to as many of the members of the target audience as possible while minimizing the amount of waste coverage.
  • You Must Know your Target Audience(s)
  • You Must Research your Target Audience(s)
  • Then You Can Purchase Media that Matches Your Market...


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Q&A

  • Q & A
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Thank You

  • Thank You.