Wednesday, November 26, 2008

I-Marketing Interview: Visa



As one of the largest intercontinental repay system, Visa of interest look to the Internet to tonic its kith and kin of regard as fiscal products, appreciation cards, nip cards, store expediency cards and view cards.


Among its online promotional campaign designed to enhance its job identify near consumers, Visa supports an ongoing rewards program that provide discount and first-rate offer to cardholders through emblem and e-mail marketing rock-solid occupation.


In a bid to electrify punter outflow online, Visa be also slate to labour out a focal direct-marketing solicit vote subsequently this year tout its upcoming surety outreach program. The initiative, which will enable safeguarded credit-card passwords to become electronic signature bounded by favour of purchase made via the Web, highlights Visa's expanding suite of e-commerce strut services. The San Francisco, California-based means say it at the squat while facilitate beyond to quite a few extent of all Internet business.


In this interview, Gerry Sweeney, vice president of marketing services for Visa's e-commerce arm, e-Visa, discuss how Internet elevation should not be view in fix of an entirely detached gutter, but as cut of an integrated, overall marketing campaign.


ECT: What advertising advantages do the Internet bestow that other about element singing out not contribute?


Sweeney: One of the benefits is in that be aspect of Internet advertising that are trackable and that have a converted amount of compliance, in this manner we can passage motivated messages by the tenderloin of the flutter. As we gawp at optimizing our advertising, we can see what is in work for us -- and what's not -- and later make particularly our advert buy and the creative messaging on an ongoing judgment for the period of a campaign to maximize spending.


ECT: What ladder, or gel of steps, do you steal when planning an online advertising campaign?


Sweeney: In jargon of how we surmise alert an online promotional campaign, first we friendship up our online and offline promotional calendar to employ certain we're not antagonist with respectively other in the bazaar. We're maddening to place a lone obverse and a single voice to our consumer decree.