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This is from my workshop conducted in Centennial, CO for communities in that state that want to get faster, better broadband for their constituents.
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Building the Gigabit City in Colorado
Objectives of Workshop
•Building blocks for strategy foundation
• Improve ability to advance broadband
•Basic skills for ongoing tasks
• Leverage the e-book
Workshop Format
•General overview of skillset
•Apply knowledge to your community
•Collaboration
Workshop Sessions1. Stakeholder assessment
2. Winning the political game
3. Data gathering
4. Ownership, funding options
5. Marketing strategy & tactics
I. Stakeholder Assessment• Provide 30,000-foot view
• Initial insight to potential impact
•Captains to lead the charge
•Keys to anchor tenants
Stakeholder Categories
• Local government
• Education
•Nonprofit organizations
•Medical/healthcare
Stakeholder Categories (more)•Real Estate
• Largest companies
•Media
•Agriculture
Art of the Possible
• Educate to possibilities
•Relate benefits to their world
•What’s that worth to you?
•Many will sell themselves
II. Winning the Political Game
III. Constituent Data Collection
•More you know, greater the ROI
•Multiple ways to gather
•Ongoing process
•Gather info, increase supporters
Build on Stakeholder Info• Test assumptions
•Determine depth of support
• Pre-sell broadband
• Ideally – start a movement
Constituent Groups
• Local government
•Business owners
• Students/educators
•Medical community
Constituent Groups (more)
•General population - demographics
•General population - occupation
•Appropriate subgroups
IV. Organization Structure
•City or county owns infrastructure
• Public utility owns network
•Community creates nonprofit
•Community creates co-op
Organization Structure (more)
•Use existing nonprofit
• Existing co-op transitions
• Public private partnership
•Business people create company
Funding Options•Municipal bonds
• Jurisdiction offers assets
•Constituents invests
• Pre-pay for buildout
• Take it to the bank
V. What Is Marketing?
• Education
• Translation
•Motivation – the call to action
Why Is Marketing Important?
• People have to know about network
• People have to understand benefits
• If no one uses broadband, you’re hosed!
• Poor marketing = few users, low revenue
How Will Marketing Succeed?
• Project team learns or hires the skillset
•Understand your various markets
• Plan thoroughly
• Execute well
How Will Marketing Fail
• You don’t understand stakeholders
• Your messaging sucks
• People have the wrong expectations
•Underestimate competitors
Good Marketing Begins with Great Vision
•What is the network to accomplish
•How will primary stakeholders benefit
•How will you measure success
Take Me to the Pilot
• You can pilot test anything
•Don’t try to test everything
• Prior previous planning is key
Know What You’re Marketing
•Benefits
• Infrastructure
• Services
• The community
Know Who You’re Marketing To
•What did needs assessment uncover
• Shape marketing messages accordingly
•Constituents evolve, come and go
What You Ask Is Key• If you have broadband, how can you help
yourself, help others?
•How would broadband change what you do, how you do it?
•What are impacts of this change?
Create Marketing Roadmap from the Answers
•Answers define technology
• Translate technology to benefits
•Created vehicles to deliver the messages
ID Marketing Partners
•Who can make/save money, operate better
•Who’s dedicated to the public good
•Who has marketing leverage
•Who’s willing to commit
Grab Your Partner Dosey Doe
• Partners offload marketing expenses
• They enable faster market penetration
• They create barriers to competition
Typical Targets
•Government agencies
•Medical/Healthcare community
•Businesses
•K-12 schools, colleges, universities
Marketing Starts Long Before Service Begins
•Constituents need clear picture of network and its benefits
• They need to understand progress, delays
•Will you have an aggressive PR effort
Build Following While Building Infrastructure
•Articulate the value proposition
• Encourage early commitment
• Prepare internal operations
•Kick butt & take names
Launching the Service
• The pilot project as marketing foundation
•Make it a big #$%@#! deal
•Roll out the usual suspects
•Make the network a marketing vehicle
What’s in Your Tool Box?•Marketing points strong, consistent, used by
everyone, every thing
•Media relations carries the day
•What role will marcom play
•KISS me, fool
Think Globally, Act Locally
• Integrate with other communication
•Deliver on the promise
• Turn satisfied customers into mini-marketers
Execute Well Designed Launch
• Encourage word of mouth
•Constantly gather data
•Adapt and perform
• It’s the economy, stupid
Brace for the Backlash•Know thy enemy
•Use incumbents’ strength against them
• Power of “hometown team”
•Never, ever compete on price!
Marketing Your Community
•On par with costs, education & workforce
•Coordinate your efforts
•Make the network a marketing vehicle