Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing
eBook - ePub

Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing

A practical guide for librarians and information professionals

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing

A practical guide for librarians and information professionals

About this book

Now more than ever, libraries must find ways to engage with their communities in order to demonstrate the value they create and deliver. Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing is a comprehensive resource that provides an overview of best practice strategic marketing, with advice on how to implement effective marketing activities in libraries and information services with the best chance of success. It takes each element of the strategic marketing domain and outlines both current marketing best practice and its detailed application in the library and information sector. It includes a set of tools and techniques to help reflection and progress towards effective marketing.

Whether it is raising awareness of resources, increasing library use or demonstrating value, this book will help libraries from all sectors achieve their goals, communicate their benefits and present a clear and consistent image.

Coverage includes:

  • strategic marketing planning
  • understanding users and potential users
  • identifying value and grouping users for marketing activity
  • understanding stakeholder management to support marketing activity
  • crafting messages
  • identifying effective marketing channels
  • digital marketing
  • evaluating the response to marketing activity.

Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing is a must-read for library and information service directors and managers in all sectors. It will also be useful for all library and information professionals interested or involved in the strategic planning or marketing of library services and students of library and information science, particularly those taking library management or marketing modules.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Engaging your Community through Active Strategic Marketing
  3. Half-title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The need for a professional approach to engagement
  12. 2 Strategic marketing planning for engagement
  13. 3 Ambition: the basis for all activity
  14. 4 Understanding users and potential users
  15. 5 Identifying value and segmentation
  16. 6 Managing stakeholder engagement
  17. 7 Making choices and creating engaging offers
  18. 8 Crafting engaging messages
  19. 9 Effective marketing channels for engaging messages
  20. 10 Digital channels and engagement
  21. 11 Evaluating the response to engagement activity
  22. 12 How to give marketing and engagement the best chance of success
  23. References
  24. Recommended reading
  25. Index