Marketing Birmingham welcomed Brian Gambles, Project Director at the Library of Birmingham and Stuart Rogers, Executive Director at Birmingham Repertory Theatre to discuss the redevelopment of the venues and their imminent reopening this September.
5. Library of Birmingham
Brian Gambles
Marketing
Birmingham Breakfast
FUTURE CITY FUTURE
LIBRARY
The Library Experience
The Knowledge Hub
Community Engagement
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brian.gambles@birmingham.gov.uk
Opens 3rd September 2013
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Volume & Value
RevPAR
Strategic challenges
Connectivity and route development
Product for new audiences + visitors
Product packaging
Route to market
Thematic campaigns
International partnerships
Trade focus
International partnerships
Pipeline building & conversions
Sector led focus
24. Maximising the digital environment
Providing inspiration
Visitors are increasingly demanding authentic experiences
and are going the extra mile to find value for money; user
generated web content underpins this trend.
Connect with multiplier sources
Official and facilitator websites are used for planning and booking.
Social media used for inspiration and confirmation around decision
making.
Seeing is believing – photos, films, clips
Understanding the market
Adopting the approach by market – adapting tactics and
channels according to the geo target
81% of visitors intending to book a
destination will engaging with online
user generated content
25. Gaining global reach – conversion
Leading online
travel agents
(OTA’s)
Accommodation
providers -
Hoteliers, service
apartments
Leading consumer websites
- Microsoft: forecast, maps,
- Google: Frommers, ITA, maps
- Apple: maps + travel
Official sources -
Destination
marketing
organisations
Facilitators –
comparison
sites
WOW –
- social media
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consumer
comments and
reviews
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- influencer
opinions
29. MPU’s + banner advert
London Midland’s MPU campaign
generated over 770,000 impressions over
a 12 month period
Email – monthly and solus
Database of 36,000
33. Social media
Campaign integration – season, themed
activity across owned, earned and paid.
Bespoke campaigns – Big up
Birmingham, Love UK, 101 app and theme-
led activity.
Supporting business – Profiling members
and raising awareness of events, activity,
venues that will inspire and attract visitors.
Customer service – visitor questions,
endorsements, views and complaints.
Reputation management – out of hours
monitoring, media and stakeholder
47. National tourism campaign
Summer 2013
LIVE June – September - profiling Birmingham’s culinary offer to drive
overnight leisure visitors during summer season.
Eat Buy See Do
Primary attract brand – food
Canals
Secondary attract products
Parks Cycle
Day
inspiration
Visitor
Overnight
conversation
48. Summer 2013 – digital focus
Web
portal
content
rich
Smart
phone
app
Digital
advertising
Social and e-dm
campaign
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Christmas 2012 results
Group travel - increased by 35.9% coaches and 37.3% visitors
Hotel occupancy - +80%, peaking at 85% in mid December (4% increase)
Hotel revenues - up by 11% on 2011 to more than £7.7 million
Digital - increased database by 250%, email click through rates up by 50%
and competition entries increased three-fold.
52. Christmas 2013 and New Year
National domestic tourism campaign – working with Visit England from end
September onwards to profile Birmingham’s festive offer and drive overnight
leisure visitors
Partnership opportunities – hotels, restaurants, bars, markets, producers and
festivals
Seasonal
web
portal
E-Festive films
Digital
advertising
and social
seeding
Incentives - offers
Digital trails
Competitions
53. Get involved
Follow us:
Social media
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- Twitter
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- Pintrest
Talk about
Birmingham:
Use the toolkit –
images, films, facts
and stats
Drive business:
- Competitions
- Offers
- Campaign partner
Enhance your
profile:
- MPU’s
- Banners
- Solus emails
Develop you trade
links:
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- Sales missions
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- Exhibitions
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- Digital
Share your
news:
Events
Menus
Deals
Corporate PR
We’re reflecting on a strong performance across our business areas. In the first full year of operation, Business Birmingham has not only refined its strategy into one of the keenest inward investment strategies of any UK city, it has also delivered where it matters: in the securing of projects that create jobs. We’ve continued our positive trajectory in attracting more visitors to the city, not only has the number of people coming here increased, the value of their spend to the economy also grew. In an exceptionally competitive market, we’ve worked in partnership with The NEC Group, our Universities and a host of other venues to develop a strong pipeline of national and international event bids. We’re also using the intelligence capabilities of the Observatory to ensure our strategies and propositions are powered buythe most up to date and insightful data possible – helping us make the business case for Birmingham in all of our programme areas.
Ranks highly for Birmingham keywords in Google, often in #1 position Seeing growth in returning visits - 20% return for information Unique visitor increase month on month (not strictly true) Past 6 months have seen 70% increase in mobile users
All campaign activity – focuses on driving traffic online Opportunities for your business
Send eNewsletter every 3 rd Tuesday of month Ad hoc solus’ sent for members to database
Key points to make: Developing a strong national and international pipeline Translating into success as we confirm events Very competitive marketplace Strong proposition Name check Carl Potter at GVA, Ambassador leading the bid for the British Council of Offices event
Tweets, reweets, interactions, likes
Working with national tourism, creating boards – themed, seasoned and geo. You can follow and repin images
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