Saturday 29 June 2013

Public Relations and corporate branding For IT companies


As a company active in the sector you and your business are privy on one hand as to the latest technologies currently available and those which are being developed globally. On the other you know what opportunities there exists in the local and regional market.
South Africa and Africa hold promise regarding the installation and implementation IT service solutions into a wide scope of sectors.
Since many of the solutions both hardware and software are invariably those of global suppliers – brands, there is a diminishing luminescence on the local vendor importance to project's success- this is obviously wrongly assumed.
South African companies design and engineering solutions are amongst the best in the world, yet not being fully recognized for this, Ditto for software development/service companies.

If you are a company of which your service/product/solution is competitive, well designed for its intended market – local or global , yet you are straggling in achieving either the desiered market exposure, your rate of conversions using either or both traditional and or digital media, then a greater focus and optimization of your current marketing resources and asset is in order. 

To the extent that the scope of your business activities encompass, a variety of service solutions, yet may be diverse by virtue of markets , technology requirements, versatile range of clients and their profile developing and executing a cohesive brand for the business is going to be a mainstay of marketing success.

There is much theoretical verbage one can induce into the argument as to why your company would most likely benefit from the services of Public Relations and development of solid and sustainable corporate brand.

Thus It would be more appropriate to elucidate you as to who we are and the scope of services we offer – in particular with regard to company active in the ICT sector, giving you and your company the opportunity to evaluate our abilities to meet and execute the PR and corporate branding your company require in a competitive and successful manner.

Following is a brief about Spindle Communications :

Background

Spindle Communications has been established by Suza Adam some four years ago and is the latest iteration of Southgro IR that has been active in the SA PR an IR market for more than 18 years prior.
Where SIR focus was predominantly on JSE listed companies (more than 60 )and government institutions, as well major industrial conglomerates, Spindle is training is sights on small -mid size companies in the tech intensive sectors, such as ICT, Life Sciences (pharmaceutical, medical devices, diagnostics), industrial processing engineering (mineral beatification, additive manufacturing), cleantech (Renewable energy, recycling and waste management amongst many other sectors.

Services
Spindle services are designed to attain the maximum exposure of a client's product/solution to the widest market sought. Coupled with the use of traditional PR tool sets, Spindle emphasis is to utilize latest media and communication technologies, where such offers the maximum and sustainable reach that could be attained. Whether it is managing moderating social platforms of the company, evaluating advertising campaigns – and its optimization – cost and target audience to study trends in target specific markets and there utilising emergent oportunities. Spindle Communications bespoke range of service are driven by scientific methodologies.
Specialization
Public Relations services would encompass functions of improving your company's corporate brand inter-alia the business, its current status, service qualities, human resource expertise, range of products solutions, insight and foresight of the market sector its active in and numerous other inherent values that ought to be managed and promoted.

Activities
Other than the primary range of services we offer, we engage our clients with potential partners with being foreign companies who's product, technologies may prove beneficial to client.
This is done through certain forums and activities we carry out, which include business social grouping, technical and educational events and additionally investment conferences for specific sectors, such as renewable energy, clean technologies www.viridisafrica.com and www.madiniafrica.com dedicated to mineral beatification engineering. We also arrange and execute business/trade visits to potential partner companies in Israel, USA, Far East, were by each such trip is specifically design to meet with potential partner as per client’s specs

Foresight 

For a South African ICT company, either a start up, or established, Spindle's research driven services ensure that we understand the client needs in a very though manner, thus requiring less occasional briefing from client side. Thorough research on our part also gives us strong predictive view of emerging opportunities and threats the client may encounter, and the measure we would need to employ in order to defeat them.

Our extensive experience in serving technology intensive companies gives us foresight we need in order to be proactive, incisive and decisive when executing a PR plan, constructing your company's corporate brand - one step ahead of competition

Performance
Our relationship with client are established on a well defined and executed agreed upon objectives where such are reduced into a clearly constructed Service Level Agreement entered between Spindle and the client.

Cost
Your company will get more than in would expect to get for less than would anticipate to pay.
That means our services are cost defined per objectives – if not achieved within the cost budget framework we continue until they are attained. To see our pricing schedule, please request a detailed proposal.

For more information visit www.spindlecommunications.com or contact Suza Adam on suza.adam@spindlecommunications.com