To win a BETA Marketing Effectiveness Award is to achieve
the highest recognition available in the Equestrian Industry for your
commercial activity. The Awards set the global benchmark for excellence in
effective communications in equestrian by requiring entrants to prove the
increased value they have created for their brands.
To reflect the changing nature of how marketing and
communications solve business problems, marketing & communications activity
will be interpreted in its broadest sense, and include anything from in store,
show circuit and mass media advertising tools (e.g. print or TV-led campaigns)
through to support and use of sponsored riders as well as digital and social
media.
We encourage entries that represent the widest possible
spectrum of marketing activities:
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Single activities or a full year program
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From all parts of the supply chain, including retailers,
manufacturers and suppliers
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Small, medium or large budgets
The goal of the award is to recognise the contribution
marketing makes to solving business problems and improving business results. As
such, the emphasis in judging will be on demonstrating the contribution
marketing has made to business improvement. To emphasise this point, low/no
budget entries are especially encouraged.
Judging Criteria
Above all, judges are looking to reward the entries that
most persuasively establish the link between marketing activity and an increase
in business performance.
How will we judge
this?
Judges will have four key criteria in mind:
1.
Is the business
problem you were trying to solve with marketing activity clearly
articulated?
2.
Business
contribution: how impressive are the benefits delivered? Entrants are
encouraged to attempt to measure the financial contribution of the activity to
the business but it is expected that this may be hard to do. Submissions that
demonstrate other non-financial benefits are encouraged
3.
Strength of
proof: How convincingly and credibly does the paper establish the link
between the marketing activity and the business benefits & any measured financial
contribution?
4.
Clarity
of case: How well written, structured and presented is the case?
DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS - 7 July 2023