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    Web Based Sales Communications Portal

    Replace CD-ROMs, binders and other hard copy materials with a web portal
    for all current sales, marketing and promotion information and materials.

    The CMG Sales Communications web portal gives you these benefits…

    • You Save Time getting information to the field
    • You Save Money on printing and mailing hard copy
    • You Save Staff Time with fewer "touches" - material goes directly from your agencies to our information architects
    • You Save Field Sales Time by providing a one-stop resource for all current information
      • So much easier than digging through a stack of CDs or binders or finding the latest version of the Excel file
    • You achieve a much higher utilization of sales promotion materials resulting in better performing promotions
    • You can create account specific presentations easily, customized with product packaging photos, the latest TV commercials, radio spots, promotion creative and syndicated data - all available in one resource.
      • The result is more personalized, more dynamic and effective presentations. And more effective presentations sell more products

    Easy, Intuitive Navigation

    • Search Engine - to quickly get to the information you want
      • Type in a term and you'll get all files that include the term in order of frequency of mention. Click on any file name to see it.
    • Supermarket Aisle Architecture - mirrors the way customer see the world
      • Larger categories drill down to specifics in logical sequence
    • Site Map - for ease of moving topic to topic
      • You can find what you need using a visual guide, or map of the information contents
    • Graphics files are available in two forms - so you can see and present
      • thumbnail images optimized for on-screen viewing and
      • high resolution printable versions for top quality leave-behinds
    • Links directly to Work, Excel and PowerPoint for optimum efficiency
    • Help section, tips and hints and glossary of terms included

    Plus Optional Business Intelligence

    CMG Offers an Integrated Link to DataAlchemy
    The insights that drive your business are buried deep within multiple syndicated, internal, and point-of-sale data sources.

    Data from your internal shipment and trade spend data, syndicated data from Information Resources, ACNielsen, NPD, and Spectra, and POS data from retailers such as Wal-Mart are more valuable when viewed as an integrated whole - in a way that matches way of viewing the world.

    CMG's DataAlchemy unites these various forms of data to provide a single view of the information necessary to build and execute a successful category marketing and sales strategy.

    The information you need, all in one place, when you need it.

    With DataAlchemy, your disparate data sources are readily combined, structured, and normalized. So you can see in fine granular detail what you need to know to translate data into actionable steps.

    Powerful analytics encapsulate industry "best practices" such as

    Key performance indicators
    DataAlchemy provides sophisticated high-level scorecards of account or product performance. These scorecards also offer the ability to drill-down to the store level.
    This CMG solution includes powerful analytical features for modeling, data segmentation and aggregation, trend tracking, and exception reporting.

    Fact based selling
    The ability to develop and convey a quantifiable, competitively superior market position through timely and persuasive analytics is critical to achieving a competitive advantage.

    DataAlchemy provides the most powerful fact-based selling technology in the industry. It uses the language that sales and customers understand, including product segmentation, store clusters, GMROI, and more.

    You'll get help increasing revenues through increased basket size and optimizing pricing and assortment. Its powerful interactive drill-down capabilities demonstrate how promotional practices affect sales for various demographics and seasonal periods.

    Post promotion evaluation
    For many companies, trade promotion spending represents the second largest line item on the P&L; surpassed only by the cost of goods sold. As a result, the effectiveness and efficiency of trade promotion spending is the primary controllable factor for revenue growth and profitability.

    DataAlchemy eliminates the major hurdles to performing this data intensive analysis by:

    1. Aggregating disparate multiple sources,
    2. Automatically updating data,
    3. Providing powerful programmable analytics.

    This offers unparalleled views into the effectiveness of an organization's trade fund spending. These views create a roadmap to greater revenue and profits.

    "We are extremely pleased with the results of our partnership with Stuart May and The Customer Marketing Group. Their industry and DataAlchemy expertise has been a great help in providing effective selling tools for our field sales and broker teams."

    Ron Stroup,
    Vice President Retail Sales,
    Tetley USA.




    Getting Started

    CMG delivers a turnkey start-up:
    CMG provides you with a diret link into DataAlchemy. As a licensed reseller we can offer you the most competitive pricing available for the DataAlchemy services.

    CMG provides your promotion agencies and graphics departments with file formatting procedures and guidelines to provide standardization and minimize rework.

    • CMG works with you to design the look and feel of the web portal to fit with your organization
    • CMG organizes the architecture and navigation of your content in a logical, intuitive layout
    • If you choose, CMG can host the portal for you on our server.

    For more information

    Contact Bill McKinney at (203) 226-9845