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The Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Lilvera Group, Mr. Buchi Johnson, has urged clients and corporate organisations to review their marketing plans and budgets as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that has redefined the dynamics of the Nigerian marketing environment.
The London Business
School alumnus, who spoke to journalists in his Lekki office, said that there
will be new opportunities post pandemic that brands can pivot to be a part of.
Technology is making it very easy for us to get a lot of things done and presently,
any business that wants to make it has to create strategies using technology to
achieve success online.
“Going forward, a
serious minded organisation that wants to achieve great success for its brand
and products must adopt an 80% to 20% budget planning for its marketing
activities. This is as a result of the COVID-19 impact on bottomline as well as
government regulations,” Johnson said.
The Lilvera Group
boss, who believes that brands must make a conscious effort to understand their
consumers’ online needs, said, “Understanding your consumers’ online behaviors
will help any brand align with their needs. To achieve this, brands must ensure
their teams are social media savvy to meet consumers' needs.”
“Their understanding
of tech tools will help manage sales channels and consumer conversations. They
will also be able to understand what influences consumer decisions in the
present situation as well as what influence new business and partnership,” he
said.
Buchi Johnson advised
that it is important businesses begin to take crisis communication and
management seriously as pandemic continues to bite harder.
“It is also important
that businesses should have a crisis management plan on hand, the pandemic is a
huge crisis that a lot of businesses did not envisage and could not manage.
This caused a lot of businesses to shut down or lay off workers. It is
important now more than ever to have a crisis management plan,” Johnson stated.
As a marketing
communications expert with over 12 years experience, Buchi said, “I have come
to understand that change is permanent and to stay relevant, one most
understand the trends and stay steps ahead of uncertainty.”
Speaking on the impact
of pandemic on retail marketing space, the CEO of Lilvera Group said, “the
retail sphere would be impacted no doubt but brands that adopt digital
marketing would conquer this space and make greater success out of it despite
the effect of the pandemic.”
“I am an early adopter
of technology and an advocate of it as well, I think up ways to use technology
to build my business and it has been the best strategy so far during the
COVID-19 issue. We literally kept working during the lockdown, found new ways
of doing things and offering our clients new ideas, which saw us grow through
the lockdown to this present time.”
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