3rd Nordic Marketing Conference, Workshop Report • Workshop 7 • The Web as a Marketing Media Participants of the workshop • Lotte Buchbjerg Petersen DSt • Sirje Laud StatEst • Audronë Miskiniene StatLit • Rafael Backman SCB • Reijo Ljungberg SCB • Eva Meidner-Andersson SCB • Bo Melkersson SCB • • • • • • • • • • Lars-Gunnar Strand SCB Jaana Andelin SF Nicola Brun SF Minna Kostamo SF Perttu Melkas SF Maija Metsä-Pauri SF Jarmo Partanen SF Pentti Sonninen SF Rina Tammisto SF [Heli Haapkylä SF] Main Topics Discussed • Tailor made entrance - We are the beginning - It is necessary and more development is still needed • Schools, Media, Paying customers • Logical structure on the web site - not reflecting the organisational structure - but rather the customers point of view. • Simple web site - the result of customer feedback Main Topics Discussed • Interactive web site - There is demand mostly from the young/modern/active/ users • But we don’t have experience - yet • Use of the web - The expectations are not the same for the young and the old ones. Lots of discussion Main Topics Discussed • We must look at the web as a part of the general marketing of CSOs’ • Make more use of the web in customer contacts! • Make more demo´s! Main Conclusions and Recommendations (1) • Customer feedback is essential in all areas • International Marketing and Output Databases Conference in the Hague, Netherlands in September 2005 • A discussion group on web site questions has been created !!!