Showing posts with label GroupM Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GroupM Indonesia. Show all posts

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Gelombang Imajinasi


Halo, kembali lagi bersama agent FA di sini. Apa kabar? Setelah sekian lama akhirnya saya semangat untuk berbagi kembali mengenai apa yang kita, para peserta management trainee MMT Batch 2 GroupM, pelajari selama prosesi training kami untuk bekerja di GroupM, salah satu perusahaan media terbesar di industri periklanan.

Ini adalah sebuah cerita bagaimana mereka yang bekerja di bidang media periklanan, meraih target khalayak mereka yang berada di beberapa area tertentu di Indonesia. Perlu diketahui sebelumnya, bahwa media yang masih menjadi andalan para pengiklan di Indonesia hingga saat ini masih diduduki oleh televisi, dengan penetrasinya yang memang masih tinggi, serta dengan sifatnya yang free to air serta jangkauannya yang nationwide.

Namun, ternyata media elektronik yang satu ini masih memiliki keterbatasan dalam menjalankan tugasnya. Keterbatasan itu ditunjukkan dengan kondisi bahwa masih ada area-area di Indonesia yang tidak terjangkau oleh frekuensi televisi, area yang terpencil, yang kemudian area ini dikenal sebagai blank spots.
 
Lalu, apa jawaban untuk permasalahan blank spots ini?

Satu kata: Radio.

We love music, people love music, karena hal ini mendengarkan radio menjadi salah satu aktivitas yang dinikmati kebanyak orang. Terutama, untuk di beberapa daerah yang tidak ada televisi, radio mungkin menjadi penghibur bagi para penduduk di sekitarnya.

We need entertainment, hiburan. Dan selain musik, hiburan yang ditawarkan radio sebagai media yang bersifat hanya audio, adalah theatre of mind.

Yap, itulah salah satu keunikan bahkan daya tarik dari radio yang bisa dikatakan tak pernah mati hingga sekarang. Bagaimana kita berusaha menghasilkan tayangan di benak kita sendiri ketika mendengarkan adegan-adegan yang hanya berbentuk audio. Kita ditantang untuk berimajinasi!

Media elektronik yang satu ini menduduki posisi kedua setelah televisi, sebagai media andalan para pengiklan di Indonesia.

Selain itu, radi memiliki sifat lokal, sehingga dapat lebih mudah menjangkau masyarakat di sekitarnya, terutama di area-area blank spots tadi. Selain itu, kelokalan dari Radio menjadikannya tidak hanya sebuah pemancar untuk iklan radio, tetapi juga menjadi organizer yang bisa diajak bekerja sama apabila pengiklan hendak mengadakan sebuah activation dalam kampanye-nya. 

Contoh activation suatu brand yang bekerja sama dengan radio.

MMT Batch 2 GroupM
MMT Batch 2 GroupM - Gelombang Imajinasi

Saat ini kita memang sudah mulai akan memasuki sebuah era baru di mana di mana semuanya akan go digital, sampai-sampai GroupM pun membetuk GroupM Interaction Indonesia untuk menangai kebutuhan digital dari kampanye brand yang dikerjakan. 

Namun ternyata radio pun masih menjadi daya tarik dan kebutuhan di tengah-tengah masyarakat Indonesia. Dan lagi, kembali lagi kepada teori 'digital is a platform, not a media' sebenarnya keberadaan radio bukannya akan digantikan oleh digital suatu hari, tapi akan bertransformasi namun masih dalam jati dirinya sebagai pemberi gelombang imajinasi bagi kita semua.


Sincerely,
Agent FA
MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Peran Sebuah Nama


“What’s in a name?” – Shakespeare –

Kembali Agent FA hadir dan akan membawakan tulisan terkait dengan dunia digital di industri media periklanan. Di mana, kalau di perusahaan GroupM ini sendiri, kegiatan perseputaran digital banyak dikelola oleh tim digital yang bernama GroupM Interaction Indonesia.

Seperti yang sudah kita jelaskan di postingan sebelumnya bahwa penekanan perlu dilakukan mengenai konsep digital sebagai suatu platform, bukan media. Nah, di kesempatan kali ini, kita bakalan menunjukkan salah satu platform yang dipakai tim digital suatu perusahaan media periklanan, yaitu Facebook fan page dan akun twitter.

Kedua hal tersebut bukanlah hal baru untuk sebagian besar pengguna internet di Indonesia. Tak sedikit jumlah akun twitter dan faceboo fan page yang merepresentasikan suatu brand atau produk mulai merajalela di dunia social media ini.

Alasan kenapa facebook dan twitter menjadi platform yang diminati para produsen kita adalah keduanya telah menjadi social media dengan tingkat penggunaan yang tinggi di Indonesia.
Negara pengguna Facebook keempat terbesar di dunia adalah Indonesia
Sumber: Social Bakers


Negara pengguna Twitter terbesar kelima di dunia adalah Indonesia
Sumber: The Next Web

Dari tabel dan grafik tersebut, dapat dilihat bagaimana tingginya penggunaan twitter dan facebook di Indonesia (ini belum dengan spesifik kalangan umur tertentu), bagaimana mereka tidak menjadi “ladang” untuk para produsen berjualan?

Namun, sebagai starter untuk menjalankan suatu kegiatan branding melalui twitter dan facebook, satu hal yang penting dipikirkan secara matang-matang sejak awal ialah: nama dari akun/fan page tersebut.
Kenapa nama? Karena berdasarkan teorinya, konsumen tidak suka dengan suatu hal yang berbau ‘jualan’ di area personalnya.

Coba saja bayangkan, kita sendiri sebagai konsumen, facebook dan twitter merupakan area yang sifatnya personal milik kita sendiri, kalau tiba-tiba ada suatu akun yang namanya jelas-jelas merupakan suatu nama produk/brand tertentu, agak-agak mikir dulu nggak sih untuk kita follow atau like?
Maka dari itu, kebanyakan dari pembuatan fan page atau akun twitter suatu brand adalah dengan nama-nama yang lebih friendly atau tidak terlalu ‘brand-minded’ namun tanpa lupa untuk menunjukkan identitas brand,  seperti contoh-contoh di bawah ini:

Aku Anak SGM – milik susu SGM



Sahabat Nestle – milik Nestle



Tanya Pepsodent – milik pasta gigi Pepsodent



Ibu dan Balita – milik susu Frisian Flag


Tapi tentu saja, penamaan seperti itu merupakan salah satu hal dari sekian banyak poin penting lainnnya yang dapat dipertimbangkan dalam membuat fan page atau akun twitter suatu brand. Karena tentu saja kita tidak bisa melupakan bahwa penting menunjukkan unsur ‘brand’ di dalamnya sebagai bukti bahwa akun tersebut adalah valid dan resmi dari produsen.

Dan tentu saja, jangan melupakan kepada siapa kita berbicara, maksudnya siapakah target khalayak dari produk atau brand kita, karena itu juga bisa menjadi salah satu bahan pertimbangan.
Semoga sharing pemikiran kecil ini bermanfaat :)

Sincerely,
Agent FA
MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Monday, May 7, 2012

How to Maintain Good Partnership in Your Office (part 2)

Continuing my previous topic. I have written about the so-called “newbie symptoms” in your new office. Being “over” nice and other behaviours may be appeared. However, have you ever felt that those feelings and behaviours sometimes turn you to be “the other you”. Well, it’s kinda fine thing if you want to keep your good image. Really, nothing wrong with it. But, don’t you think it’s going to be a problem if you lose yourselves? Getting confused with what I’ve written here?
Dear MMT Batch 2 GroupM, read it carefully..

MMT Batch 2 GroupM
MMT Batch 2 GroupM - How To Maintain Good Partnership
The first point, just be you! Second, behave based on the systems you’re in. Let’s say, in the morning you are at home as the last child, you wanna be spoilt? It’s up to you! Just your parents know it. And then you’re out of home in the afternoon. You go to a class in you college. You want to act the way you behave at home? You’re friends may be upset. You better act as a college student; being stupid, live, learn, make a joke, get hurt, fall in love, etc. The next few years, you come into the real world (that’s what people call a word “working”). You can’t behave as a spoilt kid, behave as an adult. You may face different kind of people; kindhearted, stubborn, badass, patient, short tempered, and so on!

One key to safe all situations, be nice and respectful..to everyone. Not only those who are nice to you. In this kind of world, be wise. Wise in being nice to everyone and behave sincerely (trust me, other people can feel whether you’re sincere or not). Please be noted that not everyone understand your behaviour towards them. Some of them may be as sincere as you, while the others not. Some people may think that you’re just looking for attention or building up a new image of you. Don’t think about it too far. Just keep simple, be humble, be nice, respect others, and keep learning on everything from everyone. Work place is the hardest battle field! You may fight with your juniors, seniors, direction board, working partners, office helpers, even security.. Please don’t ever think that you’re the best. You may get hurt. Let’s other people judge it for you! Keep learning, working, and respecting each other.

I, randomly, ask some of my friends about how they behave. Check them out J
1. Ask for a help when you need it, and start it by saying “Please......” and end it with “Thanks...”

2. All things may be heard (of course, you have a pair of ears!), but NOT all things should be listened.

3. Stop gossiping about bad things of your co-workers. Remember, even a wall has ears. Hahaha!

4. This is real world, senior is senior. They love to be asked. Sometimes, ask them to go out for lunch. Remember, ask it sincerely..not because of looking for attention.

5. Greet someone’s birthday!! ^_^

6. Don’t brag about your achievements and capabilities

7. Be honest when you’re making mistake

8. There’s no stupid question. Ask when you’re lost


Those are some points, any more points? Comments are welcome J

Sincerely,


Agent Pam

MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Media Planning : The Introduction


Hi cool blogger!

If you’re an advertiser or someone related to the business, you really have to read this article, because I’m going to introduce you to something interesting.

This is all about Media Planning.

If you happened to read our backgrounds (Management Trainee in GroupM Indonesia), then you must be understand that we’re dealing with this thing. With this advertise thing. At first, I really didn’t understand what Media Planning is. But when I join the program (MMT Batch 2 GroupM), I was trained by the expert on media planning who helped us understanding the business.

MMT Batch 2 GroupM
MMT Batch 2 GroupM - Media Planning
So here’s the most basic thing you need to understand: ‘Every business needs to be advertised’. Why? Because advertise help them to generate awareness, and finally, interest in their offerings. So can the business advertise them self? And the answer is NO. This is where the advertising agencies took place. They help the business to communicate to their target audience, by creating the right advertisement, and bring it to the right place.

But it was the old way. Today, the advertising agencies divided into two main businesses: ‘Creative Agencies’ and ‘Media Agencies’. Creative agencies appointed to create the advertisement—in a most creative and memorable ways. While the media agencies supposed to plan in what media, on what time, with the right budget.

Based on http://www.admedia.org, media planning helps you to determine which channel are you going to use, to communicate your advertising. Will it going to be television? Radio? Billboard? Or simply newspapers? It also tells you how, when, and where to use media, in order to reach your target audience. In short, media planner should able to forecast the best way to communicate a message, using the right media, in the right place, and in the right time.
Questions that need to be answered by the media planner are:
  1. How many media can I reach through different media?
  2. On which media should I place the ads?
  3. Which frequency should I select?
  4. How much money should be spent in each medium?
The decision making is helped by using tools that could indicates or gives you exact data of what trends that happens in society, related to media use. What programs are most watched? In what time? By what age?

How can we measure the success of our campaign?

Basically, there are three important parameters we could use: Reach, Frequency, and Gross Rating Point (GRP).
Reach is the number of your target audience (individuals) you want to expose to your brand through selective media in a period of time. Frequency is number of times your target audience get exposed to the advertisement. Basically, a person should see the message for at least three times, before he/she could acknowledge the message. While GRP’s described number of spot you placed the advertisement message in a program, multiplied by the rating of the program. These three is only the basic parameters you could use when you have to design a media plan. 
MMT Batch 2 GroupM
MMT Batch 2 GroupM - Media Planning
There are more parameters you should consider, based on the media you use, and the consumer’s behaviour. And maybe I would share another terminology in this blog. But the most important thing you should understand in media plannin business is, the better plan the better the result. The more accurate plan, the more people you could gain.

Until then,

See you!:D

Sincerely,

Agent O
MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Monday, April 30, 2012

Management Trainee (?)

Yup.

Kata Management Trainee mungkin sudah terdengar sangat familiar di telinga Anda, terutama para 'fresh graduatee'. Tapi bisakah Anda mencoba menjelaskannya lagi kepada orang lain? Dan apakah pemahaman Anda memang sudah benar adanya?

Disini saya mencoba meluruskan pemahaman kita mengenai apa itu Management Trainee. Yuk mariii!!:D

MMT Batch 2 GroupM
MMT Batch 2 GroupM -
Management Trainee

Berdasarkan http://www.investorwords.com, Management Trainee (MT) didefinisikan secara singkat sebagai 'staff muda yang dilatih (trained) untuk menjadi seorang penyelia (manager)'. Dari kalimat ini dapat diartikan bahwa muda menunjuk pada istilah 'pegawai baru' atau 'pegawai muda yang baru menamatkan jenjang pendidikan akhir'.

Sebuah situs resmi milik pemerintah California (http://www.calmis.ca.gov) menerbitkan pedoman khusus mengenai istilah Management Trainee. Pedoman ini menyatakan bahwa MT ditujukan untuk mempersiapkan pegawai di posisi manajerial. Posisi ini seringkali ditemukan untuk mengisi bagian keuangan, perdagangan, manufaktur, dan lembaga pemerintahan. Namun apapun tujuannya, tugas khusus dari seorang MT adalah untuk mempelajari seluk beluk dan sistem di dalam perusahaan atau firma tersebut. Di beberapa perusahaan, seorang MT akan dirotasi di berbagai fungsi di dalam perusahaan untuk membangun rasa keingintahuan dan kekeluargaan, sekaligus menilai bakat dari setiap peserta MT di posisi manakah seharusnya mereka berada.


Seorang MT harus siap bekerja dalam berbagai situasi, baik secara tim maupun individu. MT berada dibawah pengawasan ketat, yang juga akan dinilai secara berkala. Mereka akan terlebih dahulu diperkenalkan terhadap situasi kerja dibawah tekanan, sehingga akan benar-benar siap ketika lulus dari program MT dan ditempatkan secara permanen.

MMT Batch 2 GroupM
MMT Batch 2 GroupM - Management Trainee
Sistem rekrutment ini sudah banyak diterapkan di berbagai perusahaan. Dengan sistem seleksi yang sangat ketat, program MT dikhususkan mencari bibit-bibit unggul yang akan 'digojlok' untuk menghadapi situasi bisnis yang kian menantang. GroupM sebagai salah satu perusahaan multinasional juga menerapkan sistem perekrutan Management Trainee, yang disebut juga Media Masters. Saat ini GroupM sudah menjalankan batch yang ke-2 (MMT Batch 2 GroupM), dimana peserta akan mendapatkan pendidikan (training) yang melibatkan para pakar media dari berbagai bidang selama 3 bulan. Selain training, para peserta juga harus menghadapi berbagai tugas yang telah dipersiapkan, untuk melatih kesigapan dan melihat kedalaman pengetahuan mereka terhadap bisnis dari GroupM.

Jadi, apakah Anda sudah merasa tertantang?

Silahkan tunggu pembukaan Management Trainee GroupM yang ke-3 ya!:D

Cheerios,


Agent O
MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Thursday, April 26, 2012

O for (not so) Ordinary!

Howdy fellas!

I'm agent O, one of the contributors in this blog. My real name is Oxyana Sara Virgizma. People says that my name is quite unique. I'm very grateful about it, and love it so much. Because I could tell and feel (well, probably hope) that I'm unique in my own way. And somehow the thought of it makes me feel special :D Buuttt...I prefer to be called Ochi, to avoid mispelled.

I'm a graduate student of Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), majoring Food Science and Technology with minor in Communication. Due to campus recruitment, I was luckily selected to join the Management Trainee program in a world's largest media investment company, GroupM (MMT Batch 2 Group M). The program starts from April 3rd, 2012. At first I'm not sure what company GroupM was. But when the CEO of GroupM Indonesia--Mr. Edward Tsigher--explained about GroupM and the Management Trainee program, which is called Media Masters (MMT Batch 2 GroupM). Though it was just a glimpse, I had a feeling that this is the kind of job that I always wanted. A job that sounds fun to me!

And here I am. Joining another 24 people from different university. Trying to learn and understand the business, the office, and the people. It's almost 3 weeks now, and I feel excited. Because I able to learn new things, and these lessons are very interesting for me. And well, the thought of the payment is also interest me actually :p

You guys might have heard about management trainee in another company. Well, Media Masters is basically the same. It provides you 3 months in-class training, before you finally assigned in which agency you will work for. We're the MMT Batch 2 GroupM still have 2 months to go. Will the 25 of us survived till the assignment day? I hope so. So what will happen in another 2 months? This is something you should read by yourself!;)

Sincerely,


Agent O
MMT Batch 2 Group M




Agent M's speaking!

Hello Everybody!

First, i want to introduce myself so you could know a glance about me. In this blog, i'm the one with Agent M initial name.

My real name is Melissa Dharmawan, you could call me Melissa. I'm graduated from University of Indonesia, Communication Major with advertising as a specialization. Starting from March 2012, i join media master trainee program ( MMT Batch 2 GroupM ) at GroupM Indonesia.

One month has passed by since day one, i feel so relieved and excited about media master program. Meeting with new friends, have lunch together at office's cafetaria, playing games, we really had a lot of fun together. Besides, we also learn about media investment, media planning and digital media in our classroom with our trainers from our office. Surely, it's a new thing for first jobbers like me, but in a way i feel alive and attracted by this training.

Cheers,

Agent M
MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Our Sleepy time

We get sleepy sometimes, yes! We admit it  *lol.

But not in negative way, we feel sleepy especially when there is no session at the day. Wonder how to kill the long day without session, but we finally found way to entertain ourselves (will be explained in the next blog).

Well, sleepy is human, right? Okay, I'm making no sense here, but actually I think this is just somekind of intermezzo about our MMT Batch 2 GroupM activities.

MMT Batch 2 GroupM - Our Sleepy Time


Can't wait for the next and the next and the next sessions, presentations, training, etc etc.


Sincerely,

Agent FA
MMT Batch 2 GroupM

Journal of Joy

Good day!
Welcome back to our sharing session about MMT Batch 2 Group M :) I am, Agent FA, one of this blog's contributors will sharing a little introduction about the management trainee we call Media Masters or in short the MMT.

MMT is a training for us who just accepted as trainee in the company of GroupM, Jakarta, Indonesia, a company of media investment in the industry of Advertising, Communication, and so on. The MMT itself will be held for 3 months, started on April 3rd 2012. We ourselves are the 2nd batch of this trainee and we already feel blissful to get in this training.

So, our 2nd batch is about to enter the 2nd month of MMT / Media Masters Training and we think that our experience here is worth to tell (well, that's what we thought ^^). We want share that it's not just another management trainee, it's Media Masters Training, and it's very special and so far, we can say we are very happy to be part of it.

We, as the ladies of MMT Batch 2 GroupM create this 'journal of joy' with hope that you will interested or at least entertained with the stories of us.

Enjoy :)

Sincerely,

Agent FA
MMT Batch 2 GroupM


The Maestro has Born!

Hello fellas!
Here we are, right from the headquarters of GroupM Indonesia, congratulate you for joining in our story session :D

In case you don't know about us, GroupM is the world's largest media investment company. And now, we are the 25 lucky youngsters ready to hit the world! In this blog, we're going to share our precious stories and moments in this Management Trainee program called Media Masters (MMT Batch 2 GroupM).

Tschuss!

Sincerely yours,


MMT Batch 2 GroupM

PS: Beware, it's highly addictive! ;)