Offline marketing

Here are some offline marketing techniques that can be used to promote e-consultation activities as well as conventional consultation techniques.

Press conference

A joint press conference by all e-consultation stakeholders to promote the e-consultation benefits (tangible and intangible benefits) to all parties and relate the e-consultation progress.

Publications

Paper publications in Journal will raised the awareness of such project in the academic world.

Exhibitions and workshops

To exhibit the e-consultation project and seek for feedback from target audiences.

Surveys

will help to gauge the citizen perceptions and to increase their awareness in e-consultation.

Joint venture

Partnership with big corporations, for example International Business Machine (IBM), Fujitsu-Siemens, CISCO and etc companies to borrow their expertise and outsource some of the work to them. [This initiative will help to raise profile of e-consultation and increase broad range of expertise]

Networking

Network and raise the profile of the project in international arena by working with government from different countries.

World first E-Consultation conference

to be held at QUB: The group can organize the world first e-consultation conference. [publicity]

Get politicians involved

in spearheading and advocating the e-consultation projects.