Are you looking to increase your export sales? MARPA export promotion program is creating new opportunities to get your company and your PMA articles in front of the customers!
MARPA’s export promotion program is in full swing. After productive meetings in Buenos Aires, Dubai, Munich and Miami, MARPA is looking forward to a series of opportunities to promote PMA, and to promote our members, around the world.
MARPA is committed to providing education about PMA parts. We want installers to know what they can do with PMA parts (and what they can’t do). We believe that education about PMAs is the best way to promote PMA parts – the more the aerospace community knows, the more attractive PMA parts become.
But we also believe that it is important to market your PMA articles to the customers. Many of our members are small companies and have limited marketing budgets. So MARPA is working to increase the opportunities to reach the customers on a cost-effective basis.
MARPA’s Upcoming Promotional Activities
This is not a complete list – but it lists a few of the most important upcoming events at which MARPA will be promoting PMA. These events are important to the members because they reflect opportunities to promote YOUR PMA articles, as well as promoting PMA generally.
- AEA/MARPA PMA Parts Conference in Istanbul (May 26, 2015)
- This is an excellent opportunity for the PMA community to meet non-US air carriers and MROs while learning about the future of the European market.
- MARPA at ACPC (August 29-September 1, 2015)
- MARPA plans to exhibit at the Air Carrier Purchasing Conference.
- We also plan to make available a literature package that will be provided to the customers with whom we meet. This will be made up of PMA catalogues, brochures and other literature from MARPA members.
- MARPA in Europe (October 13-15, 2015)
- MARPA plans to attend the MRO Europe Conference in October
- We also plan to make available a literature package that will be provided to the customers with whom we meet. This will be made up of PMA catalogues, brochures and other literature from MARPA members.
- MARPA in Japan (October 14-16, 2015)
- MARPA plans to attend the ASET (Aerospace Exhibition Tokyo) Conference in October
- We also plan to make available a literature package that will be provided to the customers with whom we meet. This will be made up of PMA catalogues, brochures and other literature from MARPA members. we recommend considering translating your literature into Japanese for this package.
- MARPA Annual Conference in Las Vegas (October 28-29, 2015)
- Our annual conference typically boasts a roughly 3-1 ratio of manufacturers to air carriers. This is one of the best ratios of ANY conference and it makes the MARPA Annual Conference one of the best networking opportunities ANYWHERE among PMA manufacturers, air carriers and MROs. With only about 300 participants, it is intimate enough to have real conversations and make new connections.
- The MARPA Annual Conference is also structured as an educational conference and is the best place to learn about the latest trends affecting the PMA market.
- MARPA Asian Mission (Early November, 2015)
- Plans are still being developed, but we plan to attend MRO Asia and also arrange side meetings with Asian Carriers to discuss how PMA can help them improve reliability, safety, and profitability.
- We hope to make this an opportunity to have members join us on the mission so they can take advantage of our pre-arranged meetings.
- For members who cannot join us, we also plan to make available a literature package that will be provided to the customers with whom we meet. This will be made up of PMA catalogues, brochures and other literature from MARPA members.
HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?
There are many ways that MARPA members can start working now to take advantage of these marketing opportunities.
1) Start working NOW on putting together the paper and digital literature you’d like MARPA to include in their PMA literature packages. This distribution is a MARPA benefit that is free to our members.
a) Paper products can include brochures, one-page advertisements and short white papers;
b) Digital packages can include more information, including your product catalogues.
2) Register and attend the Istanbul and Las Vegas conferences – we are constantly working to get the customers there, so that you will have the best opportunity to network and make sales (and so that they will have the best opportunity to improve safety, reliability and the bottom line by using your parts).
3) Mark all of the the dates (above) on your calendar – we’d love to see our members at these events!
4) Consider whether you’d like to join MARPA on the Asian mission in November. Preliminary statements of interest are not firm commitments – but they will help us in our planning efforts.
5) Send us your ideas for additional marketing events and activities. But be warned that we may invite you to join the Marketing Committee!
We want you to get value out of your membership – so let MARPA know what the trade association can do to help you meet your sales and marketing objectives.