What does it take to get your journal article from submission to publication? How does your book go from a manuscript to a title available at your university library? When your journal partners with P站视频 for distribution, what steps are taking place to ensure all goes smoothly? We鈥檙e answering these questions and more in our new series 鈥淏ehind the Scenes at P站视频.鈥 Learn about the work being done across the company by our dedicated employees from around the world. Today we鈥檙e chatting with Divya Laul from our Springer marketing team.
I work as a Marketing Manager for the Springer Research Group at P站视频.
My main responsibility is to help my Editorial team with acquisition of content for the . So to reach out to potential and existing authors and researchers to publish with us 鈥 either a book, chapter or journal article. I do this by marketing our available content to the scientific community, as well as make available details on our publishing services to them.
I use various forms of digital marketing like social media marketing, e-mailers and mobile marketing to reach our audience. Organizing and participating in conferences and sponsorships are also a large part of my marketing strategy.
I look after our social media accounts on and , so I use both these platforms quite extensively to reach out within the Mathematics community. We use various agencies to send out digital content 鈥 like Teradata, now Mapp and ISI, now Clarivate for e-mail, Hootsuite for social media), and I rely on intelligent data from websites likes , Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports to help structure my campaigns. In addition, we have internal systems like JFlow, BFlow, CMA and Coremedia that publish content to different places on our website.
I thoroughly enjoy working on our social media accounts and creating interesting content for our audience to engage with us.
What challenges do you face in your position?
An interesting challenge that I face in my work is to make sure my marketing tactics are ever fresh and continue to reach my audience as expected. During my marketing activities, I have to make sure not to over reach by audience as well as reach out to them with relevant and fresh content. So I am always innovating fresh ideas and campaigns to reach out to the community.