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What are
Marketing Communications?
Marketingcommunications are the
means by which firms attempt to inform,
persuade, and remind consumers, directly
or indirectly, about the products and
brands they sell.
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⢠Integrated MarketingCommunications
â The concept under which a company
carefully integrates and coordinates its many
communications channels to deliver a clear,
consistent, and compelling message about
the organization and its products.
â IMC implementation often requires the hiring of a
MarCom manager.
Integrated Marketing
Communications
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Corporate Level MessageSources
Administration Manufacturing/ Marketing Finance Human Legal
Operations Resources
Cross-Functional Brand Equity (IM) Team
Marketing Level Message Sources
Product Price Marketing Distribution
Mix Mix Communication Mix
Cross-Functional IMC Team
Marketing Communication Level Message Sources
Personal Adver- Sales Direct Public Pack- Events
Sales tising Promotion Marketing Relations aging
Interactivity
Other Stakeholders
Employees
Investors
Financial Community
Government
Regulators
Customers
Distributors
Suppliers
Competition
Consumers
Local Community
Media
Interest Groups
Communication-Based Marketing Model
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Communication Levels
⢠CorporateLevel
⪠Messages sent by a companyâs overall business
practices and philosophies such as its mission, labor
practices, philanthropies, culture and other processes
⢠Marketing Level
⪠Messages sent or inferred from various aspects of a
companyâs marketing mix such as product quality and
performance, design, appearance, pricing, and
distribution
⢠Marketing Communication Level
⪠Strategic and executional consistency among all
forms of marketing communication
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What is IntegratedMarketing
Communications (IMC)?
IMC is a strategic business process used to:
⪠plan, develop, execute and evaluate coordinated,
measurable, persuasive brand communication
programs
⪠with consumers, customers, prospects
employees and other relevant external and
internal audiences
⪠goal is to generate short-term financial returns
and build long-term brand value
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Marketing Communications Mix
â˘Advertising
⢠Sales promotion
⢠Events and
experiences
⢠Public relations and
publicity
⢠Direct marketing
⢠Interactive marketing
⢠Word-of-mouth
marketing
⢠Personal selling
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5 Digital MarketingTrends
1.SMO (Social Media Optimisation)
2.Video Marketing
3.Gamification
4.Privacy Compliance
5.Google Analytics v5
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Steps in DevelopingEffective
Communications
1. Identify target audience
2. Determine objectives
3. Design communications
4. Select channels
5. Establish budget
6. Decide on media mix
7. Measure results/manage IMC
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Step 1:
Identify TargetAudience
⢠assessing the audienceâs current image of the
company, the products, and the competitors.
â First step is to measure target audienceâs knowledge of
the subject
â Second step is to determine feelings toward the product
⢠checking on the image variance:
Message Strategy: whatto say
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Develop appeals, themes, or ideas
that tie into positioning and establish
points-of-difference or points-of-
parity
Step 3: Designing the Communications
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Creative Strategy: howto say
⢠Informational and transformational appeals:
â Informational: elaborates on attributes or
benefits
â Transformational: elaborates on a non-product-
related benefit or image
Step 3: Designing the Communications
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â AIDA frameworkguides message design
â Message content contains appeals or themes
designed to produce desired results
⢠Rational appeals
⢠Emotional appeals (positive and negative)
â Love, pride, joy, humor, fear, guilt, shame
⢠Moral appeals
Step 3: Designing the Communications
Creative Strategy: how to say
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Message Source: whoshould say it
Celebrity Characteristics
â Expertise
â Trustworthiness
â Likeability
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Step 3: Designing the Communications
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â Message Structure:Key decisions are required
with respect to three message structure issues:
⢠Whether or not to draw a conclusion
⢠One-sided vs. two-sided argument
⢠Order of argument presentation
â Message Format: Design, layout, copy, color,
shape, movement, words, sounds, voice, body
language, dress, etc.
Step 3: Designing the Communications
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Evaluate the :Marketing
communication design?
⢠Is it original?
⢠Is it clear?
⢠Does it create the right feeling for the right
impression?
⢠Does the feeling of the creative solution fit
the brand personality?
(Does the design make the right
impression for your organisation?)
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Does the designmake the right
impression for your organisation?
⢠Does the design meet the requirement
which were established at the beginning of
the project?
â Is it appropriate for the target audience?
â Does it support the posionning goal?
â Does it describe the benefits of key features?
â Does it leave the viewer wiwth a dominant
uncluttered message?
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Does the designmake the right
impression for your organisation?
⢠Does the design convey the feeling which is
appropriate for positionning goal?
â Visual elements have personalities. Examine them
individually to see if they contribute to the goal
⢠Have the core identity elements been used
correctly?
⢠Have they been used in a way which
communicates your organization's identity
effectively?
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⢠Step 4:Select channels
â Personal communication channels
⢠Includes face-to-face, phone, mail, and Internet chat
communications
⢠Word-of-mouth influence is often critical
⢠Buzz marketing cultivates opinion leaders
â Nonpersonal communication channels
⢠Includes media, atmosphere, and events
Developing Effective
Communication
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Objective-and-Task Method
⢠Establishthe market share goal
⢠Determine the percentage that should be reached
⢠Determine the percentage of aware prospects that
should be persuaded to try the brand
⢠Determine the number of advertising impressions
per 1% trial rate
⢠Determine the number of gross rating points that
would have to be purchased
⢠Determine the necessary advertising budget on
the basis of the average cost of buying a GRP
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⢠Checklist: Integratingthe Promotion Mix
â Analyze trends (internal and external)
â Audit communications spending
â Identify all points of contact
â Team up in communications planning
â Make all communication elements compatible
â Create performance measures
â Appoint an IMC manager
Setting the Promotional Budget
and Mix
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Step 6: Decidingon the Marketing
Communications Mix
âCharacteristics of the Marketing
Communications Mix (eight major modes of
communication)
âFactors in Setting the Marketing
Communications Mix
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Characteristics of
the MarketingCommunications Mix
Public Relations
and Publicity
⢠High credibility
⢠Ability to catch
buyers off guard
⢠Dramatization
Events and
Experiences
⢠Relevant
⢠Involving
⢠Implicit
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Characteristics of
the MarketingCommunications Mix
Direct Marketing
⢠Customized
⢠Up-to-date
⢠Interactive
Personal Selling
⢠Personal interaction
⢠Cultivation
⢠Response
Word-of-Mouth Marketing
⢠Credible
⢠Personal
⢠Timely
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Factors in Setting
Communications Mix
⢠Type of product market
⢠Buyer readiness stage
⢠Product life cycle stage
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Sales Promotion
⢠Salespromotions are short-term incentives
designed to stimulate purchase among
consumers or trade
⢠Purpose of sales promotion
â Attract new triers or brand switchers
â Reward loyal customers
â Increase repurchase rates
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Direct Marketing
⢠Directmarketing uses consumer-direct channels
to reach and deliver offerings to consumers
without intermediaries.
⢠Direct marketing is growing and offers
consumers key benefits.
⢠Firms are recognizing the importance of
integrated direct marketing efforts.
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Viral Marketing
⢠Thedigital version of word of mouth
marketing, videos, ads, and other
marketing content that is so infectious that
customers will seek it out or pass it along
to friends
⢠Eg. Google Androidâs âFriends Fureverâ
video was shared more than 6.4 million
times in its first nice months making it the
most shared video of all the time
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Social Media
⪠Onlinetechnologies and practices that
people use to share content, opinions,
insights, experiences, perspectives and
media themselves.
⪠Created, initiated, circulated and used by
consumers intent on educating one
another about products, brands, services,
people and issues
Mobile Marketing
⢠Marketingmessages,
promotion, and other
content delivered to
on the go consumers
through their mobile
devices
⢠62.8 mil people own
smart phone 2022,
96% of people used
internet
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Communication tools varyat
different product life-cycle stages
â Introduction stage â most cost effective are
advertising, events and experiences, and
publicity
â Growth stage âall tools can be toned down
because word-of-mouth and interactive
marketing.
â Maturity stage: Advertising, events and
experiences and personal become more
important.
â Decline stage â sales promotion continues
strong, other communication tools are reduced
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Step 7:
Measuring CommunicationResults
â Measure impact by measuring target
audience recall, impressions or feelings
about the message, and previous attitudes
versus current attitudes
â Collect behavioral measures of audience
response including transactional data and
word-of-mouth
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Developing and Managingthe Advertising
Campaign
Figure :
Formula for Measuring Sales Impact of Advertising
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For Review
⢠Whatis the role of marketing
communications?
⢠What are the major steps in developing
effective communications?
⢠What is the communications mix and how
should it be set?
⢠What is an integrated marketing
communications program?
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