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Class 8:
MAKETING MANAGEMENT
Instructor: Asso.Prof.Dr. Le Thi My Linh
Designing and Managing
Integrated Marketing
Communications
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What are
Marketing Communications?
Marketing communications 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 Marketing Communications
– 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.
– IMC implementation often requires the hiring of a
MarCom manager.
Integrated Marketing
Communications
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Corporate Level Message Sources
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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Marketing
Communications
(Advertising, Publicity/
Public Relations, Web Site)
Marketing Level
(Products, Price, Store
Atmosphere)
Corporate Level
(Social Responsibility)
Nike
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Communication Levels
➢ Corporate Level
▪ Messages sent by a company’s 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
company’s 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 Integrated Marketing
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
Dr. George Belch,San Diego State University
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Marketing Communications Mix
• 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 Marketing Trends
1.SMO (Social Media Optimisation)
2.Video Marketing
3.Gamification
4.Privacy Compliance
5.Google Analytics v5
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Word-of-Mouth Marketing
• Person-to-person
• Chat rooms
• Blogs
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Figure Elements in the Communications
Process
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The Communications Process
Selective attention
Selective distortion
Selective retention
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Figure Response Hierarchy Models
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Steps in Developing Effective
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
Step 1:
Identify Target Audience
• assessing the audience’s current image of the
company, the products, and the competitors.
– First step is to measure target audience’s knowledge of
the subject
– Second step is to determine feelings toward the product
• checking on the image variance:
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Step 2:
Communications Objectives
• Category need
• Brand awareness
• Brand attitude
• Purchase intention
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Step 3: Designing the Communications
• Message strategy
• Creative strategy
• Message source
• Global adaptation
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Message Strategy: what to 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: how to say
• Informational and transformational appeals:
– Informational: elaborates on attributes or
benefits
– Transformational: elaborates on a non-product-
related benefit or image
Step 3: Designing the Communications
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– AIDA framework guides message design
– Message content contains appeals or themes
designed to produce desired results
• Rational appeals
• Emotional appeals (positive and negative)
– 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: who should say it
Celebrity Characteristics
– Expertise
– Trustworthiness
– Likeability
wwwcirc
Step 3: Designing the Communications
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– 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
– Message Format: Design, layout, copy, color,
shape, movement, words, sounds, voice, body
language, dress, etc.
Step 3: Designing the Communications
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 design make the right
impression for your organisation?
• Does the design meet the requirement
which were established at the beginning of
the project?
– Is it appropriate for the target audience?
– Does it support the posionning goal?
– Does it describe the benefits of key features?
– Does it leave the viewer wiwth a dominant
uncluttered message?
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Does the design make the right
impression for your organisation?
• Does the design convey the feeling which is
appropriate for positionning goal?
– 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
– 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
– Nonpersonal communication channels
• Includes media, atmosphere, and events
Developing Effective
Communication
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Step 5: Establish the Budget
Affordable
Percentage-of-Sales
Competitive Parity
Objective-and-Task
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Objective-and-Task Method
• Establish the 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: Integrating the Promotion Mix
– Analyze trends (internal and external)
– Audit communications spending
– Identify all points of contact
– Team up in communications planning
– Make all communication elements compatible
– Create performance measures
– Appoint an IMC manager
Setting the Promotional Budget
and Mix
Step 6: Deciding on the Marketing
Communications Mix
❖Characteristics of the Marketing
Communications Mix (eight major modes of
communication)
❖Factors in Setting the Marketing
Communications Mix
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Characteristics of
the Marketing Communications 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 Marketing Communications 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
Figure Cost-Effectiveness
of Different Communication Tools
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Developing and Managing the Advertising
Campaign
Figure :
The Five Ms of Advertising
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Sales Promotion
• Sales promotions are short-term incentives
designed to stimulate purchase among
consumers or trade
• Purpose of sales promotion
– Attract new triers or brand switchers
– Reward loyal customers
– Increase repurchase rates
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Sales Promotion
Prizes Coupons
POP Displays & Demonstrations
Cross-Promotions
Patronage Awards
Samples
Product Warranties
Cash Refunds
Free Trials
Premiums
Tie-in Promotions
Major
Consumer
Sales
Promotion
Tools
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Direct Marketing
• Direct marketing 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.
Viral Marketing
• The digital 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 Android’s “Friends Furever”
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
▪ Online technologies 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
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The Social Media Landscape
Most used social media platforms
2023
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Social media use
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Mobile Marketing
• Marketing messages,
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 vary at
different product life-cycle stages
– Introduction stage – most cost effective are
advertising, events and experiences, and
publicity
– Growth stage –all tools can be toned down
because word-of-mouth and interactive
marketing.
– Maturity stage: Advertising, events and
experiences and personal become more
important.
– Decline stage – sales promotion continues
strong, other communication tools are reduced
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Step 7:
Measuring Communication Results
– Measure impact by measuring target
audience recall, impressions or feelings
about the message, and previous attitudes
versus current attitudes
– Collect behavioral measures of audience
response including transactional data and
word-of-mouth
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Developing and Managing the Advertising
Campaign
Figure :
Formula for Measuring Sales Impact of Advertising
For Review
• What is 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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Class 8 marketing communication mkt mana

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    1 Class 8: MAKETING MANAGEMENT Instructor:Asso.Prof.Dr. Le Thi My Linh Designing and Managing Integrated Marketing Communications
  • 2.
    2 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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    3 • Integrated MarketingCommunications – 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. – IMC implementation often requires the hiring of a MarCom manager. Integrated Marketing Communications
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    4 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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    5 Marketing Communications (Advertising, Publicity/ Public Relations,Web Site) Marketing Level (Products, Price, Store Atmosphere) Corporate Level (Social Responsibility) Nike
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    6 Communication Levels ➢ CorporateLevel ▪ Messages sent by a company’s 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 company’s 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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    7 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 Dr. George Belch,San Diego State University
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    8 Marketing Communications Mix •Advertising • Sales promotion • Events and experiences • Public relations and publicity • Direct marketing • Interactive marketing • Word-of-mouth marketing • Personal selling
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    12 5 Digital MarketingTrends 1.SMO (Social Media Optimisation) 2.Video Marketing 3.Gamification 4.Privacy Compliance 5.Google Analytics v5 12
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    14 Figure Elements inthe Communications Process
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    15 The Communications Process Selectiveattention Selective distortion Selective retention
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    17 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 audience’s current image of the company, the products, and the competitors. – First step is to measure target audience’s knowledge of the subject – Second step is to determine feelings toward the product • checking on the image variance:
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    Copyright © 2011Pearson Step 2: Communications Objectives • Category need • Brand awareness • Brand attitude • Purchase intention
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    20 Step 3: Designingthe Communications • Message strategy • Creative strategy • Message source • Global adaptation j0349642
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    Message Strategy: whatto say Copyright Š 2011 Pearson 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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    22 Creative Strategy: howto say • Informational and transformational appeals: – Informational: elaborates on attributes or benefits – Transformational: elaborates on a non-product- related benefit or image Step 3: Designing the Communications
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    23 – AIDA frameworkguides message design – Message content contains appeals or themes designed to produce desired results • Rational appeals • Emotional appeals (positive and negative) – Love, pride, joy, humor, fear, guilt, shame • Moral appeals Step 3: Designing the Communications Creative Strategy: how to say
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    24 Message Source: whoshould say it Celebrity Characteristics – Expertise – Trustworthiness – Likeability wwwcirc Step 3: Designing the Communications
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    25 – 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 – 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?) 26
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    27 Does the designmake the right impression for your organisation? • Does the design meet the requirement which were established at the beginning of the project? – Is it appropriate for the target audience? – Does it support the posionning goal? – Does it describe the benefits of key features? – Does it leave the viewer wiwth a dominant uncluttered message?
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    28 Does the designmake the right impression for your organisation? • Does the design convey the feeling which is appropriate for positionning goal? – 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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    29 • Step 4:Select channels – 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 – Nonpersonal communication channels • Includes media, atmosphere, and events Developing Effective Communication
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    30 Step 5: Establishthe Budget Affordable Percentage-of-Sales Competitive Parity Objective-and-Task
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    31 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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    32 • Checklist: Integratingthe Promotion Mix – Analyze trends (internal and external) – Audit communications spending – Identify all points of contact – Team up in communications planning – Make all communication elements compatible – Create performance measures – Appoint an IMC manager Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix
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    Step 6: Decidingon the Marketing Communications Mix ❖Characteristics of the Marketing Communications Mix (eight major modes of communication) ❖Factors in Setting the Marketing Communications Mix Copyright © 2011 Pearson
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    34 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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    35 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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    Copyright © 2011Pearson Factors in Setting Communications Mix • Type of product market • Buyer readiness stage • Product life cycle stage
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    Figure Cost-Effectiveness of DifferentCommunication Tools Copyright Š 2011 Pearson
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    38 Developing and Managingthe Advertising Campaign Figure : The Five Ms of Advertising
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    39 Sales Promotion • Salespromotions are short-term incentives designed to stimulate purchase among consumers or trade • Purpose of sales promotion – Attract new triers or brand switchers – Reward loyal customers – Increase repurchase rates
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    40 Sales Promotion Prizes Coupons POPDisplays & Demonstrations Cross-Promotions Patronage Awards Samples Product Warranties Cash Refunds Free Trials Premiums Tie-in Promotions Major Consumer Sales Promotion Tools
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    41 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 Android’s “Friends Furever” video was shared more than 6.4 million times in its first nice months making it the most shared video of all the time 42
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    43 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
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    Most used socialmedia platforms 2023 45
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    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 47
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    Communication tools varyat different product life-cycle stages – Introduction stage – most cost effective are advertising, events and experiences, and publicity – Growth stage –all tools can be toned down because word-of-mouth and interactive marketing. – Maturity stage: Advertising, events and experiences and personal become more important. – Decline stage – sales promotion continues strong, other communication tools are reduced 48
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    Step 7: Measuring CommunicationResults – Measure impact by measuring target audience recall, impressions or feelings about the message, and previous attitudes versus current attitudes – Collect behavioral measures of audience response including transactional data and word-of-mouth 49
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    50 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? Copyright © 2011 Pearson