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Principles of marketing chapter 14 theory
1. Chapter -14
Communicating Customer Value :
( Value Integrated Marketing Communications strategy )
Ques: 01 – What is promotion Mix ? What are the major promotion tools ? Describe shortly.
Ans : The specific blend of promotion tools that the company uses to persuasively
communicate customer value and build customer relationships. It is also known as marketing
communications mix .
There are five major promotion tools. They are Advertising, Sales promotion, personal selling ,
public relations , Direct marketing . Each category involves specific promotional tools used to
communicate with consumer .Tools are describes shortly in below:
1)Advertising :Any paid form of nonpersonalpresentation and promotion of ideas , goods , or
services by an identified sponser.Advertising includes broadcast , print , internet , outdoor and
other forms.
2)Sales promotion : short term incentives to encourage purchase or sales of a product or
services. Its includes discounts , coupons , display and demonstrations.
3)Presonalselling : Personal presentation by the firms sales force for the purpose of making
and building customer relationships. It includes sales presentations , trade shows and
incentive programs .
4) Public relations : Building good relation with the company`s various publics by obtaining
favorable publicity , building up a good corporate image and handling or heading off
unfavorable rumors stories and events.
5) Direct marketing : Direct connections with carefully targeted individual consumers to both
obtain an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer relationships- the use of direct
mail, the telephone , direct response television , e-mail , the internet and other tools to
communicate directly with specific consumers.
2. Ques: 02- Shortly discuss the Communication process.
Ans: To communicate effectively, marketers need to understand how communication works.
Communication involves nine elements. They are as follows:
Sender: The party sending the message to another.
Encoding: The process of putting the thoughts into symbolic form.
Message: The set of symbols that the sender transmits.
Media: The communication channels through which the message moves from sender to
receiver.
Decoding: The process by which the receiver assigns meanings to symbols encoded by the
sender.
Receiver: The party receiving the message sent by another party.
Response: The reactions of the receiver after being exposed to the message.
Feedback: The part of the receiver`s response communicated back to the sender.
Noise: The unplanned static or distraction during the communication process.
Encoding Message Decoding Receiver
Figure: Communication process
Sender
Feedback
Noise
Response
3. Ques: 03- What is integrated marketing communications ? What is the Process of integrated
marketing communications?
Ans: Carefully integrating and coordinating the company`s many communications channels to
deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its products
isintegrated marketing communications.
Today many company are adopting the concept of integrated marketing communications.
Carefully blended mix of promotion tools
Personal
selling
Public
relations
Direct
marketing
Advertising
Sales
Promotion
Figure: Integrated marketing communications
4. Question no 1:Write down the steps of Developing Effective Marketing
Communication.
Answer: There are seven steps in developing effective marketing communication .Marketers
must do following….
1. Identifying the target Audience
2. Determining the Communication objectives
3. Designing the message
4. Message format
5. Choosing media
6. Selecting the message source
7. Collecting feedback
Question no 2:Briefly discuss about the channels of choosing media.
Answer: The communicators must select channels of communication. There are two broad
types of communication channels. They are..
1. Personal Communication Channels
2. Nonpersonal Communication Channels
1. Personal Communication Channels: Channels which through two or more people
communicate directly with each other including face to face, on the phone, through mail
or e-mail or even through an internet ‘chat’ is called Personal Communication Channels.
Personal communication channels are effective because they allow for personal
addressing and feedback. Some personal communication channels are controlled by the
company. For example, company salespeople contact target buyers. But other personal
communications about the product may reach buyers through channels not directly by
the controlled by the company.
2. Nonpersonal Communication Channels: Media that carry messages without personal
contact or feedback including major media,atmsopheres and events are called
nonpersonal communication channels. Nonpersonalcommunication affect buyers
directly. Atmospheres are designed environments that create or reinforce the buyers
leanings towards buying a product. Events are staged occurrences that communicate
5. messages to target audience. For example: Public relations departments arrange press
conferences, grand openings, shows and exhibits, public tour and other events.
Question no 3:Why collecting feedback is necessary? Briefly discuss.
Answer:Collecting feedback is essential for developing effective marketing
communication.After sending the message, the communicator must research its effect on the
target audience. This involves asking the target audience members whether they remember
the message, how many times they saw it, what points they recall, how they felt about the
message, and their past and present attitudes toward the product and company.
The communicator would also like to measure behavior resulting from the message—how
many people bought the product, talked to others about it, or visited the store.
Feedback on marketing communications may suggest changes in the promotion program or in
the product offer itself. For example, Macy’s uses television and newspaper advertising to
inform area consumers about its stores, services, and merchandising events.
Question no 1: Mention the methods of total promotion budget. Describe any
two of them.
Ans:We look at four common methods used to set the total budget for advertising:
1. the affordable method
2. The percentage-of-sales method
3. the competitive-parity method
4. Objective-and-task method.
The affordable method:
Some companies use the affordable method They set the promotion budget at the level they think
the company can afford. Small businesses often use this method, reasoning that the company cannot
spend more on advertising than it has.
6. Unfortunately, this method of setting budgets completely ignores the effects of promotion on sales It
leads to an uncertain annual promotion budget, which makes long-range market planning difficult.
Although the affordable method can result in overspending on advertising, it more often results in
under spending.
Competitive-Parity Method:
Still other companies use the competitive-parity method, setting their promotion budgets
to match competitors’ outlays. They monitor competitors’ advertising or get industry
promotion spending estimates from publications or trade associations and then set their
budgets based on the industry average.
Two arguments support this method. First, competitors’ budgets represent the collective
wisdom of the industry. Second, spending what competitors spend helps prevent promotion
wars.
Question no 2:Mention the tools of the nature of promotion. Describe any two of them.
Ans:Each promotion tool has unique characteristics and costs. Marketers must understand these
characteristics in shaping the promotion mix.
1. Advertising.
2. Personal Selling
3. Sales Promotion
4. Public Relations.
5. Direct Marketing.
Advertising:
Advertising can reach masses of geographically dispersed buyers at a low
cost per exposure, and it enables the seller to repeat a message many times. Large-scale advertising
says something positive about the seller’s size, popularity, and success. Because of advertising’s
public nature, consumers tend to view advertised products as more legitimate. Advertising is also
very expressive; it allows the company to dramatize its products through the artful use of visuals,
print, sound, and color.
Advertising also has some shortcomings. Although it reaches many people quickly, advertising
is impersonal and cannot be as directly persuasive as can company salespeople.
For the most part, advertising can carry on only a one-way communication with an audience,
and the audience does not feel that it has to pay attention or respond. In addition, advertising
can be very costly. Although some advertising forms, such as newspaper and radio
advertising, can be done on smaller budgets, other forms, such as network TV advertising,
require very large budgets.
Sales Promotion:
Sales promotion includes a wide assortment of tools—coupons, contests, cents-off deals, premiums,
and others—all of which have many unique qualities. They attract consumer attention, offer strong
incentives to purchase, and can be used to dramatize product offers and boost sagging sales. Sales
promotions invite and reward quick response.
Whereas advertising says, “Buy our product,” sales promotion says, “Buy it now.” Sales promotion
effects are often short lived, however, and often are not as effective as advertising or
personal selling in building long-run brand preference and customer relationships.
Question no 3:Describe Promotion Mix Strategies.
Ans:Marketers can choose from two basic promotion mix strategies:
1. Push strategy
2. Pull strategy
7. Push strategy:
A push strategy involves “pushing” the product through marketing channels to final
consumers. The producer directs its marketing activities (primarily personal selling and trade
promotion) toward channel members to induce them to carry the product and promote it to
final consumers.
Some industrial-goods companies use only push strategies.
Pull Strategy:
A promotion strategy that calls for spending a lot on consumer advertising and promotion to
induce final consumers to buy the product, creating a demand vacuum that “pulls” the product
through the channel.
Using a pull strategy, the producer directs its marketing activities toward final consumers to
induce them to buy the product.
Some direct-marketing companies use only pull strategies.
However, most large companies use some combination of both.