Chapter 8_IMC & Advertising Flashcards
What are the four ways to set the budget?
- Affordable method
- Percentage of sales
- Competitive parity (match competitor’s spending)
- Objective and task
what the problem of affordable method?
don’t know whether it is useful
what the problem of percentage of sales
not suit for new products
What is the best approach of budget setting?
Objective and task
What are the values for IMC?
- Advances in Information Technology
- Changes in Channel Power
- Increases in Global Competition
- Increase in Brand Parity
- Emphasis on Customer Engagement
- Increase in Micro Marketing (customize the product)
Sendor and receiver
marketer is sendor, target market is receiver
Social media is the all media for marketer sending the message
False, social media is only a tool for those people who use social media.
What is the challenge for a marketer to send the message?
Encode the message, select appropriated media, and transfer the message through the media to expose to the receivers (the communication process)
What is meaning of noise during communication process?
• Talking on the phone during a commercial on television
• Driving while listening to the radio
• Looking at a model in a magazine ad and ignoring
the message and brand
• Scanning a newspaper for articles to read
• Talking to a passenger as the car passes billboards
• Scrolling past Internet ads without looking at them
• Annoyed by ads appearing on a social media site
• Ignoring tweets on Twitter because they are not relevant
The steps for developing effective communication
- Identify the Target Audience
- Determine Communication Objectives
- Design the Message
- Choose the Media
- Select the Message Source (i.e spokesperson who has credibility on target market)
- Collect Feedback (monitor the awareness of the target market before and after)
- Set the total Promotional Budget
AIDA model
After identify the target audience, conduct AIDA model: attention interest desire action
Example of moving people from awareness to desire and trial
Give them samples
Types of appeal to design a message
Fear, emotional, rational, sex appeals, humor
three types of personal communication when you choose media
- Company sales people
- Independent experts
- Word of mouth
What are the types of non-personal channel?
- Mass media
- Atmospherics
- Press conferences
- Grand openings
- Exhibits, public tours
Lagged effect when collecting feedback
Lagged effect - impact of advertising can be over time
How to avoid lagged effect?
Monitor before, during and after
What is push strategy?
Using salesperson to push product
What is pull strategy?
going directly to customer (low price)
What are promotion strategy on introduction stage?
Heavy use of advertising and Public relations to build Brand Awareness and educate customers on the product’s benefits.
Personal Selling ensures distribution coverage & supply chain cooperation
Sales Promotion stimulates product trial and trade cooperation
What are promotion strategy on growth stage?
Advertising and Public relations to build and maintain brand loyalty
Personal selling maintains distribution & supply chain cooperation
Decline in use of Sales Promotion
What are promotion strategy on maturity stage?
Advertising is used to remind consumers (keep brand top of mind of awareness)
Sales Promotion encourages brand switching
Personal selling maintains distribution & supply chain cooperation
What is limit of coupon running time?
maximum 3 weeks
Benjamin Franklin
Father of American Advertising