Final Exam Flashcards
IMC
- integrated marketing communications
- involves coordinating the various promotional elements and other marketing activities that communicate with a firm’s customers
IMC plan
- developing, implementing, and controlling an organizations IMC plan
- provides clarity, consistency, and maximum communications impact
- ensures all marketing and promotional provides image
- look and feel of a brand
Promotional mix
tools that accomplish an organizations communication objectives
- advertising
- direct marketing
- digital/internet marketing
- sales promotion
- publicity/public relations
- personal selling
Advertising
-any paid form of nonpersonal communication about an organization, product, service, or idea by an identified sponsor
Advertising benefits
- most cost effective way to reach large numbers of consumers
- builds brand equity by influencing consumers perception
National advertising
done on a nationwide basis or in most regions
Retail/local advertising
advertising to consumer markets
primary-demand advertising
stimulates demand for the general product class or industry
selective-demand advertising
creates demand for a specific company’s brand
business-to-business advertising
targets individuals who buy or influence the purchase of industrial goods or services for their companies
professional advertising
targets professionals, encouraging them to use a company’s product in their business
trade advertising
targets marketing channel members, encouraging them to stock, promote, and resell the manufacturers branded products to their costumers
Four P’s
- product
- price
- promotion
- place
Marketing
activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for:
-customers, clients, partners, and society at large
exchange
involves parties with:
- something of value to one another
- desire and ability to give up something to the other party
- way to communicate with each other
Value
the customers perception of all the benefits of a product or service
Brand equity
intangible asset of added value or goodwill that results from the favorable image, impressions of differentiation, and/or the strength of consumer attachment of a company name, brand name, or trademark
competitive advantage
attributes that give a firm an edge over competitors
- better quality products
- superior customer service
- low production costs and lower prices
- dominating channels of distribution
- advertising
market segmentation
-dividing a market into distinct groups with common needs, who respond similarly to a marketing situation
geographic segmentation
markets are divided into different geographic units
psychographic segmentation
dividing the market on the basis of personality, lifecycles, and/or lifestyles
demographic segmentation
dividing the market on the basis of age, gender, family size, social class, education, income
positioning
fitting a product or service to one or more segments of the market to make it unique within the marketplace
positioning by product attributes and benefits
- sets the brand apart from from competitors on the basis of specific characteristics or benefits offered
- important to consumers and are the basis for making a purchase decision
- positions the product by comparing the benefit it offers versus the competition
repositioning
altering a products or brands positioning due to declining sales
positioning strategies
positioning by
- price/quality
- use or application
- cultural symbols
- product class
product class
rather than positioning against another brand, position oneself against another product category
consumer decision-making process stages
- problem recognition
- information search
- alternative evaluation
- purchase decision
- postpurchase evaluation
problem recognition
- consumer perceives a need and gets motivated to solve the problem
- caused by a difference between consumer’s ideal state and actual state
sources/cause of the problem
- out of stock
- dissatisfaction
- new products, related products, or purchases
- marketer induced problem recognition
internal information search
the process by which a consumer acquires information by accessing past experiences or knowledge stored in memory
external information search
seeking information from external sources
- internet, personal, and public sources
- marketer controlled sources
- personal experience
communication process
success depends on such factors as the nature of the message, the audiences interpretation of it, and the environment in which it is received
- source/sender
- encoding
- channel
- message
- decoding
- receiver
- reponse
- noise
- feedback
encoding
putting thoughts, ideas or information in a symbolic form
- verbal
- graphic
- musical
- animation
decoding
transforming the sender’s message into thought
-heavily influenced by the receiver’s field of experience
message
contains the information or meaning the source hopes to convey
channel
facilities communication between sender and receiver
-nonpersonal channel or mass media
3 ways to measure success
- grow sale volume
- grow profit/RDI
- grow market share
sales oriented
- aim to increase sales
- required to produce quantifiable results
- based on the achievement of sales results
marketing objectives
-goals to be accomplished by an organization’s overall marketing program such as sales, market share, or profitability
communication objectives
- provide relevant information
- create favorable predispositions toward the brand problems
- translating sales goals into communication objectives
characteristics of communication objectives
- present concrete and measurable tasks
- well defined target audience
- take into consideration the benchmark and the degree of change sought
- specify the time period in which the goals must be accomplished
creative strategy
determines what the advertising message will say or communicate