Week 8 Flashcards
Companies must do more than just create customer value.
Companies must do more than just create customer value.
They must also use promotional tools to communicate
value clearly and persuasively through an integrated
marketing communication approach
Integrated Marketing communications
The new marketing
communications
landscape
The shifting marketing
communications model
The need for integrated
marketing
communications
The new marketing
communications
landscape
- Changing consumer attitudes
- Marketing strategies
- Communications technology
The shifting marketing
communications model
- Decline of mass/traditional media
- Narrowcasting
- Personalisation & engagement
- Interactive digital media
The need for integrated
marketing
communications
• Cross media touch points / brand contact
• Delivering a clear and consistent message and image
across channels
Consumers are changing
Changing consumer attitudes and behaviour better informed and more communication empowerment due to the
internet.
Marketing strategies are changing
• Mass markets have fragmented
• Build closer relationships with customers
in more narrowly defined micro markets.
Digital technology is causing changes
• Communications technology changing the
way communication occurs between companies and their customers
The shifting marketing communications model
Decline of mass/traditional media in favour for a broad
selection of more specialised and highly targeted media
to reach smaller customer segments with personalised,
interactive messages.
– Personalisation & engagement
– Interactive digital media
– Broadcasting to Narrowcasting
The need for integrated
marketing communications
In the consumer’s mind: • Messages from different media and promotional approaches all become part of single message. • Cross media touch points / brand contact • Delivering a clear and consistent message and image across channels
The promotion mix
A company’s total promotion mix also called its marketing communications mix
The promotion mix is a blend of
- Advertising
- Public Relations
- Sales Promotion
- Personal Selling
- Direct & Digital Marketing
Advertising
Any paid form of presentation and promotion of
ideas, goods or services by an identified sponsor.
Advertising includes
- Television
- Outdoor
- Radio
- Internet
Advertising advantages
• Broad geographic reach • Relatively low cost per exposure • Creative & expressive formats • Useful for creating awareness and long term image • Can trigger quick sales
Advertising disadvantages
• Lacks persuasive power / impersonal • One-way communication • High cost of main advertising media (eg TV)
Advertising Process
Setting advertising objectives
Setting the advertising
budget
Developing the advertising
strategy
Evaluating advertising
campaigns
Setting advertising objectives
• A specific task to be accomplished with a specific target
audience during a specific period of time.
• Advertising objectives should be based on past
decisions about:
– The target market
– Positioning
– The marketing program
Advertising
Classifications & Objectives
Informative advertising
Persuasive advertising
Reminder advertising
Informative advertising
• Extensively used to introduce a new brand or new
category
• Aim is to create primary demand
Persuasive advertising
• Important as competition increases
• Aim is to persuade consumers of a product or brand’s
merits
• Often executed as comparative advertising, also known
as ‘attack advertising’
• Objective is to build selective demand
Reminder advertising
- Important for mature products
- Aim is often to move consumers into action
- Also used to strengthen brand relationships
Advertising:
Setting the advertising budget
Common methods for setting the budget:
affordable method
Percentage of sales method
Competitive parity method
Objective & task method