Integrated Marketing Communication Strategy

1. Integrated Marketing Communication Strategy LIVE SESSIOM AIMA-ePGDM

2. Objectives • Know the tools of the marketing communications mix. • Understand the process and advantages of integrated marketing communications. • Learn the steps in developing effective marketing communications. • Understand methods for setting promotional budgets and the factors that affect the design of the promotion mix.

3. Definition • Marketing Communications Mix • The specific mix of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations a company uses to pursue its advertising and marketing objectives.

4. Integrated Marketing Communications • The Marketing Communications Environment is Changing: • Mass markets have fragmented, causing marketers to shift away from mass marketing • Media fragmentation is increasing as well • Improvements in information technology are facilitating segmentation

5. Integrated Marketing Communications • The Need for Integrated Marketing Communications • Conflicting messages from different sources or promotional approaches can confuse company or brand images • The problem is particularly prevalent when functional specialists handle individual forms of marketing communications independently

6. Integrated Marketing Communications • The Need for Integrated Marketing Communications • Traditional media such as newspapers,TVand radio have lost its reach and frequency. • The Web alone cannot be used to build brands; brand awareness potential is limited • Best bet is to wed traditional branding efforts with the interactivity and service capabilities of online communications • Web efforts can enhance relationships

7. Integrated Marketing Communications • 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.

8. The Communication Process • Communications efforts should be viewed from the perspective of managing customer relationships over time. • The communication process begins with an audit of all potential contacts. • Effective communication requires knowledge of how communication works.

9. Sender Message Media Receiver Encoding Decoding Response Feedback The Communication Process Elements in the Communication Process • Noise

12. Developing Effective Communication • Step 1: Identifying the Target Audience • Affects decisions related to what, how, when, and where message will be said, as well as who will say it • Step 2: Determining Communication Objectives • Sense buyer readiness stages

13. Awareness Knowledge Liking Preference Conviction Purchase Developing Effective Communication Buyer-Readiness Stages

14. Developing Advertising Strategy • Consists of two major elements: • Creating advertising messages • Selecting advertising media

15. Developing Effective Communication • Step 3: Designing a Message • AIDA framework guides message design • Message content contains appeals or themes designed to produce desired results • Rational appeals • Emotional appeals • Love, pride, joy, humor, fear, guilt, shame • Moral appeals

16. Developing Effective Communication • Step 3: Designing a Message • 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.

18. The Message Strategy • Identify Customer Benefits • Develop Compelling Creative Concept—the “Big Idea” • Advertising Appeals Should Be: Meaningful, Believable, & Distinctive

19. Message Execution • Personality Symbol • Technical Expertise • Scientific Evidence • Testimonial or Endorsement • Slice of Life • Lifestyle • Fantasy • Mood or Image • Musical

20. Developing Effective Communication • Step 4: Choosing Media • 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

21. Selecting Advertising Media • Reach • Percentage of people exposed to ad • Frequency • Number of times a person is exposed to ad • Media Impact • The qualitative value of a message exposure through a given medium

22. Developing Effective Communication • Step 5: Selecting the Message Source • Highly credible sources are more persuasive • A poor spokesperson can tarnish a brand • Step 6: Collecting Feedback • Recognition, recall, and behavioral measures are assessed • May suggest changes in product/promotion

23. Deciding on Media Timing • Must decide how to schedule the advertising over the course of a year. • Follow seasonal pattern • Oppose seasonal pattern • Same coverage all year • Choose the pattern of the ads • Continuity • Pulsing

24. Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix • Setting the Total Promotional Budget • Affordability Method • Budget is set at a level that a company can afford • Percentage-of-Sales Method • Past or forecasted sales may be used • Competitive-Parity Method • Budget matches competitors’ outlays

25. Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix • Setting the Total Promotional Budget • Objective-and-Task Method • Specific objectives are defined • Tasks required to achieve objectives are determined • Costs of performing tasks are estimated, then summed to create the promotional budget

26. Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix • Setting the Overall Promotion Mix • Determined by the nature of each promotion tool and the selected promotion mix strategy

27. Evaluating Advertising • Measure the communication effects of an ad—“Copy Testing” • Measure the sales effects of an ad • Is the ad increasing sales?

28. Advertising Personal Selling Sales Promotion Public Relations Direct Marketing Reaches large, geographically dispersed audiences, often with high frequency Low cost per exposure, though overall costs are high Consumers perceive advertised goods as more legitimate Dramatizes company/brand Builds brand image; may stimulate short-term sales Impersonal; one-way communication Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix Promotion Tools

29. Advertising Personal Selling Sales Promotion Public Relations Direct Marketing Most effective tool for building buyers’ preferences, convictions, and actions Personal interaction allows for feedback and adjustments Relationship-oriented Buyers are more attentive Sales force represents a long-term commitment Most expensive of the promotional tools Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix Promotion Tools

30. Advertising Personal Selling Sales Promotion Public Relations Direct Marketing May be targeted at the trade or ultimate consumer Makes use of a variety of formats: premiums, coupons, contests, etc. Attracts attention, offers strong purchase incentives, dramatizes offers, boosts sagging sales Stimulates quick response Short-lived Not effective at building long-term brand preferences Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix Promotion Tools

31. Advertising Personal Selling Sales Promotion Public Relations Direct Marketing Highly credible Many forms: news stories, news features, events and sponsorships, etc. Reaches many prospects missed via other forms of promotion Dramatizes company or benefits Often the most underused element in the promotional mix Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix Promotion Tools

32. Advertising Personal Selling Sales Promotion Public Relations Direct Marketing Many forms: Telephone marketing, direct mail, online marketing, etc. Four distinctive characteristics: Nonpublic Immediate Customized Interactive Well-suited to highly targeted marketing efforts Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix Promotion Tools

33. Other Advertising Considerations • Small Companies • Large Companies • Advertising Agency • International Issues

34. Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix • Promotion Mix Strategies • Push strategy: trade promotions and personal selling efforts push the product through the distribution channels. • Pull strategy: producers use advertising and consumer sales promotions to generate strong consumer demand for products.

35. Setting the Promotional Budget and Mix • 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

36. Socially Responsible Communications • Advertising and Sales Promotion • Avoid false and deceptive advertising • Bait and switch advertising • Trade promotions can not favor certain customers over others • Use advertising to promote socially responsible programs and actions

37. Socially Responsible Communications • Personal Selling • Salespeople must follow the rules of “fair competition” • Three day cooling-off rule protects ultimate consumers from high pressure tactics • Business-to-business selling • Bribery, industrial espionage, and making false and disparaging statements about a competitor are forbidden

38. Consumer Sales Promotion Tools • Samples • Coupons • Rebates • Cents-off Deals • Premiums • Advertising Specialties • Patronage Rewards • Point-of-Purchase Promotions • Contests • Sweepstakes • Games

39. Rest Stop: Reviewing the Concepts • Discuss the process and advantages of integrated marketing communications. • Define the five promotion tools and discuss factors that must be considered in shaping the overall promotion mix. • Describe and discuss the major decisions involved in developing an advertising program.

40. Rest Stop: Reviewing the Concepts • Explain how sales promotion campaigns are developed and implemented. • Explain how companies use public relations to communicate with their publics.

41. Setting Prices THE 3rd “P” IN MARKETINGPricing Decisions

42. TOPIC OBJECTIVES • Stages of establishing prices • Pricing objectives • Pricing basis • Pricing strategies

43. Stages for Establishing Prices

46. 1. Development of Pricing Objectives • Pricing objectives • are goals that describe what a firm wants to achievethrough pricing. • form the basis for decisionsabout other stages of pricing. • must be consistent with the firm’s overall marketing objectives. • can support the attainment of multiple short-term and long-term goals.

47. Development of Pricing Objectives Survival Profit PricingObjectives ProductQuality Return onInvestment Status Quo Cash Flow Market Share

49. 2. Assessment of the Target Market’s Evaluation of Price • The Importance of Price • Type of product • Type of target market • The purchase situation • Value Focus • A combination of product’s price and quality attributes • Helps customers differentiate a product from competing brands • Guides marketers in their evaluation of the importance of price to the consumer

50. 3. Evaluation of Competitors’ Prices • Sources of Competitors’ Pricing Information • Comparative Shoppers • Persons who systematically collect data on competitors’ prices • Purchased Price Lists • Developed by syndicated marketing research services • Importance of Knowing Competitors’ Prices • Helps determine how important price will be to customers • Helps marketers in setting competitive prices for their products