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Marketing Communications

The means by which firms attempt to inform, persuade, and remind consumers about the products and brands they sell.

Marketing communication Mix

In this new communication enviorment, although advertising is often a central element of a marketing communications program, it is usually not the only one - or even the most important

Advertising

Any paid form of nonpersoanl presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services




Pervasiveness


Dramatizes brands


focus on brand aspects



Sales promotion

Short-term incentives to encourage trial or purchase of a product or service including consumer promotions, trade promotions and business promotions.


Draws attention


incentive


invitation

Events and experience

Company-sponsored activities and programs designed to create brand-related interactions with consumers, including sports, arts, entertainment


Relevant


Engaging


Indirect soft sell

Public relations and publicity

Programs directed internally to employees of the company or externally to consumers, other firms , the government and media to promote or protect a company image or individual product communications


High credibility


Ability to reach hard-to find prospects


Ability to tell story of company/brand

Online and social media marketing

Online activités and programs to engage customers or prospect and directly or indirectly raise awareness, improve image or elicit sales




Information - or entertainment rich


Can be changed or updated


Can be prepared and diffused quickly

Mobile Marketing

A special form of online marketing that places commuications on consumers cell phones, smart phones or tablets




Time -sensitive


Can reach and influence consumers at purchase


Are always at consumers fingertips

Direct and database marketing

Use of mail, telephone, fax, email, or internet to communicate directly with or solicit response or dialogue from specific consumers




Personalized


Used to create attention with a call to action


offer information that helps other communicatio

Personal Selling

Face to face interaction with prospective purchasers for the purpose of making presentations , answering questions, and procuring orders.




Customized


Relationship-oriented


Response-oriented

Macro model of Communications

( key factors in effective communications. Two represent the marjor parties - sender and receiver. Two present the major tools -message and media. Four present major communication functions - encoding, decoding, respond and feedback.

Micro models of consumer response

Concentrate on consumers specific response to communications. Summarizes four classic response hierarchy models. The models asssume the buyer passes through

Sender - Encoding - Messeage- Decoding - Receiver

Elements in communication process

Identify the Target Audience

The process must start with a clear target audience in mind: potential buyers of the company's products, current users, deciders or influencers as well as individuals, groups or general public.


Cognitive Stage


Affective Stage


Behavior Stage

Establish need for category

Establishing a product or service category as necessary for removing or satisfying a perceived discrepancy between a current motivational state and a desired motivational state.

Build brand awareness

Fostering the consumers ability to recognize or recall the brand in sufficient detail to make a purchase. Brand recall is important outside the store, whereas brand recognition is important inside the store.

Build brand attitude

Helping consumers evaluate the brand's perceived ability to meet a currently relevant need. Relevant brand needs may be negatively oriented or positively oriented.

Influence brand purchase intentions

Moving consumers to decide to purchase the brand or take purchase - related action.

Design the communications

Formulating the communications to achieve the desired response requires answering three questions: what to say, how to say and who should say it.

Message Strategy

In selecting this, management searches for appeals, themes, or ideas that will tie in to the brand positioning and help establish points- of parity or points-of-difference.

Creative Strategy

Are the way marketers translate their messages into a specific communication.

Informational appeal

elaborated on product or service attributes or benefits.


Ex in advertising are problem - solutions ads ect




One-sided vs two-sided arguments

Transformational appeal

elaborated on a nonproduct-related benefit or image. It might depict what kind of person uses a brand or what kind of experience results from use.




Negative/fear vs positive appeals

Message Source

Creditability is crucial to a messages acceptance. The three most often identified sources of credibility are expertise, trustworthiness and likability.




Messages delivered by attractive or popular sources can achieve higher attention and recall.

Personal communications channels

Let two or more persons communicate face to face or person to audience through a phone, surface mail, or e-mail. They derive their effectiveness from individualized presentation and feedback and include direct marketing, personal selling and word of mouth.

Non-personal Communication

Are communications directed to more than one person and include advertising, sales promotions, events and experiences and public relations.

Affordable method

Setting the communications budget at what managers think they can afford.

Percentage-of-sales method

Setting expenditures at a specified percentage of current or anticipated sales or of the sales price.

Competitive-parity method

Setting communications budgets to achieve share-of-voice parity with competitors

Objective- and - task method

Setting the budget my defining specific objectives, identifying the tasks that must be performed to achieve the objectives, and estimating the costs of performing them.

Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)

A planning process designed toassure that all brand contacts received by a customer or prospect for aproduct, service, or organization are relevant to that person and consistentover time