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Integrated Marketing Communication: Advertising, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations

12. Integrated Marketing Communication: Advertising, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations. ROAD MAP: Previewing the Concepts. Discuss the process and advantages of integrated marketing communications.

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Integrated Marketing Communication: Advertising, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations

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  1. 12 Integrated Marketing Communication: Advertising, Sales Promotion, and Public Relations

  2. ROAD MAP: Previewing the Concepts • Discuss the process and advantages of integrated marketing communications. • Define the five promotion tools and discuss the factors that must be considered in shaping the overall promotion mix. • Describe and discuss the major decisions involved in developing an advertising program. • Explain how sales promotion campaigns are developed and implemented. • Explain how companies use public relations to communicate with their publics.

  3. Marketing Communications Mix • Advertising • Any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor. • Sales Promotion • Short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service.

  4. Marketing Communications Mix • Public Relations • Building good relations with the company’s various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, building up a good corporate image, and handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories, and events. • Personal Selling • Personal presentation by the firm’s sales force for the purpose of making sales and building customer relationships.

  5. Marketing Communication Mix • Direct Marketing • Direct connections with carefully targeted individual consumers to both obtain an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer relationships—the use of telephone, mail, fax, e-mail, the Internet, and other tools to communicate directly with specific consumers.

  6. The Changing Communications Environment Two factors are changing the face of today’s marketing communications: As mass markets have fragmented, marketers are shifting away from mass marketing Vast improvements in information technology are speeding the movement toward segmented marketing

  7. The Need for IMC Using IMC, the company carefully integrates and coordinates its many communication channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its brands.

  8. Integrated Marketing Communication

  9. Advertising • Can reach masses of geographically dispersed buyers. • Can repeat a message many times. • Is impersonal, one-way communication. • Can be very costly for some media types.

  10. Personal Selling • Involves personal interaction between two or more people. • Allows relationship building. • Most expensive promotion tool.

  11. Sales Promotion • Wide assortment of tools. • Attracts consumer attention. • Offers strong incentives to buy. • Invites and rewards quick consumer response. • Effects are short-lived.

  12. Public Relations • Very believable. • Reaches people who avoid salespeople and ads. • Can dramatize a company or product. • Tends to be used as an afterthought. • Planned use can be effective and economical.

  13. Direct Marketing • Many forms that share four characteristics: • Nonpublic • Immediate • Customized • Interactive • Well suited to highly targeted marketing.

  14. Push vs. Pull Promotion Strategy

  15. Advertising • Advertising has been used for centuries. • U.S. advertisers spend more than $237 billion each year; worldwide spending approaches $470 billion. • Advertising is used by: • Business firms • Nonprofit organizations • Professionals • Social agencies • Government

  16. Major Decisions in Advertising

  17. Setting Advertising Objectives • An advertising objective is a specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific period of time. • Classified by purpose: • Inform • Persuade • Compare • Remind

  18. Comparative Advertising Progresso makes side-by-side comparisons of its soup versus Campbell’s, inviting consumers to “Enjoy a better soup…with a more adult taste.”

  19. Interactive Student Assignment • Choose a partner and discuss why comparative advertising is used so frequently. Do you think this approach to advertising is effective? Can you think of any situations where this type of advertising has influenced your buying behavior?

  20. Affordable Based on What the Company Thinks it Can Afford Percentage-of-Sales Based on a Percentage of Current or Forecasted Sales Setting the Advertising Budget Competitive-Parity Set Budget to Match Competitors Objective-and-Task Set Objectives, Determine Tasks to Achieve Objectives, Sum of Task Costs Equals Budget

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

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

  23. A New Advertising Challenge The new wave of personal video recorders, such as TiVo, has armed viewers with an arsenal of new-age zipping and zapping weapons.

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

  25. Celebrity Endorsement Nike’s association with Michael Jordan helps the brand succeed, but also emphasizes the qualities that Nike stands for. Click the picture above to play video

  26. Humor in Advertising These days, it seems as though almost every company is using humor in its advertising, even the scholarly American Heritage Dictionary.

  27. Message Execution • Choose a tone • Use memorable, attention-getting words • Choose correct format elements • Illustration • Headline • Copy

  28. 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

  29. Choosing Media Type • Factors to consider: • Media habits of target consumers • Nature of the product • Type of message • Cost • Media vehicles • Specific media within each general media type

  30. 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

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

  32. Other Advertising Considerations Small Companies: Sales Departments Large Companies: Advertising Departments Advertising Agency: A marketing services firm that assists companies in planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating all or portions of their advertising programs. International Issues

  33. Sales Promotion • Sales promotion consists of short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sales of a product or service. • The idea behind sales promotion is to generate immediate sales.

  34. Sales Promotion Today’s food marketers are using more and more push promotions, including consumer price promotions.

  35. Rapid Growth of Sales Promotion • Sales promotion can take the form of consumer, business, trade, or sales force promotions. • Rapid growth in the industry has been achieved because: • Product managers are facing more pressure to increase their current sales • Companies face more competition • Advertising efficiency has declined • Consumers have become more deal oriented

  36. Sales Promotion Objectives • Consumer Promotions: increase short-term sales or help build long-term market share. • Trade Promotions: get retailers to: • carry new items and more inventory • advertise products • give products more shelf space • buy ahead • Sales Force: getting more sales support. • In general, sales promotion should build long-term customer relationships.

  37. Consumer Sales Promotion Tools Sample Offers a trial amount of a product Coupons Savings when purchasing specified products Cash Refunds “Rebates” Refund of part of the purchase price by mail Price Packs “Cents-Off Deals” Reduced prices marked on the label or package by producer Premiums Goods offered free or low cost as an incentive to buy a product Advertising Specialties Articles imprinted with an advertiser’s name given as gifts

  38. Consumer Sales Promotion Tools Patronage Rewards Cash or other award offered for regular use of a product or service Point-of-Purchase Promotions Displays or demonstrations at the point of purchase or sale Contest Consumers submit an entry to be judged by a panel Sweepstakes Consumers submit their names for a drawing Games Consumers receive something each time they buy which may help them win a prize

  39. Discussion Question • Why do retailers tend to prefer rebates to coupons?

  40. Trade Promotion Tools Objectives Persuade resellers to carry a brand Give a brand shelf space Promote brand in advertising Push brand to customers Discounts Allowances Free Goods Push Money Specialty Advertising Items

  41. Business Promotion Tools Objectives Generate business leads Stimulate purchases Reward customers Motivate salespeople Conventions Trade shows Sales contests

  42. Trade Show More than 4,300 trade shows take place every year, drawing as many as 85 million people.

  43. Decide on the Size of the Incentive Set Conditions for Participation Developing the Sales Promotion Program Decide How to Promote and Distribute the Promotion Program Decide on the Length of the Program Evaluate the Program

  44. Public Relations • Public relations involves building good relations with the company’s various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, building up a good corporate image, and handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories, and events.

  45. Public Relations Public relations is used to promote products, people, places, ideas, activities, organizations, and even nations. New York City turned its image around when its “I Love New York!” campaign took root, bringing millions more tourists to the city.

  46. Public Relations Functions • Press relations or press agency • Product publicity • Public affairs • Lobbying • Investor relations • Development

  47. Public Relations Tools • News • Speeches • Special events • Buzz marketing • Mobile marketing • Written materials • Audiovisual materials • Corporate identity materials • Public service activities • Company Web site

  48. 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. • Explain how sales promotion campaigns are developed and implemented. • Explain how companies use public relations to communicate with their publics.

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