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Principles of Marketing
Dr. Do Khac Xuan Diem
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Chapter 10
Integrated marketing communication
strategy
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Learning objectives
• Objective 1: Define the five promotion mix tools for communicating
customer value.
• Objective 2: Discuss the changing communications landscape and the
need for integrated marketing communications.
• Objective 3: Outline the communication process and the steps in
developing effective marketing communications.
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Learning objective 1:
Define the five promotion mix tools for
communicating customer value.
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The promotion mix
The promotion mix (marketing communications mix)
The specific blend of advertising, public relations, personal selling,
sales promotion and direct and digital marketing tools that the
company uses to persuasively communicate customer value and
build customer relationships.
Advertising
Advertising is any paid form of
nonpersonal presentation
and promotion of ideas,
goods, or services by an
identified sponsor.
• Broadcast
• Print
• Online
• Mobile
• Outdoor
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Sales promotion
Sales promotion is a short-term
incentive to encourage the
purchase or sale of a product
or service.
• Discounts
• Coupons
• Displays
• Demonstrations
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Personal selling
Personal selling is the personal presentation by the firm’s sales force for
the purpose of making sales and building customer relationships.
• Sales presentations
• Trade shows
• Incentive programs
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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 pre-empting unfavorable rumors,
stories, and events.
• Press releases
• Sponsorships
• Special events
• Web pages
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Direct and digital marketing
Direct and digital marketing involves interacting directly with carefully
targeted individual consumers and communities to both obtain an
immediate response and build lasting customer relationships.
• Direct mail, email
• Telephone marketing
• Catalogues
• Online and social media
• Mobile marketing
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Direct and digital marketing
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Learning objective 2:
Discuss the changing communications landscape and
the need for integrated marketing communications.
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The new marketing communications model
What are changes in marketing communication today?
Targeted, social
• Consumers are changing and engaging
• Marketing strategies are changing marketing
• Advances in digital technology communications
Mass media Internet and mobile media
Mass marketing Digital marketing
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The needs for
integrated marketing
communications
Integrated marketing
communications (IMC) involves
carefully integrating the company’s
many communications channels to
deliver a clear, consistent, and
compelling message about the
organization and its products.
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The nature of each promotion tool
1. Advertising
• Advantages
Reach geographically dispersed customers
Reach huge audiences quickly → low cost per exposure
Message repeated many times
• Disadvantages
Impersonal
One-way communication
Costly
2. Personal selling
• Advantages
Building up customers’ preferences, convictions and actions
Building customer relationships
Customers’ listen and response
Disadvantages: most expensive promotion tool, long-term commitment.
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The nature of each promotion tool
3. Sales promotion
• Advantages
Strong incentives to encourage customer purchase
Make product offers more exciting, boosting sagging sales
• Disadvantages
Short-lived effects
4. Public relations
• Advantages
More real and believable to readers than advertisings do
Reach many prospects who avoid salespeople or advertisements
Build brand preferences, brand image
• Disadvantages
Message not repeated to build customer awareness
Not stimulate a purchase in a short-term
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The nature of each promotion tool
5. Direct and digital marketing
• Advantages
Less public
Immediate and personalized message
Interactive
One-to-one customer relationship
• Disadvantages
Costly (direct mail and catalogues, telephone marketing)
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Promotion mix strategies
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Promotion mix strategies
Push strategy
A promotional strategy using the salesforce and trade promotions to push the
product through marketing channels to final consumers. The producer
promotes the product to channel members who in turn promote it to final
consumers.
Pull strategy
The producer directs its marketing activities (primarily advertising and sales
promotion) towards final consumers to induce them to buy the product.
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Factors affecting the promotion mix
- Nature of the product
• Cost and risk
- Product life-cycle
Introduction
Heavy advertising and public relations to build brand awareness
Sales promotion to induce trial
Personal selling to obtain distribution
Growth
Heavy advertising and public relations to build brand loyalty
Decreased sales promotion
Personal selling to maintain distribution
Maturity
Advertising slightly decreased – more persuasive and reminder
Sales promotion increased to build market share
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Factors affecting the promotion mix
- Product life-cycle
Decline
Advertising and public relations greatly reduced
Sales promotion and personal selling maintain at low levels
- Type of market
• Consumer markets
Advertising – Sales promotion – Personal selling – Public relations
• Business markets
Personal selling – Sales promotion - Advertising – Public relations
- Target market characteristics
• Degree of knowledge about the product
• Geographic dispersion or concentration
- Type of buying decision
• Routine or complex
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Learning objective 3:
Outline the communication process and the steps in
developing effective marketing communications.
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The communication process
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Steps in developing effective marketing communication
Identify the target audience
Determine the communication objectives
Design the message
Choose the media to send the message
Select message source and collect feedback
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Identify the target audience
What will be said? How it will be said? When it will be said?
Where it will be said? Who will say it?
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Determine the communication objectives
Buyer - readiness stages
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Design the message
AIDA model
• Message content (What to
say?)
Rational appeal
Obtain Emotional appeal
Arouse Action Moral appeal
Hold Desire • Message structure and
Interest format (How to say it)
Get
Attention
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Choose communication channels and media
Personal communication involves two or more people communicating directly
with each other.
• Face to face
• Phone
• Mail or e-mail
• Texting or Internet chat
Opinion leaders are people whose opinions are sought by others.
Buzz marketing involves cultivating opinion leaders and getting them to spread
information about a product or service to others in their communities.
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Choose
communication
channels and media
Nonpersonal communication
channels are media that
carry messages without
personal contact or
feedback, including
major media,
atmospheres, and
events.
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Select the message source
The message’s impact depends on how the target audience views the
communicator.
• Celebrities
Athletes
Entertainers
• Professionals
Health care providers
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Collect feedback
Collecting feedback involves the communicator understanding the effect on the
target audience by measuring behavior resulting from the content.
• Message recall
• Attitudes toward the product
• Emotions
• How many people bought the product, visited the stores, talked to others
about the product
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References
Kotler, P., & Amstrong, G., & Opresnik, M.O., (2017). Principles of marketing.
Global edition UK: Pearson Education limited.
Perreault William D., Cannon Joseph P., McCarthy - Essentials of Marketing -
McGraw-Hill 2012.
Amstrong et al. (2020). Principles of Marketing Ebook, Pearson Education
Australia.
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