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Paul Dishman, Ph.D. The Promotional Mix Paul Dishman, Ph.D. Lecture 18 Basic Marketing Management Bus M 341

Paul Dishman, Ph.D. The Promotional Mix Paul Dishman, Ph.D. Lecture 18 Basic Marketing Management Bus M 341

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Paul Dishman, Ph.D.

The

Promotional Mix

Paul Dishman, Ph.D.

Lecture 18

Basic Marketing ManagementBus M 341

Paul Dishman, Ph.D.

Marketing Communication Mix or Promotion Mix

Product’s Design

Product’s Price

Product’s

Package

Stores that Sell the Product

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The Changing Communications Environment

Two Factors are Changing the Face of Today’s

Marketing Communications:

Improvements in Information Technology

Has Led to Segmented MarketingMore Narrowcasting

Marketers Have ShiftedAway From Mass

MarketingLess Broadcasting

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The Need for Integrated Marketing Communications

With Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), the Company Carefully Integrates and Coordinates

Its Many Communications Channels to Deliver a Clear, Consistent, and Compelling Message About the Organization and Its Product or

Service.

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PresellingPreselling SellingSelling

Post-Consumption

Post-Consumption ConsumingConsuming

Marketers View Communications as the Management of the Customer Relationship

(CRM) Over Time Through the Following Stages:

A View of the Communications Process

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Elements in the Communication Process (Fig. 14.2)

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Step 1. Identifying the Target Audience

Step 2. Determining the Communication ObjectivesBuyer Readiness Stages

PurchasePurchase

Conviction

Preference

Liking

Knowledge

Awareness

Steps in Developing Effective Communication

This ad for the Toyota Celicamay be able to cover the firstthree stages of the buyer-readiness s tages : awareness,knowledge, and liking.

There is no mention ofcompetitors , so it does notseem to establish preference.

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Step 3. Designing a Message

Message ContentRational Appeals

Emotional AppealsMoral Appeals

Message StructureDraw ConclusionsArgument TypeArgument Order

Message FormatHeadline, Illustration,

Copy, & ColorBody Language

Steps in Developing Effective Communication

Designing aMessage

ContentThe pictures and the slogan make this whattype of appeal?

FormatThis layout, almost like a yearbook or photoalbum, reinforces the sentimental aspect of this advertisement.

Click or press spacebar to return.

Is this ad making an emotional,rational, or moral appeal, or is itcombining them? How muchdo the personified cowscontribute to this ad?

Is the ad structured to let the audience make a decision?

Is this an effective ad?

The same company puts lifelikestatues of cows, with this slogan,into mall food courts. Whatmakes that practice effective?

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Nonpersonal CommunicationChannels

Step 4. Choosing Media

Personal CommunicationChannels

Step 5. Selecting the Message Source

Step 6. Collecting Feedback

Steps in Developing Effective Communication

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Affordable Based on What the

Company Can Afford

Objective-and-Task Based on Determining

Objectives & Tasks, Then Estimating Costs

Objective-and-Task Based on Determining

Objectives & Tasks, Then Estimating Costs

Percentage of SalesBased on a Certain Percentageof Current or Forecasted Sales

Percentage of SalesBased on a Certain Percentageof Current or Forecasted Sales

Competitive-ParityBased on the Competitor’s

Promotion Budget

Competitive-ParityBased on the Competitor’s

Promotion Budget

One of the Hardest Marketing Decisions Facing a Company is How Much to Spend on

Promotion.

Setting the Total Promotion Budget

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Strategy that Calls for Spending A Lot on Advertising and Consumer Promotion to Build Up (Pull) Consumer Demand.

Strategy Selected Depends

on:

Type of Product-Market &

Product Life-Cycle

Stage

Strategy that Calls for Using the Salesforce and Trade Promotion to Push the Product Through the Channels.

Promotion Mix Strategies

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Analyze trends – internal and external – that can affect your company’s ability to do business.

Audit the pockets of communications spending through the organization.

Identify all contact points for the company and its brands.

Team up in communications planning.

Integrating the Promotion Mix

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Integrating the Promotion Mix

Create compatible themes, tones, and quality across all communications media.

Create performance measures that are shared by all communications elements.

Appoint a director responsible for the company’s persuasive communications efforts.

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Socially Responsible Marketing Communication

• Advertising and Sales Promotion– Companies must avoid false and deceptive

advertising.– Sellers must avoid bait-and-switch advertising.– Trade promotion activities are also closely regulated.

• Personal Selling– Salespeople must follow the rules of “fair

competition”.– Three-day cooling-off rule– Salespeople must not disparage competitors.