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Understand the concepts of promotion and
MKC1200 Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
Principles of Marketing Explain the general communication process
Understand the factors involved in promotion mix
Lesson 8: Promotion decisions
Explain the natures of traditional promotion mix
elements, including advertising, public relations,
sales promotion, and personal selling
Be familiar with additional forms of promotion
Promotion (marketing communication):
– The creation and maintenance of communication with
target markets
– The marketing activities that make potential customers,
partners and society aware of and attractive to the
business’s offerings
Integrated marketing communication (IMC):
– The coordination of promotional efforts to maximise the
communication effect
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Objectives of Promotion Promotion Mix
Objectives of promotion should support the organisation’s Promotion mix: a combination of promotional methods used
overall marketing objectives to promote a specific product or organisation
– Create awareness
– Encourage product trial Traditional elements Additional forms
– Encourage repeat purchases and retain existing customers
• Advertising • Product placement
– Stimulate demand
• Public relations • Sponsorship
– Build positive associations with an organisation and its
• Sales promotion • Viral marketing
products • Personal selling • Permission marketing
– Facilitate reseller support • Ambush marketing
Implementation of promotional activities should be • Guerilla marketing
consistent with the rest of the marketing mix
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Selecting Promotion Mix Elements Product Life Cycle and Promotion Strategy
Promotion
Mix
Cost and
Resources, Characteristics of
Characteristics of availability of
objectives, the target
the product: promotional
policies: market: Includes
Includes price methods: Some Push and pull
size, geographic
Basing mix on and personal promotion types channel policies
distribution,
budget, goals, nature of the are more
demographic
stage of PLC etc product expensive than
characteristics
others
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Create the Message – Message Appeals Advertising Media Options
Rational appeal
– Promotes factual information
Emotional appeal
– Stir emotions such as humour, fear, warmth, irritation and
sexual arousal
Moral appeal
– Relies on the sense of ‘what is right or wrong’
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While the advertising sector is largely self‐regulating, Public relations (PR): communications aimed at
there are a number of legal restrictions on what can creating and maintaining relationships between the
be advertised and how
marketing organisation and its stakeholders
Areas that marketers should be cautious about
When to use PR
– Deceptive or exaggerating advertisements
– Advertising towards children – PR is used to generate positive publicity and goodwill
towards the organisation
– Advertising harmful products
– Comparative advertisements – PR is also used reactively to counter poor publicity or as a
part of crisis management. However, it should NOT be
viewed as tools to be used ONLY during crisis
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Public Relations Approaches and Methods Sales Promotion
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Information: gathering information, prospecting
Strengths Weaknesses
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Additional Forms of Promotion Summary
Product placement Promotion (marketing communication) is the creation and
The paid inclusion of Sponsorship Viral marketing maintenance of communication with target markets
products in movies, The paid association The use of social
TV shows, video of a brand with an networks to spread a Integrated marketing communications (IMC) describes the
games, songs and event or a person marketing message coordination of promotional efforts to maximise their
books effectiveness
Ambush marketing
Traditional promotion mix elements include advertising,
Guerilla marketing public relations, sales promotion, and personal selling
Permission marketing The presentation of
The use of an
Marketing that aims marketing messages There are a range of marketing communication options
aggressive and
to build an ongoing at an event that is
unconventional additional to the traditional promotion mix
relationship with sponsored by an
marketing approach
customers unrelated business or
to grab attention
a competitor
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