2. Integrated Marketing Communication Direct Marketing Sales Promotion Advertising Public Relations Personal Selling The concept under which a company carefully integrates and coordinates its many communications channels to deliver a clear, consistent, compelling message about the organization and its products.

3. Advertising Budget Decisions Objective setting Media Decisions Message Decisions Campaign Evaluation

5. Advertising – Objective Setting (cont.)

6. Advertising – Budget Decisions Affordable Method Percentage-of-Sales Method Competitive-Parity Method Objective-and-Task Method

7. Advertising – Message Decision Message Strategy - Costumer benefit - Creative concept or Big Idea Advertising appeal should be - meaningful - believable - distinctive

8. Advertising – Message Decision Message Execution - Slice of life - Lifestyle - Fantasy - Mood or image - Musical - Personality symbol - Technical expertise - Scientific evidence - Testimonial evidence or endorsement

9. Advertising – Message Decision (cont.)

10. Advertising – Message Decision (cont.)

11. Advertising – Media Decision Small audience, relatively low impact; audience controls exposure High selectivity; low cost; immediacy; interactive capabilities Online Little audience selectivity; creative limitations Flexibility; high repeat exposure; low cost; low message competition; good positional selectivity Outdoor Long ad-purchase lead time; high cost; no guarantee of position High geographic and demographic selectivity; credibility and prestige; high quality reproduction; long life and good pass-along readership Magazines Audio only; fleeting exposure; low attention Good local acceptance; high geographic and demographic selectivity; low cost Radio Relatively high cost per exposure; “junk mail” image High audience selectivity; flexibility; no ad competition within the same medium; allows personalization Direct Mail High absolute costs; high clutter; fleeting exposure; less audience selectivity Good mass-market coverage; low cost per exposure; combines sight, sound and motion; appealing to the senses TV Short life; poor reproduction quality; small pass-along audience Flexibility; timeliness ; good local market coverage; broad acceptability; high believability Newspaper Limitations Advantages Medium

12. Advertising – Evaluation Communication effects Sales effects

13. Sales Promotion Sales promotion consists of short term incentives to encourage purchase or sales of a product or service.

14. 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.