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Marketing Communications
Lecture 1:
Introduction. Overview of Marketing
Communications Process and Tools
Lecture Objectives
• Introduce the module
• Examine process of marketing communications • Consider role of marketing communications in strategic mix
• Discuss range of tools available
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Some Basic Definitions
Marketing: Management process which anticipates, identifies and satisfies customer requirements profitably or effectively
>marketing mix
Marketing Communications: Use of communications towards consumers, customers and prospects with the explicit purpose of influencing these groups
Corporate Communications: The management of communications between an organisation and all its stakeholders/publics
> sphere of PR
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Marketing Communications:
Key Dimensions
• Management process via which an organisation engages with its various audiences • Audiences are encouraged to offer (desired) behavioural and attitudinal responses
• Understanding of each audience is required to tailor the marketing communications in terms of message and tool
• Increasingly an integrated approach is adopted Leeds University Business School
Role of Marketing Communications
DRIP FRAMEWORK
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Differentiate
Reinforce/Remind
Inform
Persuade
[Bowersox and Marsh 1989, in Fill page 10]
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Differentiation: Gillette
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Remind: Kit Kat
Have a break. Have a Kit Kat.
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Inform: Virgin
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Persuade: Nike
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Marketing Communications Mix:
Traditional
Advertising
Direct marketing Target
Sales promotion Audience
Personal selling Public relations Leeds University Business