Marketing Communications:- Marketing communication in
Common Language is known as Promotion.
It is practically an umbrella term for many types of promotional
activities:- Advertising, Public Relations, Sales Promotions, Personal Selling, Packaging, Point-of-Sale, and Direct marketing.
It consists of Persuasive Communication designed to send
marketing related messages to a target audience.
The shift from Product–Centered to Consumer–Centered
marketing strategies forced businesses to combine activities they had previously handled separately.
Now, marketing has emerged as a major function that
coordinate individual elements such as Product Development, Sales Promotion, Merchandising, Advertising and Market Research. Combining these activities produces a coordinated message structure called the Marketing Communication mix.
Implementing the communication mix in a coordinated
manner is called Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC).
The basic elements of the Marketing Communication mix is now
an integral part of most of the marketing plans.
These elements differ in their objectives, the type of customer
contact, and the time element of response, as shown in the table on the next slide:- Only two pages were converted. Please Sign Up to convert the full document.