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INDUS UNIVERSITY
Learn Well To Live Well
2
Integrated Marketing
Communication
Major Dr. Usman Farooq (Retd)
Indus University
1. IMC – what, why how
2. Persuasion and Segmentation
3. Advertising and Management –
Planning and Analysis
4. Advertising Strategy and
Implementation
Lecture 5. Real Life examples of Advertising
Breakdown campaigns
6. Target Market
7. Marketing Segmentation
8. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
9. Midterm – Assignment
10. Brand positioning – Case study
11. Product and services
12. IMC & Brand Messages, IMC &
Communication Planning, IMC & Media
Planning, IMC & Message
Lecture Planning
Breakdown 13. Customer journey & behavior
14. Case studies for Promotion and ads
15. Media planning and Placing strategy
16. Project discussion
17. Final exam
LECTURE 1
IMC – what, why how
• Integrated is the term used to
describe things or people that are
integrated have been brought
together, so that they live or work
together. They're no longer apart or
Integrated segregated. When something is
integrated, it's united — different
things are now together, especially
things that used to be apart.
• Marketing is the activity, set of institutions,
and processes for creating, communicating,
delivering, and exchanging offerings that have
Marketing value for customers, clients, partners, and
society at large.
(American Marketing Association)
• Communication is simply the act of transferring
information from one place, person or group to
Communication another. Every communication involves (at least) one
sender, a message and a recipient.
Integrated Marketing Communication
• Integrated marketing communication (IMC) can be defined as
the process used to unify marketing communication elements,
such as public relations, social media, audience analytics,
business development principles, and advertising, into a brand
identity that remains consistent across distinct media channels.
• IMC plan is a portion of the marketing plan
that involves all promotional aspects of the
marketing plan. All communications with
customers, including but not limited to
• personal selling
Integrated • consumer sales promotions
Marketing • trade (channel) promotions
Communication • advertising
• public relations
• corporate as well as product
positioning
• customer service experiences
Traditional Approach to Marketing Communications
Sales
Point of Publicity promotion
purchase
Media Packaging
Special Adver-
events tising Direct
response
Public
relations
Interactive
Direct marketing
marketing
Sales Direct
Packaging
promotion response
Media
Point of
purchase Adver-
Public
tising relations
Publicity
Interactive
marketing Direct
Special
marketing
events
• The strategic
integration of
multiple means of
communicating with
target markets to
form a
comprehensive,
consistent message.
Reasons for the Growing Importance of IMC
From Toward
Media advertising Multiple forms of communication