Role of IMC in Marketing Process

Marketing and Promotions Process
Model
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Marketing and Promotions Process
Model (contd.)
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 Four major components:
 the organization’s marketing strategy and analysis,
 the target marketing process,
 the marketing planning program development (which includes
the promotional mix), and
 the target market.
 As the model shows, the marketing process begins with
the development of a marketing strategy and analysis in
which the company decides the product or service areas
and particular markets where it wants to compete.
 The company must then coordinate the various elements
of the marketing mix into a cohesive marketing program
that will reach the target market effectively.
 Promotions play an important role in the marketing
program for building and maintaining demand not only
among final consumers but among the trade as well. 3

Marketing Strategy and
Analysis
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 Marketing strategy is based on a situation analysis—a detailed assessment
of the current marketing conditions facing the company, its product lines,
or its individual brands.
 Situation analysis: a firm develops an understanding of the market and the
various opportunities it offers, the competition, and the market segments or
target markets the company wishes to pursue.
 Opportunity Analysis: Market opportunities are areas where there are
favorable demand trends, where the company believes customer needs and
opportunities are not being satisfied, and where it can compete effectively.
 Competitive Analysis: This may range from direct brand competition
(which can also include its own brands) to more indirect forms of
competition, such as product substitutes. At a more general level,
marketers must recognize they are competing for the consumer’s
discretionary income, so they must understand the various ways potential
customers choose to spend their money.
 Target Market Selection : The selection of the target market (or markets) in
which the firm will compete is an important part of its marketing strategy
and has direct implications for its advertising and promotional efforts.

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Target Marketing
Process
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 Identifying Markets: The marketer identifies the specific needs of groups of people (or
segments), selects one or more of these segments as a target, and develops marketing
programs directed to each.
 Target market identification isolates consumers with similar lifestyles, needs, and the
like, and increases our knowledge of their specific requirements.
 Market Segmentation: Dividing up a market into distinct groups that (1) have common
needs and (2) will respond similarly to a marketing action. The segmentation process
involves five distinct steps:
 Finding ways to group consumers according to their needs.
 Finding ways to group the marketing actions—usually the products offered—
available to the organization.
 Developing a market-product grid to relate the market segments to the firm’s
products or actions.
 Selecting the target segments toward which the firm directs its marketing actions.
 Taking marketing actions to reach target segments. 5

Target Marketing Process (contd.)

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Segmentation Bases
 Geographic Segmentation
 Demographic Segmentation
 Psychographic Segmentation
 Behavioristic Segmentation
 Benefit Segmentation

Selecting Target Markets
 Determining how many segments to enter and
 Undifferentiated marketing
 Differentiated marketing
 concentrated marketing
 Determining which segments offer the most potential.
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Target Marketing Process
(contd.)
Positioning
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 It has been defined as “the art and science of fitting the product or service to one
or more segments of the broad market in such a way as to set it meaningfully
apart from competition.”
 The position of the product, service, or even store is the image that comes to
mind and the attributes consumers perceive as related to it. This communication
occurs through the message itself, which explains the benefits, as well as the
media strategy employed to reach the target group.
Developing Positioning strategy
 By product attributes,
 By price/quality,
 By use,
 By product class,
 By users, and
 By competitor.
Repositioning
 One final positioning strategy involves altering or changing a product’s or
brand’s position. Repositioning a product usually occurs because of declining or
stagnant sales or because of anticipated opportunities in other market positions.
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(contd.)
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Determining the Positioning Strategy
 development of a positioning platform can be broken
into a six-step process:
 Identifying competitors
 Assessing consumers’ perceptions of competitors
 Determining competitors’ positions
 Analysing the consumers’ preferences
 Making the positioning decision
 Monitoring the position

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(contd.)
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Product Decisions
 An organization exists because it has some product, service, or idea to offer consumers, generally
in exchange for money. This offering may come in the form of a physical product (such as a soft
drink), a service (banking), a cause (United Way), or even a person (a political candidate).
 Product planning involves decisions not only about the item itself, such as design and quality,
but also about aspects such as service and warranties as well as brand name and package design.
 In an effective IMC program, advertising, branding, and packaging are all designed to portray
the product as more than just a bundle of attributes
Branding
 Choosing a brand name for a product is important from a promotional perspective
because brand names communicate attributes and meaning.
 Creating and maintaining brand equity, which can be thought of as an intangible
asset of added value or goodwill that results from the favorable image, impressions
of differentiation, and/or the strength of consumer attachment to a company name,
brand name, or trademark.

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(contd.)
Price Decisions
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 The price variable refers to what the consumer must give up to purchase a product or
service.
 Higher prices, of course, will communicate a higher product quality, while lower prices
reflect bargain or “value” perceptions. the price, the advertising, and the distribution
channels must present one unified voice speaking to the product’s positioning.
 Brands with high relative advertising budgets were able to charge premium prices,
whereas brands that spent less than their competitors on advertising charged lower prices.
 Companies with relatively high prices and high advertising expenditures showed a higher
return on investment than companies with relatively low prices and high advertising
budgets.
Distribution Channel Decisions
 Marketing channels, the place element of the marketing mix, are “sets of interdependent
organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or
consumption.”
 Consistent with the product and pricing decisions, where the product is distributed will
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Developing Promotional
Strategies
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 Programs designed to persuade the trade to stock, merchandise, and promote a
manufacturer’s products are part of a promotional push strategy.
 The goal of this strategy is to push the product through the channels of
distribution by aggressively selling and promoting the item to the resellers, or
trade.
 The company may use trade advertising to interest wholesalers and retailers
and motivate them to purchase its products for resale to their customers.
 Companies may turn to a promotional pull strategy, spending money on
advertising and sales promotion efforts directed toward the ultimate consumer.
The goal of a pull strategy is to create demand among consumers and
encourage them to request the product from the retailer.
 Whether to emphasize a push or a pull strategy depends on a number of
factors, including
 the company’s relations with the trade,
 its promotional budget, and
 Demand for the firm’s products.

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End of Chapter 2
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Thank You

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