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Communications Flashcards

1
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What is communications?

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“To share”
“to make accessible”

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What is Marcom?

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The use of different marketing channels and tools in combination to communicate to the customer

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3
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Draw the macro model of the communication process

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Sender
Encoding
Message/Media
Decoding
Receiver
Response/ Feedback
Noise

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What is a marketing communication mix?

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It comprises of various ways that a company can communicate with their customers

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5
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What components of Marcom are important in this time and day?

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Communications mix
Marketing vehicles

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What are some tools in the Marcom Mix?

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Advertising
Sales Promotion
Events and experiences
Public relations and publicity
Online and social media marketing
Mobile marketing
Direct and database marketing
Personal selling

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What is advertising?

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Any form of non personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods and services by and identified sponsor via print media, broadcast media, network media, electronic media and display media

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What is sales promotion?

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A variety of short term incentives to encourage trial or purchase of a product or service including consumer promotions, trade promotions, and business and sales force promotions

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9
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Give examples of Print Media in advertising?

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Newspapers
Magazines

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Give examples of Broadcast Media in advertising?

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Radio
Television

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Give examples of Network media in advertising?

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Telephone
Cable
Satellite
Wireless

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Give examples of Electronic media in advertising??

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Audiotape
Videotape
Video CD
Web pages

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Give examples of Display media in advertising??

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Billboards
Signs
Posters

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14
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In Sales promotions what is consumer promotions?

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Samples
Coupons
Premium

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In Sales promotions what is trade promotions?

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Advertising and display allowances

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In Sales promotions what is sales force promotion?

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Contests for sales reps

17
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What are the types of sales promotions?

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On pack gift (premiums)
Additional quantity at same price
Price off
Coupons
Contests and sweepstakes

18
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What are the common PR activities?

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Publicity
Media management
Corporate image/reputation
Research and counselling
Internal marketing
Shareholders and other financial relations
Lobbying
Crisis management
Community relations

19
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What are communication objectives?

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They are what the company seeks to be. Objectives should be SMART:
S- Strategic
M- Measurable
A- Actionable
R- Realistic
T- Timely

And also: communicable and aspirational

20
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How do we determine the communication objectives?

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By understanding the consumer wants and needs

Awareness
Knowledge
Liking
Preference
Conviction
Purchase

21
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Explain the steps of setting communication objectives

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First build awareness and knowledge
Liking: Do consumers like the product/ what do they feel
Preference: preferring your product against rest
Conviction: believing that a product/service is best for them
Purchase

22
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What are the stages of a product life cycle?

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Introduction
Growth
Maturity
Decline

23
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What are the communication objectives of the different stages of the product life cycle?

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introduction: Create awareness and inform that there is an alternative

Growth: Brand building, new features and channel development

Maturity: Maintain and increase market share (promote other uses, expand scope, brand extension)

Decline: Minimal marcom expenditure

24
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What are the two categories of communication channels?

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Personal
Non- personal

25
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What are personal communication channels?

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Where two or more people communicate directly with each other
eg: face to face, on the phone, through email, text or chat

Word of mouth influence

Buzz marketing

26
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What are non-personal communication channels?

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Media that carries messages without personal contact or feedback including major media and events

eg; major media: print, broadcast, online

Atmospheres: designed environments that create or reinforce the buyers leaning towards a purchase

Events: Staged occurences to communicate messages to audience
eg: grand openings, exhibits, tours

27
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What are the pros and cons of advertising?

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Pros:
Can reach masses at low cost per exposure
Repeat a message
Give legitimacy (affirms sellers size, success and popularity)
Allows company to dramatize through art, visuals, print, sound and colour

Cons:
Impersonal
Costly

28
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What are the pros and cons of personal selling?

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Pros:
personal interactions
allows wide range of customer relationships
Consumer feels the need to listen and respond

Cons:
Sales force is a large commitment and difficult to change
More expensive

29
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What are the pros and cons of sales promotion?

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Pros:
Attract attention, engage consumers and offers strong incentives to perform
Invites and rewards quick response

Cons:
Short lived effect
not as effective as advertising and personal selling in terms of building brand preference and consumer relationships

30
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What are the pros of public relations?

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Believable
Reach consumers who avoid salespeople/ads
Can dramatize a product

31
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What are the pros of direct and digital marketing?

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More targeted
Immediate and personalized
Interactive

32
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What are the budgeting methods in IMC?

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Affordable method
Percentage of sales method
Competitive parity method
Objective and task method

33
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Define affordable method?

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Setting the promotion budget at the level management thinks the company can afford

34
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Define percentage of sales method?

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Setting the promotion budget at a certain percentage of current or forecasted sales or percentage of the unit sales price

35
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Define competitive parity method?

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Setting the promotion budget to match competitor’s outlays

36
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Define objective and task method

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Developing the promotional budget by:
1. Defining specific promotion objectives
2. Determining the tasks needed to achieve the objectives
3. Estimating costs of performing the tasks
Sum of these costs is the promotion budget

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