Purpose and Value of Integrated Marketing
Amanda Taylor
December 16th, 2012
MKT 498
Instructor: Gary Queensberry
Marketing is an important area in any company. Integrated marketing is an area of the marketing world. This type of marketing can increase brand value and this allows for a high turnover on the company’s investments. We will review a company and describe the purpose and value of integrated marketing, as well as showing what value the plan adds to the company. Trends are always changing in the marketing world. It is important for companies to stay up to date on new trends in the marketing world. To stay up to date on these trends integrated marketing must take place and that allows for
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Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) is a simple concept that helps to ensure that the communications between the promotional implementations are interconnected properly so that they all work together harmoniously. This concept is also something that is not new in the world of marketing. “IMC is the coordination of the promotional mix elements (advertising, public relations, sales promotion, personal selling, direct marketing, and online marketing/social media) with each other and with the other elements of the brand’s marketing mix (product, place, price) such that all elements speak with one voice.”(pg. 12).
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) is a simple concept that helps to ensure that the communications between the promotional implementations are interconnected properly so that they all work together harmoniously. This concept is also something that is not new in the world of marketing. “IMC is the coordination of the promotional mix elements (advertising, public relations, sales promotion, personal selling, direct marketing, and online marketing/social media) with each other and with the other elements of the brand’s marketing mix (product, place, price) such that all elements speak with one voice.”(Shimp, 12).
At every stage of the new innovative product’s development or marketing, there are new ideas, input and assessment. Apple doesn’t have a separate “marketing department”, which controls all these strategies. In this case the whole company and Apple’s customers are the only marketing department.
In recent times, there has been a shift from mass marketing using mass communication to relationship marketing using Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). This shift has developed an emphasis on interaction and relationship building. IMC is the dominant communications marketing approach favoured by many organisations as together the various communication functions create synergy (Belch & Belch, 2012, chapter 1) that consequently builds reputability; short term financial returns and long term brand value (Schultz & Schultz, 2003). This argument will be developed through a discussion and examples of various IMC communication functions, with reference to the greater strategic results are possible with the successful use of IMC these include but are not limited to the development of relationships and brand identity and the ability to target various and specific audiences. The above will be discussed with reference to theorists Belch and Belch (2012), Percy (2014) and Schultz and Schultz (2003) among others, and the Tourism New Zealand 100% Pure New Zealand IMC campaign in order to provide a cohesive and integrated argument.
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