Lecture

Marketing Communication: Strategies and Challenges

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MGT-401: Strategic marketing & technology commercialization

This course teaches students the power of building and implementing marketing strategies in order to help businesses to commercialize successfully their technological innovations.
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This lecture covers the steps involved in developing effective communication strategies, including identifying the target audience, determining objectives, designing communications, selecting channels, and measuring results. It also delves into the components of the marketing communication mix, such as advertising, sales promotion, events, public relations, direct marketing, and personal selling. The lecture further explores international communication, discussing global and multi-domestic advertising approaches, cultural considerations, and common barriers to communication in international marketing. Examples of advertising copy mistakes and cultural advertising hot spots are provided to highlight the importance of language and cultural sensitivity in global advertising campaigns.

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Marketing communications

Marketing Communications (MC, marcom(s), marcomm(s) or just simply communications) refers to the use of different marketing channels and tools in combination. Marketing communication channels focus on how businesses communicate a message to its desired market, or the market in general. It is also in charge of the internal communications of the organization. Marketing communication tools include advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, sponsorship, communication, public relations, social media, customer journey and promotion.

Marketing

Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emphasize in advertising; operation of advertising campaigns; attendance at trade shows and public events; design of products and packaging attractive to buyers; defining the terms of sale, such as price, discounts, warranty, and return policy; product placement in media or

Marketing mix

The term "marketing mix" is a foundation model for businesses, historically centered around product, price, place, and promotion (also known as the "4 Ps"). The marketing mix has been defined as the "set of marketing tools that the firm uses to pursue its marketing objectives in the target market". Marketing theory emerged in the early twenty-first century. The contemporary marketing mix which has become the dominant framework for marketing management decisions was first published in 1984.

Online advertising

Online advertising, also known as online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising, is a form of marketing and advertising which uses the Internet to promote products and services to audiences and platform users. Online advertising includes email marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), social media marketing, many types of display advertising (including web banner advertising), and mobile advertising.

Advertising agency

An advertising agency, often referred to as a creative agency or an ad agency, is a business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising and sometimes other forms of promotion and marketing for its clients. An ad agency is generally independent of the client; it may be an internal department or agency that provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services, or an outside firm. An agency can also handle overall marketing and branding strategies promotions for its clients, which may include sales as well.

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