Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy
 Introduction 

In today’s information filled world, marketers have to communicate effectively and efficiently with their target audience to grab and hold their attention. In fact, marketing communications are perceived as a core activity, central to strategic management and thought in successful organisations.

Increasingly, due to media fragmentation, progressive marketers are approaching advertising and promotion from an "Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) perspective so that they can send cohesive messages to their customers cost-effectively. This undoubtedly calls for coordinating the various promotion mix elements with other marketing activities (e.g sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing etc) to achieve synergy. Indeed, integrated marketing communications focuses on the intersection and synthesis of marketing communications with strategic marketing to meet the overall business objectives.

 Course Objective 

Through the training course, participants are expected to be able to perform the follows :
  • managing marketing communications tools to attain ultimate corporate objectives.
  • strategically plan and manage all major marketing communications task systematically.
  • coordinating the various elements of marketing communications to ensure consistency.
 Who should attend 
  • Marketing people
  • PR practitioners
  • Advertising practitioners
  • Corporate Communication & Public Affairs Executives
 Methodology 
  • A mix of lecture, case study, exercise and group discussion

 Course Outline 
  • Introduction to Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
  • The role of IMC in the Marketing Process
  • Communication strategy on Source, Message and Channel
  • Promotion Program : objectives setting and budgeting
  • Creative Strategy Planning
  • Creative Strategy Implementation
  • Media Strategy and Planning
  • Sales Promotion
  • Public Relations
Duration : Three days programme
Medium of Instruction : Cantonese supplemented with English
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