International Marketing Campaigns (IMC)

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This paper explains that, when developing an international marketing campaign (IMC) in a global and diverse competitive environment, one of the first challenges is that different nations across the world embrace different standards of ethical advocacy and regulate marketing and advertising in different ways. The author points out that taking advantage of a country's greater overall naivete or less stringent government regulations regarding the divulging of information, such as cigarette warning labels, might be effective marketing but hardly ethical. The paper relates that a country, which is tolerant of its own national corporations' foibles, might be less tolerant of a United States company engaged in similar practices.

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"The increased scrutiny to such 'word of mouth' campaigns in the American media made such an ethical manifesto a necessity for companies to embrace, rather than a free ethical choice. In other European nations, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, cynicism about marketing practices runs equally high. A 2003 Daily Telegraph newspaper poll in the UK found "on a net trust rating (calculated by subtracting the negative percentage score from the positive) ministers in government came out with a lamentable score of minus 49 per cent and directors who run large companies fared even worse, being right at the bottom with minus 56 per cent." But what should one do in the case of marketing to a nation where a technique of water cooler buzz by paid advocates in ordinary offices is not so scrutinized, and ethical standards by marketing executives are notably, and acceptably more lax?"

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