Managing Marketing Communications

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the key elements to the success of a marketing, sales, or public relations campaign are the abilities to target audiences and to respond effectively to consumers' ever-changing wants, needs, and desires. The author points out that traditional large-budget mass advertising and marketing campaigns are no longer considered the most effective mechanisms for moving products and services; rather, more focused campaigns, which take into consideration target markets and consumer objectives and preferences, are necessary. The paper stresses that most effective marketing plans and campaigns serve as tools to help move consumers into a manufacturer or retailer?s corner and to keep them buying into a particular market share.

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Introduction
Sales Campaigns
Public Relations
Marketing
Advertising
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"More than 36 percent of public relations professionals claim that finding strategic direction is difficult. Most public relations campaigns fail due to lack of appropriate insider knowledge regarding industry and business issues and a lack of ability to communicate among professionals and consumers. An effect PR campaign is destined to fail if the individuals promoting it have not aligned their goals with those of the corporation they are representing; at the same time, PR professionals have a duty to understand the industry in which they are working. Without adequately understanding the market they are promoting, PR professionals can't hope to design campaigns that instill confidence in consumers."

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