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Strategic Marketing and Communications

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Upcoming Sessions
  May 16-19, 2010
$ 5,900
  October 17-20, 2010
$ 5,900
   
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
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Gain an in-depth understanding of the six generations that make up the “Nanosecond Culture” and how they impact all marketing communication messaging
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Understand the numerous marketing and communications media platforms available to all audiences receiving your messaging - including employees
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View communications more broadly than traditional media-delivered messages by planning what your brand communicates at each contact or touch point
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Develop an understanding of the importance of planning in all marketing and communications efforts across all generations and media
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Link marketing and communications activities to the larger objectives of the organization and understand the implications of a successful integrated marketing and communications strategy
 
"[This program] debunks many myths, fallacies and popular misconceptions about branding, marketing communications and segmentation. Thank goodness that common sense, listening and observation are back in style."

Senior Account Manager, Amgen Biotechnology

© Nathan Mandell
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Program Content
 

Marketing Strategy and Communications

Strategic framework for specific marketing decisions prior to developing communications

Marketing and Communicating Across Generational Lines - Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y

Leveraging marketing and communications to a strategic level so all generations see it the same way

Basic corporate goals in terms of creating customer, employee, and shareholder value

Understanding the different media used to market and communicate messages to audiences of any age

Creating Powerful Integrated Marketing Plans

Focus on creating a strong marketing plan to guide communication efforts

Understand why marketing plans matter, where plans go wrong, and the critical elements of the planning process

Learn the planning development process and how to connect plans, vision and positioning

Creating Customer-Centric Advocates

Strategic value targeting, customer insight, whole brand positioning and implementation, and integrating the whole range of “brand communications”

Organizational Imperatives for IMC

Building compelling brands by integrating their “total communications”

Tools to prioritize elements of the communications mix

Implications for allocating resources, organizational structures, processes, and metrics

Becoming (or Remaining) a Great Marketing Organization

Strategies for harmonizing human resources, business strategy, and organization structure with the brand

Role of the formal marketing department

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