Title: DIRECT MARKETING and e-COMMERCE
1Chapter 7 THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
FOR PROMOTION and IMC 7.1
2Cultural Communications
- Culture - Total Way of a People, the Social
Legacy the Individual Acquires from His or Her
Group - Culture is Typically Invisible to Those Who are
Immersed In It, Making Communication Across
Cultures Difficult - 7.2
3Importance of International Communication
- Complex Social, Political Economic Changes
Affect International Communications Environment. - International Developments Relevant to the Rise
in International Commercial Communications - Development of Trading Blocs - May be Prelude to
a Rise in Nationalism - Loosening of Political and Economic Constraints
- 7.3
4Importance and Rise of International
Communication (cont)
- Liberalization of the Flow of Labor and Increase
in movements of Peoples Across Borders - Growing Size of Ethnic Groups From Elevated Birth
Rates - Rise of Cultural Borders and Barriers even as
Economic Barriers Begin to Fall - 7.4
5Overcoming Cultural Barriers in International
Promotion
- Barriers to Creating Successful International
Promotions - Ethnocentrism
- Self-Reference Criterion
- 7.5
6How Might This American Ad Be Viewed as
Ethnocentric 7.6
7Overcoming Cultural Barriers in International
Promotion (cont)
- Cross-Cultural Research Helps Overcome Barriers
- Secondary Data - Data Gathered by Someone Else
- for Some Other Purpose
- Primary Data - Specific Data Collection Unique to
a Promotional Situation - Economic Conditions
- Demographics Characteristics
- Values
- Custom Ritual
- Product Use Preference
- 7.7
8Challenges in International Advertising
- Creative Challenge
- Media Challenge
- Media Availability Coverage
- Media Costs Pricing
- Regulatory Challenge
- 7.8
9International Markets Prefer Different
Creative Executions
7.9
10Challenges in International Sales Promotion,
Direct Marketing and e-Commerce
-
- CHARACTERISTICES OF THE PRODUCT
- Product Prevalence Use
- As Competitive Environment Becomes More
Complex, Advertising Designed to Differentiate
Brands will Become More Predominant - Products Moving into Growth Stage will Need to
be Differentiated - 7.10
11Challenges in International Sales Promotion,
Direct Marketing and e-Commerce (cont)
- LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- All Forms of Production Direct Marketing are
Applicable in Highly Industrialized Markets - In Less Developed Countries - Lack of Wide
Range of Consumer Goods Low Income Make
Promotion a Non Issue - Few Competitors Serve these Markets
- Low Literacy Make Communication Difficult w/Print
Media - Without TV, Radio Newspaper, Direct marketing
is Undermined - Unsophisticated Mail Systems
- 7.11
12Challenges in International Sales Promotion,
Direct Marketing and e-Commerce (cont)
- LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (cont)
- Newly Industrialized Markets Better Environment
for Promotional Tools Must be Managed Carefully - Consumer Income Rises More Consumer Goods are
Introduced and Succeed - As Media Proliferate, Sales Promotions and Direct
Marketing can be Introduced Based on
Market-by-Market Assessment - 7.12
13Challenges in International Sales Promotion,
Direct Marketing and e-Commerce (cont)
- STRUCTURE OF TRADE CHANNELS
- Highly Developed Distribution Retailing Systems
Trade Channel Members Demand Support or Carry
Marketers Brand - Trade Allowances, Incentives, Point-of-Purchase
Displays Sampling - Must Have the Means to Handle Coupon Redemption
or Premium Distributions - Less Developed Trade Channels May Not be Able
to Use Traditional Promotional Techniques - Fragmentation of Trade Channels
- Retailers - No Way of Handling Coupons
- Some Countries So Small May Not be able to Handle
Point-of-Purchase - Trade Show
- 7.13
14Challenges in International Sales Promotion,
Direct Marketing and e-Commerce (cont)
- REGULATIONS
- Regulation of Promotion, Direct Marketing, and
- e-Commerce Varies Widely Market-to-Market
- Most Sales Promotion Tools are Legal Across
Europe - Sweepstakes are Either Heavily Banned or
Regulated in All European Markets - In Japan Value of Premium Offered with a
Product is Limited to 10 of the Value of the
Original Price -
- 7.14
15Promotions in International Markets Must be
Researched for Regulation and Legality
7.15
16Challenges in International Public Relations
- COMPANIES HAVE LESS CONTROL OVER GLOBAL PUBLICITY
RELATIVE TO DOMESTIC SITUATIONS, AND NO
CORPORATIONS ARE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO CONTROL A
HOST COUNTRYS MEDIA
7.16
17Promotion Agencies Around the World
- GLOBAL AGENCY
- Will Know Marketers Products Current Promotion
Program - Agency may then Either Adapt Domestic Campaigns
or Launch New Ones - Disadvantage is their Distance from Local
Culture. Exporting Meaning is Never Easy - INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE
- Set Up as a joint Venture w/Local Agencies
- Join Networks or Take Minority Ownership
- Benefits in this Arrangement
- LOCAL AGENCY
- Knowledgeable about Culture/Local Market
- Have Well-Established Contacts
- One Problem-Less Standardization of Creative
Effort - 7.17
18Standardized vs. Promotional Customized Campaigns
- STANDARDIZED CAMPAIGNS USE SAME APPEAL CREATIVE
EXECUTION ACROSS ALLINTERNATIONAL MARKETS - CUSTOMIZED CAMPAIGNS INVOLVE PREPARING CREATIVE
EXECUTIONS FOR EACH MARKET A FIRM HAS CREATED - A BRAND IS WELL SUITED FOR A STANDARDIZED
CAMPAIGN WHEN - Communication Primarily Uses Visual Appeal
- Communication is Culture-less
- Brands that are Standardized
- Products have Global Reputation
- 7.18
19Certain Product Lend Themselves to Standardized
Campaigns 7.19
20Standardized vs. Promotional Customized Campaigns
(cont)
- ENVIRONMENT FOR STANDARDIZED PROMOTION IS MORE
FAVORABLE DUE TO - Expansion of Global Communications Media
- Emergence of Global Teenager
- Trend Towards Universal Demographic Lifestyle
Trends - Americanization of Consumption Values
- 7.20
21Challenges in Developing Managing A Global
Sales Force
- DEVELOPING A GLOBAL SALES FORCE CAN BE ACHIEVED
WITH - Expatriate Personnel
- Local Nationals
- Third Country Nationals
- 7.22
22Challenges in Developing Managing A Global
Sales Force
- MANAGING THE GLOBAL SALES FORCE
- Training
- Expatriate
- Foreign National Personnel
- Training for Foreign Personnel
- Motivation Compensation
- Companies Must Consider Culture
- Guidelines Include Examining the Way Firms are
Compensating People - High Tax-Rate Countries Sales Personnel Push
for Packages instead of Direct Taxable Income - E.g., Cost of Living Allowances, Private School
Tuition, etc. -
7.23