Description General Instructions: • Please respond clearly and provide explanations for your answers. Support your responses with relevant theories, models, and data, and use professional and academic terminology. Illustrate your arguments with original examples not discussed in class. • You are encouraged to draw on a wide range of information sources to strengthen your answers and arguments. This should include a minimum of seven academic articles and at least seven additional sources from the following categories: books, popular press, magazines, blogs, vlogs, and online videos. All references must be recent—published within the past five years. • Compare and contrast the viewpoints and arguments presented in the articles you reference. • Provide comprehensive, clear, and visually engaging explanations for every model and theory employed in your responses. • Utilize charts, graphs, and tables to enhance the clarity and effectiveness of your communication. • References o Ensure that all sources contributing to your paper's ideas are clearly and accurately cited. Follow APA style guidelines (7th edition) for both in-text citations and reference list entries. o Construct your references with sufficient detail and hyperlinks to allow interested readers to retrieve the cited material with a single click. o Avoid using Wikipedia as a reference source. o If you employ AI tools in your work, provide a comprehensive description of their usage in the Appendix. Explain your objectives and include the prompts used. • Formatting: Font 12 pt Times New Roman, double-spaced, margins 2.5 cm (~1”). • Papers will not exceed 10 pages (References and Appendix excluded). Instructions: Please address the following marketing communication topics, processes, and strategies: 1. Utilizing Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) for effective relationship marketing management. 2. Harnessing big data in IMC: advantages, risks, and strategic considerations. 3. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in IMC: benefits, risks, and strategic implementations. 4. Enhancing value through IMC. In the present paper you are requested to discuss, explain and demonstrate each of the topics above. In order to guide you through the writing process, please elaborate on each of the following aspects: 1. How can marketers promote their brands and accomplish their objectives through the use of these processes/strategies? 2. What factors are influenced by these processes, and how do marketers, consumers, and media channels react to them? 3. How may brands and branding be affected? For example, is there a need to take additional brand elements into consideration? Does the factor of time play a role? 4. How might these processes affect other marketing or managerial decisions? For example, personal selling strategies and employee recruitment? 5. What opportunities (e.g., real-time marketing), benefits, and risks are associated with these processes? 6. Please provide notable success and failure stories related to these strategies. 7. Please present the latest developments and current trends in these areas. 8. When addressing topic #4 (enhancing value through IMC), please select two relevant student presentations of your choice (other than your own) and clearly apply your arguments to those examples.
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