Chapter Six
Marcom Objective
Setting and Budgeting
 2007 Thomson South-Western
Setting Marcom Objectives
Goals that the various marcom elements
aspire to individually or collectively
achieve during a scope of time such as
a business quarter or fiscal year.
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Some Marcom Objectives
• Facilitate the successful introduction of
new brands.
• Build sales of existing brands by
increasing the frequency of use, the
variety of use, or the quantity purchased.
• Inform the trade and consumers about
brand improvements.
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Marcom Objectives
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Create brand awareness
Enhance a brand’s image
Generate sales leads
Persuade the trade to handle the
manufacturer’s brands
• Stimulate point-of-purchase sales
• Increase customer loyalty
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Marcom Objectives
• Improve corporate relations with special
interest groups
• Offset bad publicity about a brand or
generate good publicity
• Counter competitors’ communication
efforts
• Provide customers with reasons for buying
immediately instead of delaying a
purchase
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Why Set Marcom Objectives
• Expression of management consensus
• Guides the budgeting, message, and
media aspects of advertising strategy
• Provide standards against which results
can be measured
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The Hierarchy of Marcom Effects
 The hierarchy of
effects metaphor
implies that for
marketing
communications
to be successful
it must move
consumers from
one goal to the
next goal.
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The
Hierarchy
Of Effects
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Advancing Consumers From
Unawareness to Awareness
• Advertising (mass media or otherwise) is
generally the most effective and efficient
method for quickly creating brand
awareness.
• Building knowledge & understanding:
Creating an Expectation
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Hierarchy of Effects
Encouraging
Trial
Purchases
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Hierarchy of Effects
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Forming Beliefs and Attitudes
Reinforcing Beliefs and Attitudes
Accomplishing Brand Loyalty
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Requirements for Setting Suitable
Marcom Objectives
• Include a precise statement of who, what, and
when
• Be quantitative and measurable
• Specify the amount of change whenever
possible
• Be realistic
• Be internally consistent
• Be clear and put it in writing
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Should Marcom Objectives Be Stated
in Terms of Sales?
Presales Objectives:
communication
objectives that attempt
to increase the target
audience’s brand
awareness, enhance
their attitudes toward
the brand, shift their
preferences from the
competitors’ brand and
so on.
Sales Objectives:
means the marcom
objective literally is to
increase sales by a
particular amount.
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Should Marcom Objectives Be Stated
in Terms of Sales?
Traditional View (Thesis)
• Sales volume is the consequence of
a host of factors in addition to
marcom
• Effect of marcom efforts is delayed
• Problem: Communication objectives
don’t necessarily translate into sales
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Sales Volume as
a Marcom Objective
Heretical View (Antithesis)
• Marcom’s purpose is to generate
sales
• Sales measures are “vaguely right”
• Problem: Too many other factors
influence sales
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An Accountability Perspective
(Synthesis)
• Chief executives and financial officers are
demanding greater accountability from
marcom programs.
• The measurement of effects of a program
should not stop short of measuring the
effect on sales.
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Marcom Budgeting in Theory
• The best(optimal) level of any investment is the
level that maximizes profits(MR=MC)
• Advertisers should continue to increase their
advertising investment as long as it is profitable
to do so
– Every additional dollar spent on MARCOM brings in
more than a dollar in revenue (MR>MC), it is profitable
to continue MARCOM spending.
– If the additional dollar spent on MARCOM brings in
less than a dollar in revenue (MR<MC), MARCOM
spending needs to be cut.
– Thus profits are maximized when MR = MC
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Sales-to-Advertising Response
Function
The relationship between money invested in
advertising and the response, or output, of
that investment in terms of revenue
generated.
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An Example of a Sales-toAdvertising Response Function
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Practical Budgeting Methods
• Percent-of-Sales Budgeting
• Objective-and-Task Method
• Competitive Parity Method
(match competitors’ method)
• Affordability Method
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Percentage-of-Sales Budgeting
• A company sets a brand’s advertising
budget by simply establishing the
budget as a fixed percentage of past or
anticipated sales volume
• Criticized as being illogical
Sales=f(Advertising) (o)
Advertising=f(Sales) (x)
• During recession?
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Objective-and-Task Method
• The most sensible and defendable
advertising budgeting method
• Specify what role they expect advertising
to play for a brand and then set the
budget accordingly
• Build upwards by costing activities
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The Competitive Parity Method
• Sets the ad budget by basically following what
competitors are doing
• SOM- (share of market) the ratio of one
brand’s revenue to total category revenue
• SOV- (share of voice) the ratio of a brand’s
advertising expenditures to total category
advertising expenditures
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Advertising Spend, SOV, and SOM
for Top-10 Wireless Phone Brands
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Advertising Spend, SOV, and SOM
for Top-10 Beer Brands
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The SOV/SOM Effect and Ad
Spending Implications
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Affordability Method
• Only the funds that remain after
budgeting for everything else are spent
on advertising
• Only the most unsophisticated and
impoverished firms
• However, affordability and competitive
considerations influence the budgeting
decisions of all companies
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