Marketing Communications Tools

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
The role that advertising plays in influencing our thoughts and behaviour.
Advertising as an independent discipline.
The use of selling propositions, and the role of emotion in advertising.
Different types or forms of advertising.
Ways in which advertising can be used strategically.
Issues associated with consumer-generated advertising.
The nature and characteristics of public relations.
The main audiences to which public relations activities are directed.
The role of public relations in the communications mix.
Ways in which public relations works.
Some of the main methods and approaches used by public relations.
The nature and context of crisis management.
How sponsorship activities have developed and the main characteristics of these forms of communications.
Reasons for the use of sponsorship and the types of objectives that might be set.