setting up a marketing communication strategy
4A in pairs, discuss the following questions.
1 what is the difference between the PR department and the press office of a company?
2 How important do you think it is to organise an event when launching a new product?
3 what do you think of famous people endorsing products? Why do companies use celebrity endorsement?
B 8.4 One week after their initial meeting, the team at Cannada Media hold a follow-up meeting.
the head of PR and the press office manager are briefing the marketing manager on their activities.
listen to the beginning of the meeting and answer the following questions.
1 what is the main point discussion?
2 Does everyone at the meeting seem happy?
C 8.5 the meeting continues. listen and find three mistakes in the following activity scheduling document.
Activity Scheduling
Project: Sparkle relaunch
Description next Steps date Responsible
Sparkle availability Relaunched Sparkle available on market Sep 5 2008 marketing department
event Event to relaunch sparkle sep 15 PR dept
save-the-date send save-the-date for event july PR dept
invitation send invitation to celebrities, press, advertisers july PR dept
photo shoot shoots with celebrities march PR dept
press kit including: copy of Sparkle, press release, CD Ongoing PR dept
containing visuals of advertising campaign
D 8.5 Listen to Audio 8.5 again and complete the following extracts.
Discussing activity scheduling
1 the event our biggest advertisers, the managing directors of top jewellery brands and...
2 We'll send the invitations by july in order to make sure that they attend.
3 As soon as they're 100% confirmed, we'll for the shoot.
4 But it's also really that we get some positive articles written about the relaunch.
5 ... I assume you're to invite the chief editors of other Canada Media magazines to the event ...?
6 In the , we need to start generating some excitement about the event.
7 We'll have to send the celebrities a save-the-date March.
E 8.6 the meeting comes to an end. Listen and answer the following questions.
1 what else is being done to improve Sparkle's sales?
2 how will this be publicises?