Integrated Marketing Communications Strategies
1h 1mBeginner2025-01-02
Authors

Dina Shapiro
Brand Strategist, Marketing Executive, Founder of Yorkville Consulting
Course details
Disconnected marketing communications confuse customers and make it hard to know what a brand stands for and why you should buy it. On the other hand, an integrated marketing communication strategy ensures consistent, relevant messages across touch points to differentiate from competition and attract and retain customers. In this course, instructor Dina Shapiro covers how to identify and overcome barriers to integration; how to conduct a SWOT analysis to differentiate from competitors; how to use brand storytelling to integrate your marketing strategy; and how you can leverage customer insights to integrate across paid-owned-earned touch points, and measure and optimize. Join Dina as she shares examples and the tools you need to write an integrated marketing communication strategy that will help you engage customers, build your brand, and improve internal team collaboration.
Skills covered
Marketing StrategyMarketingOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - What is integrated marketing communications
1. Identify and Overcome Barriers
- 02 - Identify marketing integration challenges
- 03 - Overcome marketing integration barriers
- 04 - Example - Overcoming integration barriers
2. Know Your Competition
- 05 - Define and differentiate your competitive set
- 06 - Transform SWOT into opportunity analysis
- 07 - Use AI-powered competitive intelligence tools
- 08 - Example - Identifying market opportunities
3. Align Your Strategy and Brand
- 09 - Integration starts with your brand
- 10 - Engaging customers with integrated brand storytelling
- 11 - Brand storytelling in action
4. Leverage Customer Insights
- 12 - Omnichannel vs. integrated marketing
- 13 - Helping your brand connect with customers
- 14 - Use AI-powered personalization techniques
- 15 - Example - Paid, owned, earned integration
5. Measure and Optimize
- 16 - Measure with integrated KPIs
- 17 - Optimize with a performance dashboard
- 18 - Use AI to optimize your touchpoint mix
- 19 - Example - Integrated KPIs
Conclusion
- 20 - IMC is an ongoing process