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Influencing Customers with Integrated Marketing

January 2009

For Technology Marketing Professionals
In today's saturated marketplace, integrated marketing communications (IMC) provides an efficient, cost-effective framework for delivering consistent messages across multiple channels. Keep reading and learn more about emerging trends, current research and successful IMC campaigns by top technology companies.
See best practices to improve your IMC.


New Trends: Driving an Integrated Marketing Campaign with Events
A report in the Medill School of Journalism's 2009 Journal of Integrated
Marketing Communications examines Cisco's use of events to drive integrated marketing. By joining Strategic Experience Mapping (SEM) with Portfolio Planning, Cisco delivers highly-targeted integrated marketing messages to a captive event audience.
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Research: Integrated Marketing Embraced by 75% of Marketers
According to a recent Association of National Advertisers member survey, integrated marketing communications (IMC) has been embraced by 75% of marketers. However, significant challenges to achieving optimal IMC performance remain, with only one quarter of marketers giving their firm's IMC efforts a "very good" or "excellent" rating.
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Client Spotlight: Integrated Marketing
McAfee, one of the world's largest dedicated security companies, uses integrated marketing to reach their customers with targeted, consistent messaging. McLellan Creative's team supported McAfee's recent "15 Minutes to a Secure Business" campaign.

"McLellan Creative constantly demonstrates their ability to quickly synthesize information and extract the key messages we want to deliver. Without their ability to produce high-quality, on target content in a very short time frame we would not have been able to meet our launch criteria. This was one of the most successful IMC launches to date."
--Susan Gibson, McAfee Global Marketing Programs Manager

See samples of McAfee's integrated marketing

Best Practices: Creating a Successful IM Campaign
Your successful IM campaign drives awareness. creates leads and demonstrates thought leadership. Review our Best Practices for IMC and contact the McLellan Creative writing team to refresh or create your integrated marketing program.

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