Abstract This paper presents a case study of Taiwan Buddhism website. It discusses different strategies that may be used for preaching Buddhism in the Buddhism website, the differences between web-based learning and commerce learning offered by the Buddhism website, the development of Chinese Buddha in the 21st Century, helpfulness of internet to various kinds of religions, and the benefits from internet marketing to the religious groups. Also in comparing the methods and strategies for preaching doctrines of religious groups, we compare the traditional model with the internet one. In addition, this article aims to explore the internet users¡¦ satisfaction levels toward the Taiwanese Buddhism websites using internet integrated marketing communications strategies. This research uses the questionnaire survey as the research method to understand the acceptance of Buddhism internet users. We aim to explore if the Buddhist eCollege on the Buddhism website to meet expectation of Buddhism internet users via questionnaire survey analysis. According to the preliminary analysis of the result of questionnaire survey, we understand the result of sample via basic information statistic of users and satisfaction data analysis of each dimension to understand the feeling of users after filling in the questionnaires and surfing FGS Tienyen Buddhist eCollege to serve as the reference of constructing the satisfaction model of the said website. The results show that the style of preaching presented on the website of the religious groups can meet the requirement of internet users of Buddha website in both the tangible and intangible aspects from satisfaction level of each dimension. In addition, it does affect the internet users both in their daily lives and careers.

A review of current integrated marketing communication (IMC) literature indicates that IMC has swept the globe. IMC has become the normative marketing practice for organizations to promote their goods and services, as well as an increasingly popular area of academic study. At the same time, literature shows inconsistency in IMC's professional practice and academic instruction. An increasing number of IMC theorists suggest that “true” IMC involves reorienting an organization to become consumer-focused and responsive at every level. This broader vision for IMC points to the discipline's communicative underpinnings. It is dialogic, other-oriented and interpretive in nature, yet most organizations and academics that claim to practice and teach IMC treat it as a “simple managerial task”—mere tactical coordination of marketing elements (Schultz and Patti 75). This dissertation supplements current literature to establish IMC's rhetorical and philosophical roots and provides a perspective about how organizations can achieve greater communicative understanding with their stakeholders by considering IMC from a humanities and constructive hermeneutic standpoint. By understanding the discipline as humanistic and situated in lived practices, rhetorical and philosophical acumen becomes the missing link between tactical implementation and IMC's full potential. This praxis-oriented approach moves IMC beyond the limitations of the social sciences and into the philosophy of communication to offer better insight into how IMC is an interpretive encounter that demands attentiveness to and communicative engagement with the other. / McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts; / Communication and Rhetorical Studies / PhD; / Dissertation;

摘　要 整合行銷傳播(Integrated Marketing Communication；IMC)旨在透過綜效(synergy)的整合，提供顧客與潛在顧客清晰一致的訊息，以發揮最大的傳播效益，其帶動行銷理念與方式的革命性轉變，是今日傳播業界無法抗拒的風潮。然而，整合行銷傳播的定位，至今仍未具共識。Tom Duncan等學者認為：IMC 不僅是個流行而是趨勢，近年來，美國AAAA的廣告公司已將整合行銷傳播視為一種「新式廣告」(new advertising)；公關界將其視為「行銷帝國主義」(marketing imperialism)，為了驗證整合行銷傳播的概念與操作過程，學界人士已與業者合作，試行IMC運作模式，得到初步成效；但仍有學者批評IMC不具應用與管理實務性，以學術理論的標準，不足以成一家之言(Slon,1994等)。因此，本研究即將重點放在近年來各學派對IMC之理論文獻整理，另一方面檢視IMC在媒体業界的應用領域。 有線電視媒體因為業態屬性和通路特性，具有廣告客戶與觀眾兩層目標顧客，並具有資料庫建立途逕，理當具有應用IMC的可行性，因此本研究選用有線電視頻道為業態，期望能整理一套適用於有線電視界的整合行銷傳播模式，提供業者作為行銷傳播的經營參考。 本文屬於探索性研究，藉由國內外相關文獻的整理，來建立IMC理論架構，再以個案研究法，分析實務個案之三家頻道-三立電視台、迪士尼頻道、與太陽衛視，驗證架構得出結論，本研究發現：IMC的確可應用於有線電視頻道，具有提升品牌資產之正面價值，並可藉由IMC之策略義涵：建立觀眾資料庫、觀眾分類、企業利益關係人之分析與溝通、傳播工具之整合運用、以及組織架構整合等，達成綜效之行銷傳播效益。

Problem:  Integration of social media tools in marketing practice of B2B companies is not a widespread phenomenon yet. However, particular patterns of involvement already exist. Companies get connected through social media and they use Web 2.0 tools to engage the customers in communication and to interact and build relationships with them.   Purpose: The overall purpose of this thesis is to deepen and broaden the knowledge of the application of social media into the communication strategy of B2B micro-firms. It aims to compare the integration of social media in direct and indirect, or through publications in press, ways of communicating the customers, and investigates if social media are an appropriate tool to build relationships with the customers.    Method:  In order to fulfil the research purpose, authors conducted a case study research, used an inductive approach, and gathered the primary data through observation and interviews. Respondents were representing a supplying company, mass media professionals and retailing companies.   Conclusion:  Integrating of social media channels can be performed through linking different online platforms of the company, engaging its business partners in joint projects and following customers’ preferences in their choice of the appropriate channels. Results of the study illustrate that social media can empower the companies to create, maintain and reinforce relationships both with customers and mass media professionals. The study differentiates various social media platforms in their relevance for communication with customers and mass media professionals. It demonstrates that the blend of the social media and traditional platforms employed by a company is not a constant, but rather a dynamic combination, coordinated with the goals and resources of the company and its marketing strategy. Finally, it suggests companies to be consistent and persistent in developing their social media strategy, providing timely and constantly updated information.

With the social progress in Taiwan, people have a wider choice of forms of recreation. Many changes have taken place in Taiwan's theaters since 1980 when theaters set up sequentially. Although some theaters have grown up and some vanished, as a form of recreation, the role of theater art has become more and more important. A theater has to count on box office to survive. In Taiwan, a main income of theater is the box office, which is chiefly concerned with its marketing strategies. In the past few years, performing arts groups have gradually adopted the business concepts of administration and marketing. It is impossible for the audience to perceive the full content and quality of a performance before making a purchase decision. Instead, the audience has to depend on past experiences, praises from others, or the promotional messages to support the decision. Among those, a theater can have a large control over the promotional messages sent out through their marketing channels. The traditional marketing strategies emphasized on delivering messages to target markets, but neglected their consistency. Thus, the communications elements, such as advertising, direct marketing, sale promotion, public relations, etc., were executed respectively, and could not approach the optimal effectiveness. Hence, Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) rose up in 1990s and brought a new trend in marketing. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the IMC application in Ping-Fong Action Troupe by case study and in-depth interview. In the end, the researcher summarizes the IMC application in Ping-Fong Action Troupe on each tool, exams the consistency, and states researcher's own advices.

The main purpose of the integrated marketing communication is to consolidate various marketing modes, to provide customers and prospects with clear and consistent information, and to bring the most benefits of communications. In these years, the direct-selling businesses have stepped on the right track, and have expelled the illegal or weak brands from this market. The existing companies and products are with competition-advantageous brands in the MLM market. The integrated marketing communications are becoming more important as it makes the customers focus on the uniqueness of the products and buy the products. This study discovers that the Bionatural (¦Ê¤ºº¸) Co. has achieved the merits of delivering clear and consistent image and information in using integrated marketing communication. It is in an advantageous position in the niche market that the Bionatural (¦Ê¤ºº¸) Co. held the rights of selling high-tech products in the 21st century. The purpose of multi-level marketing is the personnel marketing. It is using the principle of multiple markets and through the sharing power of customers¡¦ public praise in nice response, to set up a large selling system, and to let these customers obtain rational rewards. So it is not like any traditional companies using stores to sell their products. With fully utilizing communication tools, besides the traditional communication model of one-to-one, every direct selling co. in this study has used TV, newspapers, broadcast, magazines, and network to shape a clear image. This study provides 6 items of suggestion for the direct selling co. in the planning of integrated marketing communications: 1. Attach importance to the integrated marketing communications for companies and sellers synchronously. 2. Grasp the market¡¦s changes and trends. 3. Operate with the emphasis on major customers. 4. Focus on every opportunity where the brand comes to interface. 5. Utilize the various tools of communications to result in a better reword plan. 6. Incorporate network marketing resources to enhance the image of direct selling co.

Abstract Since parts of audio broadcasting channels were open, the audio broadcasting company of the business competes to tend the vehemence more, the marketing policy of the audio broadcasting company is also continuously innovative, each audio broadcasting company through the united broadcasting of the system, operate with consociation or the strategic alliance etc. method extends him to listen to the scope, rising the audience rating and popularity. New audio broadcasting company of the business make use of the idea of the Integrated Marketing Communication to be used as its main strategy to consider and the tactics is used as, and rising successful to grow in the commerce, led the tendency in this field. Integrated Marketing Communication to make use of and the result is a purpose of study of this research. The plan of this research aim at the ninth turn to open in the audio broadcasting company of the middle power, he make use of the actual situation of the Integrated Marketing Communication to take into the interview, record, investigate and inquire into, special choice of this research is among them biggest of the scale the syndication, the Sunshine United Broadcasting Network to an example, this research acquire of the conclusion is following: 1. It is very important that explicit audio broadcasting company position the management of the audio broadcasting company in present, for audio broadcasting company in the aspects of programming program strategy and selling, can provide to know of according to follow the principle, integrating the audio broadcasting company the inner part the resource, and announce the claim of the communication of the consistent, reaching the result of Integrated Marketing Communication. 2. Under limitedly of the resource the term, from make use of the tool of the marketing arbitrarily, turning into the Integrated Marketing Communication, and further investigate the analysis to be used as the resource the coordination the basis of the application. 3. Should enhance the publicity of the audio broadcasting company, with exaltation audio broadcasting company popularity, and establish the database of the audience, keep on renewing to maintain the usefulness of the database, from serve any consumer, change is serve particular consumer, support and audience of long-term relation. 4. The audio broadcasting company which counts on the advertisement revenue, should operate the relation of the consumer, provide diverse interactive ways to contact and communicate with consumers to build up permanent relationships, enhance the relationship network of each other, maintaining the benefits of each other. 5. Carry on Integrated Marketing Communication which is from outside in, regarding need of the audience and the customer of the advertisement as the core of the marketing policy, according to need of the audience and the customer of the advertisement, establish to order good and valid method of the marketing and ways, develop the strategy of the persuasion of the message, message that establish the audio broadcasting company and audience and the customer of the advertisement to give something back to and interact the relation, keeping on with consumer for direction of marketing policy. 6. The core marketing strategies of program quality, the celebrity hosts, activities, advertise and public relationships should be adopted and integrated with extended tactics. While asking for the customer of the advertisement, integrating the marketing communication strategies with plan of the program, the programming of the time and promotion project etc. To coordinate the actual need of advertises customers and resources of the audio broadcasting company.

Taiwan Island has magnificent resources, one of them is fishery industry, which happens to be one of Taiwan¡¦s major economical activities. Seafood is considered by the people general to be a health choice, primarily for its assortment, tenderness, high nutrition of values and low in both calories and cholesterols. Gallant Ocean International Inc. exports 66% of Taiwan¡¦s total annual seafood productions, indicating its industry leading status and capacity. To the current Taiwanese seafood industry, there is only focus in seafood processing and production, and commonly lacks the knowledge and experience of marketing, branding and distribution channels. It is the aim of the study to discuss and explore the operations and influences of corporate integrated purchasing, e-commerce, organic produce channels, marketing activities and Blog marketing; based on the case study of Gallant Ocean International Inc. In the research design perspective, this study employs Gallant Ocean International Inc. as the primary research target, by adapting exploratory analysis of single case study, qualitative case study research and in-depth interviews to acquire the necessary data for research purpose. The case study intends to provide a reference business model in the domestic traditional industries for the transition and development from B to B to B to C. This study has observed that the Taiwanese traditional industries¡¦ development of B to C possesses the following trends: 1.The establishment of ¡§Own-Brand¡¨ has an influential effect on market development: developing own-brand is a current trend and also an assurance to quality. Transforming product to brand does not only require product being ¡§consumer-focus¡¨, but also needs to take into consideration of the quality and competitiveness. This is particularly important in order to attain seafood ¡§quality¡¨, ¡§freshness¡¨ and ¡§safety¡¨ being the primary considerations. 2.¡§Integrated marketing¡¨ has concrete results in operational effectiveness: Effective utilization of actual and E-channels in integrated marketing have concrete operational results in developing B to C retailing market. 3.Adaptation of ¡§Blog marketing¡¨ to establish virtual communities: Blogs have become increasingly popular due to its easiness to use, with low technical barrier, free of charge provides direct of interaction between both parties. Blog, being a free community marketing channel have attracted many B to C corporate utilizing them for relationship marketing. Finally, this research will present an argument for ¡§people being the most critical factor for domestic traditional industries in developing B to C markets.¡¨ Consequently the decision markers¡¦ decision-making ability and adaptation of integrated marketing tools are the critical success factors for the traditional industries¡¦ B to C markets¡¦ development.

The title of the study is “The use of advergames in creating online consumer engagement. A casestudy of LEGO.” In this study the concept of using advergames in creation of online consumerengagement will be explored. In order to narrow the scope of the study two research questionswere established: What are the elements of advergames that drive online consumer engagement?;How are advergames currently used by the market leading company in its marketing campaignsin order to create online consumer engagement? The outcome of the research can help deepenthe current knowledge of scholars and practitioners in their communication and brand buildingevolving advergames and the creation of customer engagement in this area.In order to gain more knowledge of online consumer engagement and advergames, numerousliterary sources were used such as: papers, articles, books, and annual reports of LEGO. Thecollected data is supported by a vary of interviews with employees of LEGO from differentdepartments.After analysis of the collected data and linking it to the theoretical framework numerousconclusions can be drawn to answer the initial research questions. First, the attributes thatstimulate advergames in creating online consumer engagement are the Unique SellingProposition (technical features such as: the technical platform, game type, dimensions, genre,prominence of advertising and congruity of brand and game) and the Emotional SellingProposition (representation elements such as audiovisual style, narration, procedural rhetoric).Currently, LEGO integrates digital games in their integrated marketing approach, linking themtightly connected to certain real life products. On the other hand, the importance of advergamesis growing as the study has identified that more and more company’s target customers (children)are moving towards digital entertainment specifically related to mobile technologies. For this, thecompany tries to create engagement and awareness by using advergames. The company tries toreach the light user group through storytelling and the middle to heavy user group throughadvanced technical elements of the games.The limitations of the study is in particular the fact that the cases were taken from one company,one product market and one target consumer group means that the results of the study should beconsidered carefully when applying for other companies, product markets and consumer groups.Secondly, the qualitative method of research means that it is heavily dependent on the individualskills of the researchers and more easily influenced by the researchers’ personal biases andpeculiarity.

The effective integration of multiple communication techniques is becoming increasingly complex, with the ongoing development of new media. The development of Web 2.0 and the growth of social media provides marketers with additional, possibly even alternative, marketing communication channels. This research explores the integration of social media, specifically Facebook, and the marketing decision making considerations from the context of the integrated marketing communications (IMC) construct.The study surveyed three consumer facing businesses to understand how marketers make decisions, determine if social media leads to more effective marketing and to understand if and how effectiveness is measured. A qualitative multiple case study method was selected which included interviews, direct observation and document reviews.The findings provide insights into marketing decisions relative to the integration of social media. This is complimented by a view of how effectiveness of social media can be measured in the marketing communications sphere. The issue of ROI remains a challenge and only one case successfully deploys this metric. In conclusion, the increasing complex business and marketing environment does not have a simple solution; therefore the Complex Marketing Communications Deployment (CMCD) model is proposed as a framework for reviewing the entire marketing communication system and to integrate new media. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted