The relations between external and internal marketing communications

The recipients of the majority of communication activities undertaken by enterprises are their potential clients. A range of instruments of marketing communications is used to win their favor and persuade them to use the company’s offer. The majority of studies related to marketing communications put clients and their needs in the center of attention; a client is considered a person who purchases the company’s products or services. However, equal attention should be devoted to internal clients i.e. the employees of the company. The main purpose of the following paper is the analysis of relations between external and internal marketing communications. Special attention is to be given to the activities from the fields of: human resources marketing, internal marketing and internal public relations. The paper will present partial results of the quantitative research (direct questionnaire and on-line questionnaire) conducted by the author. The research was related to internal marketing communications and its influence on the employees.