Advertising Flashcards
Promotion Mix (MKT Comm. Mix)
- specific blend of promotion tools that a company uses to
+ persuasively communicate customer value
+ build customer relationship
5 promotion tools (SAPPD)
- Sales Promotion
- Advertising
- Personal Selling
- Public Relations (PR)
- Direct and digital marketing
Sale Promotion
Short-term incentives to encourage purchase/sale of a product/service
Advertising
Paid form of
Non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas/goods/services
by an identified sponsor
Personal Selling
Personal presentation by firm’s sales forces to engage customers, make sales and build customer relationship
Public relations
activities designed to engage and build good relations with the company’s various publics by
-obtain favorable publicity
- build up good corporate image
-handle/head off unfavorable rumors/stories/events
Direct and digital marketing
engage directly with carefully targeted individual consumers and customers communities
to obtain immediate response and build lasting customer relationships
Changing landscape in IMC
- Consumers: more informed - find info on their own - exchange brand-related info - create a brand message and experience
- Strategy: more narrowcast, highly targeted, less mass market
- Digital Tech: More targeted + Social media + engaging communication + content marketing
Content Marketing (CIS)
-Create + Inspire + Share
brand message and conversation with and among consumers
- across a fluid mix of paid, owned, earned and shared channel
The definition and role of IMC
- IMC: Integrated Marketing Communication
- Integrate + Coordinate communication channels
-> deliver a clear, consistent, compelling (3C) message about org. + product
Sales Promotion (P&C)
1vs3
+ Attract and Engage via strong incentives to purchase (buy now)
=> Boost sales in the short term
- short-lived,
-does not build brand preference, - doesn’t build customer relationship
Advertising (P&C) 5vs3
+ Reach the largest number of people
+ Repeat a message many times
+ Large-scale ads = seller’s size, popularity, success
+ Sometimes to build a long-term image
+ trigger quick sales
- Impersonal
- Lack of direct persuasiveness of the salesperson
- Can be expensive
Personal Selling (P&C) 3vs2
+ Favorable impression of brand/product => long-term loyalty
+ Build customer’s preferences + convictions + actions
+ Buyers feel the need to response
- Long-term commitment (than ad)
- Most expensive (training + maintenance)
Public Relations (Pros and Cons)
2vs2
+ More credibility
+ “News and events” rather sales
- Expensive + difficult
- No guaranteed success
Direct and digital marketing (P&C)
+ Highly targeted
+ Immediate and personalized
+ Interactive dialogue - message can be altered based on response
- Complex: attention to details + careful planning
Promotion Mix Strategies (2)
Push and Pull Strategies
Push Strategy
Use sales force + trade promotion to push the product through channels.
= Producer promotes the product to channel members, then channel members promote to final customer
Pull Strategy
- Spend a lot on consumer advertising and sales promotion to induce final consumers to buy
=> Create a demand vacuum that “pulls” the product through the channel.
4 major advertising decisions
- Objectives setting
- Budget decisions
- Message + Media decisions
- Advertising evaluation
Ad Objective settings decisions (2)
- Communication objectives
- Sales and profit objectives
Budget decision (4)
- Affordable approach
- Percent-of-sales approach
- Competitve-paritiy approach
- Objective-task approach
Affordable Method
Set the promotion budget at the level management thinks the company can afford
ignore the effects of promotion on sales
Percentage-of-sale method
Set a budget at a certain percentage of current or forecasted sales or as a percentage of the unit sales price
Competitive-parity method
set budget to match competitor’s outlays
Objective-and-task method
Budget by
1. define specific promotion objectives
2. determine the tasks needed to achieve these objectives
3. estimate cost of performing these tasks
Advertising Objective Definition
Specific Comm. task to be accomplished with a
specific target audience
during a specific period of time
Possibile Ad objective (IPR)
Inform
Persuade
Remind
Inform Ad Objective
Introduce a new product -> build a primary demand
+ customer value
+ build image
+ new product/new uses
+ price change
+ correct false impressions
etc.
Persuasive Ad Objective 4
Competitive - Build Selective Demand
+ build brand preferences
+ persuade to buy now/switch to a brand
+ create customer engagement
+ change perceptions
Reminder Ad Objective (3)
+ Maintain customer relationship
+ Remind where to buy/may be needed in the near future
+ Keep in mind during off-seasons
Advertising Strategy
The strategy that the company uses to accomplish its advertising objective
2 elements of advertising strategy
- Create Ad MESSAGE (creative way to communicate)
- Select ad MEDIA (vehicles to communicate)
3 types of appeals for ad message
- Rational
- Emotional
- Moral
Rational Appeal
- audience’s self-interest
- show product will produce the desired benefits
Emotional Appeal
- Stir up negative/positive emotions that can motivate purchase
Moral appeal
- audience’s sense of what is “right” and “proper”
- often used to urge people to support social causes
Advertising Clutter
- Consumers can easily skip, mute, or block TV and digital content = they don’t want to watch ads
Madison and Vine
Merge ad and entertainment in an effort to break through the clutter and create new avenues for reaching customers with more engaging messages