Advertising + Public relations + Personal selling + Sales promotion Flashcards

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What is another term for thepromotion mix ?

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Marketing communications mix

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Define the promotion mix

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All the marketing tools a company uses to engage consumers, persuasively communicate customer value, and build customer relationships.

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What are the 5 major promotion mix tools?

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  1. Advertising
  2. Sales promotion
  3. Personal selling
  4. Public relations
  5. Direct & digital marketing
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What does integrated marketing communications consist of?

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IMC carefully integrates and coordinates the company’s many communication channels

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What is the goal of integrates marketing communications?

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To deliver a clear, consistent and compelling message about the organization/its products and build stronger customer relationships

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What are 3 factors that change the face of today’s marketing communications?

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  1. Changing consumers
  2. Changing marketing strategies
  3. Advancements in digital technology
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What is a PUSH marketing strategy?

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Producer push their products onto consumers

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What is PULL marketing strategy?

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Increasing the demand for a company’s product and draw/pull consumers to the product

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What is advertising?

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Any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services from an identified sponsor

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What are four key decisions in developing an advertising program?

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  1. Setting advertising objectives
  2. Setting the advertising budget
  3. Developing advertising strategy (message, media)
  4. Evaluating advertising effectiveness
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What does setting advertising objectives consist of?

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A specific communication task, a specific target audiences, during a specific period of time based on decisions about target market, positioning, marketing mix, etc.

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What are informative advertising objectives (e.g. new products)?

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-Communicating customer value
-Building a brand and company image
-Telling the market about a new product
-Explaining how a product works
-Suggesting new uses for a product
-Informing the market of a price change
-Describing available services and support
-Correcting false impressions

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What are persuasive advertising objectives (e.g. comparative/attack ad)?

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-Building a brand preference
-Encouraging switching to a brand
-Changing customer perceptions of product value
-Persuading customer to purchase now
-Creating customer engagement
-Building brand community

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What are reminder advertising objectives (e.g. mature product)?

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-Maintaining customer relationships
-Reminding consumers that the product may be needed in the near future
-Reminding consumers where to buy the product
-Keeping the brand in a customer’s mind during off-seasons

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What are the 4 different ways to set an advertising budget?

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  1. Affordable method
  2. Percentage-of-Sales
  3. Competitive-Party
  4. Objective-and-Task
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What is the affordable method for setting an advertising budget?

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At the level management thinks the company can afford.
Useful for small firms but often results in underspending

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What is the percentage-of-sales method for setting an advertising budget?

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Simple to use but see sales not as results but cause of promotion
Based on money availability not opportunity

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What is the competitive-party method for setting an advertising budget?

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Use collective wisdom of industry and prevent promotion wars but this makes insufficient sense

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What is the objective-and-task method for setting an advertising budget?

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Defining specific promotion objectives, determining the tasks needed, and estimating the costs of performing these tasks.

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What are the two elements of an advertising strategy?

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-Creating advertising messages
-Selecting advertising media

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How do marketers create an advertising message/brand content?

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-Breaking through the clutter
-Merging advertising and entertainment
-Message and content strategy
-Message execution
-Consumer-generated content

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What is advertising media?

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Vehicles through which advertising messages are delivered to their intended audiences

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What are the 4 steps in advertising media selection?

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  1. Determining reach, frequency, impact and engagement
  2. Choosing among major media types
  3. Selecting specific media vehicles
  4. Choosing media timing
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What are reach, frequency, impact and engagement in advertising media?

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Reach: how many people we target to reach?
Frequency: how frequent we want each targeted consumer to watch our ads?
Impact: are we getting our desired media impact?
Engagement: to what extent our ads engage consumers?

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What does return on advertising investment mean?
Net return on advertising investment divided by the costs of the advertising investment
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What should advertisers regularly evaluate?
-Communication effects -Sales and profit effects
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What does public relations (PR) include?
Activities designed to engage and build good relations with the company's various publics.