Chapter 12- Promotion Flashcards
Promotion Mix
Specific blend of promotion tools used by companies to engage consumers and persuasively communicate customer value and build customer relationships
Major Promotional Tools
- Advertising and sales promotion
- Personal selling and public relations
- Direct and Digital Marketing
Brand Content Managers
Create and inspire brand messages and conversations
-Then share with and among consumers across a fluid of paid, owned, earned, and shared channels
Advertising
Reaches masses of buyers at a low cost per exposure
- builds long-term image of a product
- triggers quick sales
- has a public nature and is viewed as legitimate
- very expressive
- impersonal
Personal Selling
- Personal interaction between two or more people
- Allows all kinds of customer relationships to spring up
- Buyer feels greater need to listen
- Most expensive promotion tool
Sales promotion
- Wide assortment of tools with unique qualities
- Attracts consumer attention
- Offers strong incentives to purchase
- Used to dramatize product offers and boost sales
- Invites and rewards quick response
- Short lived-effects
Public Relations
- Very believable to readers
- Can dramatize a company or product
- Reaches many prospects
- Effective and economical when well thought out
Direct and Digital Marketing
- More targeted and interactive
- Immediate and personalized
Push vs Pull Promotion Strategy
Push- producer does the advertising
Pull- Comes from the consumer
Major Advertising Decisions
- Objectives settings
- Budget Decisions
- Message decisions
- Media Decisions
- Advertising Evaluation
Informative Advertising
- 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
Persuasive Advertising
- Building a brand preference
- Encouraging switching brands
- Chasing customer perceptions of product value
- Persuading customers to purchase now
- Building brand community
Reminder Advertising
- Maintaining customer relationships
- Reminding customers that the product may be needed
- Reminding customers where to buy
- Keeping the brand in a customer’s mind during off-seasons
Advertising Strategy
Accomplishes the company’s advertising objectives
Creating advertising messages, selecting advertising media
Advertising Media
Vehicles through which advertising message are delivered to their intended audiences
Newspapers
Pros
- Flexibility
- Timeliness
- Good local market coverage
- Broad acceptability and high believability
Cons
- Short life
- Poor reproduction quality
- Small pass-along audience