Marketing Management Flashcards
What is public relations
Public relations involve various programs designed to promote or protect an organizations image.
What is sales promotion
Refers to short term incentives designed to encourage the buyer’s to make immediate purchase of a product or service
Merits , limitations of sales promotion
Merits Attention value-gathers attention Useful in new product launch Synergy in total promotional efforts Limitations Reflects crisis Spoils product image.
Commonly used sales promotion activities- case study topic
Rebate- offering at special price to clear excess inventory
Discount
Refund- refund a part of price on some proof of previous purchase
Product combination- another prod as gift
Quantity gift- offering extra quantity
Instant draws and assigned gift
Lucky draw
Usable benefit- giving discount voucher etc
Full finance @0%
Sampling
Contests- competitive events involving application of skills or luck
Publicity
It generally takes place when favourable news is presented in the mass media about a product or a service.
Features of publicity
- It is an unpaid form of communication. Does not involve any direct expenditure by the marketing firm
- There is no identified sponsor for the communication as the message goes as news item.
Personal selling
It involves oral presentation of messages in the form of communication to one or more prospective customers in order to making sales
Features of personal selling
Personal form - direct face to face dialogue takes place involving interactive relationship
Development of relationship- allows development of relationships.
Merits of personal selling
Flexibility
Direct feedback
Minimum wastage
Role of personal selling
Importance to businessmen
Effective promotional tool
Flexible tool
Minimises wastage of efforts
Consumer attention
Lasting relationship
Link with customers
Importance to customers
Of personal selling
Help in identifying needs
Latest market info
Expert advice
Induces customers
Importance to society
Of personal selling
Converts latest demand- conv latest demand- into effective demand
Employment opportunity
Career opportunity
Mobility of sales people
Product standardization
Advertising
Most commonly used tool of promotion
It is an impersonal form of communication, which is paid for by the marketers to promote some goods or service.
Features of advertising
Paid form - sponsor/ie marketer has to bear the cost
Impersonal- no direct face to face contact/creates a monologue
Identified sponsor- some individual or a company
Merits of advertising
Mass reach
Enhancing customer satisfaction- creates confidence among the buyers
Expressiveness - with special effects even a simple product and message can look attractive
Economy - very economical mode of communication when large number of people are to be reached
Limitations of advertising
Inflexibility - cannot be tailor made to the requirements of of different consumer groups
Less forceful - less forceful than personal selling as there is no compulsion on prospects to pay attention
Lack of feedback - evaluation of effectiveness becomes difficult
Low effectiveness - vol of adv is getting expanded and is becoming difficult to make adv heard by Target prospects
What is promotion and promotion mix?
Promotion refers to the use of communication with the twin objective of informing potential customers about a product and persuading them to buy it.
Promotion mix refers to the combination of promotional tools used by an org to achieve it's communication objectives.it contains 4 tools Advertising Personal selling Sales promotion Publicity
What is price and factors affecting price determination?
Price may be defined as the amount of money paid by a buyer(or received by a seller) in consideration of the purchase of a product or a service
1) Product cost - fixed cost, variable cost, semi variable cost includes all
2) The utility and demand - utility provided by prod and intensity of demands sets the upper price of the prod
3) extent of competition in the market - high comp low price, low comp high price
4) gov and legal regulations - govt intervene can set low price of if it declares a prod as essential and regulate it’s price
5) pricing objective - short run high price high profit, long run low price larger share of market
6) Marketing method used - quality and Amt of adv, etc.
Physical distribution
Concerned with making the goods and services available at the right place so that people can purchase the same