Promotion Flashcards
What is the shift from seller to buyer initiative?
- At the beginning of the buyer/seller relationship it is often the “traditional” seller initiative that causes them to purchase the products
- After the development of the relationship and after the post-purchase experience, the purchases are mostly buyer initiative (reverse marketing)
What is the international communication process?
(Sender > Message) > (Channel Medium > Receiver) > Feedback [looped] with interference from Noise
What are the factors influencing the communication situation?
- language differences
- economic differences
- sociocultural differences
- legal/regulatory differences
- competitive differences
What are the primary two-way communication tools?
- personal selling
- direct marketing
What are the primary one-way communication tools?
- advertising
- public relations
- sales promotion
- exhibitions trade shows
What are major international advertising decisions?
Objective setting > budget decisions > Message and Media decisions > agency selection > advertising evaluation
What is the affordable budget approach?
Set at a level that management thinks that can afford, ex. percentage of sales
What are the advantaged of an affordable budget approach?
- guarantees equality among markets
- easy to justify
- guarantees only what is affordable is spent
What are the disadvantages of an affordable budget approach?
- based on historical performance
- ignores necessity to increase spending when sales are declining
- does not consider goals
- fails to address relationship between advertising and sales
What is the competitive parity budget approach?
Duplicates the amounts spent on advertising by major rivals
- difficult to determine
- not always right for the company
What is the objective and task budget approach?
Determines the advertising by defining specific objectives and then determining tasks needed to attain the objectives
- cost-benefit analysis
- need good knowledge of local market
- only 20% of North American and UK companies use it
What is USP?
Unique selling proposition
What is ESP?
Emotional selling proposition
What is AIDA?
It is how to make a great copy for ads, emails, and web sites
- Attention (BOLD statements, effective headlines)
- Interest (offer them something they want, use YOU)
- Desire (create a future for the reader)
- Action (tell them to act NOW)
What are the four media decisions?
- Reach
- Frequency
- Impact
- GRPs