Promotion (9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2) Flashcards
Promotion
Using all elements of the 4ps to communicate with customers
4 Parts of Promotion (IRPB)
Inform, Remind, Persuade, Build Relationships
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)
A Promotional communications strategy should coordinate diverse forms of marketing to deliver a consistent message
The One to many Advertising Model
Advertising, Sales, PR
One to one model
Database marketing, direct marketing, personal selling
Many to Many Model
Buzz Building, Social media
5 Elements of Promotional Mix
Advertising
Sales Promotion
Personal Selling
PR
Direct Marketing
IMC Step 1
Identify Target Audience
IMC Step 2
Establish Communication Objectives
- Create Awareness
- Inform market
- Create Desire
- Encourage trial
-Build Loyalty
IMC Step 3
Determine and allocate budget
Top-Down budgeting techniques
Management decides on how much (focused on sales)
Bottom-up budgeting techniques
Management identifies promotional goals first
Push Strategy
Push product through retailers
Pull Strategy
Pull consumers to product and convinces retailers to invest
IMC Step 4
Designing the promotional Mix
IMC Step 5
Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan
Developing an AD campaign
Understand target market
Establish
3 typed of Digital Media Advertising
Owned (Socials run by the company) ,
Paid (Ads on websites),
Earned (Other people posting)
Branded entertainment
Putting and hiding brands in entertainment
Native Advertising
Trying to make ad not look like an ad
Pro active PR
Part of a plan
Reactive PR
Responding
Merchandising allowance
Reimbursing retailer for in store support
Case Allowance
Discounts for retailers based on volume
Issues with Price Breaks
Forward buying - Retailers only buy during discounted promotional offers
Diverting -Retailers selling extra stack to other retaielrs
Sales Promotions towards customer downsides
Too many promotions may hurt brand image
Personal Selling (Push)
advertising for retailers (large order or highly technical)
Transactional Selling
Short term relationships with customer often making them feel manipulated
Relationship Selling
Long-term to maintain a relationship
Price Elasticity of demand
Percentage change in demand over price
Elastic
Change in price will hurt demand
Inelastic
Change in price wont hurt demand r
Average Fixed costs
More items you produce will lower this average fixed costs
Break even anaylsis
Produce enough to cover costs
Cost Based price
Setting a price to generate profit
Demand Based Price
Find a pleasing pricce and considering how much retailers will mark up
Yield Management pricing
Different price for different people
Competition based pricing
Near the industry standard
Needs based pricing
everyday low pricing with no promos
Skimming pricing
Starting with high prices and slowley dropping
-apple
Penetration Pricing
Low price to dominate the market
Trial Pricing
Low price so consumers try the product
Price segmentation
Student discounts
Payment Pricing
Monthly installments to make more accessible
Price bundling
Putting together products and maik9ng them cheaper
Captive pricing
Selling products that only work together
Distribution based pricing
Depending on costs of transport
Discounting for channel members
Quanitity discount, cash discount, seasonal discounts
Internal reference price
Customers ideal price range for a product
Assimilation
Customer will buy cheaper product if next to a more expensive
Contrast effect
Customer will buy more expensive product if next to a cheaper
Price lining
Iphone tiers
Prestige pricing
Artificially high
Disintermediation
Reducing layers of intermediation (Online
Independant Wholesale intermedieries
Manufacturer to retail
Full service merchant whole salers
transport included
Rack Jobber
Supply retailers with specialty items and often restock
Merchandise agents and brokers
Selling agent to help with the process
Direct to consumer pros/cons
+ price is set by you
- a lot to manage
Indirect to consumer pros/cons
+ Efficiency to target market
+ includes delivery to customer
+ increases market coverage
B2B
Large orders
Dual Channel
Most common
Step 1 Distribution strat
Objectives
Step 2 Distribution strat
Evaluate external/ Internal
Step 3 Distribution strat
Choose a distribution strat
Conventional distribution strat
Manufactuer -> Wholesale -> Retail -> consumer
Vertical Marketing system
Same but manufacturing, wholesale, and retail are 1
Administered VMS
Big brands being powerful and controlling among retailers
OR Big retailers being powerful and controlling product in store
Corperate VMS
Single firm owning manufacturer, wholesale, and retailing
Contractual VMS
Wholesale sponsor cooperating with retailer
Group of retailers creating a wholesale operation
Franchise VMS
Finding entrepreneurs to take over
Horizontal Marketing System
Star alliance
Intensive distribution
Maximizing market coverage by selling everywhere
Exclusive distribution
Luxury stores at specific places
Selective Distribution
Mix of exclusive and intensive for investment goods
Selecting channel partners based on…
Will they contribute to profit?
how much controll you need?
How much service does the customer want?
What are competitors doing?
Wheel of retailing hypothesis
Vulnerability (high prices great service)
Entry Phase (Low margin no services)
Trading up phase (Moderate prices some services
When does the wheel not apply?
Luxury stores, Recession,
Intangibility of services
Reveiws, certificates
Perishability of services
Impossible to store for later consumption (encourage demand during low periods )
Inseperibility Services
Employee and customer must be connected
The service encounter
Social and physical
SERVQUAL
angibles, reliability,
responsiveness, assurance, empathy