Sale and Marketing Flashcards
Marketing
All activities to match products or services to potential customers to maximise revenue. By doing research.
Sales
The actions to persuade people to buy
Marketing vs sales
Marketing is broader in scope than sales. Marketing is about setting a strategy and sales is about turning that strategy into action and results.
Marketing can’t have any good results without sales and sales can’t be successful without an effective marketing strategy.
Advertising
Salesmanship in media
Globalisation
The ease to travel and set up businesses worldwide.
Means to get large
Strategic alliances Franchising Management contracts Joint-ventures (Starwood) Association of independent hotels (LHW)
What is a brand?
A brand is an established name, reputation and design that is representative for the company.
Brand awareness
Easy recognition of a brand in terms of image and offer
Relationship marketing
To create customer loyalty with interaction and communication with the customer. Word of mouth marketing.
Benefits of having loyal customers:
Tend to spend more
Spread information around: free advertising
Less price sensitive
Niche market
Small but specific and well defined segment of the population. Niches do not “exist” but are created by identifying needs, wants and requirements.
Market segmentation
Know my clients, categories them to find common behaviours, needs and requests. Respond to those needs by adapting products and services.
Tangible
The product offered (guest rooms, dining facilities etc)
Intangible
Services provided
Intangibility
They do not sell guest rooms, they sell the use of the rooms. Since they can’t see or touch the experience they must trust the salesperson’s description - the credibility plays an important role.
Perishability
This makes hospitality different from other products, an empty seat or room is business lost forever. No shelf life.