Session 19 - Promotion 1 Flashcards
What is promotion?
- Process of communicating product and service information to target customers and other stakeholders
What are promotional objectives?
- Inform customers about a product - built awareness, increase knowledge
- Persuade them to buy - awarness without purchase is poor business
- Built repurchase rates - create loyal customers
How does promotion work? What is hierarchy of effects model
AIDAS: Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action, Satisfaction
What is traditional promotions management?
- separate functions handled by experts in separate departments
- Begin with organization’s goals and products/services
What is Integrated Marketing Communications
IMC
- Process of coordinating all promotional activities to provide a consistent message across all media
- All elements of promotional mix strategically integrated
- all elements viewed from consumer perspective
What are the types of product promotion?
- Advertising
- Personal selling
- Public relations
- Sales promotion
- Direct marketing
What is advertising?
Any paid form of nonpersonal communication about an organization, goods, serice or idea by an identified sponsor
What is personal selling
Two-way communication between buy and seller, desinged to influence the buyer’s purchase intentions
What is public relations?
A nonpersonal, indirectly paid presentation of an organization, good or service (new articles, product launch announcemnets, editorials)
What are sales promotions?
Short term inducement of value (both consumers and sales channels) offered to arouse interest in buying a good or service (coupons, rebates)
What is direct marketing>?
Any direct communicstion with the consumer designed to induce a response in the form of order, enquiries, or visit (email, telephone, etc)
What are the objectvies of advertising (new vs established)?
For new products: Informative to build awareness and induce trial
For established brands: Be persuasive by reminding people to use product, increasing frequency of use (penetration strategy), distinguish the brand from competitors and other brands on product line
What is the impact of influencers on promotion?
- 10% of americans determine how the rest consume and live by chatting about their likes and dislikes. Often everyday people, who are active in civics, charities and religious institutions
How do you plan a message strategy?
- Develop a position: focus on consumer benefits (e.g. easy/quick food at mcdonals)
- Creative concept “big idea”: visualization or phrase (I’m lovin’ it)
- Advertising appeal: approach to attract attention (actual execution of big idea) (Humor with clown)
How do you execute the big idea?
- Determine an idea that communicates the positioning impact
- Be unique
- be generative (can extend beyond the initial execution to have evolution in campaign)
- Be communicative (revel some truth about the product)