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What are the 5 major promotional tools in a promotion mix (or marketing communication mix)?

1. Advertising


2. Sales Promotion


3. Personal Selling


4. Public Relations


5. Direct and Digital Marketing

Define each of the 5 major promotional tools.

1. Advertising: Any paid nonpersonal promotion of ideas, goods, or services by a sponsor.




2. Sales Promotion: short-term incentives to encourage the sale of a product or service.




3. Personal selling: Personal customer interaction by a sales force for engagement, sales creation and building customer relationships.




4. Public Relations: Building good relations with the company's various publics through favorable publicity, a good corporate image and heading off unfavorable rumors.




5. Direct and digital marketing: direct engagement of individual consumers and communities to build customer relationship.

Define: Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)

Integration and coordination of the 5 promotional tools to deliver a clear and consistent brand message.

What are the nine elements in the communication process? Draw graph.

1. Sender


2. Encoding


3. Message


4. Media


5. Decoding


6. Receiver


7. Response


8. Feedback


9. Noise: unplanned static distorting the message (e.g. distractions)

What are the 6 stages in the buyer-readiness stage?

1. Awareness


2. Knowledge


3. Liking. About the product itself


4. Preference. Favorable compared to competition.


5. Conviction. Best (comparison)


6. Purchase

How does a marketer identify a brand's audience?

4 Ws and 1 H

What is the AIDA(L) model? What

Attention


Interest


Desire


Action




Loyalty

Message design: what are 3 different appeals?

1. Appeal to emotion (Pathos)


2. Appeal to credibility (Ethos)


3. Appeal to logic (Logos)


4. Appeal to morality

What are the two forms of media (communication channels)? Define Each.

1. Personal Communication Channel. Direct communication (e.g. face to face and internet chatting)




2. Non-personal Communication Channel: Media without personal contact (e.g. atmosphere, events, major media).

What are the benefits of personal communication channels?

Word of Mouth Influence and Buzz Marketing

Define: buzz marketing

Cultivation of opinion leaders to spread information about a product or service in their groups.

What are examples of impactful message sources?

1. Family and friends


2. Online reviews (e.g. Amazon's customer reviews)


3. Celebrities


4. Professionals ("experts")




Essentially, credible sources

In terms of what can promotional messages be assessed?

Brand awareness, recognition, recall, customer satisfaction or repeat purchase

Promotion Mix Strategy.




Define: Push Strategy.

A promotion strategy which uses the sales force and trade promotions t push the product through channels.




Producer -> Channel Members -> End user

Promotion Mix Strategy.




Define: Pull strategy

A promotion strategy using advertising, direct and digital marketing to induce purchase from the consumer; "pulling" the demand from them.




Producer -> Consumer Demand -> Retailers & wholesalers -> Producer

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Advertising?

Advantages:



  • Can reach geographically dispersed masses
  • Due to its public nature, message is more legitimized.
  • Large scale can imply positivity about the producer
  • Can build a long-term image for the company


Disadvantages:


  • Impersonal, lacks persuasiveness
  • Expensive promotional tool.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Personal Selling?

Advantages:



  • Most effective at building buyer preference and conviction
  • Builds customer relationships
  • Direct message: reduces noise



Disadvantages:



  • The most expensive promotional tool
  • Hard to change size of sales force


What are the advantages and disadvantages of Sales Promotion?

Advantages:


1. Attracts attention due to incentive


2. Compels engagement and purchase




Disadvantages


1. Not useful to build long-term brand preference and customer relationships.


2. No guarantee of repeat purchase

What are the advantages of Public Relations?

Advantages?


1. Credibility and realistic (e.g. news, sponsorships)


2. Can reach people averse to personal selling and advertisements


3. As with advertisements and personal selling, it can dramatize the product (pathos).




*it tends to be underused.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Direct and Digital Marketing?

Advantages:


1. Immediate and personalized


2. Dynamic and fluid: message can be adjusted in real time


3. Tailored to appeal to specific consumers or groups


4. Interactive: builds customer relationship

What model dictates which promotional tool to use more or less?

Buyer-readiness stage

Define: online marketing and click and mortar. What are the benefits of click and mortar?

Marketing via the Internet. Click and Mortar refers to a business which owns both offline and online distribution channels (O2O). It can have the benefits of fast transactions and face to face interactions.

What are examples of online marketing?

1. Social Media Marketing


2. Mobile Marketing


3. Viral Marketing (digital form of word of mouth)


4. Blogs


5. E-mail Marketing

What are the three advertising objectives?

1. Informative (awareness and knowledge)


2. Persuasive (liking, preference and conviction)


3. Reminder (mature products; maintain customer retention)

What are the major public relations tools?

1. News


2. Speeches


3. Special Events


4. Written Materials


5. Corporate identity materials


6. Public Service Activities


7. Buzz Marketing


8. Social Media


9. Internet

What are examples of sales incentives (tools)?

1. Coupons


2. Samples (expensive)


3. Cash Refund Guarantee


4. Point of Purchase displays


5. Demonstrations