PROMOTION MIX AND KINDS OF PROMOTION

PROMOTION
DEFINITION :Promotion involves disseminating information about a product, product line, brand, or company. It is one of the four key aspects of the marketing mix. (The other three elements are product marketing, pricing, and distribution.) To generate sales and profits, the benefits of products have to be communicated to customers. In marketing this is commonly known as promotions.

Promotion Techniques
Promoting your business can take many different forms. You can promote it online and offline. Promotion is a very important part of every business imaginable. If you don't promote it, how are customers supposed to know about it? Here are some very effective ways to promote your product or service. BUSINESS CARDS PRESS RELEASES ORGANIZATIONS NEWS LETTERS FREE STUFF WEBSITE

PROMOTION MIX
DEFINITION :Specific combination of promotional methods such as print or broadcast advertising, direct marketing, personal selling, point of sale display, etc., used for one product or a family of products.

Six main Promotion Tactics

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ADVERTISING SALES PROMOTION PUBLIC RELATIONS PERSONAL SELLING PUBLICITY DIRECT MARKETING

The factors that guide a marketers decision in selecting a promotion mix are :

Nature of the product market.

Overall marketing strategy.

Buyer readiness stage.

Product life cycle stage.

ADVERTISING
The means of providing the most persuasive possible selling message to the right prospects at the lowest possible cost". Kotler and Armstrong provide an alternative definition:"Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods and services through mass media such as newspapers, magazines, television or radio by an identified sponsor".

SALES PROMOTION
An activity designed to boost the sales of a product or service. It may include an advertising campaign, increased PR activity, a free-sample campaign, offering free gifts or trading stamps, arranging demonstrations or exhibitions, setting up competitions with attractive prizes, temporary price reductions, door-to-door calling, telemarketing, personal letters on other methods. More than any other element of the promotional mix, sales promotion is about action. It is about stimulating customers to buy a product. It is not designed to be informative a role which advertising is much better suited to.

PUBLIC RELATIONS
The planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics. Public relations activities include, press releases. company literature, videos, websites and annual reports.

PERSONAL SELLING
Personal selling is oral communication with potential buyers of a product with the intention of making a sale. The personal selling may focus initially on developing a relationship with the potential buyer, but will always ultimately end with an attempt to "close the sale Personal selling is one of the oldest forms of promotion. It involves the use of a sales force to support a push strategy (encouraging intermediaries to buy the product) or a pull strategy (where the role of the sales force may be limited to supporting retailers and providing after-sales service).

PUBLICITY
Publicity refers to nonpersonal communi-cations regarding an organization , product , service , or idea not directly paid for or run under identified sponsorship .it usually comes in the form of news story , editorial , or announcement about an organization and/or its products and services. Techniques used to gain publicity include news releases , press conferences , feature articles , photographs , films , and videotapes.

DIRECT MARKETING
Direct marketing is concerned with establishing an individual relationship between the business offering a product or service and the final customer. Direct marketing has been defined by the Institute of Direct Marketing as: The planned recording, analysis and tracking of customer behaviour to develop a relational marketing strategies. The process of direct marketing covers a wide range of promotional activities, These include: Direct-response adverts on television and radio Mail order catalogues E-commerce Magazine inserts Direct mail Telemarketing

OBJECTIVES FOR PROMOTION

BUILD AWARENESS. CREATE INTEREST. PROVIDE INFORMATION. STIMULATE DEMAND. REINFORCE THE BRAND.

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