Promotion involves informing and persuading the market about a product to influence recipients and stimulate demand. The promotion mix includes personal selling, advertising, sales promotions, public relations, and direct marketing. The appropriate mix depends on objectives, budget, market nature, product lifecycle, and whether a push or pull strategy is used. Advertising is a paid, impersonal form of promotion that can take various forms through different media to achieve objectives like brand recognition, trial purchases, and influencing buying decisions. Budgeting methods for advertising include allocating based on objectives, sales percentages, competitor spending, marginal returns, and available funds. Effective message selection involves rational, emotional, and strategic approaches. [/SUMMARY]
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Promotion
Promotion involves informing and persuading the market about a product to influence recipients and stimulate demand. The promotion mix includes personal selling, advertising, sales promotions, public relations, and direct marketing. The appropriate mix depends on objectives, budget, market nature, product lifecycle, and whether a push or pull strategy is used. Advertising is a paid, impersonal form of promotion that can take various forms through different media to achieve objectives like brand recognition, trial purchases, and influencing buying decisions. Budgeting methods for advertising include allocating based on objectives, sales percentages, competitor spending, marginal returns, and available funds. Effective message selection involves rational, emotional, and strategic approaches. [/SUMMARY]
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promotion is the element in the marketing mix that
serves to inform, persuade and reminding the market
of a product and/ or organization selling it, in hopes of influencing the recipients feelings, beliefs, etc. Goals of promotion Information Demand stimulation Marketing Communication System Message Encoding; Feedback Decoding Noise Message Feedback Message Decoding; Feedback Encoding Interference Receiver or target audience Sender or Source Promotion mix Personal Selling Advertising Sales Promotions Public relations Direct marketing Determination of Promotion Mix Promotion Objective and buyer readiness stage Size of promotion budget Nature of market Nature of product Product life cycle stage Push Vs Pull strategy Producer Wholesaler Retailer Customer Producer Wholesaler Retailer Customer Push Strategy Pull Strategy Advertising Paid form of non personal presentation of goods, services or ideas for action, openly paid for by an identified sponsor
Advertising involves costs Advertising is impersonal Advertising can be in various forms Advertising uses various media Indoor, outdoor, direct media, display Advertising objectives Brand recognition and acceptance Trial purchase Influence at sight of buying decision Value addition Aid in personal selling and sales promotion Reminder Budgeting Methods 1. Objective and task method - Identify the objective to be achieved -determine the cost involved - determine the effort required Advantages: logical, easy to achieve organizational goal Disadvantage: difficult to calculate the actual cost, time consuming 2. percent of sales method Proportionate to sales (past sales and future sales) Common method
Advantage: simple to calculate Disadvantage : dependent on false belief. If sales drop, promotion should increase
Budgeting Methods 3. Comparative Parity Method Match costs/ expenses to the competitor
Advantages: remains at par with competiton Disadvantages: no consideration for other changes in market, esp. consumers Budgeting Methods 4. Marginal Approach Spending only upto a limit, beyond which sales doesnt justify the cost
Advantage: profits would maximize as cost is limited Disadvantage: difficult to calculate if market is changing.
Budgeting Methods Budgeting method 5. All you can afford method Sped all the money that can be spared after other expenses. Often adopted by small businesses in initial phase
Advantage: no need to rely on sales that will not materialise later
Disadvantage: can trigger inter-department conflict; doesnt consider the need of the market Message selection Cognitive strategies Rational, straight, focusing features
Types: Generic message : making brands synonymous with products (IME) Preemptive message : claim on certain features (Bajaj pulsar indias number one sports bike) USP : less wastage on dish washing soap Hyperbole : un attainable claim (saffola being cholesterol free) Comparative advertisements : rin vs tide Conative Strategies : leading to action (purchase) Action including advertisements (PoP materials) Promotional support advertisements : support personal selling and sales promotion efforts ( euro guard home delivery, harpic home visits) Message selection Affective Message Strategies Resonance advertising: building relation with product and user (britannia tune, airtel melody,) Emotional Advertising : building emotion while using product ( happiness, fear, joy, insecurity) Brand Strategies User Image (brand personality) Usage Corporate advertising Message selection Media strategy Press media newspaper Magazine Radio Television Cinema/ film Outdoor Posters and wall paintings Hoardings Electric signs Skywriting Sandwich men Traveling displays Media strategy Direct media Envelop enclosures, post cards Booklets and catalogues Gifts Pamphlets Display media Shop/ Window display Exhibition and trade fair Media strategy Personal Selling Types Retail selling Trade selling Missionary selling (order taking) Direct selling ( medical reps) Industrial selling (capital goods) Relationship Marketing Relationship building process Suspect Prospect First time user Repeat customer Clients Members Advocates Partners Sales Promotion Sales promotion consists of diverse collection of incentive tools, mostly short term, designed to stimulate quicker and/ or greater purchase of particular product/ service by consumers or the trade Sales promotion tools Demonstrations Free samples Coupons or trading stamps Money refund or rebates Trade fair and exhibition Point of purchase displays Consumer sales promotion tools Premiums Price offs Consumer contests Consumer sweepstakes (lotteries) Trade sales promotion tools Buy back allowances Free merchandise Buying allowances Cooperative advertising Dealer listing sales contests Dealer loader (gifts) Public relations Media relations Group relation Sponsorships