Lecture 10A Ch08 Promotion

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Chapter Eight

Promotion
Part three:
The Marketing Mix
Bradley Wilson Ph.D
An Opening Challenge!

You run a small, specialist soft drinks firm.


Your marketing budget is a tiny fraction of
your major competitors and you certainly
cannot afford television advertising.

How will you get your brand noticed


by potential customers?
Agenda
the promotion mix
managing promotional activities
objectives
promotion strategy
marketing communications process
marketing communications tools
regulations
budgets
Advertising
Personal
Mixes Selling
Packaging
Price Place Promotion Mix
Sales
Promotion
Direct
Marketing Mix Public Marketing
Relations

Product Promotion
Promotion
=
Marketing
Communications
setting objectives

setting budgets

Promotion designing marketing programmes/campaigns

Management implementing campaigns

checking the results of the campaign


(evaluation and control)
What is it meant to achieve?

The create brand awareness stimulate trial

build brand image get into purchase


Objectives inform
consideration set

regain lost customers


of Promotion: remind
obtain information
educate
re-position
break into new market
increase usage
change/reinforce attitudes
etc.
key to the organisation’s direction

strategies are devised to meet


objectives
Targeted
objectives should be SMART
objectives
specific, measurable, achievable,
relevant, timed

aim at a specific target audience


markets are customers/consumers

people who buy or use things


Audience audiences listen or watch
or market? so promotional activities are targeted
at audiences

who may or may not be customers/


consumers
influencer
Decision
Making Units
initiator user

Purchase
Decision
decider financer

buyer
Promotional
Market Analysis
Strategy

Target Audiences

SMART Objectives

PUSH Strategies PULL


a subset of overall marketing strategy

informed by branding and positioning

overall marketing communications strategy plus


campaign strategies
Promotional
overview of how objectives will be achieved
Strategy the details go in the plan

PUSH strategies
aimed at the trade

PULL strategies
aimed at consumers
A simple
communications model: 1

receiver
sender

encoding

decoding
channel

message
A simple
communications model: 2

noise

receiver
sender

distortion distortion
A simple
communications model: 3

receiver
sender

encoding

decoding
channel

message

feedback
advertising
paid for, mass media

public relations (PR)


The media relations, sponsorship,
exhibitions, hospitality, celebrity
endorsement
Promotional
sales promotion
Mix discounts, special offers, competitions

personal selling
b2b, retail, telesales
Influencing Customers

A attention
Think
I interest
Feel
D desire
Do

A action
AIDA and The A attention
Advertising
Promotion Mix PR
Sponsorship
I interest
Examples of
Marketing
Communications
Techniques D desire
Sales Promotion
Direct Mail
Point-of-sale promotions
A action
Direct-response advertising
Personal Selling
DAGMAR:
a Hierarchical Model
The audience should
Awareness know about the brand

The audience should


Comprehension understand the brand
and its values

Conviction Audience members should


develop a brand preference
/purchase intention

Action Purchase
advertising

public relations

sales promotion
Promotion
personal selling
Tools direct marketing

packaging

sponsorship
Advertising Essentials

message

Media creative execution

Audience

Exhibit 8.5 Advertising essentials


slice of life

animation

testimonial

news
Creative fantasy

Executions spoof or parody

guarantee

demonstration

problem solution

music
Media
Media Class or Category
e.g. television

e.g.
Eastenders

media vehicles media vehicles


‘the determined, planned and sustained
Public effort to establish and maintain mutual un-
derstanding between an organisation and
Relations its publics. Also understood as reputation
management’
(PR)
(Chartered Institute of Public Relations, 2010)
publicity or media relations

publications

corporate communications

PR community relations

lobbying
Techniques sponsorship

Include: product placement

branded content

events management

crisis management
Sales promotion

short-term
special offers
which add value
to a product
offering
good at increasing sales

Benefits effectiveness can be easily measured

has accurate targeting


of Sales
can keep budget down
Promotion
has an almost immediate effect

creates interest in products


stimulate product trial

which may lead to regular purchase


Typical Sales
introduce a new product to the market
Promotion
combat/spoil a competitor’s campaign
Objectives encourage greater product use

and so more frequent purchase


Personal Selling
making the
prospecting preparing
appointment

following up the call or


pitch

closing objection
handling
buyer/seller team coordinator

customer service provider

A buyer behaviour expert

information gatherer
Salesperson’s market analyst and planner

Job sales forecaster

market cost analyst

technologist
‘the planned recording, analysis and track-
Direct ing of individual customers’ responses and
transactions for the purpose of developing
Marketing and prolonging mutually profitable custom-
er relationships’

(Institute of Direct Marketing, 2010)


personal contact
Conventional
looking for a direct response
Marketing better feedback

Channels database marketing

direct response advertising


Influencing Customers
A audience

I impact

M message

R response

I internal management

T the

E end result
advertising standards code
legal
decent
UK honest
truthful
Regulations similar principles in other codes of practice:
sales promotion, sponsorship .....

for up to date rules, visit the ASA website at

www.asa.org.uk
arbitrary method
judgement call

affordable method
tends to result in low budgets
Setting
competitive parity method
Budgets but did the competition get it right?

objective and task method


time consuming but accurate

percentage of sales method


commonly used – but which year’s sales?
clear campaign objectives

good market understanding

clearly identified target audience


Summary and the means to reach them

originality and creativity


so the message is correctly received

a variety of tools to integrate into the


campaign
Chartered Institute of Public Relations (n.d.) CIPR
website, Available at http://www.cipr.co.uk/con-
tent/policy-resources/jargon-buster (accessed
30/06/2010).

Institute of Direct Marketing (n.d.) IDM website.


Available at: www.theidm.com/resources/jar-
References gon-buster (accessed 15/05/2010).

Schramm, W. (1955) How communication works, in W.


Schramm (ed.), The Process and Effects of Mass Com-
munications, University of Illinois Press, pp. 3–26.

Pickton, D.W. and Broderick, A. (2004) Integrated


Marketing Communications (2nd edn). USA: FT Pren-
tice Hall.

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