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The Marketing Mix
- Product - Price - Place - Promotion
Promotion
The coordination of marketing communication efforts to influence attitudes or behavior
Marketing Communications purpose
- Inform - Persuade - Remind - Build relationships
Source
Firm or person sending a message
Encoding
Transmitting an idea into a form of communication that conveys meaning
Message
Communication in physical form that goes from a sender to a receiver
Medium
Communication vehicle through which a message is transmitted
Receiver
Individuals or organization that intercepts and interprets the message
Decoding
Proces whereby a receiver assigns meaning to a message
Noise
Anything that interferes with effective communication
Feedback
Receiver's reactions to the message
Which sense do we learn the most through?
Sight
Promotion mix
The major communication elements that the marketer controls - The extent of their control varies
Extent of marketer's control over communication (High to Low)
- Advertising - Sales promotion - Personal selling - Direct marketing - Public relations
How is the extent of the marketer's credibility related to the marketer's control?
Inversly
Advertising
Non-personal communication from an identified sponsor using mass media - Provides marketers with total control - Rich and dynamic advertising images can help to build or reinforce brand image - May provide factual information or offer reminders to consumers - Lacks credibility with cy…
What is the most visible element of IMC?
Advertising
Personal selling
Direct interaction between a company representative and a customer - Flexible; salespeople can modify message to match customer needs - Immediate feedback - High cost per contact - Difficult to ensure message consistency between different sales representatives
When does personal selling add value?
When products are: - complicated - expensive - rarely purchased - new or significantly altered - products and their values are unknown - suppliers are changing
Sales promotion
Contests, coupons, and other incentives designed to build interest or encourage product purchase during a specified period - provides retailers with incentives - builds retailer and consumer excitement - encourages immediate purchase and trial - reaches price-sensitive consumers - …
Public relations
Communication activities that create or maintain a positive image of a firm and its products - relatively low cost - highly credible - poor message control; no guarantee that message will even reach the target - difficult to track the results
Direct marketing
Efforts to gain a direct response from individual consumers - Easily target specific customers with different offers - Easily measure results - Can provide expensive information and multiple offers with a single appeal - Facilitates marketing database information collection - Consume…
Cognition = ?
Think
Affect = ?
Feel
Behavior = ?
Do
What approach increases the likelihood the message will be received?
Multichannel
The Lagged Effect
- Advertising does not always have an immediate impact - Effects of starting or stopping an advertising campaign are usually not detected immediately - It is difficult to determine which exposure led to purchase
PUSH Strategy
Focus is on supply - Use supply chain promotion
Pharmaceutical Representatives give doctors samples of medication to give to their patients. This is an example of what?
PUSH Strategy
PULL Strategy
Focus is on demand - Use consumer-oriented promotion
Media advertisement of pharmaceuticals so consumers will ask their doctor for them. This is an example of what?
PULL Strategy
Rule of Thumb Methods
- Competitive party - Percentage-of-sales - Available budget

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