2. A company’s total promotion mix—also called its
marketing communications mix—consists of the
specific blend of
advertising
sales promotion
public relations
personal selling
and direct-marketing tools that the company uses to
pursue its advertising and marketing objectives.
3. Advertising: Any paid form of non-personal presentation and
promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified
sponsor
Sales promotion: Short-term incentives to encourage the
purchase or sale of a product or service
Public relations: Building good relations with the company’s
various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, building up
a good corporate image, and handling or heading off
unfavorable rumors, stories, and events
Personal selling: Personal presentation by the firm’s sales
force for the purpose of making sales and building customer
relationships
Direct marketing: Direct connections with carefully targeted
individual consumers to both obtain an immediate response
and cultivate lasting customer relationships—using
telephone, mail, fax, e-mail, the Internet, and other tools to
communicate directly with specific customers.
6. Events/ Experiences
Sports
Entertainment
Festivals
Arts
Causes
Factory tours
Company museums
Street activities
Public Relations
Press kits
Speeches
Seminars
Annual reports
Charitable donations
Publications
Community relations
Lobbying
Identity media
Company magazine
7. Personal Selling
Sales presentations
Sales meetings
Incentive programs
Samples
Fairs and trade shows
Direct Marketing
Catalogs
Mailings
Telemarketing
Electronic shopping
TV shopping
Fax mail
E-mail
Voice mail
Blogs
Websites
8. Sender: The party sending the message to another party
Encoding: The process of putting thought into symbolic form
Message: The set of symbols that the sender transmits
Media: The communication channels through which the
message moves from sender to receiver
Decoding: The process by which the receiver assigns meaning
to the symbols encoded by the sender
Receiver: The party receiving the message sent by another
party
Response: The reactions of the receiver after being exposed to
the message
Feedback: The part of the receiver’s response communicated
back to the sender
Noise: The unplanned static or distortion during the
communication process that results in the receiver’s getting a
different message than the one the sender sent.
9. Identify target audience
Determine objectives
Design communications/message
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Select channels
Establish budget
Decide on media mix
Measure results/ manage IMC
10. Rational appeals relate to the audience’s self-interest.
They show that the product will produce the desired
benefits.
Emotional appeals attempt to stir up either negative or
positive emotions that can motivate purchase.
Communicators may use positive emotional appeals such as
love, pride, joy, and humor. Communicators can also use
negative emotional appeals, such as fear, guilt, and shame
that get people to do things they should or to stop doing
things they shouldn’t.
Moral appeals are directed to the audience’s sense of
what is “right” and “proper.” They are often used to urge
people to support social causes such as a cleaner
environment, better race relations, equal rights for
women, and aid to the disadvantaged.
11. Affordable: this method of setting budgets completely ignores the effects
of promotion on sales. It tends to place advertising last among spending priorities
Percentage-of-Sales: It is simple to use, It helps management think about
the relationship between promotion spending, selling price, and profit per unit
Competitive Parity: They monitor competitors’ advertising or
get industry promotion spending estimates from publications or trade associations,
and then set their budgets based on the industry average
Objective-and-Task: the company sets its promotion
budget based on what it wants to accomplish with promotion.
12. PUSH STRATEGY: through distribution channels to
final consumers
PULL STRATEGY: the producer directs its
marketing activities toward final consumers to
induce them to buy the product.
factors- type of product/market and the product life-
cycle stage
13. Introduction stage:
Advertising and public relations are good for producing high awareness, and
sales promotion is useful in promoting early trial. Personal selling must be
used to get the trade to carry the product.
In the growth stage:
Advertising and public relations continue to be powerful influences, whereas
sales promotion can be reduced because fewer incentives are needed.
In the mature stage:
Sales promotion again becomes important relative to advertising. Buyers
know the brands, and advertising is needed only to remind them of the
product.
In the decline stage:
Advertising is kept at a reminder level, public relations is dropped, and
salespeople give the product only a little attention. Sales
promotion, however, might continue strong.
14. Advertising council of India, established in 1985
ASCI code applies to advertisements read, heard
or viewed even if they originate in abroad
LAWS GOVERNING MEDIA:
The Press Council Act 1978
Cable Television Network Rules, 1994
Code for Commercial Advertising on Doordarshan and
All India Radio
Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC)
Norms for Journalist Conduct issued by the Press Council
of India
Code of Conduct of the News Broadcasters Association
15. Laws Protecting Society and the Consumer
Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use)
Act, 1950
Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956
Companies Act, 1956
Standards of Weight & Measures Act, 1976
Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition)
Act, 1986
Consumer Protection Act, 1986
Laws related to intellectual property rights
16. Industry-Specific Laws
The Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940
The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994
The Drugs and Magical Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements)
Act, 1954
The Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of
Misuse) Act, 1994
Advocates Act, 1961
Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods
(Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992
Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992
The Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act,
1978
Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of
Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce,
Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003
Public Gambling Act, 1867, the Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998 and
the Prize Competitions Act, 1955
Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and
Ethics) Regulations, 2002
The Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006
17. Products and Services Banned From Advertising
Tobacco
The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of
Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 ("Tobacco Prohibition
Act") prohibits all direct and indirect advertising of tobacco products in all media.
Human Organs
The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994: This law provides for the
regulation of removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for
therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human
organs. This law prohibits any advertising inviting persons to supply, offering to
supply, any human organ for payment.
Magical Remedies
The Drugs and Magical Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements)
Act, 1954 prohibits advertisement of magical remedies of diseases and disorders.
Services for Pre-Natal Determination of Sex
The Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse)
Act, 1994 prohibits advertisements relating to pre-natal determination of sex.
Infant formula
Advertising forbidden in order to encourage natural feeding of infants.
Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes
The Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978 prohibits
advertisements relating to prize chit2 and money circulation schemes.
18. Professionals such as Chartered Accountants, Company
Secretaries & Cost Accountants: details of names of partners,
address and website, telephone, mobile, e-mail, fax number of
the member, year of establishment, additional recognized
qualifications, languages spoken by the partner(s), honours or
awards in the field of teaching, research, authorship etc.
Firearms, Weapons, and Ammunition: Arms Act, 1959.
Regulations Related to Product and Service Advertising
Alcohol (Beer, Wine, and Spirits)
The Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, the Advertising Codes of
Doordarshan, and the All India Radio and Norms for Journalist
Conduct issued by the Press Council of India prohibit any
advertisement directly or indirectly promoting the production, sale, or
consumption of cigarettes, tobacco products, wine, liquor, or other
intoxicants.
Legal Services
The Bar Council of India Rules formulated under the Advocates Act
1961 strictly enforce the advertisement ban and publicity rules
governing law firms websites.
22. MARKET SHARE
PLC
DEVELOPING
ADVERTISING
STRATEGY
Creating advertising
messages: clutters,
message appeal type,
Selecting advertising
media
MESSAGE EXECUTION
CONSUMER
GENERATED
MESSAGES
Selecting advertising media
Deciding on
Reach, Frequency, and
Impact.
Choosing Among Major
Media Types
Deciding on Media
Timing
Media effectiveness
factors.
Audience quality.
Audience engagement.
Editorial quality.
23. Measuring the communication effects of an ad or ad
campaign
Sales and profits effects of advertising are often harder
to measure.
small organizations: their own sales department
large organizations: advertisement agency
Standardization produces many benefits—lower
advertising costs, greater global advertising
coordination, and a more consistent worldwide image.
Global advertisers face several special problems.
Advertising media costs and availability differ vastly from
country to country.
Countries also differ in the extent to which they regulate
advertising practices
24. Public relations is building good relations with the
company’s various publics by obtaining favorable
publicity, building up a good corporate image, and
handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories,
and events.
25. Press relations or press agency: Creating and placing
newsworthy information in the news media to attract
attention to a person, product, or service.
Product publicity: Publicizing specific products.
Public affairs: Building and maintaining national or local
community relations.
Lobbying: Building and maintaining relations with
legislators and government officials to influence
legislation and regulation.
Investor relations: Maintaining relationships with
shareholders and others in the financial community.
Development: Public relations with donors or members of
nonprofit organizations to gain financial or volunteer
support.
26. PR professionals find or create favorable news about the company
and its products or people.
Speeches can also create product and company publicity.
Another common PR tool is special events, ranging from news
conferences, press tours, grand openings, and fireworks displays to
laser shows, hot air balloon releases, multimedia
presentations, start-studded spectaculars, or educational programs
designed to reach and interest target publics.
Public relations people also prepare written materials to reach and
influence their target markets. These materials include annual
reports, brochures, articles, and company newsletters and
magazines.
Audiovisual materials, such as films, slide-and-sound
programs, and video and audio CDs, are being used increasingly as
communication tools.
Corporate identity materials can also help create a corporate
identity that the public immediately recognizes.
Companies can improve public goodwill by contributing money
and time to public service activities.
28. Definition of Philip Kotler: “Personal selling
involves oral presentation in a conversation
with one or more prospective purchases for
the purpose of making sales”.
29. Personal selling is one of the oldest
professions in the world.
salesperson covers a wide range of positions.
a salesperson might be an order taker, such as
the department store salesperson standing
behind the counter
can vary from company to company incase of
online selling there is no need of salesperson
30. Linking the Company with Its Customers
They represent customers to the company.
They represent the company to customers.
Coordinating Marketing and Sales
31. Sales force management is defined as the
analysis, planning, implementation, and control of
sales force activities
Designing Sales Force Strategy and Structure
Territorial Sales Force Structure: Each salesperson is assigned
to an exclusive geographic area and sells the company’s full
line of products or services to all customers in that territory.
Product Sales Force Structure: The sales force sells along
product lines.
Customer Sales Force Structure: The sales force is organized
along customer or industry lines.
Complex Sales Force Structures: often combines several types
of sales force structures when it sells a wide variety of products
to many types of customers over a broad geographic area.
32. Recruiting and Selecting Salespeople
The best salespeople possess four key talents:
Intrinsic motivation.
Disciplined work style.
The ability to close a sale.
The ability to build relationships with customers.
Training Salespeople
different types of customers and their needs, buying motives, and buying
habits.
must teach them how to sell effectively and train them in the basics of the
selling process.
training program teaches them about the company’s objectives,
organization, and chief products and markets, and about the strategies of
major competitors.
Compensating Salespeople
Straight salary,
Straight commission,
Salary plus bonus,
Salary plus commission.
33. Supervising and Motivating Salespeople
The goal of supervision is to help salespeople “work smart”
by doing the right things in the right ways.
The goal of motivation is to encourage salespeople to
“work hard” and energetically toward sales force goals
Evaluating Salespeople and Sales-Force
Performance
Sales reports,
Call reports,
Expense reports.
34. Prospecting and qualifying
Current customers.
Suppliers, dealers, noncompeting sales-people, and bankers.
Directories or on the Web.
Dropping in unannounced on various offices (a practice known as “cold calling”)
Their financial ability.
Volume of business.
Special needs.
Location.
Possibilities for growth.
Pre-approach: The pre-approach is the stage in which the salesperson
learns as much as possible about the organization (what it needs, who is
involved in the buying) and its buyers (their characteristics and buying
styles)
Approach: During the approach step, the salesperson should know how
to meet and greet the buyer and get the relationship off to a good start.
Presentation and demonstration
Handling objections
Closing,
Follow-up