Principles
of Marketing MGT301
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KEY
TERMS
Advertising:
Any
paid form of non personal
presentation and
promotion
of ideas, goods, or services by
an
identified
sponsor.
Personal
selling:
Personal
presentation by the
firm's
sales force for the purpose
of making sales
and
building customer relationships.
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.
Direct
marketing: Direct
connection with
carefully
targeted individual consumers to
both
obtain
an immediate response and
cultivate lasting
customer
relationships--the use of telephone,
mail,
fax,
e-mail, the Internet, and
other tools to
communicate
directly with specific
consumers.
Personal
Communication Channels:
In
personal communication channels, two or
more
people
communicate directly with
each other.
Non-personal
Communication Channels: Non
personal communication channels are
media
that
carry messages without personal
contact or
feedback.
Public
Relations:
Public
relations involves 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.
Advertising:
can
reach masses of geographically
dispersed buyers
at
a low cost per exposure,
and it enables the
seller
to
repeat a message many
times
Publicity
Public
information is information
about a
company's
goods or services appearing in
the mass
media
as a news item. Stimulation of
demand for a
good,
service, place, idea, person, or
organization by
unpaid
placement of commercially significant
news
or
favorable media presentations.
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Sales
Promotion:
Sales
promotion consists of short-term
incentives to
encourage
the purchase or sale of a
product or service.
Whereas
advertising and personal selling offer
reasons to
buy
a product or service, sales
promotion offers reasons
to
buy
now.
Catalog
Marketing:
Catalog
marketing involves
selling through catalogs mailed
to
a
select list of customers or made
available in stores
Kiosk
Marketing:
Some
companies place information
and ordering machines
(called
kiosks) in stores, airports, and
other location
Database
marketing
is
the process of building,
maintaining, and using
customer
databases and other
databases for the purposes
of
contacting
and transacting with customers.
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