Nov 3, 2010

Promotion Strategy

This aspect is related to the various efforts to provide information on the market about the products / services sold, the place and time. There are several ways to spread this information, including advertising, personal selling, sales promotion and publicity.

  • Advertising: It is the primary tool for businesses to influence consumers. Advertising can be done by employers through newspaper, radio, magazines, cinema, television, or in the form of posters placed alongside a road or strategic places.
  • Personal selling: It is the company's activities to make direct contact with prospective customers. With this direct contact is expected to occur in a positive relationship or interaction between entrepreneurs with prospective customers that. Included in personal selling include: door to door selling, mail order, telephone selling, and direct selling.
  • Sales Promotion: It is the company's activities to peddle products marketed in such a way so that consumers will be easy to see and even by way of placement and certain setting, then the products will attract consumers' attention.
  • Pubilicity: It is a common way used by companies to establish influence indirectly to consumers, enabling them to know, and enjoying a marketed product, this is different to the promotion, which, in making publicity companies do not do the commercial. Publicity is a promotional tool that is capable of forming public opinion accurately, so often referred to as an effort to socialize.
In this case to consider is to achieve an effective balance, by combining these components into an integrated promotional strategy to communicate with buyers and purchasing decision makers.