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This is any communication a business or organization uses to inform, persuade, or remind customers about its products.
Promotion
Advertising
This is the COMBINATION of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations that is used to communicate the business’s message.
Industrial Mix
Promotional Mix
Advertising is a recent phenomenon and has no historical roots.
True
False
Advertising has been around since ancient times.
True
False
Hundreds of years ago these individuals might stand at a busy street corner and shout about the products or services available from their sponsors.
town advertiser
town crier
Joannes Guttenberg invented this around 1440 which moved society toward mass communication, increased literacy, and the creation of printed advertising.
movable type
the alphabet
This is any paid form of non-personal promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor.
Advertising
Personal Selling
This type of promotion requires contact between a representative of the business and a potential customer.
Personal Selling
Sales Promotion
This person is the legal representative of an athlete or celebrity – they are salespeople!
Agents
Merchants
These are activities that are designed to create a positive feeling toward the team, athlete, or celebrity.
Public Relations
Personal Selling
This is the term used to describe the positive feeling that fans and potential customers have toward the sports team, athlete, or celebrity.
Empathy
Goodwill
An expensive billboard along a busy highway, which promotes the newest Jurassic World movie, is an example of:
Sales Promotion
Advertising
Sports teams and celebrities will often sponsor charity events that help worthy causes because:
These activities help deserving people and the community at large.
Helping other people and supporting charity organizations is the right thing to do.
These activities will help build goodwill toward the team, athlete, or celebrity.
All of these are reasons why teams and celebrities sponsor charity events.
This is any non-paid mention of the product, team, athlete, celebrity, or cause in the media.
publicity
peddling
Publicity is typically free.
True
False
Publicity can be positive or negative.
True
False
Publicity is easily controlled.
True
False
This is a public relations specialist, who is responsible for maintaining relations with the general public and the news media.
Publicisit
Promoter
This is a prewritten story about a team, a player, or celebrity that is sent to the various media.
Press Conference
Press Release
Lady Gaga held one of these to announce that she would be performing during the Super Bowl halftime show.
Press Conference
Marketing Meeting
This is any activity or material that offers consumers a direct and immediate incentive to buy a product or service.
Personal Selling
Sales Promotion
No performer has ever been paid to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. Why are celebrities willing to perform for free during the Super Bowl halftime show?
Performing during the Super Bowl is an important public relations opportunity.
Over 100 million viewers are expected to watch the Super Bowl each year.
A Super Bowl performance will stimulate sales of the performer’s music.
All of these are reasons why celebrities want to perform during the Super Bowl.
This is the most common example of sales promotion.
Billboards
Coupons
This is a sales promotion activity that requires the customer to demonstrate a skill.
Sweepstakes
Contest
This sales promotion activity is a game of chance and prizes are awarded randomly.
Sweepstakes
Contest
This sales promotion activity consists of giving away free promotional items to customers as a reminder about the business. These are inexpensive items like mini-footballs, water bottles, t-shirts, and key chains.
Premiums
Trade Goods
This event allows businesses to exhibit their products and services to a specific industry. Several Comic Cons are held each year in the United States and are considered to be:
Trade Shows
Press Conferences
This is a promotional activity that allows fans to participate in the activity rather than simply observe things. Blizzard Entertainment does this annually for its fans.
Event Marketing
Industrial Marketing
This display consists of promotional material used closely with the merchandise it is promoting. It is often located where the purchase decision is made.
Point-of-Purchase Display
Marketing Point Display
This occurs when an unknown person or event is propelled into the spotlight by the fans.
Grassroots Effort
Event Marketing Effort
This is a promotion where a few online mentions turn into a real buzz about a movie, celebrity, or player
Viral Campaign
Event Campaign
This is the first step in developing a promotional strategy. Before you begin, you should:
decide on specific, measurable goals for the promotional campaign.
decide how much money your business can afford to spend on promotion.
The third step in developing an effective promotional strategy is to develop a promotional theme. This is the name given to the theme of the promotional strategy.
Headline
Tagline
The fifth step in the development of advertising is to create the message. This is the most important element in determining the success of advertising:
Schedule
Creativity
The sixth step in developing advertising is to develop an advertising schedule. This is the number of times the target customer is exposed to the media:
Reach
Frequency
The seventh and last step in developing advertising is to ________________ the effectiveness of the advertising.
investigate
measure
This is the saying that conveys the main meaning of the promotional message.
Slogan
Copy
This is the number of people in the target market expected to receive the message through the chosen media.
Reach
Frequency
This type of promotion is targeted at the final user of the good or service.
consumer promotion
business promotion
This type of promotion includes promotional efforts that are directed other businesses.
consumer promotion
business promotion
Most business-to-business promotions are done with:
personal selling
coupons
This market includes companies and organizations that purchase products for the operation of the business or for the completion of a business activity.
Consumer Market
Business Market
This market includes companies and organizations that purchase products for the operation of the business or for the completion of a business activity.
Consumer Market
Business Market
This salesperson will negotiate salary contracts and endorsement deals on behalf of the athlete or celebrity.
The Sports Agent
The Industrial Agent
Promotion can be used to sell products and enhance the public image of a business or organization.
True
False
Advertising can take almost any form, appear in almost any media, and reach millions of people.
True
False
Any activity used to communicate with customers in an attempt to inform, persuade, or remind them about the business’s products or services comes under the umbrella of promotion
True
False
Writing on stone tablets, walls, and papyrus from ancient Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, and Greece all carried advertising messages.
True
Flase
Advertising is one-way communication with customers & potential customers using mass media.
True
False
Some sources estimate that the average person is exposed to about 250 advertising messages per day.
True
False
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