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GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating with publics in more than one country, firms must work within the limitations of each market to maximize their promotional
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GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

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Page 1: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIESOverview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating with publics in more than one country, firms must work within the limitations of each market to maximize their promotional objectives.

Page 2: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Elements of the Communication Process• Sender

•Encoding

•Message

•Medium of Transmission

• Receiver

•Decoding

•Response

•Feedback

• Noise

Page 3: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Global Advertising - Any Paid Form of Nonpersonal Communication where the Sponsor is IdentifiedOften Controversial

Benefits Derived from Advertising

1. Economic

a) Sales increase

b) Production increases

c) Per-unit cost of product goes down - economies of scale

Page 4: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Global Advertising - Any Paid Form of Nonpersonal Communication where the Sponsor is Identified

d) Price decreases

e) Sales increase further

f) Competition increases - yielding higher productivity and better product quality

2. Social

a) Employment is generated

b) Higher standard of living

Page 5: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide On Advertising Message

1. Standardise when country markets are similar

2. Adapt when they are different

3. Avoid taboos of target market - don’t offend

Page 6: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide OnBudget and Allocation Based on Internal and External Conditions

1. Internal conditions

a) Management orientation

b) Advertising objectives

c) Resources available

Page 7: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide On2. External conditions

a) Governmental regulations

b) Competitors’ advertising strategies

c) Market attractiveness

d) Media restrictions

Page 8: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide OnMedia Options and Country Characteristics

- Effectiveness Versus Economy

1. Televisiona) Developed countries (DCs) - countrywide availability

b) LDCs - concentrated in major cities, per capita ownership of TVs is lower

c) Limitations: ads may be bunched, broadcasting times vary, ads regulated

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Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide On2. Radio

a) DCs - popularity on the rise, many program options available

b) LDCs - good medium to reach uneducated urban and rural customers

3. Magazines

Page 10: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide On

4. Newspapers

a) Advantages: fast and economical

b) Disadvantages: some LDCs don’t compile demographic data; they have space limitations and content specifications

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Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide On 5. Direct mail

a) DCs - more common

b) LDCs - limited opportunities, lack of reliable lists, undependable delivery, low literacy rates

6. Catalogs - limited to DCs for same reasons as for direct mail

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Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide On 7. Facsimile - controversial

8. Videos

a) Time not limited to 30- or 60- second slots

b) DCs - whole video can be an ad

c) LDCs - movie d\videos contain ads

9. Cinema - these ads more common in LDCs

10. Billboards - all countries

Page 13: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Planning an Advertising Campaign - Specify Objectives; Then Decide OnAdvertising Regulations - Know Them and Adapt Message Accordingly

Agency Selection

1. Global agency

2. Local agency

3. Combination of both

Page 14: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase SalesConsumer Sales Promotion Techniques - Can Foster Long-Term Objectives

1.Coupons - maintain current customers, attract new ones

2.Rebates - maintain current customers, attract new ones

3.Free samples - encourage new users by eliminating cost

4.Mail-in premiums

Page 15: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase Sales

5. In-pack premiums - promotional benefit packaged with the product

6. Bonus packs - more product for the same price

7. Trading stamps - increase store patronage

8. Contests and sweepstakes - enhance name recognition and stimulate sales

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Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase Sales

1.Sales contests - increase sales

2.Price-off offers - push new products or move large quantities

3.Advertising allowances

Trade Sales Promotion Techniques - Persuade Channel Members to Carry Products or to Increase Sales

Page 17: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase Sales

4. Display allowances

5. Free goods

6. Push money - money to carry and to push products

Page 18: GLOBAL PROMOTION STRATEGIES Overview Marketing communications include advertising, sales promotion, personal selling, and public relations. When communicating.

Global Personal Selling - Keeping Buyers Happy, the Firm Informed The Personal Selling Process

1. Planning: what, how, when

2. Prospecting: who

3. Preparing: what buyers need, competitors offer

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Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase Sales4. Selling

a) Approaching customer

b) Making presentation

c) Answering questions

d) Closing sale

5. Following up - establishing solid link

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Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase SalesManaging the Global Sales Force

Sales Force Compensation

1. Straight salary

a) Advantages: sales force security, easy to administer

b) Disadvantage: lower sales if unmotivated sales force

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Global Sales Promotions - Short-Term Efforts to Increase Sales2. Straight commission - fixed percentage or

varying percentage

a) Advantage: encourages performance

b) Disadvantage: salespeople may stop with quotas

3. Combination salary and commission

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Global Public Relations - Tools for Building a Favorable ImageEmployee Relations - Create Favorable Ambassadors to the Community

Customer Relations - Show Firm Cares About Customers

Press Relations - Keep Shapers of Public Opinion on Firm’s Side

Government Relations - Be a Good Citizen