Sales Promotion

1. Sales Promotion
Unit 5

2. Introduction
• sales promotion as demand
• Stimulating devices designed to supplement advertising and facilitate
personal selling.
• It is non recurrent in nature which means it can't be used
continuously.

3. Concept of Sales Promotion
• Sales promotion consists of diverse collection of incentive tools,
mostly short-term designed to stimulate quicker and / or greater
purchase of a particular product by consumers or the trade
• advertising offers a reason to buy, sales promotion offers an incentive
to buy
• Sales promotion includes tools for consumer promotion (for example
samples, coupons, prizes, cash refund, warranties, demonstrations,
contest)

4. • trade promotion (for example buying allowances, free goods,
merchandise allowances, co-operative advertising, advertising and
display allowances, dealer sales contests);
• sales-force promotion (for example bonuses, contests, sales rallies).

5. Definitions of Sales Promotion
• According to American Marketing Association “ Those marketing
activities other than personal selling advertising and publicity that
stimulate consumer purchasing and dealer effectiveness such as
display shows and exhibitions, demonstrations and various non-
recurrent selling efforts not in the ordinary routine.”
• W.J. Stanton defines sales promotion as all those activities other than
advertising, personal selling, public relations and publicity that are
intended to stimulate customer demand and improve the marketing
performance of sellers.

6. Purpose of sales Promotion
• sales promotion serves three essential roles it informs, persuades and
reminds prospective and current customers and other selected
audiences about a company and its products .
• importance of those roles varies according to the circumstances faced
by a firm.
• a product may pass through many lands between a producer and
consumers (product or brand will be a failure if no one knows it is
available )

8. Importance
• Increasing awareness
• Increasing knowledge & preferences
• Increasing retailers
• Increasing brand & Est brand
• Maintaining public profile

9. Promotional instrument
• Also known as integrated marketing communication IMC
• Advertising
• Personal selling
• Public relations
• Word of mouth
• Sales promotion
• Publicity
• Direct marketing
• Online marketing

10. Marketing communication & persurance
• Pursuance is influencing some one to buy product .
Essential elements :
• Enthusiasm
• Consistency
• Confidence

12. Implication of AIDA
• Information role –guide brand choice , awareness , recall , pretesting
& monitoring
• Persuasive role –create desire and conviction to buy , add value