This document defines and describes various types of promotion. It discusses product promotion to build relationships with customers, institutional promotion to create a favorable business image, advertising through various media to get people to buy products, direct marketing targeted at specific groups, sales promotions using activities other than advertising to encourage purchases, the role of public relations in relating to the public and providing information, how news releases and publicity bring organizational information to public attention, and different sales promotion techniques like combinations of promotions, consumer promotions, coupons, and premiums.