A marketing mix and a promotional mix have differences, and are both important to your business. In order to successfully grow your business, you will need to market it. Marketing helps attract new customers and keeps customers coming back for repeat business. When you identify your marketing mix, it helps you determine how to satisfy your customers, while the promotional mix focuses on direct customer interaction.
Marketing Mix
The marketing mix is a planned mix of activities. The ingredients in the marketing mix are product, place, price and promotion. It is a combination of elements that you will use to market your product. Marketers use the marketing mix to create a value for their product. The four elements of the marketing mix are used and adjusted until the marketer gets the results that he wants. For example, pricing decisions are exercised in the form of cash discounts that convince customers to buy.
Promotion Mix
The promotional mix is the coordination of marketing activities which includes publicity, sales promotion, advertising, direct marketing and personal selling. It is a coordination of activities that you will perform to directly interact with your customers. For example giving sales presentations helps you to interact with the customers one on one to answer their questions and demonstrate your product.
Difference Between a Brand Name and a Trademark
Trademarks and brand names are essentially the same thing. The only difference between the two is that a trademark is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Registration of a brand name as a trademark affords the owner of that trademark legal recourse if someone else uses that name.
Brand names and trademarks are valuable assets to a business. Often a brand or trademark becomes synonymous with the product. For example Xerox (R) is often used to mean copy. Because of this, many companies want to protect their