What is Promotional Mix?
In marketing, the promotional mix describes a blend of promotional variables chosen by marketers to help a firm reach its goals. It has been identified as a subset of the marketing mix.
It 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 customer one on one to answer their questions and demonstrate your product.
The above figure gives a represents of how promotional mix is a subset of marketing mix.
Various methods followed under Promotional Mix:
Public Relations
Advertising
Sales Promotions
Personal Selling
Direct Marketing
Public Relations:
Public relations or publicity is information about a firm's products and services carried by a third party in an indirect way. This includes free publicity as well as paid efforts to stimulate discussion and interest. It can be accomplished by planting a significant news story indirectly in the media, or presenting it favorably through press releases or corporate anniversary parties. Examples include newspaper and magazine articles, TVs and radio presentations, charitable contributions, speeches, issue advertising, seminars.
Advertising
Advertising is the paid presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor in a mass medium. Examples include print ads, radio, television, billboard, direct mail, brochures and catalogs, signs, in-store displays, posters, mobile apps, motion pictures, web pages, banner ads, emails.
Sales Promotions
Sales Promotion is the media and non-media marketing communications used for a pre-determined limited time to increase consumer demand, stimulate market demand or improve product availability. Examples include coupons, sweepstakes,