In today’s connected world, promotion is fundamental to everything we do to drive business. This is a new edition of an established book, updated with the latest research on the shopper/buyer and how to reach their ‘tipping point’ when the decision to buy is made, now covering mobile, online and bricksand-mortar sales and marketing. This book clarifies why a focus on the customer is key, and how to communicate with them from even before they discover a want or need, to the point of purchase and after. The author of this important book explains how and when to use suppliers (agencies, printers, insurers, etc.) for promotions of all types, including advertising (outdoor, on websites and in print), experiential marketing (road and trade shows, exhibitions, merchandising) and sales promotions (in-store/web and mobile promotion offers). Processes describe and explain how to implement promotional marketing to achieve business objectives.
Promotional Marketing is a practitioner guide to sales and marketing for agencies, entrepreneurs and small businesses and those seeking a career in retail. It is packed with real-life and award-winning case studies and practical briefs (NatWest, Diageo, Sainsbury’s, Shell and Radisson, for example) as a starter for when the client needs a creative answer yesterday! It is also tuned to those studying, providing a chapter on how marketing and sales fit into business.
Roddy Mullin is a practitioner and business consultant with 30 years’ experience working for the professions, manufacturers, service and media industries, large organisations (such as BRE and Royal Mail) and government (NAO), and a widely translated author (into Chinese, Russian, Korean, Polish and Portuguese, for example). His books are targeted at entrepreneurs, small business owners, academic students (as university undergraduate and diploma course core texts) and those seeking marketing careers. His books cover all aspects of marketing – this book describes how to implement promotions; his other books focus on measuring marketing, direct marketing, analysis of the shopper and experiential marketing.