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Open Discussion - Sales Promotions

Open Discussion - Sales Promotions

Q Compare and contrast sales promotion campaigns with advertising or public relations campaigns. If assigned measure the effectiveness of a sales promotion program, what internal and external marketing factors would you take into consideration? Please support your answer with attribution linked to the reading assignment in the textbook. You may refer to outside sources to enrich your answer. Respond to at least two of your classmates. If possible, respond to a classmate that has not received a response and avoid responding to posts of your fellow group members. Your responses should be constructive in nature and take the discussion to another level of thought or perspective. Your response must be more than just one or two lines and not a simple statement of agreement to the original post. Start a New Thread

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Short-term product and service sales are the focus of sales promotions. Free trials for a limited time, discount vouchers, and buy-one-get-one-free offers are examples of sales promotions. Sales promotions are solely focused on moving goods and services and are created to cater to a prospect's financial concerns (Quain, 2019). the line between a PR campaign and an advertisement campaign remains vague, so we've decided to clear things up by demonstrating the distinctions. One of the most significant advantages of ad campaigns is that marketers have much greater influence over when, where, and how a message is delivered. A public relations campaign generates gained exposure, normally by the use of a third party. Uber, for example, took advantage of a large amount of positive and negative public relations attention surrounding the company.