Promotion: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Promotion

  • the award to an employee of a job at a higher grade, usually offering greater responsibility and more money
  • the award to an employee of a job at a higher grade, usually offering greater responsibility and more money
  • see Sales Promotion

Wiktionary Definition for: Promotion

  • an advancing in rank or position
  • a sales tactic, advertisement
  • English promotion

Additional Resources

Promotion = 1 Of The 4 P’s
Product promotion involves informing, reminding, and persuading the consumers about a particular product or service. The various promotional tools involved in product promotion comprise the promotional mix of an organization. They include advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations. Integrated Marketing Communication IMC is the coordinated and focused effort...
Tags: Sales Force Management, Public Relations, Product Promotion, Promotion, Integrated Marketing Communication, McGraw-Hill Companies, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sales
Presentations 2003-01-01
Marketing & Promotion
This articles focuses on Marketing and Promotion that defines that marketing and promotion are the secret of success, in any field. In publishing, marketing and promotion generally entails preparing a media kit. These include a press release or news release, a review copy of your publication or sample of...
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Research, Promotion
White papers 2002-01-01
Promotions
Product promotion is the process of informing, reminding, and persuading the target audience about a particular product or service. Sales promotion utilizes various incentive techniques to structure sales related programs. It is an effective approach to increase immediate customer sales. The paper examines the dynamics of sales promotion and discusses...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Product Promotion, Sales Promotion
Presentations 2003-01-01
Pricing And Promotion
Price and promotion form two elements of the marketing mix. Price is the amount of money that would be charged in exchange of the product from the buyer in the market. Promotion consists of the avenues that would be explored to inform the consumers about the product. An effective pricing...
Tags: Southeastern Louisiana University, Pricing Strategy, Promotion, Marketing Research, Marketing, Pricing
Presentations 2003-01-01
Allocation increased for export market promotion program - $200 million of USDA 1991 Market Promotion Funds allocated to assist U.S. producers finance export market promotion of agricultural products; $96 million for promotion of horticultural products -
Almost Half of the 1991 Market Promotion Funds Are for Horticultural Products, With Citrus Fruits and California Wine Receiving the Largest Allocations.
Tags: allocation, finance, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 1991-08-01
RP Promotion Strategy
Internet gives marketing freedom for any body that want to have known business. RP promotion is not the only possible way of online promotion strategy but surely one of the most fundamental, with unmatched potential. The RP is Recurring Passive promotion to get outstanding promotional results. This article points out...
Tags: Management, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Strategy, Public Relations, RP, Promotion
White papers 2003-01-01
Promotion Mix
The organization has to convey the message about the product on offer to its consumers. This helps in sustaining a perennial demand for the product and in suitably positioning it among the target audience. The process of communicating the message is called promotion. It influences the purchase decision of the...
Tags: Long Beach, California State University, Organization, Promotion, Public Relations, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales Strategy, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sales
Presentations 2003-01-01
Tap Into Larger Profits With Your Promotion
From the executive summary: ‘Promotion is all about soliciting a direct response, a specific action that a company wants people to take. That action may be a sale, a request for further information, the setting of an appointment, or simply permission for further contact. The focus of promotion should rest...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Marketing, Human Resources, Promotion, Action, iEntry Inc.
White papers 2003-07-16
Low Cost, Small Town Promotion
Marketing, advertising and promotion. So alike in some ways and so different in others. Each will absorb all the finances a person wants to throw at them and still ask for more. In order for any promotion to work it must be directed to the right people. Promotions work because...
Tags: Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing
White papers
Merit Promotion Program
The Merit Promotion Program deals with the placement, promotion, transfer, reassignment and other movement of competitive service employees
Tags: U.S. Department Of Interior
White papers 1998-11-18
Integrated Marketing Communications
Product promotion is the process of disseminating product related information amongst the target audience with the objective of influencing their purchase decision. The various promotional tools involved in product promotion comprise the promotional mix of an organization. They include advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations. The paper examines...
Tags: Integrated Marketing Communication, Western Illinois University, Product Promotion, Public Relations, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sales
Presentations 2003-01-01
Raising Promotion’s Idea Bar
The promotion business is known for a lot of things, but originality is not one of them. The overwhelming majority of new promotions are, in fact, derivatives of old ones. It is an industry where the canard that there are only seven ideas in promotion is just about an article...
Tags: Promotion, Promotion Business, Branding, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Announcement To Customers: Promotion
This template can be used as formal letter to inform the customers about the promotion of product and the discount offering on the same. This template can be seen as an important tool to enhance the promotion and to increase the sales of the product.
Tags: Promotion, LetterPremier.com, Sales Strategy, Productivity, Sales Force Management, Sales
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Promotion Based On Performance
A promotion review board of 20-30 participants meets twice a year to decide which candidates to recommend for promotion. The list of candidates ranges from 10 - 15 individuals. The promotion review board needs a process that is efficient, formal, and documented. At the end of the meeting, they must...
Tags: Performance, Promotion, Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Case studies 2001-01-01
Promoting Products: Communication And Promotion Policy
Product promotion involves informing, reminding, and persuading the consumers about a particular product or service. The various promotional tools involved in product promotion comprise the promotional mix of an organization. They include advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing. The chapter examines the steps in developing effective...
Tags: Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Public Relations, Productivity, Chapter, Tool, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Product Promotion, Product, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sales
Presentations 2003-01-01
NASCAR Sour Speed Strips.(PRODUCT UPDATE)(Promotion In Motion Companies Inc. teams up with National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Inc.)(Brief article)
Promotion In Motion Companies Inc. Promotion In Motion Companies Inc.
Tags: NASCAR, team
Research articles 2006-07-01
Introduction to the promotional mix
It is not enough for a business to have good products sold at attractive prices. To generate sales and profits, the benefits of products have to be communicated to customers. In marketing, this is commonly known as "promotion". Promotion is all about companies communicating with customers. That is possible with...
Tags: Promotion, Sales Strategy, Benefits, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Human Resources, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Sales Promotion
Sales promotion is an activity wherein prospective customers are invited to try out a newly launched product or service. It involves offering an incentive for the same. The incentive can be of two types viz. price reduction and non-monetary incentive like running contest or slogan writing. The paper examines the...
Tags: San Jose State University, Incentive, Sales, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales Promotion
Presentations 2003-01-01
The Best Small Town Business Promotions
If the business is new or a struggling business promotion is one of the best marketing tools to move the business towards success. Promotion must do two things. One, it must be profitable. It has to produce more in customers profits to the business than the promotion costs. Two, it...
Tags: Promotion, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers
8 Surefire Ways to Advertise Your Web Site for Free
Can one ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible? The answer is yes! Nowadays, a baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion. How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done? This paper provides some...
Tags: Website Promotion, Web Site, Web, Internet, Web Technology, Web Site Development
White papers 2006-05-28
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