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Business Definition for: Sales Promotion

  • activities, usually short-term, designed to attract attention to a particular product and to increase its sales, using advertising and publicity. Sales promotion usually runs in conjunction with an advertising campaign that offers free samples or money-off coupons. During the period of a sales promotion, the product may be offered at a reduced price and the campaign may be supported by additional telephone or door-to-door selling or by competitions.
  • Also known as Promotion

Additional Resources

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
Sales Promotions
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. Sales promotion facilitates the generation of sales quickly. It is a strategy that operates on the principle of persuasion. It involves persuading an...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales Promotion, Villanova University
Presentations 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
promotion - sales promotion
A good definition of sales promotion would be as follows: “An activity designed to boost the sales of a product or service. It may include an advertising campaign, increased PR activity, a free-sample campaign, offering free gifts or trading stamps, arranging demonstrations or exhibitions, setting up competitions with attractive...
Tags: Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Sales Promotion, Article
White papers 2003-01-01
Personal Selling And Sales Promotion : An Overview
Personal selling involves face-to-face communication that informs customers and persuades them to buy a particular product or service. Personal selling process begins with prospecting for new customers and ends with closing of the sale and follow-up. Sales promotion is an activity that acts as a direct inducement to prospective customers...
Tags: Sales, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales Promotion
Presentations 2003-01-01
Personal Selling And Sales Promotion
Advertising, personal selling, publicity, and public relations form the components of the marketing communication or promotional mix. Personal selling occurs when the seller and the prospective buyer interact face-to-face and effect a sale. The personal selling process starts with locating prospective customers and initiating contacts with the same. Sales promotion...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales Promotion
Presentations 2003-01-01
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
Produce More Sales From Your Email Promotions Five Ways - Part 1
Do sales come from a person's ezine regularly? How many well-written articles does a person submit per week to opt-in online ezines? How often does a person send thank you's and follow up messages to different email groups? If one has answered not many, then one needs to re-evaluate. The...
Tags: Ezine, EzineArticles.com, Promotion, E-mail, Sales Strategy, Online Communications, Sales
White papers 2004-09-24
Analysis of Sales Promotion Effects on Household Purchase Behavior
Manufacturers and retailers are spending more and more of their marketing money on sales promotions. Conflicting empirical results exist with respect to the effects of these sales promotions on household purchase behavior. Based on household scanner data, this document develops new insights into the drivers of household promotion response and...
Tags: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Sales Promotion, Analysis, Scanners, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales
White papers 2002-09-19
Integrated Marketing Communications: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
Personal selling and sales promotions comprises two effective tools of integrated marketing communication. Personal selling involves a two-way communication between a seller and a proposed buyer. Careful cultivation of the sales force is imperative for sustenance of a result-oriented personal selling program. This includes efficient supervision, evaluation and compensation of...
Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Promotion, Integrated Marketing Communication, Sales, Sales Force Management
Presentations 2000-01-01
WSJ: US sales drop at McD after 55 cents promotion - Wall Street Journal, Bic Mac promotion - Brief Article
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- The Wall Street Journal reported that domestic sales fell 6 percent in the two weeks since McDonald's Corp. began its 55-cent Big Mac promotion.
Tags: sales
Research articles 1997-05-19
Label boosts sales 17% in Heinz promotion - H.J. Heinz uses temperature sensitive ink on labels in promotion - Brief Article
H. J. Heinz parlayed a temperature-sensitive ink into a 17% sales increase for a summer promotion. The ink carried a hidden message that told consumers if they won up to $20,000 worth of prizes.
Tags: H.J. Heinz Co., ink, sales
Research articles 2001-09-01
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
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
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
Time to take a break from sales promotion? Failures, such as Kit Kat's 'biggest break', are endemic in sales promotions, while successes like Walkers' Books for Schools are fewer. Are the industry's days numbered?
It could be argued that sales promotion is the reality television of the marketing world. In the early days, sales promotions were exciting and innovative and consumers were getting more for their money. But now, like reality shows, they are everywh It could be argued...
Tags: Books, industry, sales, sales promotion
Research articles 2004-11-18
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
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
Cooper Bussmann®'s It's OK to be Yellow Sales Promotion Turns Heads of Distributors and Customers
ST. LOUIS -- The deadline is rapidly approaching for the Cooper Bussmann It's OK to be Yellow sales promotion that gives electrical circuit protection customers the opportunity to win a free one-year lease of a 2005 HummerR H2R. The Cooper Bussmann promotion lasts through September 30, 2005, and customers can...
Tags: Cooper, sales promotion
Research articles 2005-08-15
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
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