Sales promotions are generally short-term incentives. These incentives are given to encourage maximum sales of a product or service; however these incentives are not for consumers alone but can also be given to wholesalers and retailers by the company. Sales promotions comprise various communication activities, which try to offer added value to customers to stimulate immediate sales. These efforts are made to create product interest, purchase or trial. It is one of the four characteristics of promotional mix, while the other three are 1) Advertising, 2) Personal Selling and 3) Publicity or public relations. More than often media as well as non-media marketing communication is used for a pre-destined yet limited time. This is always done to benefit the company or organization in terms of: increase in consumer demand, stimulate market demand and perk up availability. Examples include the following:[sky]
• Samples
• Coupons
• Premiums
• Point-of purchase displays
• Contests
• Rebates
• Sweepstakes
There are basically three kinds of sales promotion strategies
• Push strategy
• Pull strategy
• A combination of push & pull strategy
Push Strategy
In this strategy the product is pushed through the distribution channels to the end user using promotions and personal selling techniques. The parent company promotes the product through resellers who further promote it to other sellers and so on till the product reaches the ultimate consumer.
Push Strategy
In this strategy the consumer pulls the product from the manufacturer through marketing channel. This strategy requires the company to focus its marketing communication directly on the consumers with the hope of creating an interest which leads to demand for the product by the end-user.
Combination of Push & Pull
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