Study Guide #4
Marketing 300


Chapter 10 (p. 260-264)
Product Adoption Process (awareness, interest, evaluation, trail, adoption, read table 10.2)
Innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards

Why some products Fail and Others Succeed
Chapter 17
Read, "St. Paul Saints -- A Winning Combination of Sport and Promotion," p. 431
Integrated marketing communication
Promotion and the Communication Process (communication, source, receiver, coding process (encoding), medium of transmission, decoding, noise, feedback, channel capacity)
Objectives of promotion (create awareness, primary demand, pioneer promotion, selective demand, encourage product trial, identify prospects, retain loyal customers, facilitate reseller support, combat competitive promotional efforts, reduce sales fluctuations)
The Promotion Mix (advertising, personal selling, public relations, sales promotion)
Read "Clicking Coupons Instead of Clipping Them," p. 443.
Push and Pull Channel Policies, p. 447
Read all Criticisms and Defenses of Promotion
Chapter 18
The Horn Group:   "The Magic of PR"
The Nature and Types of Advertising (institutional, advocacy, product, pioneer, competitive, comparative, reminder, reinforcement)
Developing an Advertising campaign (all steps and budgeting types, cost comparison indicator, copy, storyboard, artwork, illustrations, layout, pretest, consumer jury, posttest, recognition test, unaided recall, aided recall)
Read, "Is it Fair to Advertise to Vulnerable Groups?," p. 460
Public Relations Tools (publicity, news release, feature article, captioned photograph, press conference -- check out table 18.4)
Evaluating Public Relations effectiveness (environmental monitoring, public relations audit, social audit)
Dealing with Unfavorable Public Relations
Chapter 19
"McDonald's -- Turning Success Into an Annual Event," p. 484
The Nature of Personal Selling
Prospecting, Preapproach, approach, making the presentation, overcoming objections, closing, following up
Types of Salespersons (order getter, order takers, inside order takers, field order takers, support personnel, missionary salespersons, trade salespersons, technical salespersons"
"Personal Selling Confronts Cyber-Selling," p. 491
The Nature of Sales Promotion
Sales Promotion Opportunities and Limitations
Consumer and trade sales promotion methods
Coupons, demonstrations, frequent-user incentives, POP materials, free samples, rebates, money refunds, premiums, cents-off offers, consumer contests and games, sweepstakes, buy-back allowances, buying allowances, scan-back allowances, free merchandise, merchandise allowances, cooperative advertising, premium or push money, sales contests, dealer loader

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hapter 23
"Dell Reshapes PC Industry," p. 596
What is Electronic Marketing (e-commerce, e-marketing)
Basic Characteristics of Electronic Marketing (addressability, cookie, interactivity, community, memory, control, hypertext, portal, accessibility, URL, digitilization
Read "E-marketing strategy" (pp. 605-610)
Advertising and publicity (banner ads, keyword ads, button ads, interstitials, sponsorship ads)
Personal selling and sales promotion, pricing considerations -- digital currency
Legal and Ethical Issues Associated with E-marketing
Read "TRUSTe:  Building a Web You Can Believe In," p. 615
Look at Taable 23.4, AMA's Code of Ethics for Marketing on the Internet