Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Surveillance Pricing. It's About Companies or Partners Building Tools To Determine Different Pricing For Same, Exact Products, Under 0Ps Of Marketing.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating firms that build the underlying artificial intelligence (AI) and data-profiling tools for Survillance Pricing. 

Think People' one of my 9Ps of Marketing--it's  demographics, geographics, psychographics, technographics and behavioral characteristics. This data is used to enable these pricing practices. 

These tech companies and consulting providers/Partners include:

  • Bloomreach
  • Mastercard
  • Accenture
  • McKinsey & Co.
  • Revionics
  • PROS 
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I like Marketing. I like Promotion, one of my nine Ps of Marketing.


I like following pricing models. I like advertising, which is one of the eight components under Promotion in my 9Ps of Marketing. 

I like copy and selling points. I like finding Marketing opportunities and solving Marketing problems using the nine Ps of Marketing. I like teaching them. 

I use my 9Ps to illustrate Marketing examples in the classroom, in court as an expert witness, in seminars and to solve Marketing problems and to find opportunities. 

My 9P's of Marketing do include these important concepts, practices and components:

I am using the 9Ps with Planning, People, Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Partners, Presentation and Passion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 

    • Finding copy points is part of the creative and promotional planning. 
    • Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Viewership, revenue, sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as three examples. 
    • From the founder of Intuit, Scott Cook, said: " A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- (maybe from Marketing Research never was is my comment) it is what consumers (“People” in the 9P’s) tell each other it is.
  • People (Segmentation and Targeting)
    • Look at demographics, geographics, Psychographics, Technographics and behavioral characteristics. 
    • Consumers and users, as in shoppers. Fashion consumers. Add travelers. 
    • In my 9P's, I stress that firms need to look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
  • Product and Services, includes airports, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
  • Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. How about locations of airports, team stadiums, amusement parks and resorts?  
  • Price or Pricing, many contingency plans needed.  
  • Promotion: 
    • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities. 
    • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
      • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
        • Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
      • Advertising: 
      • Like Super Bowl advertising in February for Super Bowl. Think about this expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
      • Sales Promotion, advertising mascots can fit here, too. Signage would fit here. 
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media: Influencers.  
      • Events and Experiences, sampling
      • Public Relations/PR
    • One stop shopping is more important than ever. 
  • Partners/Alliances, can be one of the most powerful of the 9Ps if researched, performed and handled well.                 
    • There should be moving forward towards shared goals or goals. 
  • Presentation:
    • The act or acts of strategically presenting any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others. 

      Presentation aspects may be signs, symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). Something set forth for the attention of mind of your targets ("People") and media audiences. I've added "culture," too. I'm adding "culture," too.

  • Passion, including consumers and employees. Think about the lines sometimes of consumers waiting for a new Apple product

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said “ To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." But Nike says "Just do it."

I am an experienced, senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising expert, Advertising/ Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.

I created the 9Ps. I own a copyright for these Nine Ps/9 Ps of Marketing©2007 concepts and Marketing practices, which augment the 1960's Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4Ps by the American Marketing Association (AMA), Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practice of Marketing. It's sixty years later and we are in the digital age. Now. 

The Nine Ps/9Ps of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9Ps are insightful. The nine Ps were created for the digital age. 

I consult and teach using these Marketing concepts and practices of the Nine Ps/9P's of Marketing.

For more on ideas, concepts and Marketing solutions: Go to LondreMarketing.com and look under “Articles and Resources” and the 9P’s/Nine P’s ©2007. Specifically you will find them detailed at 9Ps/Nine Ps.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with more than 80+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.  

Coffee Combinations, Coffee With Cream Or Sugar Or Both. With 9Ps Of Marketing

Does everyone want more in 2026 and 2027?

Times have been changing or as Bob Dylan said "The Times Are Achangin'," in 1964. We are 62 years later. 

How we want coffee isn't as easy. Multiple combination with just "Do you want it....Hot? or Cold? 

 It’s not as simple serving customers or People under my 9Ps of Marketing. 

Starbucks officially states there are more than 170,000 possible drink combinations but it may be as large as 383 billion combinations. I'm looking at less with standard menu customizations and options. 

What about adding modifications such as proteins, pumps, syrups, shots, additives, milk and cream types. 

I've seen a number of options reaching 383 Billion unique choices.

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I like Marketing. I like Promotion, one of my nine Ps of Marketing

I like advertising, which is one of the eight components under Promotion in my 9Ps of Marketing. 

I like copy and selling points. I like finding Marketing opportunities and solving Marketing problems using the nine Ps of Marketing. I like teaching them. 
I use my 9Ps to illustrate Marketing examples in the classroom, in court as an expert witness, in seminars and to solve Marketing problems and to find opportunities. 

My 9P's of Marketing do include these important concepts, practices and components:

I am using the 9Ps with Planning, People, Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Partners, Presentation and Passion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 
    • Options are part of new product development and research. Consumer tastes change. 
    • Finding copy points is part of the creative and promotional planning. 
    • Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Viewership, revenue, sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as three examples. 
    • From the founder of Intuit, Scott Cook, said: " A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- (maybe from Marketing Research never was is my comment) it is what consumers (“People” in the 9P’s) tell each other it is.
  • People (Segmentation and Targeting)
    • Look at demographics, geographics, Psychographics, Technographics and behavioral characteristics. 
    • Consumers and users, as in shoppers. Fashion consumers. Add travelers. 
    • In my 9P's, I stress that firms need to look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
  • Product and Services, includes coffees (hot or cold), airports, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
  • Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. How about locations of airports, team stadiums, amusement parks and resorts?  Peet's versus Starbucks. In the beginning Starbucks sold Peet's Coffee. 
  • Price or Pricing, many contingency plans needed.  
  • Promotion: 
    • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities. 
    • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
      • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
        • Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
      • Advertising: 
      • Like Super Bowl advertising in February for Super Bowl. Think about this expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
      • Sales Promotion, advertising mascots can fit here, too. Signage would fit here. 
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media: Influencers.  
      • Events and Experiences, sampling
      • Public Relations/PR
    • One stop shopping is more important than ever. 
  • Partners/Alliances, can be one of the most powerful of the 9Ps if researched, performed and handled well.                 
    • There should be moving forward towards shared goals or goals. 
  • Presentation:
    • The act or acts of strategically presenting any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others. 

      Presentation aspects may be signs, symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). Something set forth for the attention of mind of your targets ("People") and media audiences. I've added "culture," too. I'm adding "culture," too.

  • Passion, including consumers and employees. Think about the lines sometimes of consumers waiting for a new Apple product

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said “ To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." But Nike says "Just do it."

I am an experienced, senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising expert, Advertising/ Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.

I created the 9Ps. I own a copyright for these Nine Ps/9 Ps of Marketing©2007 concepts and Marketing practices, which augment the 1960's Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4Ps by the American Marketing Association (AMA), Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practice of Marketing. It's sixty years later and we are in the digital age. Now. 

The Nine Ps/9Ps of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9Ps are insightful. The nine Ps were created for the digital age. 

I consult and teach using these Marketing concepts and practices of the Nine Ps/9P's of Marketing.

For more on ideas, concepts and Marketing solutions: Go to LondreMarketing.com and look under “Articles and Resources” and the 9P’s/Nine P’s ©2007. Specifically you will find them detailed at 9Ps/Nine Ps.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with more than 80+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

I Don't Think There's A Day That Goes By Without Me Recommending The Podcast "Acquired." With 9Ps Of Marketing.

It's word craftsmanship in a podcast.

Why is "Acquired" so good? 

Why do I find it a companion on almost every walk around the neighborhood I take?

To me the most compelling part of Acquired—hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal—is its unique format of three to six hours of MBA-level narrative. 

They take deep dives into the history and strategic inflection points of the world's most iconic and extreme outlier companies.

I taught MBA Marketing and Global Marketing (in the classroom, on the web and by Zoom) all around the world and at USC, CSUN, all five campuses of Pepperdine, LMU.
I
 love "Acquired."

The episodes aren't interviews but conversational audiobooks built on 200+ hours of primary-source research. 

They highlight intensely driven, unconventional, and sometimes eccentric founders who sometimes have leveraged everything.

I've loved episodes on Trader Joe's, Citibank, Home Depot, Nvidia, Costco, Rolex, NFL and Hermès.

The hosts also share personal recommendations (media, books, games, tech) in a segment called "Carve-Outs."

Acquired is a Product and a Service.Has great WOM--Word of Mouth. 

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I like Marketing. I like Promotion, one of my nine Ps of Marketing

I like advertising, which is one of the eight components under Promotion in my 9Ps of Marketing. 

I like copy and selling points. I like finding Marketing opportunities and solving Marketing problems using the nine Ps of Marketing. I like teaching them. 
I use my 9Ps to illustrate Marketing examples in the classroom, in court as an expert witness, in seminars and to solve Marketing problems and to find opportunities. 

My 9P's of Marketing do include these important concepts, practices and components:

I am using the 9Ps with Planning, People, Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Partners, Presentation and Passion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 

    • Finding copy points is part of the creative and promotional planning. 
    • Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Viewership, revenue, sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as three examples. 
    • From the founder of Intuit, Scott Cook, said: " A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- (maybe from Marketing Research never was is my comment) it is what consumers (“People” in the 9P’s) tell each other it is.
  • People (Segmentation and Targeting)
    • Look at demographics, geographics, Psychographics, Technographics and behavioral characteristics. 
    • Consumers and users, as in shoppers. Fashion consumers. Add travelers. 
    • In my 9P's, I stress that firms need to look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
  • Product and Services, includes airports, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
  • Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. How about locations of airports, team stadiums, amusement parks and resorts?  
  • Price or Pricing, many contingency plans needed.  
  • Promotion: 
    • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities. 
    • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
      • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
        • Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
      • Advertising: 
      • Like Super Bowl advertising in February for Super Bowl. Think about this expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
      • Sales Promotion, advertising mascots can fit here, too. Signage would fit here. 
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media: Influencers.  
      • Events and Experiences, sampling
      • Public Relations/PR
    • One stop shopping is more important than ever. 
  • Partners/Alliances, can be one of the most powerful of the 9Ps if researched, performed and handled well.                 
    • There should be moving forward towards shared goals or goals. 
  • Presentation:
    • The act or acts of strategically presenting any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others. 

      Presentation aspects may be signs, symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). Something set forth for the attention of mind of your targets ("People") and media audiences. I've added "culture," too. I'm adding "culture," too.

  • Passion, including consumers and employees. Think about the lines sometimes of consumers waiting for a new Apple product

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said “ To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." But Nike says "Just do it."

I am an experienced, senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising expert, Advertising/ Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.

I created the 9Ps. I own a copyright for these Nine Ps/9 Ps of Marketing©2007 concepts and Marketing practices, which augment the 1960's Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4Ps by the American Marketing Association (AMA), Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practice of Marketing. It's sixty years later and we are in the digital age. Now. 

The Nine Ps/9Ps of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9Ps are insightful. The nine Ps were created for the digital age. 

I consult and teach using these Marketing concepts and practices of the Nine Ps/9P's of Marketing.

For more on ideas, concepts and Marketing solutions: Go to LondreMarketing.com and look under “Articles and Resources” and the 9P’s/Nine P’s ©2007. Specifically you will find them detailed at 9Ps/Nine Ps.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with more than 80+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.  




Monday, October 19, 2026

What I told Marketing, Advertising and IMC Classes To Be Successful. I Also Presenting The 9Ps In Solving Marketing Problems And Creating Marketing Opportunities.

I taught two classes last Monday.

Here are some of the best business, marketing and advertising questions I received.

What would be the best advice I can give them...t
My answers:
  • Try to be less distracted.
  • Take only paid internships.
  • Be more present and network like crazy.
  • They all are building their brand. Be the best person in every team project.

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I like Marketing. I like Promotion, one of my nine Ps of Marketing

I like advertising, which is one of the eight components under Promotion in my 9Ps of Marketing. 

I like copy and selling points. I like finding Marketing opportunities and solving Marketing problems using the nine Ps of Marketing. I like teaching them. 
I use my 9Ps to illustrate Marketing examples in the classroom, in court as an expert witness, in seminars and to solve Marketing problems and to find opportunities. 

My 9P's of Marketing do include these important concepts, practices and components:

I am using the 9Ps with Planning, People, Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Partners, Presentation and Passion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 

    • Finding copy points is part of the creative and promotional planning. 
    • Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Viewership, revenue, sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as three examples. 
    • From the founder of Intuit, Scott Cook, said: " A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- (maybe from Marketing Research never was is my comment) it is what consumers (“People” in the 9P’s) tell each other it is.
  • People (Segmentation and Targeting)
    • Look at demographics, geographics, Psychographics, Technographics and behavioral characteristics. 
    • Consumers and users, as in shoppers. Fashion consumers. Add travelers. 
    • In my 9P's, I stress that firms need to look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
  • Product and Services, includes airports, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
  • Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. How about locations of airports, team stadiums, amusement parks and resorts?  
  • Price or Pricing, many contingency plans needed.  
  • Promotion: 
    • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities. 
    • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
      • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
        • Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
      • Advertising: 
      • Like Super Bowl advertising in February for Super Bowl. Think about this expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
      • Sales Promotion, advertising mascots can fit here, too. Signage would fit here. 
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media: Influencers.  
      • Events and Experiences, sampling
      • Public Relations/PR
    • One stop shopping is more important than ever. 
  • Partners/Alliances, can be one of the most powerful of the 9Ps if researched, performed and handled well.                 
    • There should be moving forward towards shared goals or goals. 
  • Presentation:
    • The act or acts of strategically presenting any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others. 

      Presentation aspects may be signs, symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). Something set forth for the attention of mind of your targets ("People") and media audiences. I've added "culture," too. I'm adding "culture," too.

  • Passion, including consumers and employees. Think about the lines sometimes of consumers waiting for a new Apple product

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said “ To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." But Nike says "Just do it."

I am an experienced, senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising expert, Advertising/ Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.

I created the 9Ps. I own a copyright for these Nine Ps/9 Ps of Marketing©2007 concepts and Marketing practices, which augment the 1960's Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4Ps by the American Marketing Association (AMA), Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practice of Marketing. It's sixty years later and we are in the digital age. Now. 

The Nine Ps/9Ps of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9Ps are insightful. The nine Ps were created for the digital age. 

I consult and teach using these Marketing concepts and practices of the Nine Ps/9P's of Marketing.

For more on ideas, concepts and Marketing solutions: Go to LondreMarketing.com and look under “Articles and Resources” and the 9P’s/Nine P’s ©2007. Specifically you will find them detailed at 9Ps/Nine Ps.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with more than 80+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.  

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Which Super Bowl Advertiser Lost Money On Each And Every Sale? With The 9P's Of Marketing.

They spent a ton of money on advertising and it did not work or pay. 

One of my favorite answers every February when I give up to six presentations on Super Bowl advertisers each year. Coming up next February 14th is Super Bowl LXI.  

Pets.com’s business model could only “sustain” itself for just ten months. 

As 2000 began Pets.com was a high-flying dot-com, with 300 employees and a sock puppet mascot. 

Netted $82.5 million in their IPO. 

Seventeen dot-coms were part of “The Dot-Com Super Bowl,” including RIP e-stamp, computer.com and lifeminders.com. Add one of my best examples and questions. 

Every year I conduct research and give presentations on the excellent, good, bad and ugly Super Bowl spots which were up over $10 Million each without including creative, production or celebrity costs. 

Going back to pets.com.

Even the voice-over artist for the “sock puppet” didn’t use pets.com and he said he didn’t know anyone that used the service. Yikes. 

This dot.com spent $55.3 million in advertising, mostly on TV and generated only $5.8 million in sales? Pets.com’s cost of goods sold was $13.4 million, more than 2x their actual sales of $5.8 million.

Pet Smart bought pets.com’s web address for $375,000 in 2001.

After Pets.com liquidated, Hakan and Associates and Bar None, Inc. purchased the rights to the pets.com puppet for $125,000 in 2002.

Plenty of examples under the 9P's of Marketing?  Planning- Product- Price- Place- Promotion- People-Partners- Passion and Presentation.

Follow me. Plenty of Marketing insights and trivia. https://londremarketing.blogspot.com/\

I am an experienced, senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising expert, Advertising/ Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.

I created the 9P's. I own a copyright for these Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing©2007 concepts and Marketing practices, which augment the 1960's Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association (AMA), Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practice of Marketing. It's sixty years later and we are in the digital age. 

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9P's are insightful. The nine P's were created for the digital age. 


I  consult and teach using these Marketing concepts and practices of the Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.

For more on ideas, concepts and Marketing solutions: Go to LondreMarketing.com and look under “Articles and Resources” and the 9P’s/Nine P’s ©2007. Specifically you will find them detailed at 9P’s/Nine P’s.
Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with more than 75+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.  



Saturday, October 17, 2026

Exercises: Learning To Be More Creative, With 9P's Of Marketing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe created and produced massive contributions in poetry, books, novels, drama, philosophy and natural science. He cemented his status as one of the Western World's greatest literary figures

Goethe said that "To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." 

But what if you don't have an idea. 

Here are seven or more ideas on becoming more creative and problem solving.

  1. Take a class on problem solving
  2. Invest time in an artistic hobby
  3. Read.
  4. Watch TV and movies
  5. People say they get their best ideas taking a shower. Sometimes a problem is in the back of your mind and a solution just pops up.
  6. I use my concept and practice of the 9P's of Marketing to formulate Marketing opportunities and solve problems in Marketing 
  7. Shift from "what" you are thinking to "how" you are thinking.

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I like Marketing. I like Promotion, one of my nine P's of Marketing

I like advertising, which is one of the eight components under Promotion in my 9P's of Marketing. 

I like copy and selling points. I like finding Marketing opportunities and solving Marketing problems using the nine P's of Marketing. I like teaching them. 

I use my 9P's to illustrate Marketing examples in the classroom, in court as an expert witness, in seminars and to solve Marketing problems and to find opportunities. 

My 9P's of Marketing do include these important concepts, practices and components:

I am using the 9P's with Planning, People, Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Partners, Presentation and Passion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 

    • Finding copy points is part of the creative and promotional planning. 
    • Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Viewership, revenue, sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as three examples. 
    • From the founder of Intuit, Scott Cook, said: " A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- (maybe from Marketing Research never was is my comment) it is what consumers (“People” in the 9P’s) tell each other it is.
  • People (Segmentation and Targeting)
    • Consumers and users, as in shoppers. Fashion consumers. Add travelers. 
    • In my 9P's, I stress that firms need to look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
  • Product and Services, includes airports, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
  • Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. How about locations of airports, team stadiums, amusement parks and resorts?  
  • Price or Pricing, many contingency plans needed.  
  • Promotion: 
    • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities. 
    • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
      • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
        • Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
      • Advertising: 
      • Like Super Bowl advertising in February for Super Bowl. Think about this expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells."
      • Sales Promotion, advertising mascots can fit here, too. Signage would fit here. 
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media:  
      • Events and Experiences, sampling
      • Public Relations/PR
    • One stop shopping is more important than ever. 
  • Partners/Alliances, can be one of the most powerful of the 9P's if researched, performed and handled well.                 
    • There should be moving forward towards shared goals or goals. 
  • Presentation:
    • The act or acts of strategically presenting any of the different 9P’s© and/or components to your customers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers, sales force, marketing intermediaries, clients, employees, partners, and/or others. 

      Presentation aspects may be signs, symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). Something set forth for the attention of mind of your targets ("People") and media audiences. I've added "culture," too. I'm adding "culture," too.

  • Passion, including consumers and employees. Think about the lines sometimes of consumers waiting for a new Apple product

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said “ To put your ideas into action is the most difficult thing in the world." But Nike says "Just do it."

I am an experienced, senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising expert, Advertising/ Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.

I created the 9P's. I own a copyright for these Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing©2007 concepts and Marketing practices, which augment the 1960's Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association (AMA), Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practice of Marketing. It's sixty years later and we are in the digital age. Now. 

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems in a number of strategic areas and help develop profitable marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The 9P's are insightful. The nine P's were created for the digital age. 

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