Monday, February 29, 2016

What Is "The Super Bowl For Women?" Is It The Actual Super Bowl Or Is It The Oscars?

Media planners and buyers talk about male viewers for the Super Bowl and female viewers for the Oscars.  It's about media planning and media buying.

The Super Bowl and Academy Awards/Oscars are both long events on TV, the Super Bowl with the long half-time event and the Oscars.

I show and comment on the TV spots for both. I was at Pepperdine University in February at their IMC class and I was at Cerritos College's TV Production class last Saturday commenting on the Super Bowl spots. The good, bad and ugly of Marketing planning, advertising, creativity, People or Targeting, costs and much more.

I use the Nine P's of Marketing as a helpful aid for the students and always mention "It's Not Creative Unless It Sells." They receive handouts of the 9P's of Marketing. It's a good lecture with plenty of student input and dialog.

Last night was three hours and twenty minutes for the Oscars.  By the way Chris Rock should come back. He did promote Kevin Hart for next year.

Actiually the Super Bowl delivers more men, but the Super Bowl delivers more women too.

This is from Nielsen Research and their live-same-day data. Yesterday's Oscars captured just 10.4 % (18 to 49 year olds) of the potential TV whether they were on or off.

There was an average audience of 34.3 million viewers. Down significantly from last year. Was it the boycott?  Was it the quality of movies? Probably both.

Nielsen reports that 52 million women watched CBS' Super Bowl L or 50 broadcast. It's not close with the Super Bowl grossing the number of overall Oscars viewers, both male and female, by 52%.

Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 

I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 

In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. 

The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion: 
    • Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
    • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
    • Advertising
    • Sales Promotion
    • Collateral Materials
    • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
    • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
    • Events and Experiences-
    • Public Relations
    • Strategic questions under Promotion::
      • What should you promote?
      • To whom should you promote?
      • What economic and discount levels should you offer?
      • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
      • How frequent?
  • Partners: 
    • It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation: 
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. 
  • Passion:
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.  
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 37+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre MarketingConsultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.

Too Connected. Want To Unconnect. Unplug. Get Off The Grid?

It's a leap year. Something different for sure. This is a different kind of marketing post for me. We live in this 24/7/365 world. All media, all the time.

Some strategic questions under Promotion, one of the nine P's of marketing:
  • What should you or a company promote? 
  • To whom should you promote?
  • What economic and discount levels should you offer?
  • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
  • How frequent? With this post, probably fewer times. Don't want to stress people out. 
I stumbled unto something different to the constant communication and media we all face in our 24/7 world.

With the penetration of smart phones, iPads, notebooks. WiFi everywhere. Here's something new. Different. 

It takes planning (one of my 9P's of marketing) to unplug. 

Want to unplug? Unconnect? Get off the treadmill. Get off the grid?

Now I have found an adult camp. It's a digital free environment.  There is stargazing, dance, yoga, dance, crochet, tie dyeing,poetry, weaving, sailing, Gourmet foods. Check out Camp Grounded

Under Place and the nine P's of Marketing. Check out the locations of NY, California, North Carolina and Texas. 

Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 

I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 

In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. 

The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. Unplug crowd would be different. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
    • Technographics would be important here in or under targeting.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion: 
    • Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
    • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
    • Advertising
    • Sales Promotion
    • Collateral Materials
    • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
    • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
    • Events and Experiences-
    • Public Relations
  • Partners: 
    • It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation: 
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. 
  • Passion:
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.  
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 37+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre MarketingConsultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Academy Awards. Oscars. Lack Of Publicity. Where Does That --- The Factor Or Communication Element Of Less Buzz Fit, Under Nine P's Of Marketing?

Low awareness? Lack of interest? Think there is a lack of buzz? Less Promotion? What will happen to viewership. Advertisers, for the Academy Awards or Oscars this Sunday? 

What has no other Oscar host done in the past?  


Chris Rock, the highly entertaining comedian, has refused to do any publicity for the ceremony. He does appear as a graphic in the on-air promotion for ABC for the Oscar's this Sunday.


He did make an appearance to test some of his material at Largo. Doesn't really count. .

It's under one of the Nine P's Promotion.

What variable do you have to work with? The eight (8) major, strategic components under Promotion also defined as "The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product or service would include:
  • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
  • Advertising
  • Sales Promotion
  • Collateral Materials
  • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
  • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
  • Events and Experiences-
  • Public Relations
Strategic questions under Promotion::
  • What should you promote? In this example, the Oscars? 
  • To whom should you promote? Potential viewing audience. Advertisers for this year and next. 
  • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
  • How frequent? Well there are only two days left. 
Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 

I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 

In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. 

The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion, with eight (8) major, strategic components and it's the communication elements including personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, organization, entity or service. 
  • Partners: 
    • It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation: 
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. 
  • Passion:
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.  
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 37+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre MarketingConsultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.


Friday, February 26, 2016

Who Wins Monday Night? Oscars?

Simply it's ABC. 

This is a perfect question for Oscar week...The Academy Awards are tomorrow on ABC. 


Who wins? ABC with its advertising revenue ($120 million is the estimate) and with the promotion of their programming; their other shows on ABC. Add ESPN is they cross-promote.


They will feature all of their programming. Plus add sales revenue from the advertisers. They win both ways. 


ABC is charging more than $2 million per thirty or :30 second spot to the advertisers. 


Last year the cost was between $1.8 to 2 Million per spot. This year ABC is charging and going for more. 


I have another blog post this week on "What are the "Big Five?" 


The "Big Five" Academy Award categories are:

  1. Best Picture
  2. Best Director
  3. Best Actor
  4. Best Actress
  5. Best Screenplay (either the best adapted screenplay or the best original screenplay).
You may not know that a total of 42 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories? 

But only three films have won all five of these major awards: 


  1. "It Happened One Night" in 1934. 
  2. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975.
  3. "The Silence of the Lambs" in  in 1991.
There you have it. 

I see about a movie a week in the theatres. Seen all of them in these categories this year and past few years. 

My prediction for best picture this year:  Either "Spotlight" or "The Big Short." We'll see. 

Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

By the way, after being nominated in each category of the "Big Five," only eight pictures or movies failed to win any of these five major awards. 

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 

I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 

In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. 

The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion: 
    • Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
    • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
    • Advertising
    • Sales Promotion
    • Collateral Materials
    • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
    • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
    • Events and Experiences-
    • Public Relations
    • Strategic questions under Promotion::
      • What should you promote?
      • To whom should you promote?
      • What economic and discount levels should you offer?
      • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
      • How frequent?
  • Partners: 
    • It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation: 
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. 
  • Passion:
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.  
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 37+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre MarketingConsultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

The Genius Of Roald Dahl. The Genius Behind "Charlie And The Chocholate Factory" And "Maltilda." His Museum In Buckinghamshire, England.Is A 2016 Vacation Idea

Roald would have been 100 this year on September 13th. 

The genius of Roald Dahl lives on. Roald Dahl the genius behind "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda" has his own museum. This is a special blog post to celebrate travel and a special place to go with your family. 


The author lived in Buckinghamshire, England and a museum is there which is geared ("People," in the 9P's of marketing) to six an to twelve year olds and others. 

The website is featured for kids, teachers and grownups, under People in the 9P's.
Click here for more information.

Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 


I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 


In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.


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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. Example is for teachers, kids and grown-up. maybe grown-ups who also want to be kids. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion: 
    • Eight (8) major, strategic components:The communication element includes personal and non-personal communication activities. Promotional activities that communicate the merits of the overall product or services. 
    • Promotion: 
      • Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
      • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
      • Advertising
      • Sales Promotion
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
      • Events and Experiences-
      • Public Relations
    • More questions under Promotion (I found this on the web as a web post /blog post idea)::
      • What should be promoted?
      • To whom should be promote?
      • What economic and discount levels should  be offered?
      • What form of promotion should be offer? Features? 
      • How frequent?
  • Partners: It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation:
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand.  
  • Passion
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services. 
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 37+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.

Monday, February 22, 2016

Cadillac. Virtual Dealerships. Fewer Dealerships. It's About Marketing Strategies, Costs, Profits And Place Under The Nine P's Of Marketing.

I read that Cadillac wants 400 of its lowest-volume dealerships that sell fewer than a Cadillac a week to change to "virtual showrooms." Several examples for the 9P's of Marketing. 

Financial, Operational, Marketing strategy starts with research and sales. It ends with revenue, costs and profits.


Did you know that Cadillac sold 175,267 vehicles in 2015 and many dealerships average sell one Cadillac a week?  


Who does Cadillac compete with?  That is who is their real competition? Is it really BMW? Mercedes?


With its 925 dealer stores, Cadillac's network is selling about half the volume of these manufacturers in sales with 3x the number of stores or dealerships for Cadillac. That's not a good ratio. .


Cadillac may go to fewer dealerships and smaller dealerships. Maybe virtual-dealerships, with touch screens. I'd put that under Sales Promotion and Promotion in the 9P's of Marketing.


I’ve seen this in Europe and Asia. The automakers are working with smaller dealerships and using virtual showrooms. With stock coming from regional inventory. 


Cadillac is looking at virtual-retailing, with its smallest dealerships. That’s Place in the 9P’s of Marketing. 


These dealerships sell more Chevy Silverados and/or GMC Yukons.


Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 

I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 

In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. 

The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion: 
    • Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
    • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
    • Advertising
    • Sales Promotion
    • Collateral Materials
    • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
    • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
    • Events and Experiences-
    • Public Relations
    • Strategic questions under Promotion::
      • What should you promote?
      • To whom should you promote?
      • What economic and discount levels should you offer?
      • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
      • How frequent?
  • Partners: 
    • It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation: 
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. 
  • Passion:
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.  
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 37+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre MarketingConsultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.

The "Big Five" For The Oscars And The Academy Awards: Winning Takes A Ton Of Skill, Promotion And Luck.

This is a perfect question for Oscar week...The Academdy Awards are next Sunday on ABC.

What are the "Big Five?" The "Big Five" Academy Award categories are:

  1. Best Picture
  2. Best Director
  3. Best Actor
  4. Best Actress
  5. Best Screenplay (either the best adapted screenplay or the best original screenplay).
You may not know that a total of 42 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories? 

But only three films have won all five of these major awards: 


  1. "It Happened One Night" in 1934. 
  2. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975.
  3. "The Silence of the Lambs" in  in 1991.
There you have it. I see about a movie a week in the theatres. Seen all of them in these categories this year and past few years. 

My prediction for best picture this year:  Either "Spotlight" or "The Big Short." We'll see. 


Visit here for more insights into Marketing and Advertising strategies and true Marketing and Advertising Trivia.

By the way, after being nominated in each category of the "Big Five," only eight pictures or movies failed to win any of these five major awards. 

I am a senior Forensic Marketing Expert, Advertising/Marketing consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach Marketing and Advertising. 

I own a copyright for this concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) or the 4P’s by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help identify marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. The Nine P's can be insightful. 

In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. 

The Nine P’s include these important components:
  • Planning
  • People 
    • It's about Segmentation and Targeting. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix." Almost every diagram includes the four P's with "Consumer" or "People" or "Potential Buyers" in the middle of the circle. There needs to be more focus on the "Customer," or "People." 
    • "People," market segments utilizing demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics are a vital component of the 9P's of Marketing. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment.
  • Product and Services 
  • Place (Distribution) 
  • Price
  • Promotion: 
    • Eight (8) major, strategic components: The communication elements include personal and non-personal communication activities. Activities that communicate the merits of the overall product, which include:
    • Personal Selling/ Sales Force
    • Advertising
    • Sales Promotion
    • Collateral Materials
    • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising
    • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media 
    • Events and Experiences-
    • Public Relations
    • Strategic questions under Promotion::
      • What should you promote?
      • To whom should you promote?
      • What economic and discount levels should you offer?
      • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
      • How frequent?
  • Partners: 
    • It is important to partner with firms that have similar corporate philosophies, who have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
  • Presentation: 
    • The “P” or “Presentation” is the act of 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.
    • Look at “real” product and service experiences. I place “events and experiences” also under Promotion. While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with consumers. Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. 
  • Passion:
    • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.  
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