How Did The Second Game Of The Final Four Or The National NCAA Championship Game In March Madness Fare?

OK, I know the game was in April.

It was cable versus broadcast, for professionals in advertising and media.

The final game UNC versus Villanova will go down as a classic, but the advertising and media numbers were not so good. The headlines read "NCAA Ratings Plummet on Cable."

The NCAA final aired for the first time on cable.

The show or game had 10,000,000 fewer viewers,.

There is a difference from TBS, TNT and truTV versus CBS. It appeared that this was the lowest-rated national championship game ever. Not good. 

What happens in 2017?

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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.

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Customer Experiences and Customer Loyalty. Employee Coorperation, With the 9P’s of Marketing. It’s About Regulations, People. Customers And Your People.

Positive customer experiences drive loyalty.

Interactions with customers whether big or small influence how much business, revenue or sales plus repeat business you get in the future.

I have put some thoughts together on customer experiences, customer or "people" service and customer loyalty. In the 9P’s of Marketing, it’s about "People." "Customers." And your "People, or employees."

Does the company and you in administration have clear, well-articulated set of values for the company? Are they required? 

This reminds me of two stories or examples:

1. I saw recently that it was reported that "Telling workers to be happy is a a law violation, according to the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board).  In a T-Mobile USA employee handbook the copy asks and encouraging employees to "behave in a professional manner that promotes efficiency, productivity, and cooperation." The NLRB says that may violate employee rights (Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act).
2. Ritz-Carlton employees carry around a card. 
• Their Employee Promise: At The Ritz-Carlton, our Ladies and Gentlemen are the most important resource in our service commitment to our guests.
• By applying the principles of trust, honesty, respect, integrity and commitment, we nurture and maximize talent to the benefit of each individual and the company.
• The Ritz-Carlton fosters a work environment where diversity is valued, quality of life is enhanced, individual aspirations are fulfilled, and The Ritz-Carlton Mystique is strengthened.

Positive customer feedback means sales in the short-term and customer loyalty in the long-term. 

Companies can’t gain competitive advantage over their competitors until the customers (People, under the nine P’s) experience is positive and the standards and rules are embedded in the company's marketing, positioning, customer service and operations.  

Are your employees fully committed to the goals of your organization? Engage the employees. Engage the customers. 

But first be sure you first engage the employees. From your online and behind the counters operations. Don't forget shipping. 

It’s not always about price in the nine P’s. It can be about the product, Service, and much more. It’s brand value for you and potential customer or People under the 9P’s of Marketing. Be more customer-centric. 

Customer service: It’s getting to be more of a competitive differentiation tactic, on the web, on the phone or in store.  Recommendation and influences to and by friends and colleagues can drive business.

Building the processes and capabilities to service customers. It’s not a short-term gaol. But it does happen one step at a time. For a customer it can happen in the day or night. For a company it does not happen overnight. I have seen the worst examples of customer service or specifically customer rudeness late a night. At hotel front desks and at airline counters.

Improvement requires the entire company. It’s top down and down up.

Companies can’t gain competitive advantage over their competitors until customer (People in the nine P’s) experiences or positive customer experiences are embedded in the employees and into the company's marketing, positioning, customer service and operations. 

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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. 

Raising Prices To Existing Customers. With The 9P's Of Marketing.

I was asked about raising prices to existing customers or "People," in the teaching and consulting with the 9P's of Marketing. Pricing is just one of the important variables or elements or parts in the nine P's of Marketing.  

"People" (Segmentation/Targeting) or as the question came to me was explained as their "existing" customers. People can include potential customer, but not in their question. 

The company was a start up and the existing customers had a better "deal." 

Pricing, I explained, was and is tricky to set and deal with. Both in the short-term and in the long-term. Add that it was a start-up and it becomes trickier. 

Actually your customers and the marketplace will set prices. Your costs will help determine them too. 

In my MBA classes if you boil down everything you need to do two things: 

1. increase revenue
2. control costs.  

Your sales force and employees play huge parts in any price increase.  

As Management guru Peter F. Drucker once said: “The aim of Marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him (her/it) and sells itself.  

Price is important in this equation.  And this is one of the reasons I created the Nine P’s. “People” or Targeting was slightly forgotten in the Marketing Mix, and is a major, significant part of the Nine P’s of Marketing.

Companies do not get potential users or customers to try a product by convincing them to love their brand. You get them to love a brand by convincing them to try and use the product or service.

Developing a strong brand is a byproduct. It comes by executing and doing the elements/parts/things/variables/ingredients/components in the Nine P’s of Marketing... right. 

Make sure the Product or Service is excellent. Research and Planning excellent.

Be sure the company is taking good care of their customers (People), and having the right Planning and targeting (People), the right Product or Service, right Place or distribution, right Price, right Promotion, right Partners, and the right Presentation, with the right amount of Passion in the 9P’s of Marketing.

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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.

Passion, in the 9P's Of Marketing: Series On Marketing And The Components Under The Nine P's Of Marketing.

What is Passion, one of the elements, components or parts (another "P," under the Nine P's of Marketing? 

Simply "All aspects regarding a company or individuals (sales persons)."

Passion relating to those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services. Consumers have passion for products. Think cars and Apple products. And there is more, especially looking at Marketing's objectives, strategies and tactics.

Passion relates to planning and execution plus implementation: Having to do with the intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall Marketing of products or services.  As a brand manager or marketing manager it starts with “believing” in the product and services you market and sell. And from research, it needs to show, in the “presentation,” your passion for the product. 

• Emotional, as distinguished from reason and rational decision-making; 
• A strong liking for or devotion to some activity; deep interest in your partnership/presentation of any of the 9P’s© to any target or partner. 

Under Promotion: Many sales persons dispute the concept that many sales people can sell anything, whether they believe in the product or not.

That may have been true in the past, before the web, when manufacturers, producers and sellers held distinct information and specific product advantages, with buyers having limited choices. Not now. Today, buyers can find tons of information about products, product lines, product variables, product attributes, distribution options, strategic partnerships, pricing, sales promotions, new product development, and more. 

Salespeople have told me that believing leads to a deeper understanding of your product offerings, which allows sellers to better match what they have with what others need and buyers want. 

According to psychologists, with “passion,” management, brand managers, marketing managers and other employees need another component or two. Needing to extend commitment over a period of time, adding inspiration, longevity with perseverance or to heighten passion. 

When you combine inspiration, passion with perseverance, the team may have “grit,” in delivering short and long term sales. 

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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. 

How Many Logos Has Google Used?

Less than one googol, which is  the number 1 (one), followed by 100 zeroes.

The many logos are about readability plus events and occasions.

Google founded in '98 and originally named or nicknamed "Backrub."

It's the world’s largest search engine company headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

As you know almost daily Google uses a logo on its loading page.

As of April 2016, they have used more than 1,500 “Google Doodles.” More are on the way. Could they have created a googol of them in the development of events and occasions? Maybe. Just maybe at the desigers, art directors, employees and for the managers to consider

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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. Google is considered as both products and services under the 9P's of Marketing.  
• 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. 

Helping To Explain Disneyland's Price Of Admission, Price, One Of The P's Under The Nine P's Of Marketing.

Let's make it simple: 

On slow days Disneyland's pricing strategy or the strategy called "demand pricing" will cost you $10 to $24 less. 

The lowest admission to Disneyland is $95 for the lowest-demand days and the cost is $119 for peak-demand for the busiest days.

It's not easy anymore to know what the price of admission is at an amusement park. Try asking someone what it costs? Eyes roll. And the lines and traffic. Plus crowds. Unbelievable.   

I discuss in my marketing and advertising classes, seminars and presentations that my aunt and mother took my brother and me to Disneyland in the first couple of weeks.  They paid 75 cents each for admission.  

The price for admission at Universal Studios, Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knott's ranges.

They use words like "gate," "online," "peak-demand," "moderate-peak," "lowest-peak," "online peak," based on demand. 

The price ranges from $95 to $119 at Disneyland;  $43 to $72 at Knott's; $90 to $115 at Universal Studios; and $51.99 to $76.99 at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Glad to save that penny at Six Flags.

Under the 9P's of marketing, I define "Price/Pricing" as "All aspects regarding pricing. The amount of money a consumer is willing to pay to obtain the product. Pricing includes wholesale/retail/promotional prices, discounts, trade-in allowances, quantity discounts, credit terms, sales and payment periods and credit terms." It involves pricing decision making and adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions. Add demand. 

Pricing, under the nine P's of marketing is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service, including amusement parks. Oh, we haven't gotten to parking, the food and beverages, ice cream, hats, toys, and more.

It surely was cheaper in 1955.

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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, means a lot especially when you are working on amusement parks and more, under Marketing decision-making. Add words such as "gate," "online," "peak-demand," "moderate-peak," "lowest-peak," "online peak," based on demand. 
• 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.  

Next Week Is The Week: The Word "Internet" Turns Into "internet," Based On AP Style Guide

It's now lowercase for the word "internet." 
Beginning June 1, next week, the AP Stylebook will lowercase “internet.” I place internet or "Interactive/internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media" under Promotion in the 9P's of Marketing. 

The eight elements under Promotion are:

• Personal Selling/ Sales Force 
• Advertising: Mass or nonpersonal selling: TV, radio, magazines, newspaper, outdoor/out-of-home (OOH), online, mobile
• Sales Promotion: Promotional tools, both a tool to speed up sales or value for the company; or an extra incentive to buy, a value to the customer. Includes trade deals, trade incentives, rebates, money-back offers, frequency programs, slotting allowances for in store promotion, samples, loyalty programs, coupons, premiums, tie-ins, p-o-p, displays, sweepstakes, allowances, trade shows, sales rep/trade contests, events/experiences and more.
• Collateral Materials: Booklets, catalogs, brochures, films, sales kits, promotional products and annual reports.
• Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising): Online, direct mail, mobile, database management, catalogs, telemarketing, and direct-response ads, including TV.
• Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media: Interactive/online is a form that uses the Internet and Web to deliver promotional messages to attract customers. Social media is an interactive platform in which individuals and communities create and share user-generated content. Social media is ubiquitously accessible, includes Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, as examples.
• Events and Experiences: Interacting with the brand. An experience can be much more impactful than an exposure or an impression. Events, promotions, one on one, and/or face-to-face engagements are delivering consumers to encounter, “experience,” and interact with the product or the service, usually prior to buying.
• Public Relations: Press releases, publicity.  Securing editorial space, as opposed to paid space--usually in print, electronic or Internet media.  Promote or “hype” a product, service, idea, place, person or organization, internal communication, lobbying. PR involves a variety of programs designed to promote or protect a company’s image/reputation or individual products.

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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 of Marketing include these important components or elements:

• 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. 

What is Marketing? My Favorite Three Definitions. Londre Marketing Has Many More Under Our Nine P's Of Marketing Document.

The Nine P’s/9P’s of Marketing can be used successfully by product companies, service firms, for profits entities and nonprofits “selling” directly or indirectly to consumers (B2C), to marketing intermediaries (such as industrial, consumer, retail, wholesale and professional channels of distribution), and to other businesses (B2B).

As Management guru Peter F. Drucker once said: 

• “The aim of Marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him (her/it) and sells itself."

• Marketing is getting the right product or service to the right people (target market), at the right time, at the right place, at the right price, with the right partners, plus right communication, promotion and presentation.

• Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. (Definition approved by the American Marketing Association

Companies do not get potential users or customers to try a product by convincing them 
to love their brand. You get them to love a brand by convincing them to try and use the product or service.

Developing a strong brand is a byproduct. It comes by executing and doing the elements/parts/things/variables/ingredients/components in the Nine P’s of Marketing... right. Make sure the Product or Service is excellent. Research and Planning excellent.

Be sure the company is taking good care of their customers (People), and having the right Planning and targeting (People), the right Product or Service, right Place or distribution, right Price, right Promotion, right Partners, and the right Presentation, with the right amount of Passion in the 9P’s of Marketing.
At USC School of Law, UCLA School of Law and at Southwestern School of Law I have given variations of a  presentation, with CLE credit, titled “Confusion between Marketing  & Advertising: Why and what difference does it make to Law Students, Judges and Lawyers. Plus the Nine P’s of Marketing.”

I use specific, current examples of Yelp.com, Verizon, Metro/Expo, small businesses and large businesses. Plus the famous Sleekcraft factors. I present contemporary examples; the presentation is fun, educational, and interactive. I have also given international/global seminars and my talk will use both USA and global examples.

As a Marketing and Advertising expert, for the past 40+ years  I have worked full-time in Marketing while teaching Marketing and related subjects to graduates and undergraduates one, two or three nights a week at USC, CSUN, LMU CSUN among others.

My expert witness cases have involved: marketing; advertising; breach of contract; business practices; business and professions code compliance and violations, including unfair competition, unlawful, or unfair, or fraudulent business activities; contracts, sponsorships; false advertising; trade libel; media; trademark infringement; intellectual property; patents; usage of models; advertising agencies; trade secrets;  client business practices; unfair advertising; deceptive advertising; violations of Lanham Act; unjust enrichment; trademarks at issue; comparative advertising/promotion; licensing; packaging; the value of advertising and media campaigns. Cases involved contracts between partners, directors, advertising agencies, clients, advertisers, suppliers, distributors, production firms and media.

I have copyrighted and developed the Nine P’s of Marketing They include “People” or target market(s), Product” or Service, “Price,” “Promotion,” “Place” or Distribution, “Planning,” “Partners,” “Presentation,” and “Passion.”It's different out there. Beware. Or be aware of what's out there.

Visit here for more insights 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 ©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 help identify marketing problems in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions.  The Nine P's are insightful. In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's.

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

There is much more on the 9P's at here or here. In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. The Nine P’s include these important components:

• People (Segmentation and Targeting) This "P" is important especially for my example.  They will target different consumers on a CPM basis, which is under media planning or Cost Per Thousand." 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. Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target this market segment. There are still questions:  Can the segments be accessed?  Marketing strategies need to be adapted for the different tiers or segments. Instead of viewing the market as a uniform group of customers with similar potential, the firm needs to view them as distinct groups or segments with differing potential.
• Product
• Place (Distribution)
• Price
• Planning
• Promotion
• Partners
• Presentation
• Passion

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 54 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.