Tuesday, February 28, 2017

In The Nine P's Of Marketing, Under "People," Targeting And Segments, What Are Millennials And What Or Who Are Gen X'ers in 2017?

Millennials are also known as Generation Y and the Net Generation. They follow the group named Generation X or Gen X. 

What are the years and how old are they? The Millennial generation was born between 1980 and 2000. They would be 17 to 37 years of age.  

What are the years and how old is Gen X?  The Gen X was born between 1961 to 1981. They would be 36 to 56 years. There is some debate on the exact years. 

Visit here for more insights into Marketing, Promotional 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 as one of the P's, 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 objectives, plans, strategies and tactics. 


The Nine P's of Marketing include these important components or elements:

  • Planning
  • People 
    • Groups fall here. It's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP. 
    • "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
Here are some 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 38+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best. 

    Monday, February 27, 2017

    American Airlines, Havana, Cuba And Examples Of Place, Promotion And More, Under The 9P's Of Marketing.

    New Offices. Marketing signs. Examples of the nine P's of marketing, Promotion, Presentation, People, Place and more.

    Last month American Airlines opened a ticket office in Havana, at El Centro de Negocios de Miramar. 

    This would fall under Product and Services, American Airlines has ten daily flights between the US and Cuba.

    Visit here for more examples and insights into Marketing, targeting or "people," promotional and advertising strategies, Plus true, researched marketing insights and advertising trivia.

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


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


    In the late 60's I was taught In Marketing that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but they are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. It's prominent and its own "P" in the 9P's of Marketing. 


    The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help companies, firms and business managers to identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or the firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

    The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways. 

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


    Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, pricing, distribution, partnerships/alliances and promotion. All of these activities must work together to assure successful marketing practices. Companies and firms with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their customers and the marketplace. Companies and new product/service development professionals create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).


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

    The Nine P's of Marketing include these important components, elements and efforts. Let's start with "People, one of the nine elements or components. :

    • People 
      • "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. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be great 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.
      • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a start. 
    • Planning: 
      • Research. 
      • Developing and transforming marketing objectives to marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
      • It’s dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas.
    • Product and Services: 
      • The goods and service combination the firm offers to the target market, including variety of product mix, features, branding, designs, packaging, sizes, services, maintenance contracts, warranties and return policies.
      • A product (service) is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
    • Place (Distribution): 
      • The company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives. 
      • Offering the right product at the right PLACE, at the right time, at the right price. 
      • Please consider, develop and review store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.” 
    • Price:
      • All aspects regarding pricing. “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
      • 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.  
      • Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions.
    • 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: Sales persons: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
        • 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
      • Here are some 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: 
      • Also know as Alliances.
      • 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 38+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best. 


      Whether The Oscars Or The Academy Awards: Examples Of Presentation And Branding After 83 Years, With The 9P's Of Marketing.

      This morning PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) issued an apology after a major screw up with the wrong Oscars best picture envelope and announcement.

      I use the nine P's of Marketing to show and illustrate examples of the elements and parts of marketing.

      There was a doozy from last night in the Academy Awards, regarding "Presentation," under the nine P's of marketing   

      What is the essence of accounting:  Accuracy, right? 

      What is "presentation?"

      “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.They may be symbols or images that represent something; a descriptive or persuasive account (as a sales person of the product or service). 

      Something I say is set forth for the attention of mind. Well, this doozy was in front of an audience in 225 countries  Actually, a TV audience of 100 million in 225 countries. 

      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. 

      You can feel the pain at PwC right now in all of their business dealings with all of their associates at their clients. 

      At  PricewaterhouseCoopers, it's been called the "most spectacular blunder" in the history of the Academy Awards when the Oscar for best film was mis "presented to La La Land, not to the actual winner, Moonlight. It was 83 years in the making.  

      The company has promised to investigate their error. Really, the brand is affected. How many actions can they take? We'll see  I see the jokes for next year, already in my head. 

      Visit here for more examples and insights into Marketing, targeting or "people," promotional and advertising strategies, Plus true, researched marketing insights and advertising trivia.

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


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


      In the late 60's I was taught In Marketing that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but they are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. It's prominent and its own "P" in the 9P's of Marketing. 


      The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help companies, firms and business managers to identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or the firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

      The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways. 

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


      Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, pricing, distribution, partnerships/alliances and promotion. All of these activities must work together to assure successful marketing practices. Companies and firms with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their customers and the marketplace. Companies and new product/service development professionals create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).


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

      The Nine P's of Marketing include these important components, elements and efforts. Let's start with "People, one of the nine elements or components. :

      • People 
        • For PwC it's their clients and associates who may be quizzed and mocked today. 
        • "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. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be great 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.
        • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a start. 
      • Planning: 
        • Research. 
        • Developing and transforming marketing objectives to marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
        • It’s dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas.
      • Product and Services: 
        • The goods and service combination the firm offers to the target market, including variety of product mix, features, branding, designs, packaging, sizes, services, maintenance contracts, warranties and return policies.
        • A product (service) is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
      • Place (Distribution): 
        • The company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives. 
        • Offering the right product at the right PLACE, at the right time, at the right price. 
        • Please consider, develop and review store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.” 
      • Price:
        • All aspects regarding pricing. “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
        • 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.  
        • Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions.
      • 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: Sales persons: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
          • 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
        • Here are some strategic questions under Promotion::
          • What should you promote? Accuracy, oh for sure. 
          • To whom should you promote? Their clients, potential clients.
          • What economic and discount levels should you offer?
          • What form of promotion should you offer? Features?
          • How frequent?
      • Partners: 
        • Also know as Alliances.
        • 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 38+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best. 

        Sunday, February 26, 2017

        The First Oscars Ceremony Would be Worth $60 Million Dollars

        Each spot tonight on ABC will cost approximately $2 Million.

        You may not know that the first Oscars or Academy Awards was at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and took a total of 15 minutes.  

        Tonight's commercial time will be more than the length of the first show.  If every spot costs $2 Million, then thirty :30 second spots would equal $60 Million in revenue. Bingo. 

        Visit here for more examples and insights into Marketing, targeting or "people," promotional and advertising strategies, Plus true, researched marketing insights and advertising trivia.

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


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


        In the late 60's I was taught In Marketing that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but they are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. It's prominent and its own "P" in the 9P's of Marketing. 


        The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help companies, firms and business managers to identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or the firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

        The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways. 

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


        Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, pricing, distribution, partnerships/alliances and promotion. All of these activities must work together to assure successful marketing practices. Companies and firms with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their customers and the marketplace. Companies and new product/service development professionals create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).


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

        The Nine P's of Marketing include these important components, elements and efforts. Let's start with "People, one of the nine elements or components. :

        • People 
          • "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. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be great 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.
          • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a start. 
        • Planning: 
          • Research. 
          • Developing and transforming marketing objectives to marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
          • It’s dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas.
        • Product and Services: 
          • The goods and service combination the firm offers to the target market, including variety of product mix, features, branding, designs, packaging, sizes, services, maintenance contracts, warranties and return policies.
          • A product (service) is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
        • Place (Distribution): 
          • The company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives. 
          • Offering the right product at the right PLACE, at the right time, at the right price. 
          • Please consider, develop and review store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.” 
        • Price:
          • All aspects regarding pricing. “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
          • 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.  
          • Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions.
        • 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: Sales persons: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
            • 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
          • Here are some 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: 
          • Also know as Alliances.
          • 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 38+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best. 

          How Much Will It Cost To Beat Your Competition Tonight At The Oscars Or The Academy Awards?

          About $2 Million, but that is just for the time. 

          For the Super Bowl in 2017 it was approximately $5 Million per spot. For the Oscars on ABC the cost is approximately $2 Million, per spot. But that doesn't include the creative, the actors, filming, the sets, what goes into the production of the TV spot.

          Here's an update to the post. For 2018, spots will cost up to $2.6 million. A significant increase. 

          Visit here for more examples and insights into Marketing, targeting or "people," promotional and advertising strategies, Plus true, researched marketing insights and advertising trivia.

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


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


          In the late 60's I was taught In Marketing that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but they are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. It's prominent and its own "P" in the 9P's of Marketing. 


          The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help companies, firms and business managers to identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or the firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

          The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways. 

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


          Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, pricing, distribution, partnerships/alliances and promotion. All of these activities must work together to assure successful marketing practices. Companies and firms with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their customers and the marketplace. Companies and new product/service development professionals create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).


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

          The Nine P's of Marketing include these important components, elements and efforts. Let's start with "People, one of the nine elements or components. :

          • People 
            • "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. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be great 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.
            • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a start. 
          • Planning: 
            • Research. 
            • Developing and transforming marketing objectives to marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
            • It’s dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas.
          • Product and Services: 
            • The goods and service combination the firm offers to the target market, including variety of product mix, features, branding, designs, packaging, sizes, services, maintenance contracts, warranties and return policies.
            • A product (service) is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
          • Place (Distribution): 
            • The company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives. 
            • Offering the right product at the right PLACE, at the right time, at the right price. 
            • Please consider, develop and review store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.” 
          • Price:
            • All aspects regarding pricing. “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
            • 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.  
            • Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions.
          • 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: Sales persons: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
              • 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
            • Here are some 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: 
            • Also know as Alliances.
            • 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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            Shortest Acceptance Speech At The Oscars. I'd Put That Under Presentation And Planning Under The 9P's

            Under the nine P's of marketing, I include "Presentation."
            • 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. 
            What is the shortest acceptance speech at the Academy Awards?  Two words.  "Thank you." by Patty Duke in 1963 for her work in "The Miracle Worker."

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


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


            In the late 60's I was taught In Marketing that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but they are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. It's prominent and its own "P" in the 9P's of Marketing. 


            The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help companies, firms and business managers to identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or the firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

            The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways. 

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


            Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, pricing, distribution, partnerships/alliances and promotion. All of these activities must work together to assure successful marketing practices. Companies and firms with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their customers and the marketplace. Companies and new product/service development professionals create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).


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

            The Nine P's of Marketing include these important components, elements and efforts. Let's start with "People, one of the nine elements or components. :

            • People 
              • "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. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be great 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.
              • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a start. 
            • Planning: 
              • Research. 
              • Developing and transforming marketing objectives to marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
              • It’s dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas.
            • Product and Services: 
              • The goods and service combination the firm offers to the target market, including variety of product mix, features, branding, designs, packaging, sizes, services, maintenance contracts, warranties and return policies.
              • A product (service) is anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use or consumption that might satisfy a want or need.
            • Place (Distribution): 
              • The company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives. 
              • Offering the right product at the right PLACE, at the right time, at the right price. 
              • Please consider, develop and review store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.” 
            • Price:
              • All aspects regarding pricing. “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
              • 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.  
              • Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions.
            • 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: Sales persons: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
                • 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
              • Here are some 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: 
              • Also know as Alliances.
              • 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 38+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.