Saturday, March 31, 2018

A Very Special Dodger Stadium Seat. A Unique Way To Demonstate "Place," "Price" And Promotion, Under 9P's Of Marketing

Marking the spot and seat where Kirk Gibson's historic home run landed to win Game One of the 1988 World Series versus the Oakland A's, the Los Angeles Dodgers are promoting the plans to paint Seat 1, Row D in Section 302 of Dodger Stadium. He will be signing the seat too.

Tickets will be around $150 each and proceeds will go to charity, fighting Parkinson's Disease.

Need more business, Marketing and advertising insights in 2018? Increase sales and overall revenue?

Visit here for plenty of insights and examples into Marketing, the 9 P's, targeting or "People," product and services, promotion, pricing, and advertising strategies. Plus true, researched marketing insights and fun, insightful, advertising trivia.

For the past 48 years, I have been a Marketing professional, a certified Forensic Marketing Expert, Marketing and Advertising consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach and give seminars on Marketing, Super Bowl spots, global Marketing, Promotion and Advertising. 


I also like giving to MBA candidates, law schools and attorneys my presentations on "What is Marketing? What is Advertising?" 

Eleven years ago, 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 or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.


In the late 60's I was first taught in Marketing 307 that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king or kings, but they or consumers are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. For marketing professionals, the "target market," "People," buyers, potential buyers and users are more prominent. They have their own "P."  It's "People," in the 9P's of Marketing. 


The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help brand managers, marketing managers, companies, firms, business owners and business managers to find marketing problems, to identify and create Marketing opportunities or solutions, in a number of areas. 


The utilization of the 9P's of Marketing help, develop and guide a company or a firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways and in many possible tactics and actions. They will help build revenue, manage costs more effectively. 


I consult, teach and work as a Marketing, business and Advertising expert using many Marketing concepts, standards of practice and practices, including the Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.


So, what is Marketing, you and others may ask? 
Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, research, distribution, pricing, partnerships or alliances, promotion and more. 

In my presentations, I detail that advertising is only a small percentage of the answers to marketing problems. All of the Marketing activities and tasks must work together to assure successful marketing practices. 
Firms, associations and companies with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their potential buyers and customers ("People") and the marketplace. 

Companies and new product/service development pros create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to market segments, a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).

In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing manager and brand agents develop planning, objectives, strategies and tactics. 


For any size firm and entrepreneurs, the 9P's of Marketing include important components, parts, elements, actions, tactics and efforts. 


Let's start with planning, research, one of the nine P's and also with targeting, "People," one of the other nine elements or components:

  • Planning: 
    • Planning starts with research and researching. 
    • This element of planning in the nine P's is a method for achieving an end, and, looking at the eight other parts, can be a detailed formulation of a program of action. I like using a phrase from John Wooden; he said "Failure to plan is planning to fail."
    • Developing and transforming marketing objectives into marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management and managers must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, pricing, distribution, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
    • Review dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas. And more under the 9Ps of Marketing
  • People 
    • Look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix," almost every diagram includes the four P's with Product, Promotion, Place and Price.
    • Place "consumer" or "People" or "potential buyers" in the middle of a circle. Find information or data on them.
    • Add the other components in the nine P's. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be greater focus on the buyer, "customer," or "People," in both planning ad implementation.
    • To understand your "People" or market segments, it may utilize many characteristics, including demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics, which may be a vital component or components of the 9P's of Marketing. 
    • Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target a market segment or marketing segments.
    • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a major first step. 
    • Product and Services: 
      • In my seat One example, the Dodgers are using the seat to sell individual tickets and season tickets.
      • For the 9P's, Product is 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): 
      • Offering the right product at the right PLACE or location, at the right time, at the right price. It's the company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives.  
      • Consider, develop and review store and non-store options, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, geographic considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners, too.” 
    • Price or Pricing:
      • Simply, the amount of money a consumer is willing to pay to obtain the product, but "price" is so much more.  
      • “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
      • Pricing decision making involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions. Simply, all aspects regarding pricing. 
      • Pricing includes wholesale/retail/promotional prices, discounts, trade-in allowances, quantity discounts, credit terms, sales and payment periods and credit terms. 
    • Promotion: 
      • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities, under "promotion." . 
      • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
        • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
          • Helpful hint: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
        • Advertising is paid media. There's an expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells." 
        • Sales Promotion
        • 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/PR
      • Here are some strategic questions under Promotion:
        • What should you promote? Strategic copy points.The Dodgers are taking an event of almost 30 years ago. 
        • Evaluate the eight different elements under Promotion and your brand's practices. Ask is there a better way? A different promotional mix. There has to be a better way. 
        • What are your costs in dollars and manpower or person power? Ask "Is there a different way or ways to budget?" 
        • Look at different strategic partners? Their costs?
        • To whom should you target and promote? Under "People/"Targeting, target market, audience with media falls here. Have you noticed that you may watch what you want to watch in TV programing when you want to watch it and anywhere, any screen? That affects media planning. 
        • You can differentiate with price. Discounting? Special sales? What economic and discount levels should you offer? Look at revenue versus costs. They are not discounting but are giving proceeds to charity related to Kirk Gibson. 
        • What form or combination of promotion should you offer? Features?
        • How frequent? Add media planning here. 
      • Partners: 
        • Working with others and organizations which take part in an undertaking with another or others, in a business or company with shared risks and profits.
        • Also referred to as Alliances. 
        • With "Partners" and your Marketing efforts, it is vitally important to partner and align with firms that have similar corporate philosophies. Simple but complex and difficult, have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
      • Presentation: 
        • This “P” or “Presentation” is the act of presenting, displaying and putting forward 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. 
        • Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. As part of "presentation," I also place “events and experiences” under Promotion. 
        • While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with your potential consumers. 
      • Passion:
        • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, implementing and executions of pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.
        For more on insights, 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 40+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 


        How To Find And Land A Job In 2018: Best Advice I Can Give You On Finding And Landing A Job: Updated By Larry Steven Londre, Londre Marketing Consultants.

        Over the years, many students, clients, friends, family members and others have inquired about tips and suggestions for assisting them in preparing for job interviews. Simply getting a job or a better position. Finding jobs and landing jobs. 

        Let’s start with this. 
        • "So, tell me about yourself." Or “Why should we hire you?”
        They are frequently asked questions in the interview process and also the best opportunity for you to deliver the most compelling reasons to hire you.

        So why read my handout. Simply it works. 

        A little about my background. I have worked full time in marketing/advertising/global marketing in my own company, Londre marketing Consultants, Directv, Grey Advertising, and others. 

        Concurrently I have taught 79 semesters undergraduate and graduate business schools at USC, CSUN, Pepperdine and others. Plus frequent guest lecturer in Marketing, Branding, Consumer Behavior, Advertising, Business Strategies and Global Marketing & Media at UCLA School of Television, Film and Digital Media; California State University, Northridge (CSUN), College of Business and Economics (graduate and under graduate); American Marketing Association chapter; California Lutheran University/CLU; Orange Coast College; Cerritos; Advertising Center; Pepperdine University’s Center for Communication and Business; USC Marshall » Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies program; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences; FEWA (Forensic Expert Witness Association); USC Gould School of Law Alumni Association; UCLA School of Law; Southwestern School of Law; Loyola Law School; Growth Consultants & Leading Grow Wise Forums/STAR Business Consulting.

        I have chaired and ran the Advertising Club of Los Angeles Internship program for 25 years. We placed more than 1,695 summer internships in paid jobs. 

        I do not and have not believed in unpaid internships going back to 1983 and earlier. Too many problems for both the student and the companies. The courts have supported our revolutionary ideas of only paid interns.

        For over a dozen years I have decided to update this Londre Marketing Consultants document every year. Plus it is updated and posted on my website at http://www.LondreMarketing.com, under Articles and Resources. It's labeled "How to find and land a job, 2018."


        Friday, March 30, 2018

        How Do You Blend HBO's "Silicon Valley," People, Promotion, Media And Pizza For A Strategic Marketing Insight?

        The combination was promotional and part of the "Promotion" (one of the 9P's of Marketing) and the start of Season Five of HBO's Silicon Valley

        One of my favorite shows. I went two weeks ago to a Paley event in Hollywood which the audience saw the first episode of the new season. The cast with the director and writer for the show were part of the presentation. 

        HBO was utilizing a "Partner" (one of the five P's) Fooji to promote the new season of "Silicon Valley." 

        They delivered pizza.  The episode which I have seen twice was about an app for buying pizza and a company "Sliceline," which rhymes with "Priceline, who sold or redelivered pizza from Dominos."

        Who were the "People" targeted? Silicon fans and Twitter users in three important and strategic geographic areas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, who responded with a pizza emoji. 

        Need more business, Marketing and advertising insights in 2018? Increase sales and overall revenue?

        Visit here for plenty of insights and examples into Marketing, the 9 P's, targeting or "People," product and services, promotion, pricing, and advertising strategies. Plus true, researched marketing insights and fun, insightful, advertising trivia.

        For the past 48 years, I have been a Marketing professional, a certified Forensic Marketing Expert, Marketing and Advertising consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach and give seminars on Marketing, Super Bowl spots, global Marketing, Promotion and Advertising. 


        I also like giving to MBA candidates, law schools and attorneys my presentations on "What is Marketing? What is Advertising?" 

        Eleven years ago, 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 or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.


        In the late 60's I was first taught in Marketing 307 that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king or kings, but they or consumers are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. For marketing professionals, the "target market," "People," buyers, potential buyers and users are more prominent. They have their own "P."  It's "People," in the 9P's of Marketing. 


        The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help brand managers, marketing managers, companies, firms, business owners and business managers to find marketing problems, to identify and create Marketing opportunities or solutions, in a number of areas. 


        The utilization of the 9P's of Marketing help, develop and guide a company or a firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

        The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways and in many possible tactics and actions. They will help build revenue, manage costs more effectively. 


        I consult, teach and work as a Marketing, business and Advertising expert using many Marketing concepts, standards of practice and practices, including the Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.


        So, what is Marketing, you and others may ask? 
        Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, research, distribution, pricing, partnerships or alliances, promotion and more. 

        In my presentations, I detail that advertising is only a small percentage of the answers to marketing problems. All of the Marketing activities and tasks must work together to assure successful marketing practices. 
        Firms, associations and companies with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their potential buyers and customers ("People") and the marketplace. 

        Companies and new product/service development pros create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to market segments, a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).

        In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing manager and brand agents develop planning, objectives, strategies and tactics. 


        For any size firm and entrepreneurs, the 9P's of Marketing include important components, parts, elements, actions, tactics and efforts. 


        Let's start with planning, research, one of the nine P's and also with targeting, "People," one of the other nine elements or components:

        • Planning: 
          • Planning starts with research and researching. 
          • This element of planning in the nine P's is a method for achieving an end, and, looking at the eight other parts, can be a detailed formulation of a program of action. I like using a phrase from John Wooden; he said "Failure to plan is planning to fail."
          • Developing and transforming marketing objectives into marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management and managers must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, pricing, distribution, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
          • Review dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas. And more under the 9Ps of Marketing
        • People 
          • Potential "Silicon Valley" viewers and actual viewers to increase awareness of season 5. Look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
          • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix," almost every diagram includes the four P's with Product, Promotion, Place and Price.
          • Place "consumer" or "People" or "potential buyers" in the middle of a circle. Find information or data on them.
          • Add the other components in the nine P's. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be greater focus on the buyer, "customer," or "People," in both planning ad implementation.
          • To understand your "People" or market segments, it may utilize many characteristics, including demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics, which may be a vital component or components of the 9P's of Marketing. 
          • Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target a market segment or marketing segments.
          • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a major first step. 
          • Product and Services: 
            • It's 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): 
            • Offering the right product at the right PLACE or location, at the right time, at the right price. It's the company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives.  
            • Consider, develop and review store and non-store options, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, geographic considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners, too.” 
          • Price or Pricing:
            • Simply, the amount of money a consumer is willing to pay to obtain the product, but "price" is so much more.  
            • “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
            • Pricing decision making involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions. Simply, all aspects regarding pricing. 
            • Pricing includes wholesale/retail/promotional prices, discounts, trade-in allowances, quantity discounts, credit terms, sales and payment periods and credit terms. 
          • Promotion: 
            • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities, under "promotion." . 
            • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
              • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
                • Helpful hint: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
              • Advertising is paid media. There's an expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells." 
              • Sales Promotion
              • 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/PR
            • Here are some strategic questions under Promotion:
              • What should you promote? Strategic copy points. The promotion people for HBO used strategic points related to the script. 
              • Evaluate the eight different elements under Promotion and your brand's practices. Ask is there a better way? A different promotional mix. There has to be a better way. 
              • What are your costs in dollars and manpower or person power? Ask "Is there a different way or ways to budget?" 
              • Look at different strategic partners? Their costs?
              • To whom should you target and promote? Under "People/"Targeting, target market, audience with media falls here. Have you noticed that you may watch what you want to watch in TV programing when you want to watch it and anywhere, any screen? That affects media planning. 
              • You can differentiate with price. Discounting? Special sales? What economic and discount levels should you offer? Look at revenue versus costs. 
              • What form or combination of promotion should you offer? Features?
              • How frequent? Add media planning here. 
            • Partners: 
              • Working with others and organizations which take part in an undertaking with another or others, in a business or company with shared risks and profits.
              • Also referred to as Alliances. 
              • With "Partners" and your Marketing efforts, it is vitally important to partner and align with firms that have similar corporate philosophies. Simple but complex and difficult, have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
            • Presentation: 
              • This “P” or “Presentation” is the act of presenting, displaying and putting forward 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. 
              • Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. As part of "presentation," I also place “events and experiences” under Promotion. 
              • While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with your potential consumers. 
            • Passion:
              • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, implementing and executions of pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.

              For more on insights, 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 40+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

              Thursday, March 29, 2018

              Dangerous, But Smart? Going Around Creative "Partners" By Coca-Cola. Discovering Or Trying To Discover New Creative, Social Gems.

              Developing a strong brand is a byproduct. You need to also create trial, retrial, awareness and interest.

              It comes from doing the other things in the Nine P’s of Marketing... right. 

              Make sure the product is excellent. Be sure the company is taking good care of their customers, and having the right planning and targeting, the right product, right price, right promotion, right partners, right presentation, with the right amount of Passion in the 9P’s.

              Most times companies, clients and Marketers can’t create customer value and build customer relationships only by themselves. 

              They work closely with partners and alliances outside the firm, and with other company departments (inside partners). 

              So it is interesting and surprising that Coca-Cola is taking a smart and maybe an innovative step in outsourcing some of their creative work on social by sending out a global shareable brief on social media.

              They are going around their strategic "creative" and advertising partners, one of the nine P's of Marketing.

              They will be asking "new" partners and creatives to "create a work of art celebrating Coca-Cola, sport, movement, strength, and unity using Adobe Creative Cloud tools." 

              Coca-Cola does say they "love" their partners, just going around them. Coke wants to "discover the hidden gems."

              Need more business, Marketing or advertising insights? 

              For more Marketing insights, 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 Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.


              Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 40+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 


              Five Important Travel Tips. Helping People, One Of My Nine P's. Second In A Series.

              I have been to 80+ countries. I have traveled for business, travel and teaching. I have taught  Marketing, Global Strategies and Advertising for 39+ years in China, Cuba and USA. 
              Simply put, I've traveled a lot. I created the nine P's of Marketing and thought I'd share five great travel tips.
              1. Easy make sure your passport is up to date. Be sure you have visas. Once I waited too long; I actually forgot. I was busy preparing my ppt's for the seminar. I was lucky. I got a visa for China in six hours.  Unbelievable, and really dumb on my part. 
              2. Make arrangements and alert your credit card companies that you are traveling. You don't want them to "lock" your account.
              3. Take small bills and coins with you. Toilets may take a coin in many countries. 
              4. Tip wisely. In the US we tip BIG. Other countries not so much. 
              5. Take good earplugs.  I take ear plugs for all plane trips.  It just makes it easier to sleep and not get awaken. I like the ones with a cord.  You don't lose those.
              Need more business, Marketing or advertising insights? 
                For more business, Marketing insights, 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 Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.

                Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 40+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

                Wednesday, March 28, 2018

                Is 27 Years Too Long For A Banner That Says “Best Hamburger In Southern California?”

                I teach, promote and testify about "truth in advertising."  

                “Best Hamburger In Southern California?” I don't feel or think so.

                For multiple reasons.

                Over the years I, as a Marketing and Advertising professional, have always doubted the use of the banner which says “Best Hamburger.” 

                I remember the on-air radio contest in 1991 with Ken & Barkley or the Ken and Barkley Company on KABC 790.  

                So as one of the 2 Guyz on Marketing I went today and purchased a hamburger from Hamburger Habit at 11223 National Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064.

                So many things are wrong with the posting of this banner. 

                It’s been too long to claim the results from a 1991 radio station promotion. 27 years!

                Sales promotion tries to attempt to stimulate product interest, trial, or purchase. Sales promotion is the process of persuading a potential customer to buy the product. Sales promotion is designed to be used as a short-term tactic to boost sales.

                Why do companies and advertising agencies use sales promotion? To promote an increase in sales, usage or trial of a product or service. 

                I went with a former graduate student of mine to the restaurant today.   

                We both agreed that it may not be the best hamburger within three blocks of National and Sepulveda.  

                For many reasons it’s not appropriate to use the banner.  Maybe for a year or two. Or if you could deliver on the claim. But they don't. 

                I would also bet no one who was part of the “study” or promotion even works at KABC anymore. 

                But simply it’s not good to say you were or have the best hamburger, if you don't.  Really, 27 years later. 

                Need more business, Marketing or advertising insights? 

                  For more Marketing insights, 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 Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.

                  Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 40+ stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

                  Tuesday, March 27, 2018

                  Promotion And Partners. Turning Lemons Into Lemonade For NFL, with The Nine P's Of Marketing

                  The NFL in its off season, if there really is one, since they have the draft from Dallas in May, has a bunch of problems: they have ownerships fines, ownership squabbles, declining ratings, and medical issues.

                  Under Promotion and Partnerships in the 9P's of Marketing, I have two examples of turning lemons into lemonade. 

                  NFL broke up with Papa John Pizza after Papa John said sales were off or down after the NFL protests involving the flag. The NFL replaced them with Pizza Hut. 

                  Fox paid $3.3 billion for the Thursday Night package. A huge 47% increase. 

                  Need more business, Marketing and advertising insights in 2018? Increase sales and overall revenue?

                  Visit here for plenty of insights and examples into Marketing, the 9 P's, targeting or "People," product and services, promotion, pricing, and advertising strategies. Plus true, researched marketing insights and fun, insightful, advertising trivia.

                  For the past 48 years, I have been a Marketing professional, a certified Forensic Marketing Expert, Marketing and Advertising consultant with Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC plus I teach and give seminars on Marketing, Super Bowl spots, global Marketing, Promotion and Advertising. 


                  I also like giving to MBA candidates, law schools and attorneys my presentations on "What is Marketing? What is Advertising?" 

                  Eleven years ago, 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 or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.


                  In the late 60's I was first taught in Marketing 307 that the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king or kings, but they or consumers are missing as one of the P's, in the 4P's. For marketing professionals, the "target market," "People," buyers, potential buyers and users are more prominent. They have their own "P."  It's "People," in the 9P's of Marketing. 


                  The Nine P's/9P's of Marketing help brand managers, marketing managers, companies, firms, business owners and business managers to find marketing problems, to identify and create Marketing opportunities or solutions, in a number of areas. 


                  The utilization of the 9P's of Marketing help, develop and guide a company or a firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

                  The Nine P's can be truly insightful, in many ways and in many possible tactics and actions. They will help build revenue, manage costs more effectively. 


                  I consult, teach and work as a Marketing, business and Advertising expert using many Marketing concepts, standards of practice and practices, including the Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.


                  So, what is Marketing, you and others may ask? 
                  Marketing is a planning and execution process that involves a product or service's attributes, research, distribution, pricing, partnerships or alliances, promotion and more. 

                  In my presentations, I detail that advertising is only a small percentage of the answers to marketing problems. All of the Marketing activities and tasks must work together to assure successful marketing practices. 
                  Firms, associations and companies with the most effective marketing efforts try to thoroughly understand their potential buyers and customers ("People") and the marketplace. 

                  Companies and new product/service development pros create products and services to meet market needs. These firms and others use marketing research and channels for understanding and communicating to market segments, a target market or audience ("People" in the 9P's of Marketing).

                  In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing manager and brand agents develop planning, objectives, strategies and tactics. 


                  For any size firm and entrepreneurs, the 9P's of Marketing include important components, parts, elements, actions, tactics and efforts. 


                  Let's start with planning, research, one of the nine P's and also with targeting, "People," one of the other nine elements or components:

                  • Planning: 
                    • Marketing planning starts with research and researching. 
                    • This element of planning in the nine P's is a method for achieving an end, and, looking at the eight other parts, can be a detailed formulation of a program of action. I like using a phrase from John Wooden; he said "Failure to plan is planning to fail."
                    • Developing and transforming marketing objectives into marketing strategies to tactics, marketing management and managers must make basic decisions on marketing targets (“People”), marketing mix, pricing, distribution, marketing budgets/expenditures and marketing allocations. 
                    • Review dividing the total marketing budget among the various tools in the marketing mix and for the various products, channels, promotion, media and sales areas. And more under the 9Ps of Marketing
                  • People 
                    • NFL potential and actual fans. Heavy and light users of the NFL games. 
                    • Look and analyze potential, new, existing and repeat customers and users. 
                    • "People" or targeting has almost always been left out of the traditional "Marketing Mix," almost every diagram includes the four P's with Product, Promotion, Place and Price.
                    • Place "consumer" or "People" or "potential buyers" in the middle of a circle. Find information or data on them.
                    • Add the other components in the nine P's. In Marketing, from my education, training, research and analysis plus testimony, there needs to be greater focus on the buyer, "customer," or "People," in both planning ad implementation.
                    • To understand your "People" or market segments, it may utilize many characteristics, including demographics, geographics, psychographics, behavioral characteristics and technographics, which may be a vital component or components of the 9P's of Marketing. 
                    • Once a target market is chosen, the organization can develop its marketing strategies to target a market segment or marketing segments.
                    • Simply it's about Segmentation and Targeting. Add Positioning and you have STP, as a major first step. 
                    • Product and Services: 
                      • It's 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): 
                      • Offering the right product at the right PLACE or location, at the right time, at the right price. It's the company’s activities that make the product available, using distribution and trade channels, roles, coverage, assortments, locations, inventory and transportation characteristics and alternatives.  
                      • Consider, develop and review store and non-store options, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” factors, geographic considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners, too.” 
                    • Price or Pricing:
                      • Simply, the amount of money a consumer is willing to pay to obtain the product, but "price" is so much more.  
                      • “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 
                      • Pricing decision making involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions. Simply, all aspects regarding pricing. 
                      • Pricing includes wholesale/retail/promotional prices, discounts, trade-in allowances, quantity discounts, credit terms, sales and payment periods and credit terms. 
                    • Promotion: 
                      • There are eight (8) major, strategic components or communication elements which are personal and non-personal communication activities, under "promotion." . 
                      • The activities that communicate the merits of the overall product include:
                        • Personal Selling/ Sales Force: Sales persons
                          • Helpful hint: Listen more than you talk. People who listen more, learn more, plus helps you position your service/product/solution or offering. 
                        • Advertising is paid media. There's an expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells." 
                        • Sales Promotion
                        • 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/PR
                      • Here are some strategic questions under Promotion:
                        • What should you promote? Strategic copy points.
                        • Evaluate the eight different elements under Promotion and your brand's practices. Ask is there a better way? A different promotional mix. There has to be a better way. 
                        • What are your costs in dollars and manpower or person power? Ask "Is there a different way or ways to budget?" 
                        • Look at different strategic partners? Their costs?
                        • To whom should you target and promote? Under "People/"Targeting, target market, audience with media falls here. Have you noticed that you may watch what you want to watch in TV programing when you want to watch it and anywhere, any screen? That affects media planning. 
                        • You can differentiate with price. Discounting? Special sales? What economic and discount levels should you offer? Look at revenue versus costs. 
                        • What form or combination of promotion should you offer? Features?
                        • How frequent? Add media planning here. 
                      • Partners: 
                        • Working with others and organizations which take part in an undertaking with another or others, in a business or company with shared risks and profits.
                        • Also referred to as Alliances. 
                        • With "Partners" and your Marketing efforts, it is vitally important to partner and align with firms that have similar corporate philosophies. Simple but complex and difficult, have agreed upon objectives and strategies.
                      • Presentation: 
                        • This “P” or “Presentation” is the act of presenting, displaying and putting forward 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. 
                        • Enabling consumers and “allowing” them to feel the brand. As part of "presentation," I also place “events and experiences” under Promotion. 
                        • While traditional marketing is based on target audience impressions/ views/ clicks/ exposure, experimental marketing involves engaging with your potential consumers. 
                      • Passion:
                        • Those intense, driving or overmastering feelings, emotions in the planning, developing, implementing and executions of pricing, promoting, partnering, selling and overall marketing of products or services.

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