Tuesday, September 01, 2026

A Back To School Promotion. Have The Million Dollar Smoothie Or Billion Dollar Smoothie Delivered To You On Campus. With 9P's Of Marketing

 A Million Dollar Smoothie. Doesn't sound cheap does it?

Add delivery charges and the high price to Ucla, USC or Santa Monic College. 

By the way they as in SunLife Organics has a Billion Dollar Smoothie.

What is in the Million Dollar Smoothie?
  • Features banana, raw cashew butter, plant protein, raw cacao nibs, maca, colostrum, olive oil, trace mineral complex, Himalayan pink salt, chia seeds, Its “price” starts at $22 and can go as high as $40. What a deal.
What is in the Billion Dollar Smoothie?
  • An upgraded, 16-ingredient version packed with young Thai coconut meat, spirulina, collagen, and mushroom blend. Let's break down the 16 ingredients...superfoods and greens: Young Thai coconut meat, organic spinach, and spirulina. healthy fats and proteins, which includes raw cashew butter, MCT oil, and grass-fed whey protein. specialty add-ins mwhich includes bovine colostrum, collagen, and whole-leaf aloe vera. adaptogens and nootropics, which includes creatine, rice bran solubles (tocos), and a proprietary LifeCykel mushroom blend of reishi, cordyceps, lion's. Its price is $28 to $33
               $150 Smoothies...Really

Jamie says her smoothie costs $37. That’s what caught my eye. I would use this in my marketing and advertising presentation

Under Place, SunLife Organics operates 20 locations nationwide. The health and wellness brand, which originated in Malibu, with heavy concentration in southern California. It has expanded to Florida, Arizona, New York, Texas and Nevada.

What about $150 smoothies. The most expensive regularly available smoothies range from
$22 to $33 from health food markets like Erewhon in Los Angeles and SunLife Organics. But you can find novelty and delivery smoothies that cost up to $150.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Planning and Research. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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