Airfares: Perfect For The Holidays. Perfect Example Under Price In The 9P's Of Marketing

Look for better combinations of service or destinations and prices. 

Did you hear that airfares are 10% cheaper than last year and they are at their lowest levels in six years.

From the US DOT (Department of Transportation) they announced that second-quarter results for the average domestic airfares, they were down nearly 10%. Plus more good news that the average airfare is at its lowest price since the end of 2010. 

Under my copyrighted concept of the 9P's of Marketing (c) 2007, I identify "Price or Pricing, As all aspects regarding pricing. The amount of money a consumer is willing to pay to obtain the product. 

Pricing includes wholesale/retail/promotional prices, discounts, trade-in allowances, quantity discounts, credit terms, sales and payment periods and credit terms.  

Pricing decision making also involves adjusting prices concerning the competitive environment, economic situations and involve buyer perceptions. “Pricing” is the sum of the values that customers exchange for the benefits of having or using the product or service. 

Deceptive and misleading pricing practices may lead potential buyers and consumers to believe they will get more value and a better price than they will actually receive. 

Consider, develop and review store and non-store, e-commerce and “brick and mortar” targeting, marketing mix, pricing factors, considerations, objectives, strategies and tactics, including “Partners.” 

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 
• Potential airline travelers. 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? Price, destination, or both? Plus there's more. 
• 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. 

Call It "Retro." Call It "Throwback." Call It "Promotion." From 1927, Who's Coming Back To Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?

Coming next Thursday. 

It's the 90th anniversary for Macy's "Thanksgiving Day" parade.

You'll see marching bands, giant character balloons, dancers, Big Bird, the Muppets, Tony Bennett, cheerleaders, singer-songwriters, and more.

Here's the big news:
DreamWorks Annimation 's Felix the Cat will be in "throwback" form. First appearing in 1927, Felix will be designed and built with the same methods used 90 years ago.

It's on NBC at 9AM on the west coast. Mark Macy's "Thanksgiving Day" parade under Promotion, under the nine P's of marketing, for Macy's and NBC. 

Visit here for more 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 and Advertising. 

I created and own a copyright for this marketing 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.

In Marketing. the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but 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 identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

The Nine P's can be truly insightful. 

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: 
• 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.
• People 
• 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: 
• 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. 

When Are Black Friday? When Is Cyber Monday? With The 9P's Of Marketing.

You'll see major retailers announcing their upcoming sales this year.

Two of the biggest shopping days of the year.

• Black Friday is November 25th.
• Cyber Monday is Monday November 28th.

Visit here for more 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 and Advertising. 

I created and own a copyright for this marketing 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.

In Marketing. the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but 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 identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

The Nine P's can be truly insightful. 

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: 
• 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.
• People 
• 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: 
• 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
• 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. 

The Present and Future Of Media. More Mobile, More Social, More Digital. Fewer Newspaper Ads. Looking At Local Media Support And More.

There will always be a mix of media. But the mix is changing. Away from traditional media like newspapers and more to digital.

Just read another story about Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, plans to lay off roughly 350 employees, or around 2% of its total workers

Let’s take a look at the complexity of media:  

• Increasing media options
• TV networks, with syndication, local, cable;  
• Digital
• Social
• Mobile
• Specialized magazines
• Regional and demographic issues, under "People," in the five ways to segment a target market under one of the nine P's of marketing
• Translating target markets into target audiences
• Traditional versus non traditional
• Cinema/theatre screens advertising
• Out of home
• Inflights; parking meters; blimps; balloons; shopping carts; milk cartons; inflatables;  litter cans;  taxi cabs; sponsorships. I have collected a list of approximately 200+ media vehicles.

Media planners try to direct the advertising message to the right people at the right time.  

They must set objectives, formulated strategies and devise tactics in a highly fragmented, complex costly global environment.

More to think about. Media planners think about: Reaching viewers, readers but are looking for potential purchasers. They look at media choices, targeting or “people,” in the 9P’s of marketing, audience fragmentation, costs and price hikes, new media, cross/multimedia, diverse audiences, languages.

With all of these options, the job of media planning is to determine the best combination of media to achieve the marketing campaign objectives.

In the future there will be more mobile ads, plus by mobile growing. They are now part of this media mix and growing.

We will see additional digital and online platforms, plus a huge growth in social advertising

We will see:

• Fewer traditional ads
• Fewer newspaper ads
• Fewer magazine ads
• Less direct mail advertising

We will see:

• More local advertising but it will be digital
• Local online ads will be greater than traditional local advertising by 2018 has been reported

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 
• 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? That's both a marketing question and a media issue. 
• To whom should you promote? Target market but you need to take into account translating a target market into a media udience or target audience. 
• 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. 

Who Wins Game Six In The World Series? Chicago, Cleveland, BelieveLand Or Fox?

Who wins the World Series; it's a leading question? Actually a media revenue and advertising question? 

It’s Fox. Especially with all their promotions for their programming. Advertising. New shows. Old shows. Existing shows. 

Not sure the viewers win, with all the TV spots, plus with the fans having to sit thru all of the delays. 

But it probably won't be five hours and 41 minutes which was game three, 2005 World Series, where Chicago White Sox beat Houston Astros, 7-5. Or Game Two which was four hours and two minutes in this 2016 World Series. We'll see. 

Go Cubs. Make it a game seven. 

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 
• 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. 

Chicago's First World Series Since 1945: Which TV Markets Have The Highest Viewerships?

For advertisers, the World Series does best, with better TV viewing numbers, in the teams' home cities. So this year, Chicago and Cleveland. 

Watch for big numbers for game six, which is being played in Cleveland, in the markets of Chicago and Cleveland plus other major cities. 

Chicago is the sweetheart favorite but with LeBron James' NBA championship in Cleveland or what they named it "BelieveLand," earlier this year, that city isn't far behind.

Chicago is the third-largest TV market, behind NY and LA. 

For game five approximately a third of the homes were turned to the World Series in Chicago. It's rating was 35.5. 

In Cleveland it was higher at just over 42 out of a hundred homes tuned to the World Series. 

Cleveland's rating was 42.5. 

In advertiser media planning, a rating point is equal to one percent of TV homes, whether watching or not watching, in a market.

Visit here for more 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 and Advertising. 

I created and own a copyright for this marketing 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.

In Marketing. the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but 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 identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

The Nine P's can be truly insightful. 

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: 
• 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.
• People 
• 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: 
• 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
• Advertising, one of the components would be TV advertising, network and local. 
• 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. 

When is Daylight Savings Time In 2016?

Easy this Sunday November 6th. 

But first, what is "Daylight Saving Time?

It is the process where a clock is wound forward an hour (as in the Spring) to make the most of the changing seasons and the amount of available sunlight.

But it's not that simple...

• Where there is less variance in the amount of daylight there is no perceived need to follow daylight saving. Example are in Hawaii and many parts of Africa.
• Lord Howe island in Australia only puts its clocks forward by 30 minutes instead of the full hour.
• In Arizona, the state observes daylight saving while the Navajo Nation within their state borders does not.
• In China, the country has five time zones but for national pride and unity the five zones are all at the same time.
• In Australia, the country has incorporated fifteen minute increments in its time zones. 
• In India, the country has two time zones and splits the difference in half-hour increments.
• Want more? 
• Greenwich Mean or Median Time (GMT) is the standardized starting point for every time zone. It is measured from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, and maintains a position of Longitude 0,0,0 and Latitude 51, 28, 38N (which is north of the equator). 
• Many think that time zones fall in one-hour increments. You need to know them when traveling, scheduling meetings and for promotions.
• Countries are different. Languages, customs, money, people and more, but one thing they all have is a time zone. They are invisible lines of longitude. Plus a time zone affects your sleep. Staying awake plus more. 

Time zones do not fall in one hour increments, which can make travel and marketing planning more difficult. Plus sleep. 

If you travel a lot, you know. The time zones fall in different increments.  You may need this information for business or vacation travel.

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

I created and own a copyright for this marketing 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.

In Marketing. the "customer," or potential purchasers, buyers are king, but 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 identify marketing opportunities, solutions and find marketing problems and opportunities in a number of areas. They help, develop and guide a company or firm's marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions. 

The Nine P's can be truly insightful. 

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: 
• 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.
• People 
• 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: 
• 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
• 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.