Create better, more realistic pricing too.
Plenty of examples to use the 9P’s of Marketing with soccer or football.
Catch up promotional dollars. Hundreds of empty seats for the Club World Cup. Over priced?
- Did you know with dynamic pricing models ticket prices for this summer’s Club World Cup tournament in the United States have dropped hundreds of dollars?
- Did you hear that FIFA spent more than $50 Million on the Club World Cup promotion to boost ticket sales..by spending in social media and Instagram influencers.
- Did you hear that the FIFA tickets were over priced?
- Did you hear that they needed to give away tickets to students and verteans?
- Did you hear that the Club World Cup has not made a splash for the first edition of the revamped 32-team tournament?
- Did you read that they hype included that FIFA said that they “anticipate great attendances and electric atmospheres” across the twelve venues and eleven cities hosting the competition?
FIFA spent more than $50 million on Club World Cup marketing to boost ticket sales
Lack of tickets, plenty of empty seats. FIFA picked some NFL Stadiums which may have been too large. For example, one of the smallest crowds was at Atlanta Falcon’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where Chelsea played LAFC but with vast sections of empty seats. The attendance for the game was recorded as 22,137 (how many were discounted, how many were free or complimentary) despite the stadium’s capacity of 71K,.
More examples of Promotion and Partners. There have been questions about sponsorship, broadcaster and prize money, plus lawsuits from the Premier League.
I use my 9P's to solve Marketing problems and find opportunities. My 9P's of Marketing do include include these important concepts, practices and components:
- Planning and Research. Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. 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 sports fans. TV viewers. Purchasers of sports jerseys. 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 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 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
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