Tuesday, June 17, 2025

FIFA: It Makes More Sense To Plan And Spend Promotional Dollars Earlier. With 9P's Of Marketing.

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:

Who would have thought I could use the 9P's with Partners, Product, Place, Presentation and Promotion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 66 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

Monday, June 16, 2025

Brand Experience? User Experience? With The 9P's Of Marketing.

This post has more questions than answers. 

There are more brand manager type questions. With a few solutions. I developed my 9P's to solve Marketing problems and find Marketing opportunities. 

How easy is it to purchase your good and services? Place.

How easy is it to buy online? Place

How did they hear about your brand? Promotion

Is it a quality brand or a price brand? Planning, Price, and Promotion

There is a difference between brand experience and user experience? But some say it may be decreasing between "people" experiencing your product of services and experiencing your brand. 

Sometimes there's over promise. 

Sometimes there's a disappointing product experience and the product is only is only purchased once.

I remember one of my rules in working with partners or alliances was that it should not be a one time experience. The partnership or alliance should be ongoing,. It took too much time, money and effort to make it work just once. Think about marketing dollars and promotional dollars and the consumer only purchasing the product on a lower price and just purchases it once. And with disappointment. 

What's important long-term is the people's brand experience should be on every level and touch point. Think about omnichannel consistency. Think about the proper planning and having researched what the consumer/user/client is needing or wanting. Think about more community involvement. 

One of my keep teaching points is that employees are part of targeting too. They are part of one of my 9P's: "People"  Do they understand what the consumers need? Can they resolve consumer product problems with empathy?

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:

To find opportunities and solve problems in Marketing.

  • 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. 
  • 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 66 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

Sunday, June 15, 2025

A New Product. Tom Brady Eats Right. Seeing 9P's Of Marketing

"New Product Introduction" falls under many of the 9P's. 

New products fall under "Product." 

Advertising and celebrity endorsements fall under "Promotion." And add "Partner" is their is ownership and incentives involved. 

I'm putting two images together. Actually four. I saw an image of Snake Stabler at the same age as Tom Brady. Yikes. One surely eats and lives a "better" life. 

Enter Tom Brady to partner and launch Gopuff and its GOAT Gummies, organic and vegan fruit snacks.

In a campaign featuring a video with an overly big, muscled "Artificial Tom." 

Most times Marketers can’t create customer value and build customer relationships only by themselves. Companies, agencies and networks work closely with partners and alliances outside the firm, and with other company departments (inside partners).  I'd include celebrity partnerships.   

Partnerships and teams that feel a connection to the work and the purpose are going to speak far more passionately together and to your or their “people,” and with far more influence.

A partnership; the joint relationships, partnerships and strategic alliances: The relationship existing between two parties; a relationship resembling a legal partnership and usually involving close cooperation between parties having specific and joint rights and responsibilities as a common enterprise. Usually plural or “Partners,” not Partner.

Ensure that there is excellent planned and natural alignment of internal and                       external agencies/partnerships/alliances around common goals and purposes.   

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:

Who would have thought I could use the 9P's with Partners, Product, Place, Presentation and Promotion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. 

To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 
    • Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. New product introductions. 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. Natural snacks. 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 snacks, sports teams, people and celebrities too. I teach that perfection resides in quality, not quantity.
  • Place (Distribution), includes retail and online. 
  • 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 65 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Think About A Company Offering "Unlimited Options?" Is It Too Many?

 Of course, too many Product options. 

Too much freedom would create a kind f anxiety fr consumers or "people," under my 9P's of Marketing.

The phase or two words "unlimited options" sounds promising , but unlimited options would actually paralyze us, the marketplace and clouds the ability to choose. 

I like 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 include these important concepts, practices and components:

Who would have thought I could use the 9P's with Partners, Product, Place, Presentation and Promotion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. 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 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 66 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 



Friday, June 13, 2025

“Perfect” Is Not One Of The 9P’s Of Marketing. What Do The Olympics, Super Bowl And NBA All-Star Game Have In Common?

What do the Olympics, Super Bowl and NBA All-Star game have in common? 

NBC. And Advertisers on NBC. And these will be a pretty good deal for ther network and advertisers. 

But NBC does have “perfect” timing, too. They bundled the selling of advertising in the Olympics, Super Bowl and have the NBA All-Star game all in February 2026.

It’s a trio of tentpole events to sell tv spots for Super Bowl LX on February 8th. NBC also has the programming for 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and the NBA All-Star Game on February 15th.

Super Bowl spots while some sold on FOX for $8 Million will be around $7 Million on NBC but advertisers need to buy a package or bundle of spots---just not one Super Bowl spot for about $7 Million, but clients would spend more dollars on additional spots, creative, celebrities and production.

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:

Who would have thought I could use the 9P's with Partners, Product, Place, Presentation and Promotion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos and snacks (usually a big advertisers on Super Bowl), fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as 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. Could be an added bonus on perfect timing
  • 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 on NBC. 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 65 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

Thursday, June 12, 2025

More Of The Hot Ones. Fighting A Battle At Breakfast Time. Is It Hot Or Not. Ketchup And Catsup? 9P's Of Marketing

Fighting a battle in the diner marketplace. Is it hot or not? 

It’s not really catsup versus ketchup. And when it’s breakfast, hot sauce is beating ketchup or catsup. Sales are down for the “regular” stuff, whatever you call it.

It’s hot versus “regular.”  A brand manager said: “When we dug into it, we were losing to hot sauce…”

Got to give Heinz credit. 

They have created a new package (package is not one of the 9P's, and falls under "product," which does) that looks like a syrup bottle to combat the rise in use and sales for hot sauce versus ketchup.  Slogan on the bottle "Ketchup is for breakfast."

Heinz wants to win back morning consumers or “people.”  It would be restaurant owners and managers, making the sales. And Heinz' new promotional  effort includes putting its product in syrup-type bottles.

It’s called limited edition. Sounds like a test.  And using glass, not plastic.  And under “Place,” in my 9P’s is using 100 Waffle Houses and up to 50 local diners in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Florida and New York. Interesting, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago are cities while Florida and New York are states. 

But the more I think about it all Heinz did was change the packaging. If the consumer or my "People" want hot sauce repackaging ketchup in a different bottle isn't the answer. Except for the brand manager who sees fewer or lower sales. 

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:

Who would have thought I could use the 9P's with Partners, Product, Place, Presentation and Promotion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • Planning and Research. Planning for marketing activities, objectives, strategies and tactics. Sales. All sales, whether in services, fashion, sports, amusement parks, hotels, resorts, autos, catsup and ketchup, fast food, retail sales or tires, refreshments or cereal, as 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. Diners? 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 diners, 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 65 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. 

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

What's Cool And New About Inglewood, With Place And The 9P's Of Marketing

Plenty.

I grew up in Ladera Heights next to Inglewood. I would have gone to Inglewood High if I hadn't gone to Loyola High.

What's new about Inglewood? 

Well, Inglewood has bounced back. 

They lost the Lakers and Kings, and Hollywood Park racetrack, Inglewood or as they call themselves "The City of Champions," is way back. 

Inglewood has the new NBA Clippers Intuit basketball and concert venue.

It's got SoFi where the Rams and Chargers play, plus a restored Forum or in my day was called the Fabulous Forum. 

Cinepolis built the first dine-in IMAX in Inglewood. There's the new CineVita, tent houses featuring movie tributes to directors and producers of movies like Tarantino, Hughes,Luhrmann and Scorsese. 

There's also another new venue Cosm a 180-degree dome screen "theatre."  

One more? There's a new Asteroid Vinyl Cafe on La Brea. 

A lot has changed from the Inglewood I knew. 

I have a Marketing presentation which features photos from the 105 countries I have visited for marketing seminars, business and pleasure. Examples of new Products, old Products, Place or Distribution, Promotion, Partners and Presentation. There are a couple of examples from the old, new neighborhood.

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:

Who would have thought I could use the 9P's with Partners, Product, Place, Presentation and Promotion to illustrate an unusual insight or example. To find opportunities and problems in Marketing.

  • 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. The immersive entertainment venues in Inglewood. How about other 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

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. 

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.

Or for more fun, marketing strategies/tactics and facts: Go to Marketing Trivia with 65 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC.