Thursday, July 26, 2018

Nike Turns Pay, Compensation And Raises Into Promotion: Specifically PR With Releases And Stories To Promote Equity In Pay.

The headline and subheads in the press were "Nike revises its global compensation structure."

Then they as in Nike used one of the eight elements under Promotion to create news and PR.

What did Nike do?  Nike is stressing equity in pay and will giving and awarding its compensation in pay raises to nearly 7K (less than 10% of their 74K employees). Nike will also be changing the way it allocates and gives bonuses.

Visit here for more insights 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 ©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 help identify marketing problems in a number of areas and help develop marketing’s objectives, strategies, tactics and solutions.  The Nine P's are insightful. In Marketing. the "Customer," or potential customers are king, but are missing in the 4P's. 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.


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


In the study and practice of Marketing, Marketing and Brand Managers develop plans, strategies and tactics. The Nine P’s include these important components:

  • People (Segmentation and Targeting)
  • Product
  • Place (Distribution)
  • Price
  • Planning
  • 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: There's an expression "It is only creative if the product or service sells." I wanted to add "It is only good media spending if it sells." 
      • Sales Promotion
      • Collateral Materials
      • Direct Marketing (also referred to as Action or Direct Response Advertising)
      • Interactive/Internet/Web, Digital Media, Social Media:  
      • Events and Experiences
      • Public Relations/PR
    • Here are some strategic comments and questions under Promotion:
      • What should you promote? Strategic copy points.
      • To whom should you target and promote? Under "People/"Targeting, target market, audience with media falls here.Evaluate the eight different elements under Promotion and your brand's practices. That affects media planning.
      • Ask is there a better way? A different promotional mix. There has to be a better way. 
      • What are your costs in dollars and manpower or person power? Ask "Is there a different way or ways to budget?" 
      • Look at different strategic partners? Their costs?
      • You can differentiate with price. Discounting? Special sales? What economic and discount levels should you offer? Look at revenue versus costs. 
      • What form or combination of promotion should you offer? Features?
      • How frequent? Add media planning here. 
  • Partners
  • Presentation
  • Passion
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 54 stimulating questions and answers at Londre Marketing Consultants, LLC. Here to help. All the best.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Birds And Lime In Beverly Hills. From Moving Too Fast. To Not Moving At All.

I can just see it.  The two companies said we need to get the scooters out there.  Get people using them. Here's a huge dent in the business planning and usage for those recent ubiquitous, two wheel scooters.

But with their rushing to get the product out, many complained.  Governing bodies stepped up. 

There seemed to be so little in planning, but plenty of sales promotion by just leaving the scooters all over. 

It’s about safety.  About traffic accidents. Lack of helmets. Missing a driver’s licenses.
Lack of planning, one of the 9P’s of Marketing.
It’s about the use on sidewalk and streets.

The Beverly Hills City Council banned the use of motorized scooters, like Lime and Bird, in the city for six months. Santa Monica has put a lot of restrictions on the scooters. 

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

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


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


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


Eleven years ago, I created and ow
 Need more business, Marketing and advertising insights in 2018? Increase sales and overall revenue?


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


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


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


Eleven years ago, I created and own a copyright for the Marketing concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices o n a copyright for the Marketing concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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

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



        Tiger Woods Delivers For Viewers For NBC Which Made Advertisers Happy

        Last weekend, Tiger Woods shooting better the first three days, during the final round of the British Open, helped NBC deliver the biggest audience since 2000. But  surprisingly with all of the hype, only 4.3% of all households were tuned into NBC for the British Open.

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

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

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


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

        Eleven years ago, I created and ow
         Need more business, Marketing and advertising insights in 2018? Increase sales and overall revenue?

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

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


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

        Eleven years ago, I created and own a copyright for the Marketing concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices o n a copyright for the Marketing concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.

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


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


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

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


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


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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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


              Tuesday, July 24, 2018

              What Is Remarketing? What Is Retargeting? "People" and Targeting, Under the Nine P's Of Marketing

              They are both targeting and communicating with potential customers who have shown an interest by visiting your website.  Just with different tactics. 


              Remarketing is simply a  way to connect and communicate with web visitors, nine P’s “People,” to your website who may not have made a purchase.
              It’s the strategy that is used to reach out and communicate to potential customers, or “people” under the nine P’s, who have left your website without making a purchase.
              Retargeting is positioning targeted ads to your targeted audience, as they browse the web, which these potential customers had previously visited your firm’s website. 
              Retargeting relies on "cookies" dropping ads while remarketing uses email.

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

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

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


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

              Eleven years ago, I created and own a copyright for the Marketing concept, the Nine P’s/9 P's of Marketing ©2007, which augments the Marketing Mix or the 4P's (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) by the American Marketing Association, Neil Borden and Jerome McCarthy in the study and practices of Marketing.


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


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


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

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


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


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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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                    Monday, July 23, 2018

                    Make-A-Wish: John Cena's A Major Winner, A Leading Number Of Times.

                    He's an international hero in 18 countries and territories.

                    If you saw him in a WWE Championship Fight, Amy Schummer's Trainwreck or Blockers, he a fabulous spokesperson for MAW.

                    More than any other celebrity, he has participated in nearly 600 Make-A-Wish Dreams. 

                    Named this year's Muhammed Ali's Humanitarian Sports Award finalist.


                    If you are picking a celebrity for a product or service, here are some questions to ask. 
                    • Does celebrity subtract from product or service?
                    • Is the celebrity appropriate for our product or service?  
                    • Does the celebrity add value? Or generate a good impression? 
                    • Does the celebrity add to the product’s image? 
                    • How much is the fee?
                    • How is the contract structured? 
                    • Do you pay the celebrity their fee, which will decrease media exposure/expenses? 
                    • What about the history and future of the celebrity exposure?  What about “after hour” behavior, any criminal record, FTC issues? Health?
                    • Be sure celebrity uses and continues to use the product? 
                    • Be sure the facts about the product are true and substantiated, before giving script to celebrity.
                    Need more business, Marketing or advertising insights? 
                      For more Marketing insights, ideas, concepts and Marketing solutions: Go to Londremarketing.com and look under “Articles and Resources” and the 9P’s/Nine P’s ©2007. Specifically you will find them detailed at 9P’s/Nine P’s or Nine P's/9P's of Marketing.

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