MAR 3023 FSU BRADY EXAM 4 STUDY GUIDE
2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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Promotion ......ANSWER........advertising a product or brand,
generating sales, and creating brand loyalty. It is one of the
four basic elements of the market mix which includes the four P's:
price, product, promotion, and place.
Purpose of promotion... ......ANSWER........is to promote brand
switching which is persuading customers to leave their current
brand and try the promoted company's products.
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Advertising ......ANSWER........a paid, non-personal
communication about an organization and its products
transmitted to a target audience through mass media.
a. Effective advertising can influence customers' purchasing
behavior throughout their lifetimes
b. Most organizations, even nonprofits, engage in advertising
Examples: print ads in magazines, trade journals and
newspapers, radio and TV announcements, Web-based
visibility-building, and billboards.
Personal Selling ......ANSWER........a paid, personal
communication that seeks to inform customers and persuade them
to purchase products in an exchange situation
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Examples: department stores that stage employees on perfume
and cosmetic counters.
Public Relations ......ANSWER........a broad set of communication
efforts used to create and maintain favorable relationships
between an organization and its stakeholders.
Examples: generating an article featuring a client, rather than
paying for the client to be advertised next to the article.
Sales Promotion ......ANSWER........offering added value or
incentive for the product to resellers, salespeople, or customers
free samples, games, rebates, sweepstakes, contests, premiums,
and coupons.
Proctor and Gamble ......ANSWER........Top U.S Advertiser
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Integrated Marketing Communications
......ANSWER........Coordination of promotion and marketing
efforts for maximum impact
Why do companies use Integrated Marketing Communications?
......ANSWER........cut through the noise to get their message
across
Traditional Promotion Mix ......ANSWER........Promotion and
marketing efforts were separate between media channels and it
wasn't very consistent and did not communicate well
-Traditional promotion mix worked in the past because there
weren't very many messages and people could keep them all in
their head.
- Not the case anymore because there are so many messages
out in consumer space.