The Promotional Strategies of Smart and Globe: A Student's Perspective

Before examining the each promotion technique, a brief definition of marketing strategy and each type of marketing concepts will be given. Firstly,

The promotionPromotion is the business of communicating with customers. It will provide information that will assist them in making a decision to purchase a product or service. The pace and creativity of some promotional activities are almost alien to normal business activities.The cost associated with promotion or advertising goods and services often represents a size-able proportion of the overall cost of producing an item. However, successful promotion increases sales so that advertising and other costs are spread over a larger output. Though increased promotional activity is often a sign of a response to a problem such as competitive activity, it enables an organization to develop and build up a succession of messages and can be extremely cost-effective.

Promotion is about how the customers are informed about a particular product or service and plays a vital role. So promotion basically carries the 3 Ps of the marketing mix by presenting that all important information to the right target market.

The future of the telecommunication industry is an exciting future. No longer can these companies depend on telephone service plans to maintain profit. Each company needs to find other avenues, packages and services that can be sold to existing customers while attracting new customers. The companies

“Promotion refers to the advertising and selling part of marketing. It is how you let people know what you’ve got for sale. The purpose of promotion is to get people to understand what your product is, what they can use it for, and why they should want it.”

Promotion is a way company communicates messages on what the pruct does and what does the product can offer customers. It includes below elements:

For example T.V, the net, text messages and emails have all provided new and effective ways of marketing internationally and at a cheap price. This means that communication possibilities and user interaction between promotional campaigns is much easier.

The products that people buy are promoted to bring in new consumers. Promotion requires an organization to have a lot of time. Also a promotion should be clear and t o the point.

Samsung is a South-Korean company and its headquarters is in Samsung Town, Seoul (Samsung, 2014). Samsung is made up of 80 companies together. At present Samsung branches exists in 61 countries. Samsung is one of the world 's leading manufacturer in the Android mobile (smart) phone industry. Samsung after releasing the smart phones in the name of Samsung galaxy series which started with Galaxy Y basic model. Later Samsung released S series which got overwhelmed response all around the world. On 24 February 2014 Samsung released Galaxy S5 which was an immediate and quick successor after Galaxy S4 the previous model. When designing the Galaxy S5 Samsung worked on the drawbacks of the previous models and improved camera quality, running speed, finger print reader, private mode, dust and water resistance (Andrew, 2014). In this analysis I have researched and proved that Samsung organization used Integrated marketing and communications on basis of their target audiences, message strategy and media choices.

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse the ‘Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning’ (hereafter referred to as STP) marketing strategy used by ‘amaysim Australia LTD’ in the mobile telecommunications market. This will be studied through identifying the specific target markets, segmentation variables and comparing product offerings, specifically the ‘$50 Mobile Phone Plan’ against fellow competitors in the market.

External promotions (i.e., advertising, public relations, sale promotions) reach customers by delivering information in various ways. Commercials are an important part of advertising in today’s world. A large number of AT&T customers have been reached through commercials. Window ads are also a great way to catch the eyes of individuals passing by stores. Companies use window ads to deliver information that is important like a promotion or the release of new electronics. By using window ads, the information still reaches customers without spending a lot of money on a promotions that will end soon. However, AT&T has implemented interactive promotions to communicate with potential customers. A large portion of individuals today are on Facebook a vast amount of the time. Therefore, AT&T has purchased a set date and time from Facebook that will run their ad on members’ news feed. AT&T has created a strong foundation in which customers feel comfortable with not only their products but, the company

Promotion plays an important role in the progress of a product . Promotion in the marketing is like a tool which helps a company to let the people know about the product. The main purpose of the promotion is to Create Awareness, Persuasion, Education , Information, Brand Loyalty , Understanding .For example Colgate Palmolive informed to his customer about its new product as well as the product being use by the customers .Colgate Palmolive persuades and convinces new as old customer to purchased its new product. Introducing the products specially for the kids . Colgate is very popular among young kids just because of its perfect promotion . Colgate-Palmolive is promoting kids products by labelling the cartoon Characters like Looney tunes , Barbie, Barney and other. Through the strong promotion by the media . For examples Tv , Radio , Newspaper and other. It is rightly successful to capture the mass market . So we can say that the Colgate is thee product of mass selling . Colgate is not only using the traditional advertising media for its promotion . However it is also using the electronic advertising media for examples such as Internet . Besides that, Colgate also advertises on the different websites with its required information for its customers and has a specific website to promote each Colgate product

Promotion – Promotion means making customers aware about your products and introducing the customers with the benefits which they can get by buying their products. They can do advertisements, direct marketing and sales promotion for the promotion of the product.

Date: Program: Course Authors Teacher Title Strategic question Purpose 2008-05-26 International Marketing Master Thesis International Marketing (EF0705) Parunya Vanasakul Ploychompoo Wankeao Supisra Arayaphong (830422) (850418) (831102) Tobias Eltebrandt The battle of DTAC in Thailand’s mobile phone operator market How can DTAC gain higher market share by focusing on customers in Bangkok? The purpose of this research is to investigate, analyze current competition between DTAC and other competitors with customer insight in order to find out the possibility for DTAC to gain more market share in Thai telecommunication market by focusing on customers in Bangkok area. Researchers apply ‘Business Strategy theory and Marketing mix for

Promotion is an aspect of the marketing mix that has great importance. In order for our product to be successful, the promotion we use will be very vital. This is because of the fact that the method of promotion we use for the product can help to differentiate our product from other products which makes it unique and outstanding amongst other brands. Moreover, using the right promotion can be used as a way to persuade consumers of our product that they made the right choice.