Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Personal selling
• Sales promotion
• Publicity
• Public relations.
Types of advertising
Any advert may be classified on the basis of
• o What is emphasized
• o The nature of the message advertised
• o The geographical coverage
• But the main types include.
• 1. product advertising – which basically promotes the sale of a particular
brand of a product
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• a. no mention of the manufacturer and emphasis is on the product e.g.
Accountancy profession”
• 2. Institutional advertising – tends to focus on creating a positive attitude
on the business producing or providing the product / service emphasis in on
the institution.
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Cont.…
• 3. Primary demand advertising – targets demand
stimulation for arrange of products without
mentioning a specific brand or manufacturer e.g
Adidas products or GNLD products.
• 4. Celebrity advertising – the advert uses a famous
personality to enclose the use of a given product –
The aim is to use these people to attract attention.
• 5. Corrective advertisement – seeks to correct errors
or misleading claims made in an earlier advertisement
Factors which determine choice of an
advertising medium
• Field sales
• Showroom selling
• The term public relations (PR) when used in product promotion refers to
the process of communicating information of an organization product.
Policies and actions to specific consumer groups or the public at large.
• This is done with the view of creating awareness and a positive attitude
towards the organization and the product.