Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The list
of prospects may be derived from a variety sources. An
example is the membership roll of the parent teacher
association (PTA) of a local elementary school. This source
is particularly useful to dealers o books for elementary
schoolchildren
Qualifying means selecting from among the prospects those most
likely to buy to quality prospects, the following must be considered.
There are various types of publicity that the small business may use for
its promotional efforts . They are the following;
1.News publicity - deals with events of national, regional, or local interest.
Kinds of news publicity:
a. Spontaneous news publicity- one made as result of a fire, union strike,
lahar onslaught, bank holdups, and other major occurrences;
and
b. Planned news publicity- one based on news releases prepared and
distributed by the small business on the basis.
2.Business feature articles - refer to detailed stories bout the firm or its offerings,
most often appearing in business magazines.
3. Service feature articles - refer to lighter stories focusing on personal care,
household items, and recipes which find their way in the page of newspapers
and magazines.
4. Finance releases - are stories that are targeted to appear in the business
sections of newspaper and magazines.
5. Product releases - refer to new products and product improvements and
aimed at all forms of media for publicity.