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• promotion

  these are the promotional activities , advertisingt sales tactics promotions and direct marketing. These are referred as MARKETING TACTICS
• Choose your promotional activities - the goal of marketing is to stand out and be noticed
• choose your promotional activities - the newr you are in your market the harder you have to work to attract
• Products and service promotion - is the most common form of marketing
• advertising - you can advertise your product service or brand in newspaper radio televison
• personal selling or telemarketing - effective personal selling relies on good interpersonal and communicatin skills
• publicity - created by sending media releases to print and broadcasting meddia giving interviews to the media and from word to word of mouth
• short term sales promotions - market your product or services using coupuns competitions and contest finf out abou the benefiy of coupon websites
• direct marketing - involves sending letter s emails
• online marketing - often cost effective and is becoming increasingly important businesses
• people - refer to the staff salespeople who work for your business including yoyself
• excellent customer service, not only converts to slaes but can increase your customer baseby referrals
• improving your customer service

  customer service - is about giving customers what they want and when they want it in the best possible way
• training staff - is an investment in your business
• your STAFF are your most valuable assest and making sure they are trained with the skills and knowledge
• as an EMPLOYER you are obligated to make sue you provide staff witn work health and safety training so they know how their desired jobs safely\