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Retail Agribusiness Sales AS6 Retail Promotional Tools and Advertising

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Retail Agribusiness Sales: Retail Promotional Tools and Advertising

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Promotional Campaign Components

Choosing Promotional Strategies

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Public Relations Campaign

PR Campaign Components

Developing a Public Relations Campaign

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Advertising Media

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Advertising Media

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Blogs

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Location of Display


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Location of Display

Local Promotional Campaign

Select an agribusiness in the community. Answer the questions below to analyze its promotional campaign.

Business Selected: ______________________________________________________________

Products or services offered: ______________________________________________________

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Where does the business advertise? What is included in the ads? How do they seek to influence customers?

What activities does it carry out to promote public relations?


AS6.1Retail Agribusiness Sales: Retail Promotional Tools and Advertising

How are sales promotion devices used to promote products or services and the business?

How is personal selling used by the business?

How effective is each of these components in presenting the merits of products or services or of the business as a whole? How might they be improved?



Public Relations in Action!

Select a business in the community that has a public relations campaign. Evaluate the campaign by answering the questions below:

Business Selected: ______________________________________________________________

What type of public relations activities are used by the business?

Are they effective? If so, how do they create goodwill in the community? If not, why?

What might be done to improve the business’s public relations campaign? Assume that the budget for changes is limited.



National FFA Week Public Relations Campaign



Print Advertisement

Ad #1 ________________________________________________________________________

Is this an effective ad? Why or why not? (Include specifics – font used, headlines or lack thereof, etc.)

What is the main message the advertisement is trying to convey?

Who is the target audience?

Ad #2 ________________________________________________________________________






Ad #3 ________________________________________________________________________




Ad #4 ________________________________________________________________________






Ad #5 ________________________________________________________________________






Advertising Media

MEDIA ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES



Advantages and Disadvantages of Advertising Media



Web Page Exploration #1

Web Page _____________________________________________________________________

Name of Business ______________________________________________________________

Owners/Contact Information ______________________________________________________

Item(s) Being Sold/Advertised ____________________________________________________

What (specifically) do you like about this web page?

What (specifically) do you not like about this web page?

What does this web page have that others do not?

What is this page missing that could make it more effective?




Web Page _____________________________________________________________________

Name of Business ______________________________________________________________









Blog Exploration #1

Web Page _____________________________________________________________________

Name of Business ______________________________________________________________



What features does the blog include?

What is the point of the blog?

Who does the blog target?

Do you feel the blog is effective? Why or why not?

What would you change?



Blog Exploration #2

Web Page _____________________________________________________________________

Name of Business ______________________________________________________________



What features does the blog include?

What is the point of the blog?

Who does the blog target?

Do you feel the blog is effective? Why or why not?

What would you change?



Facebook Page Exploration

Facebook Address ______________________________________________________________

Name of Business ______________________________________________________________



What (specifically) do you like about this Facebook page?

What (specifically) do you not like about this Facebook page?

What does this Facebook page have that others do not?

What is this Facebook page missing that could make it more effective?



Promotional Displays

Display #11st Impressions:

Positives:

Eye Sores:

How would you improve this display?


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Eye Sores:





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Positives:

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Promotional Campaign Review

Business Chosen: _______________________________________________________________

Resources Used:

Advertising:



Public Relations:

Sales Promotion:



Personal Selling:



Social Media and Web Promotion and Advertising EvaluationUse social media and the web to promote and advertise a business, product, or service that is becoming increasingly popular. As future agribusiness men and women, it is important to be up-to-speed on these modern techniques.

Create a social media and web promotion/advertising plan for one of the following: Your SAE, a family business with which you are very familiar, or the local FFA chapter. The instructor may approve other business/organizations upon request.

This plan should detail the following: CommentsPage 1/2: Title Page & Table of Contents

Page 3:Using the Web – General/summary explanation of how the web will be used for the promotion and advertising of this business

Page 4:Website Layout – Include chosen theme, goals for the website, illustrated flow chart of how site will be organized and linked, content to be included (tabs to click to get to a new page), page links to other businesses or organizations

Page 5:Blog – How will a blog be used to promote and advertise business? What will be posted? How often will posts be made? What will be included within the blog?

Page 6:Twitter – Identify business username, people/businesses you plan to follow, five examples of posts to promote business and/or a product/service, how to drive traffic to website or blog

Page 7:Facebook – What will your Facebook page look like? Include how you will use Facebook to promote and advertise the business, the plan for establishing prime time to post, how you will get people to “like” your page

Page 8: Choose one other type of social media that could be used to promote the business and explain how the use of that product will be effective for the business.

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Retail Promotional Tools and Advertising Alternative Evaluation

1. Which of the following is not a component of a promotional campaign?a. advertisingb. personal sellingc. public relationsd. promotional mix

2. One purpose of the public relations program isa. to use personal persuasion to convince the potential customer to make a purchase.b. to increase sales by gaining acceptance in the community for a business.c. to convince consumers that the business’s product satisfies their needs.d. to promote one of the products provided by the business.

3. ______________________________ consists of promotional messages placed in different media to encourage sales.

a. Sales promotionb. Personal sellingc. Advertisingd. Public relations

4. Promotional mix refers toa. the different types of advertising used to promote a business.b. the combination of all the components of a promotional campaign.c. the combination of advertising and public relations.d. the various activities that form a part of personal selling.

5. What is the main function of a public relations program?a. To promote a particular product of a businessb. To promote a particular service of a businessc. To create goodwill in a community toward a businessd. To offset the production of an unsatisfactory product or service

6. What is important when developing a public relations campaign?a. To have one person organizing and operating the campaign, if possibleb. To spend a lot of money developing and implementing the campaignc. To have more than one person planning the campaign, if possibled. To be consistent and avoid making any changes in the campaign

7. Which of the following is a step in planning an effective display?a. Look at old displays and try to make a new display similar to themb. Establish a themec. Capitalize on traditional methods of promotiond. Form setting by rearranging materials from the last display



8. Where displays would be used?a. At fairsb. In store windowsc. On store shelvesd. All of the above

9. Which of the following is an effect that can enhance a display?a. Use similar, ordinary sizes and shapes so the customer can identify with themb. Keep the display predictable so customers are not shockedc. Add sound to attract customersd. All of the above

10. Which of the following is true of displays at points of purchase?a. Points of purchase are the areas with the most customer trafficb. Display items at points of purchase should be expensive to attract customers’

attentionc. Customers often do impulse buying at points of purchased. Points of purchase have higher visibility than outside display



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