Pengertian Promosi
Menurut Shimp (2003 : 8) promosi atau promotion berasal dari kata latin yang berarti “untuk maju kedepan”. Dalam pemasaran, promosi mempunyai arti yang sama, khususnya untuk memotivasi atau menggerakan konsumen agar bertindak.
Pengertian promosi menurut beberapa ahli dikatakan sebagai berikut :
Menurut Rossiter (1998 : 3):
“Promotions and advertising communications are viewed by marketing managers as highly interrelated yet specialized means of informing prospective and current customers about products and services, and persuading them to buy”
“Promotion are often regarded as a more direct form persuasion, based frequently on external incentives rether than inherent product benefits, designed to simulate immediate purchase and to move sales forward more rapidly than would otherwise occur”.
Menurut Stanton (1994 :456)
“Promotion is element in an organization’s marketing mix that serve to inform, persuade and remind the market of a product and/or the organization selling it, in hopes of influencing the recipients, beliefs or behaviour.”
Menurut Kotler (1997 : 93)
Promotion : includes all the activities the company undertakes to communicate and promote its product to the target market.”
Dari definisi diatas, pada dasarnya promosi adalah suatu bentuk komunikasi yang dilakukan perusahaan dalam menawarkan produk/jasa atau ide kepada konsumen melalui pemberian informasi serta bujukan untuk membeli.
Komentar ini telah dihapus oleh administrator blog.
BalasHapus