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Examples of devices used in sales promotion include coupons, samples, premiums, point-of-purchase (POP) displays, contests, rebates, and sweepstakes. Sales promotion is implemented to attract new customers, hold present customers, counteract competition, and take advantage of opportunities that are revealed by market research.
The first prizes ranged from $1 to $10 and entrants had a 1 in 10 chance of winning. After the sweepstakes increased response rates to mailings, prizes of $5,000 [7] and eventually $250,000 were offered. [11] PCH began advertising the sweepstakes on TV in 1974. [8] [12] It was the only major multi-magazine subscription business until 1977.
A sales contest is a motivational program in which rewards are offered to sales people based upon their sales and/or results. There are three types: [ 1 ] Direct competition — the sales people compete against each other and there is one winner
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest Consumer Expenditure survey, found that the average single woman earned $39,178 and spent $38,838, while the average single male earned $49,525 and spent ...
Like many merchants, McDonald's offered sweepstakes to draw customers into its restaurants. Laws generally forbid a company from administering its own contests , in order to prevent fraud and to ensure that all prizes are given away; as a result, such promotions are handled by an impartial third-party company. [ 4 ]