Lecture 10: Public Relations, Publicity & Personal Selling

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Public Relations, Publicity and Personal Selling
Sarah Bowe
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Question 1

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What is public relations?
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  • A management function which manages & controls a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance.
  • A communication function designed to build the relationship between the customer and the brand.
  • Nonpersonal communications regarding an organisation, product, service, or idea that is not directly paid for or run under identified sponsorship.
  • A form of person-to-person communication in which a seller attempts to assist and/or persuade prospective buyers to purchase the company’s product/service or act on an idea.

Question 2

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What are the roles of TRADITIONAL PR?
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  • Maintain mutually beneficial relationships between the organization and its publics
  • Work together with the marketing department
  • Act as a management communications function
  • Contribute to the IMC process in a way that is consistent with marketing goals

Question 3

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What are the roles of NEW PR?
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  • Contribute to the IMC process in a way that is consistent with marketing goals
  • Work together with the marketing department
  • Maintain mutually beneficial relationships between the organization and its publics
  • Act as a management communications function

Question 4

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The audiences of public relations include:
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  • Employees of the firm; Suppliers; Print and broadcast media
  • Educators; Civic and business organisations; Governments; Financial groups
  • Customers; Community members

Question 5

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The nature of Public Relations is
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  • Proactive or Reactive
  • Exclusive or Public
  • Event-related or cause related
  • Relevant and Consistent

Question 6

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Examples of Proactive Public Relations are
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  • Product releases
  • Responding to defects
  • Statement releases
  • Feature articles
  • Responding to failures
  • Product tampering

Question 7

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Examples of Reactive Public Relations are
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  • Responding to defects
  • Responding to failures
  • Product Tampering
  • Product releases
  • Statement releases
  • Feature articles

Question 8

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What are the key MPR (Marketing Public Relations) Functions?
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  • Creating advertising news where there is no product news
  • Building marketplace excitement before media advertising breaks
  • Introduce a product with little or no advertising
  • Providing a value-added customer service
  • Building brand-to-customer bonds
  • Influencing the influentials/providing information to opinion leaders
  • Defending products at risk and giving customers a reason to buy
  • Recommending a way to satisfy customer's needs and wants
  • Develop a long-term, cost-effective link with individual customers for mutual benefit
  • Following up and servicing accounts

Question 9

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What are the key public relations tools?
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  • Press releases and conferences
  • Exclusives
  • Interviews
  • Community involvement
  • The internet
  • Word-of-Mouth
  • Two-way interaction

Question 10

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One PR method is community sponsorships.
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  • True
  • False

Question 11

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Two types of community sponsorships are [blank_start]event[blank_end] sponsorships and [blank_start]cause-related[blank_end] sponsorships
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  • event
  • cause-related

Question 12

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Advantages of Public Relations
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  • Credibility, Cost, Avoidance of clutter, lead generation, selectivity, image building
  • Two-way interaction, tailoring to recipient, prospect unlikely to be distracted, seller involved in purchase decision, source of research information
  • substantial credibility, news value, significant word or mouth, perception of endorsement by media
  • economies of scale in production and distribution, lower costs with less planning and control, lower advertising costs, ability o exploit good ideas, consistent international brand.

Question 13

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Disadvantages of public relations
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  • potential for incomplete communication processes and lack of coordination within the marketing unit
  • less flexibility, less objectivity and less experience
  • waste coverage, limited message capabilities, wear out, costs and measurement problems
  • highly fragmented markets, timeliness, lack of creativity, long lead times, clutter and size requirements

Question 14

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What are the key methods to measure the effectiveness of PR?
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  • Media content analysis
  • Survey research
  • Marketing-mix modelling
  • Recall and retention
  • Tracking
  • ROI

Question 15

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What is publicity?
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  • A management function which manages & controls a program of action to earn public understanding and acceptance.
  • A communication function designed to build the relationship between the customer and the brand.
  • Nonpersonal communications regarding an organisation, product, service, or idea that is not directly paid for or run under identified sponsorship.
  • A form of person-to-person communication in which a seller attempts to assist and/or persuade prospective buyers to purchase the company’s product/service or act on an idea.

Question 16

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Publicity differs from public relations as publicity is
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  • a short-term strategy that is not always positive or controlled/paid by the organisation/individual
  • a long-term strategy that is usually positive and controlled by the organisation/individual
  • a long-term strategy that is not always positive or being controlled or paid by the organisation/individual
  • a short-term strategy that is not always negative or and is controlled and free always

Question 17

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The public relations program developed by Lotus HAL looks to evaluate PR using
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  • total number of impressions, percentage of positive/negative articles, ratio of positive to negative articles
  • total number of recognitions, percentage of sales and ratio of positive to negative articles
  • total number of sales, percentage of positive to negative articles and number of recognitions

Question 18

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The advantages of publicity are:
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  • substantial credibility, news value, significant word of mouth, perception of endorsement by media
  • control, timing, accuracy/reflection of the true brand
  • two-way interaction, tailoring to recipient, less distractions
  • consistency, costs and reach

Question 19

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What are the disadvantages of publicity
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  • credibility, news value, word of mouth, perception of endorsement by media
  • lack of control, timing, inaccuracy/omission/distortion
  • inconsistent messages, high costs, limited reach
  • not completing the communications process and coordination with marketing effort

Question 20

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What is Personal Selling?
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  • A form of person-to-person communication in which a seller attempts to assist and/or persuade prospective buyers to purchase the company’s product/service or act on an idea.
  • Those marketing activities that provide extra value or incentive to the sales force, distributors, or the ultimate consumer and can stimulate immediate sales
  • Is a management function which manages & controls a program of action to earn public understanding & acceptance
  • Nonpersonal communications regarding an organisation, product, service, or idea that is not directly paid for or run under identified sponsorship

Question 21

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What are the responsibilities of personal selling?
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  • Locating prospective customers
  • Determining customers’ needs and wants
  • Recommending a way to satisfy them
  • Demonstrating capabilities of the product
  • Closing the sale
  • Following up and servicing the account
  • Building marketplace excitement before media advertising breaks
  • Creating advertising news where there is no product news
  • Introduce a product with little or no advertising

Question 22

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What are the advantages of personal selling?
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  • two-way interaction with prospect, message can be tailored to recipient, prospect isn't likely to be distracted, seller involved in purchase decision, source of research information
  • consistency in message, management-sales force cohesion, costs, reach
  • credibility, cost, avoidance of clutter, lead generation, specific group targeting, image building
  • news value, significant word-of-mouth, credibility, perception of endorsement

Question 23

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What are the disadvantages of personal selling
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  • one way interaction, message can't be tailored, people likely to be distracted, seller not involved with purchase decision
  • messages may be inconsistent, may be management-sales force conflict, cost is high, reach may be limited, ethical problems
  • low credibility, clutter, costs, generation of new sales, ability to reach specific groups
  • measurement problems, deception, privacy, poor reach

Question 24

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What is Content Marketing?
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  • a strategic marketing approach of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience with the objective of driving profitable customer action
  • Nonpersonal communications regarding an organisation, product, service, or idea that is not directly paid for or run under identified sponsorship
  • Those marketing activities that provide extra value or incentive to the sales force, distributors, or the ultimate consumer and can stimulate immediate sales
  • Interactive system of marketing which uses one or more advertising media to affect a measurable response and/or transaction at any location.

Question 25

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While Content Marketing strengthens a company's [blank_start]owned media[blank_end] channels, Public Relations strengthens [blank_start]earned media[blank_end] to strengthen exposure.
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  • earned media
  • owned media
  • owned media
  • earned media

Question 26

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Public Relations and Content Marketing work towards the same goals - to increase brand awareness, educate their audiences and strengthen customer loyalty.
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  • True
  • False
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