Below-the-line marketing - or BLT marketing as some say - sets classical media aside and is an inexpensive and highly efficient way of advertising. By using low-budget advertising material and marketing campaigns different target groups can be directly addressed, sometimes with the help of multipliers like viral marketing.
Usually Below-the-line marketing campaigns include promotional teams, POS activities, sweepstakes, and other promotional actions to emphasize the campaign. The customers are not aware of these additional promotion actions as advertising. BLT marketing is the antipode to Above-the-line marketing that concentrates on classical promotional activities like print ads, booth advertisements or TV ads.
"A great flame follows a little spark." Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
The adjunct "below-the-line" is used in marketing affairs for all non-classical advertising efforts and therefore they are the opposite of "above-the-line" marketing.
Below-the-line marketing is:- merchandising
- public relations
- EPR management
- sponsoring
- direct marketing
- sampling and co-operational sampling
- Sampling und Kooperationssampling (Verteilung von Produktproben)
- sweepstakes/competition
- mobile marketing and Bluetooth marketing
- internet-/online-marketing
- face-to-face sale
The term "sales promotion" includes all activities within the communication policy whose aim is to activate all marketing participants (sales department, retailer and customer) to boost the sales results. Sales promotion can address the consumer, the sales force, as well as the retailers. Depending on this the form of appearance can vary, whereas one differs between short term and long term marketing. (source: wikipedia)
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