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Marketing Communications Mix

A company's total marketing communications mix—also called its promotion mix consists of the specific blend of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations, and directmarketing tools that the company uses to pursue its advertising and marketing objectives. Definitions of the five major promotion tools follow: Advertising: Any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor. Personal selling: Personal presentation by the firm's sales force for the purpose of making sales and building customer relationships. Sales promotion: Short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service. Public relations: Building good relations with the company's various publics by obtaining favorable publicity, building up a good corporate image, and handling or heading off unfavorable rumors, stories, and events. Direct marketing: Direct connections with carefully target...

Mengubah Hidup Dengan Mengubah Cara Berpikir

Percayakah kamu pada orang yang mengatakan... bagaimana kamu menjalani hidup akan sangat dipengaruhi oleh bagaimana cara mu berpikir? Percayakah kamu bila ada orang yang mengatakan bahwa bagaimana hidup mu saat ini adalah hasil dari bagaimana cara mu berpikir saat ini? Suatu ketika.... disuatu tempat... hiduplah seorang wanita muda. Usianya baru sekitar 30 tahun, sudah menikah, dan punya dua orang anak. Seperti orang pada umumnya, wanita tersebut lahir dan dibesarkan dalam sebuah keluarga, dimana.... dia selalu dikritik, direndahkan, bahkan tidak jarang diperlakukan secara tidak adil oleh kedua orang tuanya sendiri. Dan sebagai hasilnya.... wanita tersebut tumbuh dengan kepercayaan bahwa dia tidak berharga. Kepercayaan itu membuatnya menjadi orang yang tidak percaya diri. Suka memandang segala sesuatunya dengan rasa takut, dan dari sisi yang negatif. Dia juga pemalu, suka menyalahkan, dan merendahkan diri sendiri. Dia juga merasa tidak punya bakat dan kemampuan dalam hal a...

Finding the Right ISP

Remote hosting is a very popular option as a large number of companies—probably the vast majority of Webhosting today—offer PHP-enabled Web sites. These are some basic pros and cons to keep in mind. Outsourced hosting has a lot of advantages. The ISP will (in theory) handle many of the crucial technical and administrative details necessary to keep a site running, such as: Hardware Software upgrades InterNIC registration, IP addressing, DNS Mail servers (POP/IMAP and SMTP) Bandwidth Power supply Backups Security There’s no cozier feeling than the one you get just before you fall asleep, knowing that some poor schmo at your ISP will be getting the pager message in the middle of the night if something goes wrong with your site. Lurking crackers, downed power lines, munged backup tapes—all that is your host’s headache now. Especially for developers who have little experience with system-administration issues, outsourcing can be a major time saver. Web hosting is also extremel...

Ready for Some ASP.NET?

ASP.NET is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's Active Server Pages and is the engine that executes ASP.NET web pages. An ASP.NET web page is the program that you create to generate a dynamic web page. For now we'll take a few moments to introduce the concept of an ASP.NET web page. Two sets of instructions must be executed in order for a visitor to view a dynamic web page. The first set is executed on the web server. Developers call this the server side. The second set is executed on the visitor's computer. Developers call this the client side. Both sets of instructions are written in an ASPNET web page. The ASP.NET web page is organized into two sections that correspond to the two sets of instructions. These are the HTML markup code section and the controls section. The HTML markup code section contains HTML markup code that forms the dynamic web page sent to the visitor's computer by the ASP.NET engine. These instructions are executed on the client side...

Email Marketing - A Spectacular Return on Investment

Sending print newsletters and direct marketing campaigns has long been a proven method to stay in touch with your customers and bring in more business. Even non-profits use it as a means of keeping members abreast of association news, conferences and other events. But sending print publications is time-consuming and expensive. By the time you add up the design and print costs and then tack on postage, a mailing to 1,000 people can cost $5,000. Plus, if your content is time-sensitive, you have to plan far enough ahead of time to make sure that everything goes smoothly. Email newsletters and marketing campaigns, by contrast, require very little effort. They are inexpensive, measurable, and extremely effective. According to the Direct Marketing Association, every $1 you spend on email marketing generates a $45.06 return on investment – the highest response rate for all direct response methods. With the right tool, not only can you create an entire newsletter within 30 min...

Khasiat Habbatussauda/Jintan Hitam

Habbatussauda adalah nama untuk sejenis tanaman yang banyak terdapat di kawasan Mediterranea dan beriklim gurun. Nama biologinya adalah Nigella Sativa . Di Eropa, Habbatussauda dikenal dengan nama " Black Seed " atau " Black Cumin ," sedang di Indonesia, dikenal dengan nama " Jintan Hitam ." Sedang di Mesir, Habbatussauda terkenal dengan nama " Habbah Barakah ." Tanaman ini memiliki biji-biji kecil yang berwarna hitam, hingga tidak heran jika orang Arab memberinya nama Habbatus Sauda , yang berarti Biji Hitam . Anda mungkin kenal jintan atau jintan putih yang biasa dipakai untuk bumbu. Nah, jintan hitam atau habbatussauda yang dimaksud disini, sama sekali tidak mirip dengan jintan yang biasa digunakan untuk bumbu dapur tersebut, baik dalam bentuk, rasa, maupun kegunaannya. Karena itu, anda jangan sampai salah memahami dan mengira bahwa keduanya adalah sama. Meski bentuknya kecil dan warnanya hitam, habbatussauda ternyata memilik...

What Is Data Mining?

Data mining, as we use the term, is the exploration and analysis of large quantities of data in order to discover meaningful patterns and rules. We assume that the goal of data mining is to allow a corporation to improve its marketing, sales, and customer support operations through a better understanding of its customers. Keep in mind, however, that the data mining techniques and tools described here are equally applicable in fields ranging from law enforcement to radio astronomy, medicine, and industrial process control. In fact, hardly any of the data mining algorithms were first invented with commercial applications in mind. The commercial data miner employs a grab bag of techniques borrowed from statistics, computer science, and machine learning research. The choice of a particular combination of techniques to apply in a particular situation depends on the nature of the data mining task, the nature of the available data, and the skills and preferences of the data m...