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This chapter introduces visual representations of promotion within the marketing mix. The effectiveness of advertising and sales promotion, post-promotion dips, public relations, personal selling, and interactive marketing are discussed and illustrated with figures and graphs. Comparisons of these elements and their coordination for a successful marketing communication strategy are also investigated.

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    Hawkins and Hoch (1992).

  2. 2.

    Wirthwein (2008).

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    Davis (1971).

  4. 4.

    Neslin and Schneider Stone (1996).

  5. 5.

    Davis, Inman and McAslister (1992).

  6. 6.

    Neslin and Shoemaker (1989).

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Kucuk, S.U. (2017). Promotion. In: Visualizing Marketing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48027-5_6

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