{"id":81792,"date":"2020-09-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/?p=81792"},"modified":"2020-10-06T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:48:47","slug":"essential-marketing-strategy-models-promotion-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/marketing-planning\/marketing-models\/essential-marketing-strategy-models-promotion-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Marketing Strategy Models: The Promotion Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tool for structuring thinking about one of the crucial 4Ps of marketing: The Promotion Pyramid<\/h2>\n

The Promotion Pyramid is a strategic marketing model digital marketers use to plan marketing activity in relation to the breadth of audience targeted and the resource required (financial and staff time).<\/p>\n

McCarthy's 4Ps of the Marketing Mix<\/a> famously highlights 4 of the most crucial elements of marketing strategy: Price, Product, Place and Promotion. There is much discussion of the relevance of the 4Ps today which we cover here<\/a>, but suffice to say we think these are still key strategy considerations for businesses of all scales - that's where the Promotion Pyramid comes in.<\/p>\n

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When thinking about promotion online, digital marketers all too often try to rush into starting campaigns without properly analyzing the merits of different tactics and channels. The resulting approach wastes resources in the long run because the lack of a proper strategy\u00a0across the whole approach leads to becoming rushed and resources are miss-allocated.<\/p>\n

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The promotion pyramid is useful when considering how to split your digital marketing budget between broad audience advertising, which is efficient in that it uses few internal resources and takes up little sales time, but is expensive, or use sales\/marketing time intensive strategies such as blogging, webinars and sales calls which require a far smaller budget, but take up a large amount of internal resources and staff time. This internal staff time obviously also comes at a considerable cost to the business, so it's important to get the right balance and not over-rely on only a few tactics.<\/p>\n

Different Promotion Pyramids will look different for different industries, but we've developed this example of a promotion pyramid which will apply to many types of B2B trade marketing themselves online. Consultants might add a 1 on 1 meeting at the top of the pyramid, and B2B businesses may add industry events in the top half. It's important to tweak this template to your businesses individual needs where necessary.<\/p>\n

When developing your budget and digital marketing strategy, use this to structure your thinking and consider if you have developed a budget which is utilizing a wide mix of different tactics which can complement each other, or if you are currently overly-focused on just one area of the promotional pyramid.<\/p>\n

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