Businesses use promotion methods to make customers aware of their products and services. Promotion methods are highly competitive and usually expensive.
Promotion is one of the Ps of the marketing mix (along with Product, Price and Place). It is concerned with making customers aware of a product or service.
The two main methods for businesses to make customers aware are:
advertisingProducing paid material to inform public of a product or service.
sales promotionA short-term marketing strategy which aims to increase sales of a particular product or a range of products.