Marketing is a process of attracting new and potential customers while keeping and improving current customer relationships (Kotler & Armstrong, 2014, p.26). Good marketing strategies are the needs of any organisations including non-profit organisations. Applying strong and wise strategies is a way to attract more customers as well as achieve organisational goals and sales. Some of the biggest non-profit organisations today are Salvation Army, Red Cross, Hospice, and so on, who provide charitable programs and family stores around the world in order to sell second-hand products to people and improve the social living conditions. This academic essay will particularly look at the Salvation Army Organisation. With the aims of preventing poverty, social and spiritual distress, Salvation Army has an operation of 126 subsidiaries coordinated by the Headquarters in London (The Salvation Army, n.d.). In this essay, the five different promotion techniques employed by the mentioned family store will be examined in accordance with the marketing concepts. Each technique will be discussed in terms of the viability and feasibility that help the store promote its products, attract more customers, and especially meet its objectives and improve sales. Finally, some suggestions to improve the sales, attract customers and donors will be given.
Before examining the each promotion technique, a brief definition of marketing strategy and each type of marketing concepts will be given. Firstly,
The Southern Baptist Hospital is a not for profit organization that realized a need for marketing to address issues of falling market share. It embarked on an aggressive marketing campaign, mainly focused on corporate image, and the campaign was well received by the audience. It was however seen that though the campaign had been received well, they had failed to achieve their marketing objectives. This paper analyses key aspects of the SBH marketing campaign, and analysis on various aspects that would be key learning’s for future marketing activities.
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The Salvation Army has many financial planning options to help you plan future charitable collaboration with the organization’s goals that are aligned with your various philanthropic missions. With corporate partners such as Papa John’s, JCPenney, and Target, the Salvation Army is dedicated to helping people through everyday poverty related obstacles such as lack of food, shelter and necessary items to live their lives.
Ms. Castillo, was driving her gray GMC Sierra and was attempting to leave the lot parking in front of the Salvation Army when she back into Mr. and Mrs. Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Earl were sitting in their sliver GMC Sierra approximately 10 parking spaces to the west of the front doors of the Salvation Army. Ms. Castillo rear bumper made contact to Mr. Earl rear bumper. Mr. Earl’s rear bumper was pushed in slightly and there was little to no damage to Ms. Castillo rear bumper. Ms. Castillo and Mr. and Mrs. Earl denied any injuries and refused any medical
The group I have been working with currently is the group I used in doing the self-assessment in chapter eight. I scored an eleven which is in the effective teamwork category. This group is a group of three married couple, all who are officers (pastors) of The Salvation Army. Lussier, & Achua stated in their book that all teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. (2013, p.278) Our group is definitely a team working with the common goal to run a week long bible/leadership camp. Each of us has been put in charge of different areas of this camp, such as; decorations, music, snacks, bible studies, and devotionals. Collective as a group we all live hours away from each other, one couple lives in North Platte, Cape Girardeau, and Detroit.
“Marketing strategies can have a broad impact on the business in terms of instilling a marketing orientation among all those in the firm: the way of thinking or philosophy of the whole organization. However, marketing strategies can alternatively be seen as dealing only with the development of competitive advantages directly associated with the marketing function such as customer loyalty and distribution channel control. In the latter case, the domain is sometimes even further restricted by sole attention to the various element of the marketing mix rather than the more general issues of customer and channel relationships. There are two key
The Salvation Army hires employees who accept the organization’s core values, supports the mission, and maintains the organization’s image. As a result, “an organizational climate is created where employees share perceptions about the organization and work environment” (Robbins & Judge, 2015, p. 251). The organization relies mainly on volunteers, so leaders must communicate actively with the community to gain support, as there are few paid positions. The majority of volunteers come from the community, religious organizations, or college students who are interning within the Salvation Army.
Back in March 2015, there was a huge controversy over a dress and what colour it was. Some people say black and blue and others saw white and gold. The Salvation Army foundation used this controversy of the dress to target its audience of mainly young adults. The South African branch of the Salvation Army released an ad with a women bruised up in the white and gold dress with the slogan ‘Why is it so hard to see black and blue. The only illusion is if you think it was her choice. One in six women are victims of abuse. Stop abuse against women’ (Salvation Army Advertising, 2015). The organization used the dress as a force for change, telling people that there are more important things happening in the world than the disagreement over the colour
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