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Social Marketing Social Marketing is the use of
commercial marketing techniques to help a target population acquire a beneficial health behavior.
Becoming more popular in governmental and not-for-profit sector.
Used in:› Family planning› Recruiting blood donors› Smoking prevention in
adolescents
History First started in India in the 1960s to promote
family planning.
In U.S. sociologist G.D. Wiebe, in 1950s first suggested that marketing might be applied to things such as "selling brotherhood" and other social applications.
Was incorporated into the work of Philip Kotler in the late 1960s.
In the 70s and 80s main type of social marketing was marketing of contraceptives.
History
Major advancements were made
in the late 80s and 1990s.
1989 first social marketing textbook
published by Kotler and Roberto.
In 1999, the Social Marketing Institute was
founded in Washington, DC
Social v. Commercial Primary difference between social
marketing and commercial marketing is their objectives.
Social marketing – to benefit the target audience and change behaviors that have social implications.
Commercial vs. Social
Commercial Social
PurposeMaking Profits Making behavior
change for social cause
Expectations
Modest Demanding; complete eradication of the problem
Distasteful Behaviors
Usually caters to what the public likes
Often addresses what people don’t want to change
BenefitsClear in profits Often invisible
Commercial vs. Social
Commercial Social
Self-rewards
Usually external Usually internal or self-rewards (weight loss)
BudgetsGenerous Limited
FundingUsually private Usually
government or not-for-profit foundations
Exchange Theory Transfer or transaction of
something valuable between two individuals or groups› Must be voluntary› Benefits must outweigh the costs
Social Marketing Wheel
Planning and Strategy Development
Formative Research› Analysis› Audience Segmentation› Strategy Development
Developing & Pretesting Concepts, Messages &
Materials Identifying appropriate channels Developing effective messages Developing creative strategy Pretest
› Acceptable› Attractive› Appropriate
Implementing the Program
Assessing Effectiveness &Making Refinements
Social Marketing Wheel
Product
Behavior or offering that is intended
for the target audience to adopt.
Types of products
Physical Product › Ex: Condoms
A service › Ex: Mammography
A practice › Ex: Eating 5 fruits or veggies a day
An intangable idea › Ex: Environmental protection
PriceTangible and intangible things that the target audience has to give up in order to adopt the new idea (product).
Tangible= Money
Intangible= Time, effort, giving up an old way
Place
Where the target audience will perform the behavior.
Example: Promote physical activity= TV, newspaper, internet, email, doctors office
(The product should be made available at that particular place.)
Promotion
Mechanism by which one gets the
message across to the target
audience.
Ex: advertisements, contests, press
events for policy change.
Constructs
Publics
Partnerships
Policy
Purse strings
Constructs Continued
Publics: refers to both primary and
secondary audiences involved in the
program.
› Primary audiences is the target audience
to whom the behavior change is targeted.
› Secondary audiences are policy makers
that influence any decision and need to
be involved.
Constructs Continued
Partnerships: refers to collaborating with
multiple individuals or organizations who
work on the same issue.
Policy: refers to creating the
environmental supports needed to
sustain the behavior change.
Constructs Continued
Purse strings: refers to the amount of $$$ available for the campaign.
AlcoholUse/AbuseMeetingInformationAbout the Use and Effects ofAlcohol
Tonight7 p.m.UnionBuilding
Free Food!!!
If You Feed Them Will They Come?
Aim of the study:› To increase
students’ interest in attending an alcohol program focused on reaching students who drink heavily.
Major issue:› How to reach
students who drink heavily and increase the likelihood that they will attend and benefit from programs regarding alcohol use.
Social Marketing In Practice
The Study:› Promoted two
message types, a basic informational and altruistic (concern for others) message.
› Offered different kinds of incentives Pizza and Soda Mocktails No Food
Constructs used› Price – Pizza and
Soda› Place –
Residence Halls› Promotion – How
program was advertised
› Product – Program Offered
The Results Pizza and Soda
resulted in the most reported interest for those receiving an altruistic message as compared with an informational message.
Mocktails; message did not affect interest level.
41.9% indicated the food offered in the advertisement impacted their interest in attending.
Strengths
Extensive
research
Pretesting
Integrating
“marketing mix”
Weaknesses
Focuses on specific groups; leaves out those that
may also need services.
Requires a lot of time for research and pretesting.
Doesn’t involve the community during planning
stages.
Not effective for long term behavior change.
Depends too much on commercial marketing theories
rather than forming its own theoretical reasoning.
Summary Social Marketing focuses on selling
ideas.
Five Steps:
› Planning
› Message and Material Development
› Pretesting
› Implementation
› Evaluation
Summary
First Four “P’s” – Known as
Marketing Mix
› Product (behavior)
› Price (costs and barriers)
› Place
› Promotion
Summary
Last Four “P’s”
› Publics
› Partnership
› Policy
› Purse Strings