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Case summary:
Club LA soccer is consider to be 1 of the 19 clubs in Major League Soccer (MLS). Club LA has won the Major League Soccer champion trophy 4 times which is said to be more successful. President CK and the company marketing managers decided to use their skills in creating “a specific product for people”
The services and the experience of the professional soccer club will keep on changing because there will be difference in opponents, players, outcome and the weather conditions. Each component of the promotional mix and activities of marketing are used to create experience of Club LA. The main elements of soccer business are sponsorships, merchandise sales and broadcast rights.
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Club LA
President CK
To discuss: The given promotion used by Club LA and the given promotional activities depends on specific target market being reached.
Introduction:
Marketing mix or a promotional mix are the elements used by the organisation in market planning. Marketing mix commonly includes 4p’s such as price, product, promotion and place but recently they have changed it into 7p’s namely price, product, promotion and place, people, process and physical environment where many organisation follow this.
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