The activities referred to in the definition are decisions in four variables, namely
product, promotion, price, and place. To be able to achieve the company's goals,
namely, to reach the intended market and meet or serve consumers as effectively as
possible, these activities need to be combined, integrated, and well-coordinated. In this
case, the company or organization not only has the best but also has to coordinate
various elements of the marketing mix, to carry out marketing programs effectively and
efficiently so that potential customers use/buy products offered by producers.
In the past, marketers could understand consumers through the daily sales
experience they gained. However, the increasingly diverse mindset and needs of
consumers that make marketing managers have to increasingly depend on consumer
research to get answers to the following small questions about the increasingly diverse
needs and desires of consumers. Therefore, businesses must know and study consumer
purchasing decisions based on several marketing mix factors or other external factors.
(Tjiptono 201), a product is anything that can offer to considered, requested, sought,
bought, used, and or consumed by the market as a fulfillment of the needs and desires
of the relevant market. From the above understanding, it can be interpreted that the
product is the output of the activities carried out by producers, which will be marketed
to consumers using marketing strategies.
According to (Mursid 2014), promotion is persuasive communication, inviting,
urging, persuading, and convincing. then simply promotion is a way or effort by a
marketer so that the products offered are bought or used by consumers. (Tjiptono 2015),
prices play a strategic role in marketing. If the price is too high, the relevant product
will not be affordable by certain target markets or even the customer value will be low,
if the price is too low, the company will find it difficult to make profits or some
consumers perceive the quality to be poor
(Tjiptono 2015), in general, distribution refers to a variety of marketing activities
that seek to facilitate and facilitate the delivery or distribution of goods and services
from the product to consumers.
(Tjiptono 2015), the buying process starts long before someone buys a product and
subscribes for a long time afterward.
2 Methods
This research method is quantitative. This type of research is descriptive research.
According to Sekaran (2014: 159), descriptive analysis is carried out to find out and be
able to explain the characteristics of the variables studied in a situation. This study uses
a causal research design. According to Celsi, Money, Samuel, and Page (147: 2011),
the causal research design is designed to test whether one event causes another event.
According to Sugiyono (2015: 80) Population is a generalization area consisting of
objects/subjects that have certain qualities and characteristics determined by
researchers to be studied, and then conclusions can be drawn. The population in this
study were consumers who visited the mini-market Omi Palembang, from the period of
January to April 2019, during the four-months. In this study, the population was 1,125
consumers with an error rate of 10%. Based on the calculation of the Solving formula,
the results are 100 consumers. This research uses nonprobability sampling.
Nonprobability sampling is a sampling technique that does not provide equal
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