ACCIT BSB50815 Diploma - Promoting Products and Services in China

This case study focuses on TruBeauty, an Australian skincare company, and its planned promotional activities in China. The assignment requires an analysis of three promotional strategies: billboard and poster campaigns, online video advertising, and free trial product distribution at a trade event. The case study examines planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and cultural appropriateness. Students are tasked with identifying sources of information, assessing the effectiveness of the proposed promotional activities, and suggesting alternative strategies. Key considerations include aligning promotions with the organization's requirements and adapting to the cultural nuances of the Chinese market. The assessment also delves into the importance of a marketing plan and how to access relevant information for international promotional activities. The document provides detailed questions and instructions to guide students through the case study, covering topics such as budgeting, roles and responsibilities, and contingency planning.

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Course and Code: BSB50815 Diploma of International Business
Unit/s of Competency: BSBMKG513: Promote Products and Services to
International Markets
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Performance objective
The students need to understand how to plan promotional activities, coordinate promotional
activities and review and report on promotional activities.
Assessment description
This assessment provides a case study on how to promote products and services to international
markets.
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Case Study
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TruBeauty: Promotional Activities in China
TruBeauty makes natural skin care products for
women including moisturisers, face wash, lotion,
under-eye cream, and many more. The
organisation prides themselves in offering good
quality products that use natural and organic
ingredients which are beneficial to the skin. The
products are made in Australia.
The organisation wants to expand its business
internationally and plans to conduct promotions
in China.
The following three promotions have been
suggested:
 Billboard and posters – a number of posters to advertise skincare ranges for women.
These are to be placed in or near shopping and business areas to promote the brand.
 An online advertisement video – to inform and display the brand and product range to
potential customers. This is to be placed as pay-per-click advertising on a selection of
different Chinese web sites.
 Free trial products – will be available at the trade event, to promote the organisation’s
skincare products. Trial products will be given out to individuals (two small samples)
in a small package, along with a card/leaflet which will provide product information
and the website address.
TruBeauty has the following requirements for its promotions in China:
 To promote organic skincare products that comes from a reputed Australian brand,
TruBeauty.
 To showcase the range of skincare for women.
 To promote quality products which are beneficial to the target groups.
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Planning and Scheduling for Outdoor (OOH) Advertisements
Bela, the Marketing Head in China with her team, are planning on how to produce and
implement billboard posters for TruBeauty in China over a five-week period. Bela will be
coordinating with the Marketing Head of Australia, Smith, to successfully run this campaign.
The marketing objective of this campaign is to build brand awareness across China. To
achieve this, TruBeauty has come up with OOH campaign for five-weeks’ time period. The
budget of this campaign is AUD 200,000.
Planning will need to include:
 Awareness of the timeframes for planning
and delivering the promotion
 Resource requirements, e.g., design and
artwork, specialist skills and print
quantities
 Roles and responsibilities
 Poster production and quantities
 Poster distribution
 Liaising with contacts in China
Scheduling will need to meet the five-weeks’ deadline (from start to finish billboards on
display in China).
This will include:
 Contract with an advertising agency in
China which will provide advertising
services.
 Product and advertising photography
 Printing high-quality posters
 Transportation and placement of posters
in target locations
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International Trade Event
Jian, the Sales and Distribution Manager of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, has
been asked to arrange a promotional event in Hong Kong which will be happening in three
weeks’ time. Chao, the Marketing
Executive at the branch office of Hong
Kong, along with Jian and his sales
team will be setting up a stall in
‘Cosmoprof Hong Kong’, an
international cosmetics fair. This is a
three-day international trade event.
Bela will be the supervisor of Jian and
Chao.
The promotion
The promotion involves setting up and running a mid-size display stall to promote
TruBeauty’s skincare products in Hong Kong. The products are Australian-made, using
quality organic materials and have proven
successful in the organisation’s initial sales in the
Hong Kong market. The purpose of the promotion is
to raise the organisation’s profile on the Hong Kong
business market. The promotions will feature a
range of skincare products with the benefits of
apple, orange, coconut, green tea, Aloe Vera,
chamomile, almond, shea butter, cucumber, lemon,
honey, essential oils, etc. Trial products will be given out to individuals (two small samples) in
a small package, along with a product brochure which will provide product information and
the website address.
Chao will need to:
 Obtain promotional materials from the Australian office and take these to the event
premises
 Set up the stall so it’s ready for the event (e.g., displaying the skincare products and
arranging images and promotional items)
 Be instructed on how to manage the promotion, i.e., what they can say, whether there
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are any offers that they can provide, what promotional materials to give out, and any
planned future business activities that TruBeauty will be doing in Hong Kong.
Planning for the International Trade Event
 Advertisements – TruBeauty is about to spend on OOH advertisements to build up
consumer demand for their organic skincare products. It brings the customers to the
product increasing the customers’ interest to buy.
 The Objective – Create brand awareness,
and push selling of TruBeauty skincare range in Hong Kong business market.
 Tools used for planning – Jian and Chao will prepare a work schedule and work out
for lists of things they need in place before the event starts.
 Actions – Jian and his team along with Chao will arrange the set-up for the stall, bring
all the brochures and free sample products, display their different range of skincare
products. Chao will order promotional items from the China based advertising agency.
Jian’s team members will build the stall, design the layout, place the canopies, display
the products, fix proper lightings for greater visibility.
 Contingency plans – If anyhow the delivery of the promotional materials is being
delayed by the agency, the employees will order generic marketing promotional
materials from a local digital printing house.
A summary of the preparations
A three-week (15 working days) schedule to prepare for the event left little time for
preparations; marketing materials took seven working days to design and print. Delivery from
Australia took four days (allowing up to seven days, to cover the quoted delivery period).
Materials arrived in Hong Kong four days prior to the event. The Australian office participated
in regular communications with Chao, during afternoons, when working hours overlapped.
This ensured Chao was given the correct guidance to manage the event, which he was then
required to disseminate to his two colleagues.
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Question 1
Objective  Access marketing plan for international business activity to
inform planning of promotional activities
Refer to Planning and Scheduling for OOH Advertisements
A) Where should Bela be able to find TruBeauty’s marketing plan for China?
(within 20-30 words)
B) Why is a marketing plan important for planning promotional activities?
(within 30 - 50 words)
C) Identify and list four various kinds of information that Bela might find in the marketing
plan which can be of relevance to TruBeauty’s promotional activities.
A) Marketing pan for the company will be provided by the Chinese marketing team
located in Hong Kong.
B) Marketing plan is important as because it helps the companies to make the sales easier
for the business owners of the company. It helps in targeting the potentials customers
in a smarter way in order to reduce the cost of marketing initiatives.
C) Four various kinds of information that Bela might find in the marketing plan are
Pricing, Positioning, Competition Statement, Market Strategies Budgeting and
Branding.
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Question 2
Objective  Access relevant information sources to support planning of
promotional activities
Refer to Planning and Scheduling for OOH Advertisements
A) Identify and list four sources of information that Bela can use to support the planning
of promotional activities. These can be internal and/or external. (within 20-40 words)
B) How can Bela access relevant information sources for the upcoming promotional
activities in China? (within 30-50 words)
A) Four Sources of Information which are required by Bela in order to support the
planning of promotional activities are: Personal Selling, Sales Promotion, Direct Mail,
Advertising Mix and Sponsorship activities
B) Bela can access relevant information sources for the upcoming promotional activities
in China with the help of extensive use of Internet service and getting than marketing
plan from Jian who is the distribution manager of Hong Kong.
Question 3
Objective  Identify and assess promotional activities to ensure cultural
appropriateness and compatibility with organisational
requirements
Refer to TruBeauty: Promotional Activities in China
A) Assess the three promotional activities and identify how Bela, Jian and Chao can make
sure these are culturally appropriate for the Chinese market while ensuring
compatibility with the organisation’s requirements. Identify three points for each
promotion.
(within 160-180 words)
B) Following on from Question 3 (A), provide alternative idea/s for promotional activities
you might want to use and why? (within 40-60 words)
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A) Three promotional activities which can be used by Bella, Jian and Chao to make an
appropriate Chinese marketing Plan are:
 Advertising through the use of Telemarketing activities, creating beautiful
slow gun and advertisement over the air will be extensive use to get the
customers
 Digital Interaction over Social Media be like promoting the company over
famous social media applications like the Facebook, SnapChat, and creating
an official page in Instagram will be helping the company to attract
customers.
 Increasing Public Relations so as by giving them various types of demo of
the product and delivering good customer satisfaction feedback will
increase the morale of the company.
B) Sponsorship will be an extensive promotional activity of Bella as because it will
directly target the market with high income customers in the society. Sponsorship
in great fares will be able to attract more customers.
Question 4
Objective  Plan and schedule promotional activities according to
marketing needs of the organisation
Refer to Planning and Scheduling for OOH Advertisements
A) Produce a brief plan for the poster production and promotion for China. This needs to
include the description of the content that is to appear on the poster, message that is to
be sent out, number of posters printed and an approximate budget for the production
and printing. (within 80 - 120 words)
B) Using a Gantt chart, show how Bela and her team would schedule the activities to
produce and distribute the posters. You can use the table below.
A) Brief plan for the poster will be a strong title to draw attraction, Mission and vision
statement of the company, short and brief description of the products manufactured by
the company in and around 300 words. Text should be written in a clear manner but in
bullet points and making headlines should be beneficial. Effective use of graphics and
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colour is also accepted to attract the customers. It should also include few diagrams to
make a difference.
B)
Gantt Chart
Week 1 Week
2
Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
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involvement
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Obtain
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Form
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