This document discusses various marketing techniques including sales promotion, personal selling, and direct marketing. It provides details on the objectives, types, and processes involved in each technique. For example, it explains that sales promotion offers short-term incentives to stimulate sales and common types include free samples, price discounts, and contests. Personal selling involves one-on-one presentations to prospective customers, especially for industrial, banking, and real estate products. Direct marketing uses advertising media like direct mail, telemarketing, and mobile marketing to directly contact customers and drive measurable responses.