Educational services promotion in line with the experiential marketing philosophy

Abstract

We consider the aspects of experiential marketing development as a marketing philosophy. The direction of experiential marketing was developed in line with experience economy. The concept is based on the thesis that a product or service purchase is accompanied by the impressions formation from the purchase process, and the nature of these impressions determines the consumers’loyalty to the brand of the company that offers goods or services. Experiential marketing develops at the junction of relationship marketing, emotional marketing, event marketing and show marketing. Experiential marketing is designed to make the process of purchasing a product or service more personalized. Experiential marketing began to be applied in areas related to sales of impression (hotel, restaurant business, etc.). The idea of marketing is used in the process of promoting university educational services. We cover the event promotion cases of Derzhavin Tambov State University, the essence of which reflects the ideas of experiential marketing. As a case study, we focus on experience of holding a special event “Night at Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin”, aimed at development of positive impression among the guests. One of the “Night at Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin” tasks was to demonstrate the university capabilities in an informal way, different from traditionally held events.