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Commerce · Ch 15 — Recent Trends in Marketing

Social Marketing

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Social Marketing

Social marketing applies ordinary marketing principles and techniques — not to sell a commercial product, but to promote ideas, causes, or behaviour changes that benefit society, such as immunisation drives, road-safety campaigns, family planning, anti-tobacco messaging, or literacy programmes. It is typically carried out by governments, NGOs, or businesses as part of corporate social responsibility. …