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July 29, 2007

Contemporary Advertising Chapters 5-9 by William Arens

Part 2: Crafting Marketing and Advertising Strategies

Central route to persuasion - invloves higher involvement with the product or message, focuses on product related information

Peripheral route to persuasion - lower involvement, fun ad, remember the brand ads

Habits - Ads break them, aquire them, or reinforce them

Abraham Maslow - Hierarchy of needs

  • Physiological -example: food
  • Safety - example: breaks on a car
  • Social - example: present for a friend
  • Esteem -example: luxury car
  • Self-actualization -examvple: golf lessons

Rossiter and Percy's Eight Fundamental Purchase and Usage Motives

Negative or informational motives:

  • Problem Removal
  • Problem Avoidance
  • Incomplete Satisfaction
  • Mixed Approach - avoidance
  • Normal Depletion

Positive or transformational motives:

  • Sensory gratification
  • Intellectual Stimulation or mastery
  • Social Approval

Theory of cognative dissonance - holds that people strive justify their behavior by reducing the dissonance between their cognations and reality, - many people read ads about products they've already purchased to satisfy the belief that the purchase was "good"

Marketing segmentation - demographics or psychographics

4 P's of Marketing - Product, Price, Place, Promotion

3 Rs of Marketing - Recruiting new customers, Retaining current, and regaining past customers

Fund Allocation - percentage of sales method or share of market method

Position Strategy - own a word in people's mind that associates with the product example: Levi's owns jeans

Top down marketing - Do a situation analysis, define objectives, create strategy to reach those objectives, determine the marketing tatics

Bottom up Marketing - Choose one tatic, then develop a strategy to support that tatic

5 M's of Media Strategy - Markets, money, media, mechanics, and methodology

Methods for Scheduling media

  • Continuous
  • flighting - periods of no advertising
  • pulsing - low level all year with higher level at specific time
  • Bursting in prime time
  • Roadblock - buying same time on all 3 networks
  • Blinking - flooded for short burst

   

 

Contemporary Advertising Chapters 1-4 by William Arens

Part 1 : Advertising Perspectives

Within the text of the advertisement

  • Persona - who or what is talking to the customer
  • Literary form
  • Implied Customers - what does the advertising say about the implied customers

Message Dimensions Literary forms:

  • autobiographical
  • narrative
  • drama 

Puffery - exaggerated commendation or hype, legal as defined in US, foreign governments have different rules

Ivan Preston's Six Levels of Puffery

  • Best (strongest claim) - "it is the best"
  • Best possible - "nothing does the job better..."
  • Better - "just works better than the rest"
  • Especially good -
  • Good
  • Subjective qualities

Advertising falls under comercialized speech laws in the US.

www.gala-marketlaw.com   - Market Law Site

http://www.caru.org/ - Advertising to Children Website

http://www.ftc.gov/ - Federal Trade Commission - Regulates US Advertising