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1. Influencing the brand choice of consumers who are 'ready to buy'
provide in depth coverage of local issues - increase coverage of national and international issues - provide follow up reports - local source of consumer information - becomes more mainstream
Recency planning
Make the consumers like the brand - appeal more to feelings - 'soft sell' tend to be preferred by creatives - usually includes a feel-good ad - humor - or sex appeal
Frequently use the word 'you'
2. The speed which buyers forget the brand if advertising is not seen.
Forgetting Rate
Advocacy
Frequency
Digital Interactive Media
3. Assists in determining market segments - helps creatives understand the audience - makes 'go or no go' decisions and is used to evaluate agency performance
provide in depth coverage of local issues - increase coverage of national and international issues - provide follow up reports - local source of consumer information - becomes more mainstream
Ad research
Digital Interactive Media
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
4. Advertising that promotes a specific brand's features and benefits.
Segmenting
Continuity
Print Media
Competitive
5. Where consumers apply their skill or analytical or creative thinking to try to win prizes.
Buyer Turnover
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method
Contests
Purchase Frequency
6. Broad category of media - such as television - radio or newspaper
Rating
Premiums
Media class
Classified Advertising
7. To build the manufacturer's brand image and to help its distributors - dealers - or retailers make more sales
Cooperative Advertising
Cooperative
Frequently use the word 'you'
Buyer Turnover
8. Specializes in one aspect of the advertising process such as creative services to develop the advertising copy - buying previously un-purchased media - or providing internet services.
Jury Tests
Limited-Service Agency
provide in depth coverage of local issues - increase coverage of national and international issues - provide follow up reports - local source of consumer information - becomes more mainstream
Forgetting Rate
9. What are the positives to newspapers as a form of mass media?
Methods: anxiety and social anxiety ads - present clear and present danger - demonstrate that the only way to avoid this social danger is to buy this product - while it is one of the most effective methods - there are often ethical issues
Opinion leaders
provide in depth coverage of local issues - increase coverage of national and international issues - provide follow up reports - local source of consumer information - becomes more mainstream
the more audience attention
10. Paying retailers for financing costs or financial losses associated with consumer sales promotions.
1. Coupons 2. Deals 3. Premiums 4. Contests 5. Sweepstakes 6. Samples 7. Loyalty Programs 8. Point-of-Purchase Displays 9. Rebates 10. Product Placement
Reference groups
Finance Allowance
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
11. Scare the consumer into action
Regular price-line advertising
1) the package containing the product 2) the product itself 3) the product in use 4) how to use the product 5) product features 6) comparison 7) user benefit 8) humor 9) testimonial 10) negative appeal
fear appeal ads - powerful emotion - focuses on risks - harm - or negative consequences - must be plausible to be effective - hard to use - must offer a relief to the fear (which would be the product)
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
12. What are the types of Formatting the Body Copy?
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
kickers - boldface and italics
1) Informational-problem avoidance or removal 2) Transformational-use positive reinforcement through reward 3) 'boom factor'-gets your attention now
13. Particular magazines - shows - Ex. National Geographic is the vehicle - the magazine is the class
Methods: Put it in everyday context - or branded entertainment - emphasizes that objects have social meaning - advertisers know this so they try to put the product in a socially desirable context
Positively originated (transformational) motives
International Media
Media vehicle
14. Tool used to encourage and reward repeat purchases by acknowledging each purchase made by a consumer and offering a premium as purchases accumulate.
Regular price-line advertising
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
Finance Allowance
Loyalty Programs
15. Methods of obtaining non-personal presentation of an organization - good - or service without direct costs.
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Jury Tests
Publicity Tools
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
16. Trade promotions focused on maintaining or increasing inventory levels in the channel of distribution.
Functional needs
Sweepstakes
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
Allowances and Discounts
17. Informs consumers about services or merchandise offered at regular prices
Balance: formal and informal - Unity-harmony among components - Proportion-size and tonal relationships - Emphasis:what is the major component - Sequence/order: how we direct the readers gaze
Methods: reason why/hard sell approach - create logical arguments - assumes actively engaged consumer - potential for consumer counter argument - involves demonstration - comparison and testimonials - informercials have a bad reputation - not he
Regular price-line advertising
cognitive dissonance
18. People we try to emulate or whose approval concerns us
Utility
Reference groups
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
19. What are the kinds of copy you can have in an ad?
Reference groups
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
straight sell copy - institutional copy - narrative copy - dialogue/monologue copy - picture/caption copy - device copy
Classified Advertising
20. A marketing strategy employed when advertisers focus their efforts on one subgroup pf a product's total market
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
Pioneering
Rossiter & Percy's Fundamental Motives
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
21. Periods of advertising scheduled between periods of no advertising to reflect seasonal demand.
Exchange
Publicity Tools
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
Sales Advertising
22. Advertisements that tell people what a product is - what it can do - and where it can be found.
Pioneering
Transit Advertising
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
Make the consumers like the brand - appeal more to feelings - 'soft sell' tend to be preferred by creatives - usually includes a feel-good ad - humor - or sex appeal
23. Cost of media buy/targeted audienceX1 - 000
Finance Allowance
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
CPM-TM
Contests
24. Allow the audience to participate actively & immediately
1. Coupons 2. Deals 3. Premiums 4. Contests 5. Sweepstakes 6. Samples 7. Loyalty Programs 8. Point-of-Purchase Displays 9. Rebates 10. Product Placement
Method: transformational ads - creation of brand feeling - image and mood are activated when consumer uses product or service - transforms interpretation of consumption experience--focuses on more more more
Digital Interactive Media
Rating
25. Information gathered about a particular market or market segment
Rossiter & Percy's Fundamental Motives
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
Institutional Advertising
Market research
26. What are the principles of design?
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
Pretests
Deals
Balance: formal and informal - Unity-harmony among components - Proportion-size and tonal relationships - Emphasis:what is the major component - Sequence/order: how we direct the readers gaze
27. Measures the intensity of a media schedule - based on repeated exposures to the medium (important for memory) - effective frequency is considered somewhere between 'awareness' and 'overexposure'
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Frequency
Aided Recall
Sales Advertising
28. The cost of reaching 1 - 000 individuals or households with the advertising message.
kickers - boldface and italics
Jury Tests
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
Institutional Advertisements
29. The manufacturer provides the complete ads & shares the cost of the advertising time or space
Electronic Media
Reach
Vertical cooperative advertising
Cooperative Advertising
30. Promotes a specific product or service and stimulates short term action while building awareness of the business
Samples
Product Advertising
Purposes of Marketing research
Pretests
31. Which serves several countries - usually without any change content - have been limited to newspapers & magazines
Competitive
Reminder
International Media
Sales Advertising
32. Markets are segmented - products are positioned
Method: transformational ads - creation of brand feeling - image and mood are activated when consumer uses product or service - transforms interpretation of consumption experience--focuses on more more more
1) the package containing the product 2) the product itself 3) the product in use 4) how to use the product 5) product features 6) comparison 7) user benefit 8) humor 9) testimonial 10) negative appeal
Methods: Put it in everyday context - or branded entertainment - emphasizes that objects have social meaning - advertisers know this so they try to put the product in a socially desirable context
Segmenting
33. Three Approaches to Setting Advertising Schedules
Continuity
Method: transformational ads - creation of brand feeling - image and mood are activated when consumer uses product or service - transforms interpretation of consumption experience--focuses on more more more
In-House Agencies
1. Continuous (Steady) Schedule 2. Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule 3. Pulse (Burst) Schedule
34. What kind of ads are most often remembered?
provide in depth coverage of local issues - increase coverage of national and international issues - provide follow up reports - local source of consumer information - becomes more mainstream
Method: transformational ads - creation of brand feeling - image and mood are activated when consumer uses product or service - transforms interpretation of consumption experience--focuses on more more more
funny ads - but not always for the right reasons
Transit Advertising
35. Tests used to test ad alternatives.
Portfolio Tests
Rating
1. News Release 2. News Conference 3. Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
Ad research
36. What are the standard subjects for ad visuals?
Reachxfrequency
Aided Recall
Brand loyalty
1) the package containing the product 2) the product itself 3) the product in use 4) how to use the product 5) product features 6) comparison 7) user benefit 8) humor 9) testimonial 10) negative appeal
37. Ads used for announcements about what a company is - what it can do - and where it is located.
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
1. Sex Appeals 2. Fear Appeals 3. Humorous Appeals
Outdoor Advertising (Billboard)
Pioneering Institutional
38. Common Advertising Appeals
Competitive
Sales Advertising
1. Buyer Turnover 2. Purchase Frequency 3. Forgetting Rate
1. Sex Appeals 2. Fear Appeals 3. Humorous Appeals
39. Types of Advertisements
Attitudes
Utility
1. Product Advertisements 2. Institutional Advertisements
Buyer Turnover
40. Customers: current - prospective - centers of influence; total market Markets: consumer markets - business markets - reseller markets - industrial markets Marketers
Participants in the marketing process
attract attention - engage the audience - explain the visual - lead the audience into the body of the ad - introduce the brand and present the selling message
Pioneering Institutional
Negatively originated (informational) motives
41. Negative Motives: problem removal or avoidance. Positive Motives: benefit - bonus - or reward.
42. Ads placed in locations that attract a specific target audience - such as airports - doctors offices - health clubs - theaters - etc.
Sales Advertising
attract attention - engage the audience - explain the visual - lead the audience into the body of the ad - introduce the brand and present the selling message
Merchandise Allowance
Place-Based Media
43. Tests conducted after an ad has been shown to determine if it accomplished its intended message.
Print Media
straight sell copy - institutional copy - narrative copy - dialogue/monologue copy - picture/caption copy - device copy
Post-Tests
Reminder
44. Reimbursing a retailer for extra in-store support or special featuring of the brand.
Finance Allowance
fear appeal ads - powerful emotion - focuses on risks - harm - or negative consequences - must be plausible to be effective - hard to use - must offer a relief to the fear (which would be the product)
Merchandise Allowance
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
45. Provides a complete range of services - including market research - media selection - copy development - artwork - and production.
Full-Service Agency
Electronic Media
Institutional Advertising
Opinion leaders
46. Ads that simply bring the company's name to the attention of its target market again.
Reminder Institutional
Limited-Service Agency
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
Reach
47. Gathering - recording - and analyzing new information to help managers make marketing decisions
Marketing research
Horizontal cooperative advertising
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
Contests
48. The number of different people or households exposed to an ad.
Market research
Opinion leaders
Reach
Contests
49. The more frequently a product is purchased - the less repetition is required.
Purchase Frequency
Rebates
Pulse (Burst) Schedule
cognitive dissonance
50. Sales tools directed at ultimate consumers that support a company's advertising and personal selling.
Premiums
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
Full-Service Agency
Point-of-Purchase Displays