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1. Three Common Discounts and Allowances
Loyalty Programs
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
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
1) Informational-problem avoidance or removal 2) Transformational-use positive reinforcement through reward 3) 'boom factor'-gets your attention now
2. Sales promotions that offer a discounted price to the consumer - which encourage trial.
audience - ad message itself - communications media - and the product concept
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
Coupons
Rich Media
3. Where viewers agree to watch a commercial online in exchange for points - samples - or access to premium content - and advertisers only pay for completed views.
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
Continuity
Institutional Advertisements
Permission-Based Advertising
4. The more frequently a product is purchased - the less repetition is required.
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
Purchase Frequency
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
5. To build the manufacturer's brand image and to help its distributors - dealers - or retailers make more sales
Cooperative Advertising
CPM-TM
Product Advertisements
Cooperative
6. Of radio & tv used to be called broadcast media; but with advent of cable TV - many programs are now transmitted electronically though wires rather than broadcast through the air
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
Purchase Frequency
Market research
Electronic Media
7. Where is the advertising and brand battle won or lost?
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
Brand loyalty
Print Media
Positively originated (transformational) motives
8. Sales tools directed at ultimate consumers that support a company's advertising and personal selling.
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
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
Reminder Institutional
Pretests
9. Advertisements that tell people what a product is - what it can do - and where it can be found.
Pioneering Institutional
Reminder Institutional
Pioneering
Frequency
10. Provides a complete range of services - including market research - media selection - copy development - artwork - and production.
Sweepstakes
Participants in the marketing process
Frequency
Full-Service Agency
11. Types of Advertisements
Pretests
1. Product Advertisements 2. Institutional Advertisements
Reminder
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
12. Markets are segmented - products are positioned
Frequently use the word 'you'
Segmenting
CPM-TM
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
13. What are the types of headlines?
Classified Advertising
Benefit headlines - news/information headlines - provocative headlines - question headlines - command headlines
Rossiter & Percy's Fundamental Motives
Transit Advertising (Bus - taxi - and subway advertising)
14. Promotes a specific product or service and stimulates short term action while building awareness of the business
Product Advertising
Rebates
Purchase Frequency
Media vehicle
15. Where consumers apply their skill or analytical or creative thinking to try to win prizes.
Print Media
In-House Agencies
Contests
Loyalty Programs
16. The manufacturer provides the complete ads & shares the cost of the advertising time or space
International Media
Vertical cooperative advertising
Perception
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
17. Allow the audience to participate actively & immediately
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
Digital Interactive Media
Publicity Tools
Market research
18. Party Responsible for Carrying Out Advertising Program
1. Full-Service Agency 2. Limited-Service Agency 3. In-House Agency
Pioneering
Rossiter & Percy's Fundamental Motives
funny ads - but not always for the right reasons
19. Advertising showing one brand's strengths relative to its competitors.
Reference groups
Comparative
Buyer Turnover
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
20. Gathering - recording - and analyzing new information to help managers make marketing decisions
Comparative
1. Sex Appeals 2. Fear Appeals 3. Humorous Appeals
Marketing research
Digital Interactive Media
21. How often new buyers enter the market to buy the product.
Buyer Turnover
Integrated Marketing Communications
Habits
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
22. Consumer needs - product development - assess effectiveness - financial planning and quality control
Functions of Marketing research
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
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
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
23. The most common energizers of consumer behavior - such as a problem removal or problem avoidance. The consumer actively seeks information to reduce the mental state
Purposes of Marketing research
Place-Based Media
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
Negatively originated (informational) motives
24. Ads in magazines can be strategically placed in these places...
bleed pages - inserts - covers - front - inside front - inside back - and outside back
Method: Unique selling proposition - Forms a competitive advantage - attempt to get consumer to think but not THAT much - more complex - it gives you a reason to buy
Electronic Media
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
25. Negative Motives: problem removal or avoidance. Positive Motives: benefit - bonus - or reward.
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26. In the newspaper for many reasons: to locate and recruit new employees - offer services (such as those of an employment agency or business opportunity broker) - or sell or lease merchandise (such as cars - real estate - and office equipment)
Comparative
Sales Advertising
Product Advertisements
Classified Advertising
27. Link key attributes to the brand name
CPM
Continuity
Method: Unique selling proposition - Forms a competitive advantage - attempt to get consumer to think but not THAT much - more complex - it gives you a reason to buy
Benefit headlines - news/information headlines - provocative headlines - question headlines - command headlines
28. When seasonal factors are unimportant - ads are run at a continuous or steady schedule throughout the year.
Continuity
Nonpersonal influences on consumer behavior
Samples
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
29. Scare the consumer into action
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)
Participants in the marketing process
Reachxfrequency
Classified Advertising
30. Customers: current - prospective - centers of influence; total market Markets: consumer markets - business markets - reseller markets - industrial markets Marketers
Positively originated (transformational) motives
Case Allowance
Participants in the marketing process
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
31. Attempts to create a favorable long-term perception of the business as a whole - not just of a particular product or service.
Advocacy
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
Institutional Advertisements
Institutional Advertising
32. Some methods for scheduling media
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
Product Advertisements
Reminder
Bursting - roadblocking - blinking - Pulsing (combining roadblocking and blinking) - Flighting (seasonal advertising) - Continuity (advertising all the time)
33. Ads used for announcements about what a company is - what it can do - and where it is located.
BDI (Brand development index)
bleed pages - inserts - covers - front - inside front - inside back - and outside back
Regular price-line advertising
Pioneering Institutional
34. Recruit new customers - retain current customers - and regain lost customers
Forgetting Rate
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
Institutional Advertising
Purposes of Marketing research
35. Indicates the sales potential of a particular brand in a specific market area = percent of the brand's total U.S sales in the area/Percent of total U.S population in the areaX100
Ones with fewer words
kickers - boldface and italics
BDI (Brand development index)
Continuity
36. Offering the product free or at a greatly reduced price.
Method: Unique selling proposition - Forms a competitive advantage - attempt to get consumer to think but not THAT much - more complex - it gives you a reason to buy
Advocacy
Samples
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
37. Duration of an advertising message or campaign over a given period of time - sustains memory
Institutional Advertising
Media vehicle
Continuity
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
38. What are the types of Formatting the Body Copy?
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
Theater Tests
Habits
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
39. Refers to any commercially published - printed medium such as newspapers & magazines that sells advertising space to a variety of advertisers
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
CPM
Product Advertisements
Print Media
40. Sales promotions that require participants to submit some kind of entry but are purely games of chance requiring no analytical or creative effort by the consumer.
Pretests
Sweepstakes
Point-of-Purchase Displays
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
41. Made up of the company's own advertising staff. They may provide full services or limited services.
Publicity Tools
Permission-Based Advertising
In-House Agencies
audience - ad message itself - communications media - and the product concept
42. Evaluation process conducted before the ads are in place to determine whether the ad communicates the intended message or to select among alternative versions of the ad.
Institutional Advertising
Reach
Case Allowance
Pretests
43. They use Retail Advertising because retail stores account for so much of the market
Forgetting Rate
Case Allowance
Reminder Institutional
Local Advertisers
44. Means cost per thousand - and it measures the cost efficienty of each medium = cost of media buy/total audienceX1 - 000
Case Allowance
Integrated Marketing Communications
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
CPM
45. What kinds of ads resonate more?
Ones with fewer words
Sales Advertising
Segmenting
kickers - boldface and italics
46. Joining together in a consistent manner everything that communicates with customers
Inquiry Tests
Integrated Marketing Communications
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
Negatively originated (informational) motives
47. Is our acquired mental position regarding some idea or object
Attitudes
Product Advertising
Habits
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
48. Gross rating points =
Interpersonal influences on consumer behavior
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
the more audience attention
Reachxfrequency
49. To make room for new product lines or new models and to get rid of slow-moving lines - floor samples - broken or distressed merchandise - or out of season items
Opinion leaders
Brand loyalty
Ones with fewer words
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
50. Reach (% of total market) x Frequency
Product Advertising
Rebates
Media vehicle
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)