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1. Customers: current - prospective - centers of influence; total market Markets: consumer markets - business markets - reseller markets - industrial markets Marketers
Sounds that are familiar
Sweepstakes
Frequency
Participants in the marketing process
2. What are the function of headlines?
funny ads - but not always for the right reasons
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
1) Informational-problem avoidance or removal 2) Transformational-use positive reinforcement through reward 3) 'boom factor'-gets your attention now
Forgetting Rate
3. Cost of media buy/targeted audienceX1 - 000
1. Full-Service Agency 2. Limited-Service Agency 3. In-House Agency
Rich Media
CPM-TM
1. Allowances and Discounts 2. Cooperative Advertising 3. Training of Distributors' Sales-Forces
4. Allow the audience to participate actively & immediately
Regular price-line advertising
International Media
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
Digital Interactive Media
5. Persuade the customer
Portfolio Tests
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
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
6. Time - place of sale - environment
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
Utility
kickers - boldface and italics
Nonpersonal influences on consumer behavior
7. Addition product information - product samples - or premiums are offered to an ad's readers or viewers. Ads generating the most inquiries are presumed to be the most effective.
Sales Tests
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
Habits
Inquiry Tests
8. Made up of the company's own advertising staff. They may provide full services or limited services.
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
International Media
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
In-House Agencies
9. 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
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
thumbnails - roughs - dummies - comprehensives (elaborate draft)
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
Negatively originated (informational) motives
10. From basic physiological needs to safety - social - and esteem needs to self-actualization needs
11. Encouraging both better quality and greater quantity in the local advertising efforts of resellers.
Cooperative Advertising
Sounds that are familiar
Interpersonal influences on consumer behavior
Transit Advertising
12. Transform consumption experience
1. Buyer Turnover 2. Purchase Frequency 3. Forgetting Rate
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
Perception
CPM-TM
13. What are the principles of design?
Cooperative Advertising
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
the more audience attention
Foreign Media
14. Respondents are asked questions to measure changes in their attitudes after an ad campaign - such as whether they have a more favorable attitude toward the product advertised.
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
kickers - boldface and italics
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
Attitude Tests
15. Advertisements used to build goodwill or an image for an organization rather than promote a specific good or service.
Electronic Media
Institutional Advertisements
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
Forgetting Rate
16. Provides a complete range of services - including market research - media selection - copy development - artwork - and production.
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
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
Full-Service Agency
1. News Release 2. News Conference 3. Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
17. Means cost per thousand - and it measures the cost efficienty of each medium = cost of media buy/total audienceX1 - 000
Participants in the marketing process
CPM
Samples
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
18. Affective Association
19. What kinds of ads resonate more?
Ones with fewer words
Attitude Tests
Theater Tests
Buyer Turnover
20. Influencing the brand choice of consumers who are 'ready to buy'
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
Transit Advertising
1. Sex Appeals 2. Fear Appeals 3. Humorous Appeals
Recency planning
21. Merchandise offered free or at a significant discount.
Product Advertising
Premiums
Comparative
Print Media
22. Questions such as "What ads do you remember watching yesterday?" is asked of respondents without any prompting to determine whether they saw or heard advertising messages.
Vertical cooperative advertising
Cooperative
CPM-TM
Unaided Recall
23. Where consumers apply their skill or analytical or creative thinking to try to win prizes.
Contests
Institutional Advertising
Functional needs
Continuity
24. 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
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
BDI (Brand development index)
Comparative
Direct Mail Advertising
25. Advertising used to reinforce previous knowledge of a product.
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
Media class
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method
Reminder
26. The local media of each country - for large campaigns targeted to consumers or businesses within a single country
Foreign Media
Recency planning
1. Buyer Turnover 2. Purchase Frequency 3. Forgetting Rate
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
27. Visualization/conceptualization
Premiums
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
Reminder Institutional
28. To build the manufacturer's brand image and to help its distributors - dealers - or retailers make more sales
Print Media
Cooperative
Theater Tests
Full-Service Agency
29. The moment someone recognizes a need or want that might be satisfied by. 1.Need Recognition 2.Search Information and Alternative Evaluation 3. Purchase 4.Post-purchase use and evaluation
Bursting - roadblocking - blinking - Pulsing (combining roadblocking and blinking) - Flighting (seasonal advertising) - Continuity (advertising all the time)
Reach
Competitive Institutional
CB - The Consumer Decision Process
30. Tests used to test ad alternatives.
Attitude Tests
Pretests
1. Product Advertisements 2. Institutional Advertisements
Portfolio Tests
31. A positive bonus is promised rather than the removal or reduction of some negative situation. The 3 positively originated motives- sensory gratification - intellectual stimulation - & social approval
Positively originated (transformational) motives
Product Placement
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
Reminder Institutional
32. Consumers are invited to view a new TV show or movie in which test commercials are also shown.
straight sell copy - institutional copy - narrative copy - dialogue/monologue copy - picture/caption copy - device copy
Pioneering
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
Theater Tests
33. Periods of advertising scheduled between periods of no advertising to reflect seasonal demand.
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
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
1. News Release 2. News Conference 3. Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
34. Negative Motives: problem removal or avoidance. Positive Motives: benefit - bonus - or reward.
35. After being shown an ad - respondents are asked whether their previous exposure to it was though reading - viewing - or listening.
Aided Recall
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory of motivation based on unmet human needs
Point-of-Purchase Displays
Print Media
36. Refers to the total number of different people or households exposed - at least once - to a medium in a certain amount of time - and effective reach is the quality of that exposure
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
Loyalty Programs
Classified Advertising
Reach
37. Ads on the interior and exterior of busses - subways - and taxis.
Pulse (Burst) Schedule
Transit Advertising
Reach
Transit Advertising (Bus - taxi - and subway advertising)
38. Tests conducted after an ad has been shown to determine if it accomplished its intended message.
thumbnails - roughs - dummies - comprehensives (elaborate draft)
Post-Tests
Point-of-Purchase Displays
Rebates
39. 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.
Pretests
Exchange
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
40. Information gathered about a particular market or market segment
Cooperative Advertising
Market research
Perception
Digital Interactive Media
41. The average number of times a person in the target audience is exposed to an ad.
Frequency
Samples
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
42. Ads in magazines can be strategically placed in these places...
Rebates
Regular price-line advertising
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
bleed pages - inserts - covers - front - inside front - inside back - and outside back
43. When companies mail or email their advertising directly to prospective customers without using one of the commercial media forms
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
Direct Mail Advertising
44. Duration of an advertising message or campaign over a given period of time - sustains memory
Continuity
Segmenting
Brand interest
Rating
45. 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
Sales Advertising
Permission-Based Advertising
Transit Advertising (Bus - taxi - and subway advertising)
Electronic Media
46. Informs consumers about services or merchandise offered at regular prices
Sounds that are familiar
Frequency
Merchandise Allowance
Regular price-line advertising
47. 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
Product Advertisements
Negatively originated (informational) motives
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
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
48. 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)
Print Media
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
Classified Advertising
Habits
49. Offers the return of money based on proof of purchase.
Rebates
Continuity
Allowances and Discounts
Segmenting
50. Companies that do ________ are local firms - but most of their revenue comes from national advertisers such as liquor & airline companies
Classified Advertising
Outdoor Advertising (Billboard)
Point-of-Purchase Displays
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method