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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What kinds of ads resonate more?
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Ones with fewer words
1. Continuous (Steady) Schedule 2. Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule 3. Pulse (Burst) Schedule
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
2. Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotion (Consumer Promotions) Tools
Jury Tests
Segmenting
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
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
3. Types of Advertisements
Jury Tests
Brand interest
thumbnails - roughs - dummies - comprehensives (elaborate draft)
1. Product Advertisements 2. Institutional Advertisements
4. Placing items on sale and offering two-for-one specials of other deals
Pretests
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
Sales Advertising
Coupons
5. Scare the consumer into action
Jury Tests
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)
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
Deals
6. When companies mail or email their advertising directly to prospective customers without using one of the commercial media forms
Product Placement
Direct Mail Advertising
Media class
Ones with fewer words
7. Elements of an advertising message
Buyer Turnover
audience - ad message itself - communications media - and the product concept
Unaided Recall
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
8. What do the most effective radio commercials use?
Sounds that are familiar
Institutional Advertisements
Forgetting Rate
Perception
9. Trade promotions focused on maintaining or increasing inventory levels in the channel of distribution.
Allowances and Discounts
Theater Tests
Pulse (Burst) Schedule
Place-Based Media
10. 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
Reach
Pioneering
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
Merchandise Allowance
11. Advertisements that tell people what a product is - what it can do - and where it can be found.
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
Jury Tests
Reminder Institutional
Pioneering
12. 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
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
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
CB - The Consumer Decision Process
13. What are the types of subheads?
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method
Point-of-Purchase Displays
Negatively originated (informational) motives
kickers - boldface and italics
14. Is our acquired mental position regarding some idea or object
Attitudes
Interpersonal influences on consumer behavior
cognitive dissonance
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
15. Changing behavior by inducing anxiety
Bursting - roadblocking - blinking - Pulsing (combining roadblocking and blinking) - Flighting (seasonal advertising) - Continuity (advertising all the time)
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
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
Outdoor Advertising (Billboard)
16. Link key attributes to the brand name
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
Case Allowance
Positively originated (transformational) motives
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
17. Firms in the same business (real-estate agents - insurance agents - pharmacies - car dealers - or travel agents) or in the same part of town advertise jointly
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
Full-Service Agency
Horizontal cooperative advertising
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
18. What are the positives to newspapers as a form of mass media?
Cooperative
Attitude Tests
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
19. 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.
Case Allowance
Integrated Marketing Communications
Reference groups
Unaided Recall
20. The acquired behavior pattern that becomes nearly or completely involuntary- is the natural extension of learning
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
Jury Tests
Habits
Post-Tests
21. Forms of Institutional Advertisements
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
Pioneering Institutional
1. Allowances and Discounts 2. Cooperative Advertising 3. Training of Distributors' Sales-Forces
Rating
22. Types of audience resonance
23. Forms of Product Advertising
Comparative
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
Pulse (Burst) Schedule
24. Particular magazines - shows - Ex. National Geographic is the vehicle - the magazine is the class
Transit Advertising (Bus - taxi - and subway advertising)
Media vehicle
Pioneering
Competitive Institutional
25. The cost of reaching 1 - 000 individuals or households with the advertising message.
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
Institutional Advertising
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
26. 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
Media vehicle
Comparative
Brand interest
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
27. A discount on each case ordered during a specific time period.
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
Case Allowance
bleed pages - inserts - covers - front - inside front - inside back - and outside back
Habits
28. What are the types of Formatting the Body Copy?
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
Print Media
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
Pretests
29. Consumers are invited to view a new TV show or movie in which test commercials are also shown.
Reminder Institutional
Negatively originated (informational) motives
BDI (Brand development index)
Theater Tests
30. Tool used to encourage and reward repeat purchases by acknowledging each purchase made by a consumer and offering a premium as purchases accumulate.
Transit Advertising (Bus - taxi - and subway advertising)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory of motivation based on unmet human needs
Loyalty Programs
Advocacy
31. Sales tools used to support a company's advertising or personal selling directed at wholesalers - retailers - or distributors.
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
Rich Media
Product Placement
32. Gathering - recording - and analyzing new information to help managers make marketing decisions
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
Functional needs
Marketing research
Case Allowance
33. 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.
Institutional Advertising
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
Inquiry Tests
Classified Advertising
34. The greater size of an ad illustration...
1) Informational-problem avoidance or removal 2) Transformational-use positive reinforcement through reward 3) 'boom factor'-gets your attention now
the more audience attention
Point-of-Purchase Displays
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
35. The speed which buyers forget the brand if advertising is not seen.
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
Theater Tests
Forgetting Rate
Participants in the marketing process
36. They use Retail Advertising because retail stores account for so much of the market
Local Advertisers
Frequency
Outdoor Advertising (Billboard)
Exchange
37. 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)
1. Buyer Turnover 2. Purchase Frequency 3. Forgetting Rate
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
International Media
Classified Advertising
38. What does the layout of an ad consist of?
Sweepstakes
Attitudes
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
39. Studies such as controlled experiments and consumer purchase tests.
Print Media
Integrated Marketing Communications
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Sales Tests
40. The number of different people or households exposed to an ad.
Pioneering
Participants in the marketing process
Reach
Institutional Advertising
41. 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.
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
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
Pretests
42. Situate the brand socially
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
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
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
Competitive
43. What are the types of headlines?
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
Allowances and Discounts
Benefit headlines - news/information headlines - provocative headlines - question headlines - command headlines
Brand loyalty
44. What are the principles of design?
Premiums
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
Full-Service Agency
Cooperative Advertising
45. Define the brand image
Cooperative
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
Functions of Marketing research
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
46. Ads placed in locations that attract a specific target audience - such as airports - doctors offices - health clubs - theaters - etc.
Deals
Place-Based Media
Comparative
Reminder Institutional
47. Simply the percentage of homes exposed to an advertising media
Reference groups
Rating
Cooperative Advertising
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
48. When seasonal factors are unimportant - ads are run at a continuous or steady schedule throughout the year.
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
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Rich Media
Horizontal cooperative advertising
49. Transform consumption experience
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)
Theater Tests
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
Product Advertising
50. Value of Promotion
Rossiter & Percy's Fundamental Motives
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
Reminder
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder