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1. Scare the consumer into action
Buyer Turnover
Full-Service Agency
Rebates
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)
2. Displays that take the form of an advertising sign in high traffic areas of store aisles.
Pretests
Purchase Frequency
Competitive
Point-of-Purchase Displays
3. Is the products ability to satisfy both functional needs & symbolic wants
Unaided Recall
Utility
Exchange
Reminder Institutional
4. Sales tools used to support a company's advertising or personal selling directed at wholesalers - retailers - or distributors.
Samples
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
5. 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.
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
Pretests
Marketing research
Nonpersonal influences on consumer behavior
6. The cost of reaching 1 - 000 individuals or households with the advertising message.
Cost per Thousand (CPM)
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
1. Allowances and Discounts 2. Cooperative Advertising 3. Training of Distributors' Sales-Forces
7. The greater size of an ad illustration...
Classified Advertising
Brand loyalty
Finance Allowance
the more audience attention
8. Interactive online advertising.
thumbnails - roughs - dummies - comprehensives (elaborate draft)
Rich Media
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
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
9. Elements of an advertising message
audience - ad message itself - communications media - and the product concept
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
Reminder
Pulse (Burst) Schedule
10. Informs consumers about services or merchandise offered at regular prices
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
CB - The Consumer Decision Process
Exchange
Regular price-line advertising
11. What are the types of subheads?
bleed pages - inserts - covers - front - inside front - inside back - and outside back
kickers - boldface and italics
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
Positively originated (transformational) motives
12. Value of Promotion
Participants in the marketing process
Inquiry Tests
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
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
13. What does the layout of an ad consist of?
Ad research
visuals - headlines - subheads - body copy - slogan - seal - logo - signature
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
Sounds that are familiar
14. Define the brand image
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
Ad research
creating a picture of the concept they want to convey
15. Customer's perception of product/service; sometimes advertisers need to change those perceptions. As well as seller's perception of customer's needs - wants - objectives.
Participants in the marketing process
Opinion leaders
Perception
Ones with fewer words
16. Advertisements that tell people what a product is - what it can do - and where it can be found.
Positively originated (transformational) motives
CPM-TM
Pioneering
Loyalty Programs
17. What are the standard subjects for ad visuals?
Functional needs
Pretests
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
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
18. When companies mail or email their advertising directly to prospective customers without using one of the commercial media forms
Direct Mail Advertising
Purchase Frequency
Method: image ad - most apparent and most associated with characteristics of the brand - little information given - relies on image alone - very important
Comparative
19. Advertising that promotes a specific brand's features and benefits.
Competitive
Advocacy
Utility
Negatively originated (informational) motives
20. Approaches to Post-Testing
Product Placement
Sounds that are familiar
Perception
1. Aided Recall 2. Unaided Recall 3. Attitude Tests 4. Inquiry Tests 5. Sales Tests
21. 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.
Trade-Oriented Sales Promotions (Trade Promotions)
1. Merchandise Allowance 2. Case Allowance 3. Finance Allowance
Habits
Permission-Based Advertising
22. 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
Brand loyalty
Reach
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
Permission-Based Advertising
23. Customers: current - prospective - centers of influence; total market Markets: consumer markets - business markets - reseller markets - industrial markets Marketers
Continuity
Regular price-line advertising
Participants in the marketing process
Limited-Service Agency
24. Three Approaches to Setting Advertising Schedules
1. Continuous (Steady) Schedule 2. Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule 3. Pulse (Burst) Schedule
straight sell copy - institutional copy - narrative copy - dialogue/monologue copy - picture/caption copy - device copy
Flighting (Intermittent) Schedule
Rebates
25. Refers to any commercially published - printed medium such as newspapers & magazines that sells advertising space to a variety of advertisers
Sales Advertising
Print Media
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
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
26. The percentage of households in a market that are tuned to a particular TV/radio show.
Purposes of Marketing research
Rating
International Media
thumbnails - roughs - dummies - comprehensives (elaborate draft)
27. Cost of media buy/targeted audienceX1 - 000
Interpersonal influences on consumer behavior
CPM-TM
Sweepstakes
Perception
28. Where consumers apply their skill or analytical or creative thinking to try to win prizes.
Contests
CPM
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
Bursting - roadblocking - blinking - Pulsing (combining roadblocking and blinking) - Flighting (seasonal advertising) - Continuity (advertising all the time)
29. Short-term price reductions - commonly used to increase trial among potential customers or to retaliate against a competitor's actions.
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
Deals
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
Pioneering Institutional
30. A discount on each case ordered during a specific time period.
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
Case Allowance
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
Publicity Tools
31. Is an individual's openness or curiosity about a brand
Brand interest
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
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
Sales Advertising
32. Ads that simply bring the company's name to the attention of its target market again.
Reminder Institutional
Bursting - roadblocking - blinking - Pulsing (combining roadblocking and blinking) - Flighting (seasonal advertising) - Continuity (advertising all the time)
Reminder
Outdoor Advertising (Billboard)
33. Consumers are invited to view a new TV show or movie in which test commercials are also shown.
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
Purchase Frequency
In-House Agencies
Theater Tests
34. Reimbursing a retailer for extra in-store support or special featuring of the brand.
funny ads - but not always for the right reasons
1. Product Advertisements 2. Institutional Advertisements
Merchandise Allowance
1. Allowances and Discounts 2. Cooperative Advertising 3. Training of Distributors' Sales-Forces
35. Advertising showing one brand's strengths relative to its competitors.
Positively originated (transformational) motives
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
Comparative
36. Gathering - recording - and analyzing new information to help managers make marketing decisions
Regular price-line advertising
Marketing research
Rating
Exchange
37. When seasonal factors are unimportant - ads are run at a continuous or steady schedule throughout the year.
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Interpersonal influences on consumer behavior
Advocacy
Coupons
38. Broad category of media - such as television - radio or newspaper
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
Media class
Buyer Turnover
Unaided Recall
39. The theoretical core of marketing - any transaction in which one person or organization trades something of value with someone else
Exchange
1. Advocacy 2. Pioneering Institutional 3. Competitive Institutional 4. Reminder Institutional
Continuous (Steady) Schedule
Sounds that are familiar
40. Promotes a specific product or service and stimulates short term action while building awareness of the business
1. Building Long-Term Relationships with Promotion 2. Self-Regulation
Putting advertising directly into your medium. Facebook and twitter turn regular content into ads
Pioneering Institutional
Product Advertising
41. What kinds of ads resonate more?
STP Marketing (Segmenting - Targeting - Positioning)
Forgetting Rate
Ones with fewer words
Gross Ratings Points (GRPs)
42. Paying retailers for financing costs or financial losses associated with consumer sales promotions.
Consumer-Oriented Sales Promotions (Consumer Promotions)
Classified Advertising
Finance Allowance
Market research
43. Ads used for announcements about what a company is - what it can do - and where it is located.
Habits
Contests
Pioneering Institutional
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
44. Tool used to encourage and reward repeat purchases by acknowledging each purchase made by a consumer and offering a premium as purchases accumulate.
Case Allowance
Portfolio Tests
Contests
Loyalty Programs
45. A flighting schedule combined with a continuous schedule because of increases in demand - heavy periods of promotion - or introduction of a new product.
Pulse (Burst) Schedule
Message development - You must create a message that gets into the minds of the consumer and target audience
Integrated Marketing Communications
1. Pioneering (or Informational) 2. Competitive (or Persuasive) 3. Reminder
46. 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
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
Reach
Horizontal cooperative advertising
Coupons
47. Offers the return of money based on proof of purchase.
Clearance advertising (a special form of sale advertising)
Rebates
Reminder
Lead in paragraphs - interior paragraphs - trial close - and close
48. Sales promotions that offer a discounted price to the consumer - which encourage trial.
Methods: repitition - and slogans/jingles - Resistant to forgetting - efficient for consumer - long-term commitment - creatives dont like this method
Coupons
Print Media
1. Allowances and Discounts 2. Cooperative Advertising 3. Training of Distributors' Sales-Forces
49. How often new buyers enter the market to buy the product.
Buyer Turnover
1. News Release 2. News Conference 3. Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
Coupons
Transit Advertising (Bus - taxi - and subway advertising)
50. 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
Pretests
CB - The Consumer Decision Process
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
audience - ad message itself - communications media - and the product concept