This activity is for local bank who wants to adopt a more modern image. The student task is to choose the best promotional/campaign theme from the list of alternatives to help with the repositioning.
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Choosing a Promotional Message Review the Teaching Activity
There are a number of other options for the ‘source’ of the firm’s promotional messages. The student task in this activity is to identify which source would probably be the most appropriate for each particular promotional challenge.
Selecting the Message Source Review the Teaching Activity
Sometimes it can be effective for a firm to utilize a celebrity to help promote their product/brand. The student task is to identify whether any of the following firms could possibly benefit from using an ‘available’ celebrity.
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Which Celebrity to Use? Review the Teaching Activity
The message appeal also plays a part in communicating the overall positioning for the brand/product. In this activity, students need to select the most appropriate type of ‘appeal’ (refer list below) for each challenge listed.
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Selecting the Message Appeal Review the Teaching Activity
Decoding refers to how consumers will understand the marketing communication. In this activity, students need to determine what is the main message for some ambiguous promotional messages.
Decoding Promotional Messages Review the Teaching Activity
In this exercise, students are presented with eight product alternatives, as they would find in a supermarket environment. As they will see, price is simply one aspect of the consumer’s perception of value.
How Important is Price? Review the Teaching Activity
Smart TVs became popular within a few years, yet microwave ovens faced significant market resistance and took decades to get adopted. The challenge is to determine why this was the case.
Speed of New Product Adoption Review the Teaching Activity
For this activity, students need to select the most appropriate positioning for a firm that currently home delivers pre-prepared food to people who are trying to lose weight. They have now decided to pursue an opportunity in providing a somewhat similar product, but this time, targeted at children.
Positioning Kid’s Home-delivered Food Review the Teaching Activity
For this activity, students need to determine whether the law firm will need to modify its marketing mix as they pursue another target market.
New Target Market = New Marketing Mix? Review the Teaching Activity
The student task is to evaluate whether the proposed target market for a new luxury service is the best approach.
Is this Target Market Viable? Review the Teaching Activity