In this simple, but quite challenging, exercise students classify ads into the categories of informative, persuasive, and reminder advertising. This is a great task to help students distinguish between these somewhat confusing differences. The “need” for reminder style advertising is also explored.
Informative, Persuasive, or Reminder Advertising? Review the Teaching Activity
In this task students explore the gap between the consumer’s actual and desired states and its role in triggering need/problem recognition. A series of 8 print ads are used and the exercise also provides introductory information and also touches on low and high purchase involvement.
Desired vs Actual States Review the Teaching Activity
Students will analyze 10 print or billboard ads – considering attention, central messaging, perception, target audience, brand positioning fit, and likely sales impact. A great exercise for students to start thinking like analytical marketers, rather than passive consumers.
Analyzing Advertising Effectiveness Review the Teaching Activity
Do you have students asking “What area of marketing should I go into?” It’s a common question for students nearing the end of their studies. Well, here is the solution – a quiz that sorts students into one of 24 profiles and then provides a summary of their work preferences and traits, along with suggested marketing specializations that they should pursue. A great -in-class or take home exercises.
Quiz: What Area of Marketing are You Most Suited For? Review the Teaching Activity
In this task, students consider the impact of media selection on the message design in IMC. Students are presented with a central creative message for a strategic repositioning campaign and need to construct advertising designs suitable for different media channels.
Impact of Media on the Message Design Review the Teaching Activity
In this exercise, students will be presented with a mix of target markets and multiple target audiences for a new social initiative. It is a helpful activity for clarifying the difference between target markets and audiences. And it is very flexible, as it can be run as a case study discussion, as a marketing debate, or even a student role-play.
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Difference Between Target Markets and Target Audiences Review the Teaching Activity
This activity addresses the trend of anti-consumerism and provides a brief profile of an anti-consumer. Students discuss the change in consumer behavior and its resultant impact on marketing activities.
The Marketing Challenge of Anti-Consumerism Review the Teaching Activity
Students review several key strategic points about Apple, in order to identify the role of their strategic capabilities and how that gives them an ongoing competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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Role of Capabilities Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity students identify the role and influence of marketing in various key projects for a company. It is a helpful exercise for students to understand the breadth and extent of how marketing impacts a company overall. Also a helpful activity for introducing the concept of internal marketing.
Does Marketing Have the Lead? Review the Teaching Activity
This is a creativity exercise where students sort through forced relationships of flavors and product categories in order to identify potential new product ideas for snack foods. It should be a relatively fun and enjoyable exercise for students, as well as demonstrating a good technique for finding new product ideas in a cluttered and crowded market.
New Product Concept Generation Using Creativity Review the Teaching Activity