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
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
As we know, sales promotions and discounts are commonly used in supermarket channels. However, do they make a difference? In this activity, students examine different consumer motivations, using an excerpt from a focus group, to identify the type of consumer (segment) that are responsive to sales promotions and why – as well as identifying the long-term impact on a brand, if any.
Are Price Discounts Worthwhile? 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 case study examines a repositioning campaign for Vita-Weat, which is a brand of crackers in Australia. In this promotional campaign, this brand of “dull” and perceived budget crackers was successfully repositioned to be seen as a gourmet food offering and tapping into the “foodie” culture trend.
Repositioning Upwards (Video Case Study) Review the Teaching Activity
Students review a marketing campaign video for Taikang Insurance, where the firm has cleverly used technology to overcome the hurdle of service intangibility and make insurance “real”.
Overcoming Service Intangibility Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students examine the financial performance of an online firm and work out the different ways of setting marketing targets to deliver the required increase in profitability.
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Setting Marketing Targets Review the Teaching Activity
This video-based activity highlights Snickers Misspelled Words campaign that they executed through Google search ads to successfully reinforce their brand positioning.
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Snicker’s Innovative SEM Campaign Review the Teaching Activity