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Agenda
• Case
Why do we need persuasive message?
CREATING AWARENESS PROMOTING SALES OF ENCOURAGING (OR ATTRACTING RETAIL REDUCING POST-
OF A SERVICE, A PRODUCT, DISCOURAGING) PATRONAGE, PURCHASE
CERTAIN PRACTICES, DISSONANCE,
2. Message
Linear model of communication
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Two Imp Barriers in communication reception
• Selective exposure
• Psychological Noise
Stages in selective perception
Selective Exposure
Selective Attention
Perceptual Defense
Perceptual Blocking
Selective Retention
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Selective Exposure
➢occurs when consumers tune into messages that they find pleasant
or with which they are sympathetic, and they actively avoid painful or
threatening ones.
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• Competing advertising
messages or
• Distracting thoughts
• E.g. A viewer faced with the
clutter of nine successive
commercial messages during
a program break may
actually receive and retain
almost nothing of what he
has seen
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Ambush marketing
• Video games
• Movie theaters
• Elevators
• Supermarket floors
• Metro/park
• Public restrooms
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Ambush Marketing – Placing
Ads in places where
consumers do not expect to
see them and cannot avoid
them readily.
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Ambush marketing
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Contrast to break clutter
• featuring an unexpected outcome
• increasing the amount of sensory input
• E.g. color, scent, or sound
• identifying, through testing, message appeals that
attract more attention
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Contrast to break
clutter
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Contrast to break clutter
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What Do You Think- Contrast to break clutter
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What Do You Think- Contrast to break clutter
• Contrast
• Shocking or unrealistic images
The ads are from a campaign created by the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy
group.
It depicts the potential tragic, long-term costs of cutting government-financed initiatives
for children.
The images combining infant faces with adult bodies are shocking and make the ads
highly noticeable.
2. Message
Customize messages
• Digital technologies allow
marketers to monitor the
consumer’s visits to
websites, infer the
person’s interests, and
design and send
customized promotional
messages to that person.
2. Message
Broadcasting Vs Narrowcasting
• Traditional media is synonymous • New media are channels of narrowcasting
with broadcast media
Allows marketers to send messages that are:
• Addressable and directed to specific
• Radio, television, billboards, persons or small audiences
print (ATL)
• Customized and based on data gathered
online
• Above the line/ Below the line • Interactive as receiver can interact with
(ATL/BTL) sender
• More response-measurable
3. Medium
• Selecting images
• Creating advertising copy
Images and Text
• “One picture is worth a thousand
words.”
• Visual complexity
• feature complexity hurts attention &
attitude
• design complexity enhances attention,
comprehensibility, attitude
Images and Text
• Importance of words “simply,” “truly,” “easy,” “honest,” and “clear”
Message Framing
• Positive framing – stress the benefits to be gained by using a specific product
• Low need for cognition → more likely persuaded by negatively frame messages
• independent self-image (who view themselves as defined by unique characteristic ) → Like positive
framing → Goal achievement
• interdependent self-view (who view themselves as defined by others) → Like negative framing →
stress avoidance goals more convincing
• The credibility of an advertised claim can often be enhanced by disclaiming the superiority of
some product features or by not claiming that the product is a universal solution
• Choice depends on the
• Nature of the audience (Friendly-1 Vs Critical-2)
• Educated -2
• Competition claim -2
One-Sided versus Two-Sided Messages
One-Sided versus Two-Sided Messages
One-Sided versus Two-Sided Messages
Is it best to present your commercial first or last?
Persuasive
Advertising • Advertising appeals are
Appeals 1. comparative
2. fear
3. humor
4. Sensual appeal
5. timeliness
• Wide use of comparative advertising indicates that
marketers are confident that comparative ads exert
positive effects on brand attitudes, purchase
intentions, and actual purchases
Legal battle 2. Dabur India Ltd.v. Wipro Ltd., Bangalore, 2006 [Honey]
More effective in
Related humor is more More effective in ads for
targeting consumers who
effective than humor existing products than in
already have a positive
unrelated ads for new products
attitude