Reinventing Toilet Paper
Charmin’s Marketing Strategies
Reinventing Toilet Paper Marketing media have changed dramatically in the last five years forcing advertisers to look for alternatives to the more traditional forums of television, radio and print ads (Ryasam, 2007). Charmin is working on several different marketing strategies in an attempt to find that niche. “Procter and Gamble will spend an estimated $83 million in 2007 to drive awareness and sales of their Charmin toilet paper, in what is being called the largest restaging of a product in the company’s 79 year history” (Facenda, 2007, p.1). Marketing strategies include redefining Charmin toilet paper as a relevant product to their target demographic consumer group,
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In 2006, Charmin made the decision to extend its hospitality campaign by using the 2000 experimental Potty Palooza on a much larger scale, but the purpose of the campaign remained the same as it did in 2000. In addition to the traditional older customer, Charmin wants to create strategies to involve young adults and teenagers with their toilet paper. With this in mind, P&G combined the Potty Palooza marketing campaign with a developing project idea they refer to as a “media-neutral idea” in which the same campaign can be used in several different venues and relate to all age groups (Ryasam, 2007). With this media-neutral idea in mind, the animated and colorful Charmin bears were born. Over the past eight years they have evolved into a family that is part of all the Charmin advertising (Charmin FAQ, n.d.). Using these two marketing strategies together, Charmin launched the first Time Square Potty Palooza campaign in 2006 in an effort to reinvent the way consumers thought about toilet paper. This Time Square event was the main idea behind the Potty Palooza from the start, but the company first needed to test the project before spending millions of dollars on one advertising campaign (Janes, n.d.). The objective of this restaging idea was not to build sales or promote a new product, but to take the commodity out of toilet paper and bring the brand to life.
Triple E’s main clients will be local area businesses who require access to marketing and event planning services but have no marketing/planning departments of their own. By focusing on businesses that have these specific needs, Triple E Marketing and Events will be able to provide smaller organizations access to comprehensive and combined event planning and marketing strategies, allowing them to create brand recognition and increased profitability for their businesses.
Orange Kingdom is a clothing retail store owned by Between, Inc. It is differentiated from its family brands such as Between and Old Marine, as it gives an upscale image compared to the other two brands, and targets young professional population aged mid twenties to mid thirties both men and women. It provides mid-scale work-to-play casual and business apparel, accessories, and shoes through about 500 stores including factory stores in the United States. It is also gaining market share in Asia, South America, and Europe as well. In this marketing proposal, I would like to discuss three service options to retain and acquire customers.
Competitive advantage - Nundies is an innovative product which provides an alternative to visible panty lines; no other company produces the same type of product
Stride’s commercials are very upfront, blatantly stating that other gum brands are boring, and if customers aren’t boring they’ll buy Stride. Stride persuades buyers that Stride is the fun, outgoing brand. Stride also uses humor, poking fun at other widely known companies such as apple products and the iPhone brand. One billboard purposely used the same font and quotes underneath to advertise their gum, but also make fun of the new iPhone saying “Chewing redefined. Again.”(Andrew 1). The humor in their advertisements makes them likeable, and in turn boosts their sales. Wrigley’s 5 Gum has more underlying persuasions. In advertisements with intense drama, they do not say it, but if someone buys their gum they buy those mysterious traits. Wrigley’s 5 Gum wants a buyer to feel like they are buying the superiority, so in their ads they are above humor and trash talk (Horovitz 1). When buying gum it is like purchasing an identity and with Stride and 5 Gum you are buying two opposite identities. One is creative and humorous; the other is enigmatic and
“A place where we appreciate tradition, but are not bound by it. A place where creativity and experimentation thrive. A place where fresh ingredients are prepared and hand crafted into delicious meals right before your eyes. At Qdoba, we believe perfection is achieved through skilled cooks, an open grill, and a friendly atmosphere.”—Qdoba’s Mission Statement.
Over the last few decades, American culture has been forever changed by the huge amount of advertisement the people are subjected to. Advertising has become such an integral part of society, many people will choose whether or not they want to buy a product based only on their familiarity with it rather than the product’s price or effectiveness. Do to that fact, companies must provide the very best and most convincing advertisements as possible. Those companies have, in fact, done
The products I use in the bathroom, the coffee I drink, and the clothes I wear are influenced by marketing. The commercials convinced me to try soap products, toothpaste, and the coffee I drink. Marketing may persuade one to try a new product but ultimately the product or services must live up to the “hype” to keep consumers coming back.
Discuss what is meant by the term “customer orientation”. Illustrate with examples how companies demonstrate their customer orientation by reference to at least two elements of the marketing mix.
Top managers develop long-range plans, called strategic plans that define the company's overall mission and goals. Strategic planning focuses more on issues that affect the company's future survival and growth. To develop strategic plan, top managers also need information from outside the company, such as economic forecasts, technology trends, competitive threats, governmental issues and shareholder concerns.
This document represents The i-Fusions Consultant’s Report on BRITA. The company’s current business situation is analysed and various options for action considered. The report aims to identify a clear marketing strategy for Brita in order to address the current issues facing the company the associated falling sales.
As we wrap our final week in class, we’ve been discussing the proper format on how to promote or advertise whether it’s a sports drink, product, or any items in general. As I reflected over our class discussions, I started to think about some of the products that I felt weren’t receiving the proper marketing tactics and although a few came in mind, I thought about this cleaning product known as Awesome! Awesome Cleaning, which has been in business since 1983, is such a great product for cleaning up many stains you possibly couldn’t get to come clean with another popular cleaning product such as grease stains, mold build up, etc. Although the product has a little strong
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The proposals that we are going to depose are a planning of continuous action in order to confront the challenges, which BT confronts. The most important factor is considered to be the fact that the marketing environment changed rapidly after the deregulation of the telephone industry. Up to then BT was operating as a monopoly, ignoring the competition and ways to face it.
The primary technique is having “D_CK” in the largest font to catch the consumer’s attention. This technique was to attract consumers’ attention by having them assume that it will be inappropriate. The author uses humor as a secondary technique to continue trapping the consumer’s attention. The author continues this method by explaining that the blank space is supposed to have a “U” to spell out duck; this methods points out that the viewers have a “dirty” mind. The third technique was to explain what the advertisement was about by adding “feeling dirty? Take a shower.” This allows the consumers to fully comprehend the purpose of the advertisement. The last technique was to add a picture of the shampoos so that consumers will have the product visualized.