Four hundred twelve billion. Do you know what does this number means? This is the amount of money that each company spends on advertising and marketing each year.
John Wannamaker, the creator of the first department store in 1896 said, “I know half the money I spend on Advertising is wasted, I Just don’t know which half.”
Then, with this so much money and effort, why are so many companies are failing? Well, the quote from professor of Harvard Business School, Gerald Zaltman, might tell you why.
“The world has changed, but our methods for understanding consumers have not. We keep relying on familiar but ineffective research techniques and consequently misread consumer’s actions and thoughts. The products we create based on those techniques, simply aren’t connecting with consumers.”
As professor Zaltman says, the sales approaches until today were mostly outdated, and it constantly failed to read the real needs of consumers. Because of that, the need of the new marketing strategies for the new consumers has been raised, and the marketing strategy which is newly created now is ‘neuromarketing’.
Neuromarketing is a word that neuron and marketing is combined. It is a new field of marketing research that studies consumers’ brain response to marketing stimuli to learn why consumers make the decisions they do, and what part of the brain is telling them to do it. 85% of decisions people makes are made by the unconsciousness in people’s brain. People are not making their decisions,
But today’s customer—and today’s competition—requires a deeper level of understanding. Traditional market research is fine,
Consumers are the centre of many marketers work. While the consumer is part of the marketing environment, it is also very important to recognise and understand the more personal and specific influences effecting consumers and the nature of the decision making process they use.
In this reading, I will be discussing the different categories in which advertisers have placed consumers to distinguish them from one another using their values, attitudes, and life-style. According to the writer of American culture and advertisement James B. Twitchell, “the object of much consumer research is not to try to twist their feathers so that they will flock to your product, but to position your product in such a place that they will have to fly by it and perhaps stop to roost. After roosting, they will eventually think that this is part of their flyway and return to it again and again” (p. 178). The proposition of stereotyping consumer lifestyles is a very effective way of marketing goods and services. The VALS2 strategy of marketing segment, target, and position used by advertisers is based on research; which means, marketers know more about consumer behaviors than what we think. This is an important issue because it’s necessary to raise awareness in society about the advantages and disadvantages that this can bring. After having evaluated all given points; this article is an eye opener for those who have any doubts about what consumers mean to large companies and advertisers.
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“Remember, the consumer should always drive your efforts, and when you get off track and the consumers tell you, you must listen. This is the reason you keep checking with them, to make sure you have stayed true to their original guidance. Listen -- this is the single best way to improve your new product, advertising, and packaging efforts.”
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