The use of innovative marketing tactics are often implemented to achieve success in the restaurant industry. Using celebrity endorsers as part of the promotion for the restaurant is one common practice. Using celebrities, a restaurant or restaurant chain can distinguish itself from its competitors by increasing the brands reputation and name. Developing positive attitudes towards the brand as well as maintaining loyal customers increases sales and allows the restaurant to gain a distinct advantage over their competitors. The appropriate endorser must be chosen carefully, as the selection of the celebrity can have a positive impact on consumer perception. Conversely, selecting an inappropriate celebrity may have a negative impact resulting in a reduction of sales as well as poor brand reputation. Social media presence is also key for the promotion and success of the restaurant. Using marketing strategies which include the internet, Twitter, Facebook, Magazine, and newspaper coverage, celebrities can help the restaurants brand grow. This paper will explore the various reasons of how celebrity endorsements impact consumer perception.
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In today’s economy, the restaurant industry is finding it increasingly more difficult to gain consumer awareness and achieve success. An effective marketing tactic used by the industry to overcome this is by using celebrity endorsers. A celebrity endorser is known to the public as actors, sports figures,
This bond that is created between the viewer and a celebrity helps understand the effectiveness that endorsements have where marketers have failed. The celebrity builds character in the eyes of the public and that character carries on into the product he is endorsing, and even though a part of the persuasion has to exist in the product itself, but a celebrity uses his status and the character he has built to gain credibility and likeability among the target audience. This character the celebrity transfers to the product is known as the “meaning “(2). The transfer of the meaning to the product goes through three stages. The first stage is in finding the celebrity with the desired meaning that they want to carry to the product this requires casting from the wide world of celebrity endorsers. The second stage is choosing which celebrity embodies the meaning the marketing campaign requires for the product, this stage is subject to expense restraints and availability. After deciding on an endorser stage three is the most complicated stage as in this step the endorser has to be able to transfer that meaning into the product, they have to make this meaning “available to the consumer in a material form”(2), this stage allows the consumer to accept the meaning they are given and accept the product and you use is a tool to build their own character. These three steps not only
A single photograph - how it is captured, the angle in which it was shot, the context behind it - can alter the perception of reality. One image, if executed maliciously, can create such an intense pernicious effect on the individual photographed, that it can cause undue effects on their reputation, or even psychological state. Celebrities often find themselves victimized by the paparazzi in this way, and breakdowns due to a negative appearance in the spotlight have become prevalent in modern day socialite culture. Today, with everything just a click away, it is surprisingly easy to find intimate details of a celebrity’s life, and even easier to find incriminating photos with falsified headlines. The paparazzi has a negative connotation in society, and has generated an aversive effect on celebrities, because they have fabricated images with negative portrayals of celebrities, impeded on a celebrity’s right to privacy, and appropriated a celebrity’s fame in order achieve material that is deemed as newsworthy.
It is known to be true that the best endorsements achieve a deriving ideas, style and taste between the product and the celebrity. Giving a brand an appearance is more than just a marketing strategy to increase sales; it is a decision that can change the outcome of the brand for the
In celebrity culture, celebrities use social media as a tool to build relationship and stay connected with their fans. Young and Pinsky (2006) make a claim that celebrity culture has generated a curiosity about celebrities’ personal lives. Adding on to this research, Marshall (2010) states that celebrities are willing to reveal their personal lives so that they can gain more followers. He also shows that celebrities reconstruct their profile for online personal branding by uploading personal posts related to their everyday lives. He demonstrates this through observing the actor Vin Diesel on social media. Marshall call this as “the presentation of self”, that celebrities expose their information in three different levels: “public self”, “public private self”, and “transgressive intimate self” (p.44).
The moderate growth rate of the restaurant industry results in many competitive rivalries and the nature of business allows customers to switch freely. Therefore, among porter’s five forces, the pressures from substitute products tend to drive the most competition in the restaurant industry today (Restaurant 2015). In addition, restaurants face the threat of customer’s ability to choose other leisure activities such as going to the movies, bowling, or other social outings (Restaurant 2015). To effectively compete under such conditions, restaurants are heavily investing in brand building to create customer loyalty. Another trending strategy used to increase customer returns is servicing beyond food and beverages; restaurants are heavily investing in providing individualized, memorable and entertaining
In the modern America, there are many celebrities who are very popular of their own fame, but not famous for their skills on their industries. To list the famous celebrities: Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber, and Kim Kardashian. These three celebrities are very popular for being famous on TVs that fame could come from bad or good images. They are well known for their lack of personalities than their achievements in the celebrity lives. For an example, Justin Bieber has many male anti-fans who hates him for his personalities or lack of musical skills, and maybe some are just jealous of Justin's fame because he got popular so quickly on the internet. These ideas go same as the other two celebrities that I mentioned, yet, Kim and Paris are also well known for the leaked sex tapes that issued the whole world because they have the attractive physical bodies that everyone looks for when looking at a female celebrity.
Celebrities and consumers alike have evolved thoroughly throughout the years, which has led to them overlapping quite exponentially. Personalities are interlinked majorly with consumers since without the other; the other would cease to exist. This is evident as celebrities livelihood relies completely upon the consumer culture of citizens, which is what makes them famous, and gives them that celebrity role. Whilst this is apparent, the links involve
Their endorsements are big business. We are surrounded by product promotions from the stars of sport, television and cinema. The ubiquity of these endorsements testifies to their impact in a complex, communications based society. Endorsement occurs when
Celebrities endorsement can also reach wider customer segment as some customers purchase the product because of the attraction of the celebrities. (WGSN INSIDER 2015) Moreover, Arcadia Group has been leading the innovation of digital marketing in the UK. For example, the company co-operated with Facebook launching the first ever live ‘customisation of the catwalk’ (Arcadia Group Limited, 2012) These are considered for the strengths of Arcadia Group.
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Laura and her boss Isabel have the garden variety marketing problem in the age of ubiquitous media advertising; how to reach the customer and sell your product amidst "ad-zapping devices and a decrease in consumer attention spans" (USAToday.com. October 10, 2006. PP. 1). Bob Gamgort, President of MasterFoods indicates that "the average American is exposed to 650 advertising messages a day" (Peebles, Ellen. October 2003 P. 32), however; that number may be drastically low, as a second estimate pegs the figure at 3,000 to 5,000 a day (USAToday.com. October 10, 2006. PP. 2). Regardless of which figure is correct, Bryant's marketing team must find innovative ways to compete in an ad frenzied environment; leading to the question of the efficacy of Laura's product placement/ celebrity endorser idea.
Celebrity endorsement is a billion dollar industries today (Kambitsis et al., 2002) with companies signing deals with celebrities hoping that they can help them stand out from the clutter and give them a unique and relevant position in the mind of the consumer. According to Solomon (2002), the reasons for using celebrity endorsement involves its potential to create awareness, positive feelings towards their advertising and brand. Research has shown that celebrity endorsement can have an impact on the consumer’s attention, recall, evaluations and purchase intentions (Atkin and Block, 1993), Celebrity endorsement is a widely used tactic in marketing and much research
Musicians, actors, athletes, and models all depend on publicity from the media. Promotions through magazines, newspapers, concerts, movies, CD’s, sports networks and social media determine their success. Not only do the musicians, actors, athletes, and models depend on social media, but also on the fans. The media allows the public to be involved and interested in what 's happening in different aspects of celebrity entertainment.The influence the media has on celebrity and image selling is very effective in producing successful careers.
It has been a great pleasure for me to work on this project. My sincere thanks to Ms. Kokil Jain ,my Marketing teacher for giving me an opportunity to work on this project whereby I was given a chance to study the impact of celebrity endorsement as a source of brandbuilding and on consumers buying behavior which helped me to increase the span of my knowledge and developed my thinking on more practical lines. I thank her for her guidance and support throughout