BroadVision Marketing Blog

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We have been looking at advertising and the needs an item is supposed to fulfill. Now it’s time to look at the language of advertising claims. This is a hot topic because advertising affects sales much more than people think it does. We know advertising works because we can statistically study the results through surveys and sales figures. That most people don’t think they are influenced by advertising shows how naïve people are and how well advertisements work below the radar.

Topics: Marketing Plan, Marketing Principles

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Guest Blogger Ann Mullen

This is the third part in a series based on the 30+ year old Advertising's 15 Basic Appeals, by Jib Fowles, quoted by Shirley Biagi, in her textbook “Media/Impact: An Introduction of Mass Media”( now in its 8 ^th edition) and put on the internet by Frank W. Baker at http://www.frankwbaker.com/fowles.htm.  We have covered appeals for sex, aggression, attention and domination, some pretty hefty appeals as well as some more benign ones like the need for affiliation, nurture and guidance. Let’s see what the last set of needs appeal to.

Topics: Advertising, Television advertisement, Marketing Plan

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Guest Blogger Ann Mullen

In the previous part of this report, we talked about how Frank W. Baker came to put Jeb Fowles’ Advertising 15 Basic Appeals on the internet. We looked at the first three appeals and I added my cute little remarks. Today we are going to look at numbers 4 through 9. I want you to remember that even if I don’t discuss the need for sex in every one of these, that a lot of times the number one need is in evidence by the youthful appearance of the actors, if nothing else.

Topics: Marketing Plan, Marketing Principles

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Guest Blogger Ann Mullen

When advertising began at the end of the 1800s, it was enough to just put a drawing of the item in the newspaper. Quickly, salesman started putting a pretty girl next to the item and advertisement appeals began getting complicated.

In the 1970s Jib Fowles published a paper, “Mass advertising as social forecast: A proposed method for futures research, that the abstract said, “is an attempt to develop a procedure for anticipating broad socialcultural change by a decade. . . .culled with an content analysis of mass marketing.” In the report Fowles looks at 15 of advertising’s basic appeals, for when showing a tube of tooth paste is not enough.

Shirley Biagi, wrote a textbook “Media/Impact: An Introduction of Mass Media” now in its 8 ^th edition, that put Fowles’ list of appeals in her book.  At the time of Biagi’s 4 ^th edition, Frank W. Baker took the list from her book and put it on the internet at http://www.frankwbaker.com/fowles.htm.  Baker’s interest is in education and media literacy.

Topics: Advertising, Television advertisement, Fowles, Marketing Plan, Facebook, Marketing Principles

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We are still looking at the basics in advertising.  We all agree that advertisers are people who pay money to put up a message though a medium, including digital media, physical advertising, online, and product placement. Let’s take a closer look at digital advertising, physical advertising and promotions.

Digital advertising

Television commercials are “The” most efficient mass-marketing advertising platform. That’s why they cost the big bucks, especially during popular airtime, like prime time or the Super Bowl football game. In 2009 the single 30 second spot during the game cost its advertiser $3 million. Besides just showing the ad, the advertiser includes a song or jingle that help people remember the product. Virtual advertisements on television are interesting phenomena. They are mostly used at sporting events where the backdrop has computer graphics that changes as different products are displayed.

Topics: Using Different Media, Advertising, Marketing and Advertising, Super Bowl, Email lists, Product placement, blog, Marketing Plan, Facebook, Social Media, Marketing Principles, Business, Branding, Marketing strategy

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Since we have been having conversations about large businesses taking over social media as an advertising platform, I think it’s time to back up a bit and consider the basics of advertising.

What is advertising? Advertising is a way to persuade a targeted group to do something in regard to ideas, services or products.  It can take many different communications forms. The purpose is to drive the targeted group into behaving in a certain way. Advertising can be about buying products, but also about things like selecting a political side and voting.  The driving force pays for the advertising and places it in mass media settings, including but not limited to television commercials, direct mail, magazine, newspapers, bill boards and, of course, social media websites, email and text messages.

Topics: marketing, Using Different Media, Advertising, Marketing and Advertising, United States, Television advertisement, marketing mix, Marketing Plan, Social Media, Marketing Principles, Business

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There are days when I wonder how I am going to get through the day. Others when I wonder what I did all day. After a few of those, I realized that I needed to be better organized; and I began keeping a working calendar.

Here are some of the tips I was given that have helped me keep the calendar working for me instead of it becoming yet another thing I tried and dropped.

Take time every day, either at the end of the day or first thing, and build a list of things To Do. Just what are these things?

Topics: Time management, Tasks, Marketing Plan, Social Media, Business, Marketing strategy

Keywords—you know you can buy lists of them or buy help sorting out what yours are—but what are keywords really, what‘s the deal with them,  and how can you figure out which ones to use?

Defining keywords, keywords define search

People use keywords all the time. When you put what you are searching for in Google or the other search engines, you are using keywords. Search engines go through enormous data bases and send you results by listing sites that apply to the words you “googled”.

Topics: Google, Web search engine, WordPress, Uniform Resource Locator, Keywords, Kevin Sinclair, website, Marketing Plan, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Marketing Principles

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What do you do to see how your website is doing? I have read about Google Analytics, various ROI statistics and Alexa numbers. I don’t remember who suggested using Alexa numbers, but I liked the idea of simplicity. So without too much research I got an Alexa toolbar where the Alexa number of any website shows up and I began collecting data for five websites.

Topics: Alexa Internet, Alexa Toolbar, WWW, Internet Explorer, Google Analytics, Toolbar, website, clients, Marketing Plan, Social Media, Marketing Principles, Blogging

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Are you still worried about spending too much time writing your blog and not enough time doing your work? Not to worry, there are still some more good ideas around.

Let’s take a quick look at why you need some good ideas. First, there is the fact that you want to be consistent about publishing.  Your readers will quit coming to your site if you don’t put up work in a timely fashion. Whether you write three times a week or once a month, you need to be there when they come. People get very put out when they look up information and are sent to sites that haven’t been active for years.

Topics: WordPress, Arts, blog, Marketing Plan, Facebook, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Marketing Principles, LinkedIn, Business Owner, Business, Blogging, Twitter