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Measuring Endorser Effectiveness

December 2, 2018 by Jon Firooz Leave a Comment

Students understand the concept behind celebrity endorsers but if you ask them whether an endorsement was a good idea or not they typically answer anecdotally.  When pressed on how to measure the effectiveness they generally struggle.

In September, Hilton Hotels launched an ad campaign featuring Anna Kendrick.  YouGov recently published the article “Hilton has a hit with Anna Kendrick” that does a great job of showing the impact that her endorsement has had on Hilton’s share of voice and brand preference.  The article also talks about the effect celebrity endorsement has on their purchase behaviors as compared to consumers 35 years old or older.

If you wanted to take this discussion to the next step you could build an exercise that models the number of increased stays required for Hilton to have a positive ROI from the campaign.

Filed Under: Chapter 07, Chapter 15 Tagged With: consumer behavior, Endorsement

Five Psychological Principles To Guide Your Holiday Marketing Campaign

December 10, 2017 by Jon Firooz Leave a Comment

Many retailers and producers depend heavily on holiday shopping to hit their annual goals.  The challenge is often trying to differentiate your wares and offerings from the multitude of other vendors trying to do the same thing.  This Forbes article, Five Psychological Principles to Guide Your Holiday Marketing Campaign, discusses psychological influences and how marketers can tailor their marketing campaigns to capitalize on consumer buying behavior.  The five principles they discuss are:

  1. Urgency and scarcity
  2. Social proof
  3. The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
  4. Paradox of choice and compound value
  5. Anchoring and Decoy pricing

Many of these concepts are discussed in Essentials of Marketing in Chapter 5, Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior.  Ask your students to provide examples of producers/retailers that have utilized some of these techniques recently!

Filed Under: Chapter 05 Tagged With: buyer behavior, consumer behavior, holiday shopping, psychographics, psychological influences

Smartphones top $1000 price point

October 15, 2017 by Jon Firooz Leave a Comment

Smartphones revolutionized the world and it wasn’t long after the first smartphone was released that everyone wanted one of their own. For years, smartphone manufacturers were able to capitalize on unmet demand but as the product-market reached maturity and demand became saturated, manufacturers needed to find ways to entice users to upgrade in order to protect their new revenue stream.

The classic approach in technology is to release new versions of products. If a manufacturer delivers enough added value with the new release, existing consumers will be willing to buy the new product to replace their old one. But how much is necessary to entice consumers to upgrade? That answer is dependent on several factors that influence consumer buying behavior. These influences are reviewed in detail in Chapter 5 – Final Consumers and Their Buying Behavior.

This article, “Your Next Phone Will Probably Cost $1000“, talks about the latest generation of smartphones to hit the market and the various influences that will determine their success or failure. In particular, the article notes that this is the first generation of products to pass the $1000 price barrier.  The article suggests that surpassing that psychologically significant price barrier may slow adoption of the new line of phones.

Ask your students how many have purchased or intend to purchase one of these new phones, when they purchased (or intend to purchase), and why they chose to upgrade.  This can lead to a good discussion regarding all of the influences that impact that purchasing decision. Some will choose to buy primarily because of psychological social needs – the desire for status or acceptance from peers.  Others will apply a more economic assessment.  Those individuals may justify the purchase based on faster performance, larger screen sizes, new features, etc.  A full discussion of the various factors that influence consumer purchasing behavior is covered in Chapter 5 – Final Customers and Their Buying Behavior.

This conversation can also apply when covering the adoption curve discussed in Chapter 13. In any given classroom you’re likely to have students that can be classified as members of the early adopters and early majority segments of the adoption curve but you may also have members of other segments.  Asking students from each group how they make decisions about when to buy can really help illustrate the differences between segments.

Filed Under: Chapter 05, Chapter 09, Chapter 13, Chapter 17, Consumer behavior, Price, Product, Product life cycle Tagged With: adoption curve, consumer behavior, early adopters, early majority, iPhone X, smartphones

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