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Teamwork– One of The Most Amazing Part of COMM296

I can’t believe we already finished the very last class in Marketing. It has been an incredible  and important experience for me to grow with my teammates during this semester with Tamar’s guidance. I learned to think critically and out-side-of-box … Continue reading

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Is facebook still popular among young generations?

Last week we discussed the most “source and excited” part of marketing, promotion. And social media is a great modern tool for companies to communicate and interact with their potential and existing costumers. Like doing everything else, the very first step is to establish a goal. Here, when we promoting or create a new advertisement the first step is to “identify target audience”. The blog posting Social Media Strategy Step1:Find Your Audience attracted my attention. It was posted on Post Advising by Jon Tomas. A big part about identify target audience is by selecting the right channels. What is a right channel? Let’s say, if your target audiences are people who graduating from university and freshmen just got into workplace, then the social media you can choose is Facebook, twitter, blog, fancy company site. Why? Because they born in 90s, grown up in 00s. Facebook and twitter is part of their experience of fun and young life which they had a good memory with. However, as Jon mentioned in his blog, younger generation–people who born around 00s, mostly graduating from junior high or senior high school, are bored with Facebook already and barely twitter anymore. What does this trend show us? Social media and technology are highly correlated, the fast pace of changing in technology will also have an affect on consumer’s choice on social media. Younger generation like risk and excitement, and they are the customers that the most of the business need to build lifelong relation with. Therefore, to understand the trend of choice of social media the target audience are using, and on what kind of devices they are using is the next big question.

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The New 4P–Reflect on Contest: Let FreshBooks buy you pancakes, parking, pedicures and parachutes

Recently, a marketing blog about “new 4Ps” caught my attention. It was posted by Saul Colt on “Fresh Books could accounting“. In the posting, he mentioned that for independent business owners, the new 4 Ps should be addressed. They are … Continue reading

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Create a Spike for Maturity and Decline Stage- Reflect on the Blog Posts by Konrad and Lauren

I read the blog post by my teammate Konrad called “Despite Decline, LEGO Rebuilds”. He brings up the fact that how a single company can keep increase sales even their products are in the decline stage of the industrial product life cycle. And Lauren discusses in more details on how does LEGO turn the trend in toys industry in “Light on Lego”. Due to my interest in the topic, I did research, and found out the commons of most of the companies who are successfully turn their sale up during a decline product life cycle. On one hand, differentiating the core benefit of the product can prevent being substituted by new technology. LEGO is a great example. They claim that Lego is different from traditional toys, which you can change it into new toy everyday. What’s more, it is also different from the online games, which you can enjoy the actual physical experiences by doing it yourself. And probably that why on the top ten list of “reasons for loving LEGO”, “it makes adults feel like a child again” ranked number 3.   On the other hand, LEGO was able to adapt their product to new technology. They wildly visualize the fun of playing with LEGO through video on their website and commercials. Moreover, LEGO launched new product line and developed app and video games for kids. Thus, they can play with LEGO in every kind of forms.

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Marketing use of unique sense– The Superball Commercial by Pepsi

There are tons of facts that may influence consumer behaviors. It includes situational factors, psychological factors, or social factors like family, and market mix. Therefore, a good commercial, in general, should includes as much of these factors as possible to attract more audience and potential consumers. However, I found out that among all the factors, the most powerful category should be psychological factors. Here is a deaf commercial created by Pepsi during Superball:   This commercial uses the best sounds effect from the begin to the end, which is silent! It differentiates itself from thousands of Superball commercials. It is unique! Especially in the Superball period, when people are overwhelmed by loud cheers and musics. This silent commercial really makes people stop for 30 seconds and to think. Without the best music, without the celebrities, but the belief about diversity culture that Pepsi carries can be way much more influential than other factors. Here is another commercial by Pepsi, which one do you like better?

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What’s behind the “M”?

(Please click on the highlighted words to see the videos) What is the first thing come to your mind when I show you the letter “M” with a red background? Yup, McDonald’s. The world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 millions customers daily in 119 countries. Their main target market is aiming right at kids and teenagers. Among the commercials filmed by McDonald’s, almost 80% of them are targeting to young kids audiences who do not have the ability to recognize between yummy and healthy.  Behinds the ethical theme of this video, McDonald’s turned the fact of having unhealthy food into a form of reward.They attempt to lure the kids away from the traditional reward.  Kids are more matured than ever nowadays, not only because the ingredients of the fast food they eat, but also the exposure to the commercials. Wrong examples! The commercials show what it is to be a kid having fun, which is of course at McDonald’s.  Another unethical part is they shape their taste preferences, which will gain a tremendous amount of long loyalty customers and market places.   Researches found out a lot scary results. Kids as young as three years old saying that they prefer the taste of food coming out of a mcdonld’s paper bag to the taste of the same food coming out from a plain bag. McDonlad’s really did a good job in this sense. Lo and behold, what have McDonlad’s done to the kids!   On the … Continue reading

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What is Marketing?

The meaning of marketing in my mind: It is a mixture of colorful graph, attractive words and crazy idea that highlight the bright side of the “stuff”, and beautifully hide the rest. Based on ideology, marketing manipulates our thoughts.It is … Continue reading

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