COMM 296 – 30/03/2013 – Reflective Post on the Marketing Plan Assignment

As I said in my previous post, bringing practice to theory is empowering and facilitates the learning process. Even if we won’t implement our recommendations to the marketing plan of Whole Foods Market, diving through research in their marketing strategy and trying to apply the tools learnt in class to a real concrete case was very interesting. Having a true interest in organic foods made it of course easier as well as an overall enjoyable academic experience.

From now on, all I learned in COMM 296 will probably take 3 different shapes: there will be first of all the Continue reading

COMM 296 – 06/02/2013 – Blog Response to Iris Zhou: Jours après Lunes

Since I addressed in my first post the ethical issue of marketing to children, I would like to continue on the same topic by responding to Iris Zhou’s post on Jours après Lunes’ unethical marketing approach. I would like to dive deeper in the analysis of this issue and remind first of all ourselves that “Jours après Lunes” is a lingerie line for young girls.

Iris mentions the fact that these ads featuring young girls in provocative and inviting poses may very much disturb and frighten the public. She also mentions, in a graver way, the Continue reading