Archive for June, 2008
Watch any given television long enough, and you’ll be greeted by advertisements. And in today’s ever-competitive market, the real story is behind the scenes, where companies face a constant battle to stay ahead of the competition. And with brand names offering hugely lucrative contracts for the right image, the art of advertising today is massively important.
The actual art of advertising and branding is a lot more sophisticated and in-depth than the consumers they target may realize. Long before an advert even reaches the screen, or print, it has been subject to pain-staking research, focus groups, marketing surveys, and many other methods of determining the current state of the target market. Without this information, releasing a product runs the risk of commercial suicide if the consumer isn’t ready. There’s no such thing as luck where advertising a brand, either established or new, is involved. It takes a lot of hard work, gruelling hours in meetings and highly skilled teams of creative minds to finalize a concept.
Part of this process, and a way of determining whether a new brand and accompanying advertisement has succeeded or not, is actually one of the simplest. By providing a group of consumers with either an image, a tag line, or even just a combination of colors and sounds, and they recognize the brand behind the advertising, then the hard work has paid off.
This is where the advertising and branding of a product is so important, by firstly ensuring that consumers will recognize a given product or brand. The next important factor is actually persuading consumers to associate certain attributes with your product. These can range from reliability, pricing, value for money, etc. This is one of the most difficult, yet most intrinsically important sources of advertising and branding success. An instance of this is if you mentioned mouthwash ?is there a brand that springs to mind immediately? How about favourite destinations to go on vacation ?does one resort receive more recommendations than others? Even if that particular resort hasn’t been visited by everyone who mentioned it, just the fact the advertising of that resort makes it sound so enticing that they perceive it’s the destination they should go to, is a sure sign of successful brand advertising.
Yet if successfully advertising a brand is difficult enough to begin with, it can be even more so trying to reach out to new markets with the same product. The stronger the brand and the more successful the initial advertising campaign, the more difficult it becomes to find new avenues. Despite possibly having the number one product on the market, any new advertising still needs to go through the whole process again from scratch. After all, what worked for one product is not guaranteed to work for another.
And this is where the true power of advertising and branding becomes apparent, and is the strongest proof yet that it’s one of the most important in determining whether a company succeeds or fails.
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Kentucky AG Victim of Identity Theft
Digitaltrends.com, OR - Less than a month after setting up a cyber crime unit, Kentucky's Attorney General, Jack Conway, has been a victim of identity theft. … |
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Rikers Island guard nabbed in ID theft
New York Daily News, NY - Paulin Montauban, 39, of Far Rockaway, Queens, was expected to be arraigned in Queens Criminal Court Thursday night on charges of forgery, identity theft… |
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Board OKs ID theft protection for workers
Meriden Record-Journal, CT - SOUTHINGTON - The employees affected by the theft of their personnel records from the old Water Department building want as much protection from identity… |
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Stolen cars put buyers at risk for ID theft
KHOU, TX - County officials say they have found everything from stolen cars, ID theft and forgery just from the paperwork that’s going through the tax office as people … |
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ID theft risk for Wiltshire residents
Wiltshire Times, UK - By Ned Payne RESIDENTS of Westbury Leigh face a high risk of becoming a victim of identity theft, according to research by credit reference agency Experian. … |
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Scout-scam mom facing added ID theft charges
The Express Times, PA - Her daughter accused Gombocz of identity theft after she had fled the area. Gombocz was found in March in Cave Junction, Ore., and brought back to … |
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Mounties bust ID theft ring, find meth lab
Surrey Leader,  Canada - By David Weir - Surrey North Delta Leader - June 26, 2008 Charges are likely to be laid against three people after Mounties discovered an identity theft… Police say busted meth lab |
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Schumer: Medicare cards risk identity theft
Newsday, NY - He says Medicare is facilitating identity theft and he's pushing a bill that would spend $500 million to issue new cards without the numbers. … |
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Sen.: Medicare cards open seniors to ID theft
USA Today - A report by the Government Accountability Office also concluded that the cards expose Medicare patients to identity theft. "It is unthinkable that Medicare … |
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