According to Christensen, Cook & Hall (2005), “Much advertising is wasted in the mistaken belief that it alone can build brands. Advertising cannot build brands, but it can tell people about an existing branded product’s ability to do a job well.” Discuss.
Source: Christensen, C. M. & Cook, S. & Hall, T. (2005), Marketing Malpractice: The Cause and the Cure”, Harvard Business Review.
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Empowered, savvy, well-informed, discerning, and other similar words are used for the consumers of the 21st century. The traditional funnel concept has changed to the consumer decision journey, which is less linear and more complicated than the funnel. What does the change mean for marketers? Does this have implications for Pakistani consumers living in big cities and marketers as well?
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As per the video featuring Umair Haque accessible at http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/02/rethinking_the_idea_of_the_bra.html, meaningful brands are different from other types of brands. Continue reading Discussion Topic: Is Malala Yousafzai a Meaningful Brand?
According to French, T., LaBerge, L. & Magill, P. (2011), “For the past decade, marketers have been adjusting to a new era of deep customer engagement. They’ve tacked on new functions, such as social-media management; altered processes to better integrate advertising campaigns online, on television, and in print; and added staff with Web expertise to manage the explosion of digital customer data. Yet in our experience, that’s not enough. To truly engage customers for whom “push” advertising is increasingly irrelevant Continue reading Discussion Topic: The New Era of Customer Engagement
