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How does this color and sound makes you feel?

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How does this color and sound makes you feel?

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What are they selling?

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Yum?

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Persuasive Tactics

In Advertising

Why do I want a ___ right now?

9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Interesting character� Advertising techniques are all about creating characters, or a cast of characters that add recognition and �a story value to the campaign.

Image of “McDonald’s characters group

picture from the 80’s”.

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Personification

This advertising techniques can help in creating advertisement campaigns that are more human, interesting and engaging, and finally, more relevant to your target audience.

By giving your product or service a human ability, like �emotion, thoughts or speech, you can turn it into a person. �You can also lend human characteristics to abstract ideas,� like “greed” or “hunger”.

Image of “happy meal mascot".

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Exaggeration

It’s an advertising technique which is both effective and �fun. Also, it’s easy to brainstorm and work with.

Take your concept and the primary idea you want to �communicate. Now exaggerate it. Take it to the extreme, �push it beyond reality and reason; in visual or in the copy, �or both. Exaggerate a problem, or a benefit, or the �physical appearance, or size.

Image of “Haagen Dazs dulce de leche dive into pure pleasure"

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Exaggeration

Image of “Burger King Whopper ad vs real”.

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Demographic Positioning

This advertising techniques are used to “position” your product or service to appeal to your target audience having specific demographic characteristics like age, race, gender, marital status, level of education, income, sexual orientation and other things. Demographic positioning can open up a huge niche market, like dating websites for people over 50, or holiday destinations for singles.

Image of “its not for girls Yorkie Bar"

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Symbolic: Similes and metaphors

This are useful advertising techniques for communicating abstract and complex ideas similes and metaphors. It also communicates an idea quickly.

Similes and metaphors are high performance deliverables in creative communication. They are effective and powerful similes and metaphors.

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Symbolic: Similes and metaphors

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Emotion

Emotional music, images, themes are �great tools for triggering positive feelings� that could be transferred to a brand, �product or service company.

Digital and broadcast media are the ideal �channels to trigger emotion. Film, TV, and �radio lets you tell stories and also support �the stories with characters and music.

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Promise specific benefits

Benefit is something that has value to your target audience. Ask yourself about the benefits of the product or service that you yourself can derive from the product.

A benefit advertisement’s persuasive energy comes from two traits. First, the importance of the benefit to the target customer, and two, specificity of the benefit.

Image of “be the best you kolors”.

(Multiple examples exist)

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Testimonials

Testimonials have persuasive energy. It comes from believability, candor, motive, and expertise.

Testimonials can come in many colors from celebrities to general customers. Here are some categories that have proved successful.

Video of “Drake's Sprite "Spark" Commercial”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nBxcMImubk

*The ad provides the opportunity to circle back to the other strategy of promise specific benefits because the testimonial here suggests that the product makes one better becuase of the product.

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9 Most Effective Advertising Techniques to Build a Strong Brand

Problem/solution

This advertising techniques can be used to engage people having a problem, or those who want avoiding it.

Problems. Most people have them. And there are products to solve them. If your product or service is a problem solver, put the problem in the headline. Later, in your advertisement, mailer or commercial, explain how the product resolves the problem.

This advertising techniques will work well if your target market has a real big problem i.e. a big concern. The bigger a problem, the better will the strategy work.

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Worksheet #2

If this ad shows ______, then I think the ad strategy is_____ and the advertiser wants me to feel/ think ____.

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Worksheet #2

If this ad shows ______, then I think the ad strategy is_____ and the advertiser wants me to feel/ think ____.

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Image of “Moms don’t take sick days”

https://lupieliving.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/img_3568.jpg

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Persuasive Tactics

In Advertising

Why do I want a ___ right now?

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Common Advertising Techniques

Emotional Appeal

This technique of advertising is done with help of two factors - needs of consumers and fear factor.

Most common appeals under need are:

  • need for something new
  • need for getting acceptance
  • need for not being ignored
  • need for change of old things
  • need for security
  • need to become attractive, etc.

Most common appeals under fear are:

  • fear of accident
  • fear of death
  • fear of being avoided
  • fear of getting sick
  • fear of getting old, etc

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Common Advertising Techniques

Promotional Advertising

This technique involves giving away samples of the product for free to the consumers. The items are offered in the trade fairs, promotional events, and ad campaigns in order to gain the attention of the customers.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Bandwagon Advertising

This type of technique involves convincing the customers to join the group of people who have bought this product and be on the winning side. For e.g. recent Pantene shampoo ad which says “15 crores women trusted Pantene, and you?”

https://www.managementstudyguide.com/advertising-techniques.htm

Advertising Techniques - 13 Most Common Techniques Used by the Advertisers

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Common Advertising Techniques

Facts and Statistics

Here, advertisers use numbers, proofs, and real examples to show how good their product works. For e.g. “Lizol floor cleaner cleans 99.99% germs” or “Colgate is recommended by 70% of the dentists of the world” or Eno - just 6 seconds.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Unfinished Ads

The advertisers here just play with words by saying that their product works better but don’t answer how much more than the competitor. For e.g. Lays - no one can eat just one or Horlicks - more nutrition daily. The ads don’t say who can eat more or how much more nutrition.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Weasel Words

In this technique, the advertisers don’t say that they are the best from the rest, but don’t also deny. E.g. Sunsilk Hairfall Solution - reduces hairfall. The ad doesn’t say stops hairfall.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Endorsements

The advertisers use celebrities to advertise their products. The celebrities or star endorse the product by telling their own experiences with the product. Recently a diamond jewellery ad had superstar Amitabh Bacchan and his wife Jaya advertising the product. The ad showed how he impressed his wife by making a smart choice of buying this brand. Again, Sachin tendulkar, a cricket star, endorsed for a shoe brand.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Complementing the Customers

Here, the advertisers used punch lines which complement the consumers who buy their products. E.g. Revlon says “Because you are worth it.”

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Common Advertising Techniques

Ideal Family and Ideal Kids

The advertisers using this technique show that the families or kids using their product are a happy go lucky family. The ad always has a neat and well furnished home, well mannered kids and the family is a simple and sweet kind of family. E.g. a dettol soap ad shows everyone in the family using that soap and so is always protected from germs. They show a florescent color line covering whole body of each family member when compared to other people who don’t use this soap.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Patriotic Advertisements

These ads show how one can support their country while he uses their product or service. For e. g some products together formed a union and claimed in their ad that if you buy any one of these products, you are going to help a child to go to school. One more cellular company ad had a celebrity showing that if the customers use this company’s sim card, then they can help control population of the country.

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Common Advertising Techniques

Questioning the Customers

The advertisers using this technique ask questions to the consumers to get response for their products. E.g. Amway advertisement keeps on asking questions like who has so many farms completely organic in nature, who gives the strength to climb up the stairs at the age of 70, who makes the kids grow in a proper and nutritious ways, is there anyone who is listening to these entire questions. And then at last the answer comes - “Amway : We are Listening.”

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Common Advertising Techniques

Bribe

This technique is used to bribe the customers with some thing extra if they buy the product using lines like “buy one shirt and get one free”, or “be the member for the club for two years and get 20% off on all services.”

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Common Advertising Techniques

Surrogate Advertising�

This technique is generally used by the companies which cannot advertise their products directly. The advertisers use indirect advertisements to advertise their product so that the customers know about the actual product. The biggest example of this technique is liquor ads. These ads never show anyone drinking actual liquor and in place of that they are shown drinking some mineral water, soft drink or soda.