Marketing Diary

ZAGREB SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT Academic form 2010. /2011. Written by Tanja Igic Marketing diary Course Principles of merchandise Zagreb, 2010. issue 1 Competition Uniqueness as an absolute advantage cum http//www. mienunited. com/news/leads/custo-and-desigual-in- judicial-war-200823070855 (08. 10. 2010. ) The topic I chose as the first off whizz is the legal war surrounded by cardinal famous Spanish fashion tick offs- Custo Barcelona and Desigual. The curtilage why it is the first entry is because I am actually fire in fashion and Desigual is my favourite brand.This summer I went to Spain and I realize that there is a brand very similar to Desigual, both in design and harms. This was the first time that I wipe out heard for Custo Barcelona. contradictory Desigual, Custo is not an internationally cognize and famous brand. Oppositely, in Spain, the competition between the 2 is very high. I rotter make up comp be it with dickens major soccer clubs Real M adrid and FC Barcelona. In around cases, if you select Desigual, you would neer cloud from Custo and vice versa. Shock for Desigual l overs came in 2008, when Custo Barcelona filed a buccaneering lawsuit against Desigual.Custo acc employ Desigual for copying its mixtures of patchwork and existents and also for following their shop openings and contacting Custos distri neverthelessors to market its products. No one ever wrote al approximately the oddment of this lawsuit and that is why I cannot give my comment on the lowest end, only when I can comment on Custos decision near filing Desigual. I consider it as a epic action of trying to get to a gr tireer extent of a target market. What they didnt consider is that Desigual lovers, later onward this affair, sticked even to a greater extent with Desigual.Unfortunately for Custo, Desigual is tranquil existing, not barg altogether on the Spanish market, plainly worldwide, and it is stronger than ever. radical 2 Contro versial marketing Shock advertising Source http//press. benettongroup. com/ben_en/about/campaigns/history/ (02. 11. 2010. ) It was few sidereal days ago when I heard for Benettons and Sisleys controversial advertisements for the first time. Since then, I construct been checking out their new ads every now and then, because they play along shocking me every time I see them. Recently, there has been a new billboard by Sisley on the streets of Zagreb.The picture is representing a new(a) women on the floor with separate of cucumbers slightly her and one in her mouth. They tho keep shocking, but why? Probably because controversial marketing is whapn to mystify an preserve on drawing attention to the brand. When searching about the reasons why Benetton is doing such commercials, I found out that they want to get up the cognisantness about global problems and concerns among their global customers. They film officially dissever their advertising campaigns in three separate phases and the first one started in 1986, when Benetton began cooperation with Oliviero Toscani.The phases where named cycle of difference, cycle of reality and cycle of free speech and the mightily to express it. Each released campaign, such as the one against capital punishment, resulted in widespread protest against the company, from the customers as substantially as governments. Usually, it ended up with wads of free publicity and an increase in exchanges, but after the death row campaign, they decided to vacate controversial advertising. They faced the event that they bring forth repeated using controversial subjects for too long and that the restore on the customers was instead negative. publication 3 TV advertisingEffects of television nourishment advertising on take behavior Source http//www. yale. edu/acmelab/ expressions/Harris_Bargh_Brownell_Health_Psych. pdf (21. 11. 2010. ) Topic 4 Market impact teams in Coca Cola HBC Does it authentically increase sales? Few weeks ago, I fill received an e-mail religious offering a student internship in Coca Cola HBC in the change department. It seemed very interesting from my point of view and thats why I decided to sign up for doing the internship. I had been invited for an interview and the week after I have started my internship in Coca Cola. It lasted for a week only.First day of my internship, we all gathered together and were explained what atomic number 18 we going to do in the next five days. Firstly, I was disappointed, but now, after I have finished those tough five days, I am genuinely fortunate because of that experience. Market impact teams are teams of two or three pot, one student and two Coca Cola employees commonly, who are going around coffee bars and shops and are trying to have an impact on purchase behavior by ordering shelves, cleaning fridges, putting promo material all over the place, thus cr feeding a brand awareness. MIT is organized two times a category, befor e Christmas and before Easter.In Coca Cola, they are very proud of this actions, but I have always been asking myself, does it really increase sales? The answer was given to me by a new-made manager, who I was working with. He told me that in the short run and in general, it does not increase sales, but it creates a brand awareness which is really important for every product and company. It wasnt an answer that satisfied me. I went further by asking But Coca Cola is a well liven brand, actually, in all probability the best known brand in the world. Why are you still trying to raise brand awareness? Thats when I got an excellent answer, which I will never forget.He told me Yes, everyone knows about Coca Cola, but some(prenominal)times you fair have to remind people that your product still exists That is probably the best explanation of advertising I have ever heard. This experience was unforgettable for me. Source my student internship ( (02. 12. 2010. ) Topic 5 Packaging and toll Is the price, case or tonus of a perfume what matters the most? Going into a perfumery and having a glance at all of the beautiful and changeful perfumes, mentions me buy them all. After approaching the most beautiful and attractive one, with the dreadful desire of having it, you smell it and amazingly, it smells really bad.What are you doing? If you have money, probably you end up buying it anyways. If you dont, you wouldnt probably buy the better smelling one either. This question arises in my head every time I see millions of amazingly tone small packages of perfumes. The early(a) fact that I have recognize is that perfumes for male population are not even comparable to female ones. Is the package of the perfume what really drives our purchase behavior when buying perfumes? Some researches assign that associating a beautiful design and color of a perfume with the smell makes the perfume more attractive, which increases the purchase.But what if a perfume is a great looking, with fair smell and high price? That makes him even more attractive. It is well know that expensive perfumes are luxury goods. Higher price will make them more desirable because when beholding a beautiful package and a high price, we are creating an image of it before even smelling it. non only for perfumes, this phenomenon happens with other luxury things as well. Human nature is just not strong enough to resist a beautiful package. Topic 6 Brand image / byplay ethics Procter and Gamble exam on animals Source http//www. pandgkills. om/main. html (05. 11. 2010. ) I have been avoiding Procter and Gambles products ever since Ive heard that they are examination one animals. I am a huge animal lover and for me, animal violent death is almost as cruel as human. The Procter and Gambles interrogatory on animals was also a topic of my speech on the warrant category of college and that is when I did a little research on this topic. non only that Procter and Gamble is one o f the most famous brands in the world, but it is also one of the richest companies. Its cruel method of scrutiny can be easily replaced by an alternative.Despite this fact, P&G refuses to stop testing on animals, even though more reliable and humane alternatives do exist. By testing on animals, not only that they are creating a bad brand image and are representing a companys unethical behavior, but they are also losing a lots of customers separately day. Still, it is not important for them. Their earnings are probably still so high, that they dont have to take care about those coulomb people giving up from their brand each day. I am one of them and I can tell for myself that I would never buy from Procter and Gamble again, neither from the other brands testing on animals.Despite their global popularity, the brand image they are creating is not as good as it could be if they spent the huge amount of money they have on behaving more ethically and switching to a less cruel ways of t esting their products. Topic 7 Design Ugly, comfortable and expansive-perfect combination I have tried hard to resist buying UGG boots this and last winter, and fortunately, I have succeeded. Different story is with my Crocs slippers. In fact, I have 3 pairs and I just love them. Those two brands I choose because they are well known for being ugly and expensive, but extraordinarily comfortable.I have never tried UGG boots myself but from other peoples stories they seem highly warm and cosy. Since I have been seeing them every day, they are not even so ugly for me anymore. Crocs slippers neither. From my own experience, I can maintain that Crocs slippers are so comfortable that when you expose them once, you just dont want to take them off. They are perfect choice in lots of situations and places, such as home, beach or long way walking. From these two illustrations, we can see that recently, people changed their points of view a bit.Of course, people still take care about how the y look but sometimes, the way they olfaction in their clothes and shoes leaves a stronger impression than the clothes itself. UGG Australia and Crocs are two perfect examples for this statement and after writing this diary I will probably give up from my decision to never wear UGG boots and go buy a pair for myself. Topic 8 Business ethics Lying about price reductions Last winter, I was in shopping for a crown. While walking along Ilica, I entered a Miss threescore store to see if they have something interesting for me.I came crossways a really nice, but for me, very expensive capital. On the price tag, it said that it costed 3000 kunas but it is 50% off, so it be only 1500 kunas. The jacket was from the winter before and that is why the price was reduced. I never got over that jacket and thats why I still remember the story. This course I was walking along Ilica again and went in the Miss Sixty store to see the new interior of the store. The very same jacket from the last wi nter, that was actually from the winter before, was still on the hanger. The thing that strike me the most was the price on the price tag.It said that the jacket costed 4500 kunas in the beginning, but the price was reduced to 3700 kunas firstly and now, it is even more reduced, and costs only 3000 kunas. That really shocked me. After telling this story to other people, I heard very similar experiences but with other stores and brands. It usually happens that, if a product is not sold on the discount the year that it has been produced, the price next year appears to be the same, even though they presuppose it is on sale. From my own experience and point of view, words like sale or discounts or price reduction are very potent on human brain and thus, buying behavior.Sometimes you just cant let other people buy that great shirt or a jacket that is on sale and you end up buying it, even though you might not need it or its price is still high. Experts dealing with selling products an d services are very aware of the basic facts in buying behavior and human nature. They know that only a word sale will increase sales even if there is no sale at all. What bothers me is that I am probably falling for that trick almost every day but I do not realize it. As well as experts know how to sell, we should know what we want to buy and we should never follow the words, because sometimes they are just misleading.Topic 9 Brand trueness Waiting up to 6 months to get on the waiting list Hermes Birkin bag http//www. dailymail. co. uk/femail/article-1184169/Bag-lady-Victoria-Beckhams-100-strong-Birkin-bag-collection-thats- outlay-1-5m. html (05. 12. 2010. ) Since I am desperately waiting to get my degree and have a chance to go for a Master programme in Milan and have my dreams come true, I have focused on a fashion industry and happenings from this field, to be up to date. Thats is how I came across the article about very famous Hermes Birkin bags.Everyone knows how expensive a nd popular they are but I would never expect that people would wait up to 6 months to only get on a waiting list. One of their most loyal customers is famous Victoria Beckham, who has a huge collection of their bags, worth about 1. 5 million pounds. This shows a great brand loyalty they have, among the celebrities but the rich part of population also. Birkin bag is a luxury, rather then a need and from that point of view we can adduce that each person who buys it is loyal to the brand. If it wasnt for loyalty and the status symbol, no one would ever buy a million pounds worth handbag.Topic 10 Color psychology and marketing Do colors really impact consumer behavior? http//www. syncrat. com/articles/color-psychology-in-marketing (27. 11. 2010. ) On my way to new Arena center, whose logo is by the way, also in red color, I have given some attention to the advertisements around me. I have noticed that most word of honor are in the red color. I didnt know if it was for a reason and tha ts why I checked it on the meshwork as soon as I came home. There really is an amazing congress between the two and thats why firms pay a lot of attention when designing a logo or devising a commercial.It is said that red color is a symbol of aggression and passion and it is used to motivate an individual to take action or convey a warning. It is also believed that is stimulates appetite. Oppositely to aggressive red color, kibibyte color is way more relaxed, symbolising growth and wealth. It is often used in commercials for natural products. It calms the mind and creates a feeling of happiness. Black color, an example of a neutral color, is well know symbol for elegance, power and sadness, as well. It is said that black color shouldnt be used a lot when advertising.It can cause sadness and depression. On the contrary, white color symbolises cleanliness, purity and spirituality. It is used a lot in advertising but mostly as a background color, because it makes other colors seem more vivid and bold. All of these examples show that my question about the relation between colors and logos wasnt foolish at all. When seeing advertisements and commercials, but buying also, people do not consider a color as something that influences their buying behavior, but researchers and marketing specialists are more than aware of this great marketing weapon. - IN LEGAL WAR pic pic pic pic pic pic pic I have never been a big fan of television, in fact, I have been avoiding watching TV and trying to do something else instead, since I have started high school. When I was 15 I went to United States for a year as an exchange student. Living there, surrounded with lots of overweight people, pan food and starting to have weight problems myself, I have realized what a damaging effect on human health a food can cause. Since my host mother was a nurse, she was taking a lot of care about mine and my host sisters healthy diet.I have never heard about the topic before, becuase the prob lem is not so spread in our country, but my mom was always talking about negative effects of television food advertising on eating behavior. If it wasnt for her, I would probably never realize the shocking effects of TV on the eating behavior. All of us know how unhealthy is to eat in front of the TV. It is because our brain isnt getting signals fast enough and we dont stop eating as we would stop if we were concentrated only on eating.Effect which is relate to this one is the effect of food advertising on TV and our eating and purchasing behavior. Nowadays, obesity is the fastest growing cause of disease and death in America, caused by reductions in physical activity and overconsumption of unhealty food. A lot of people consider that unhealthy messages communicated to children through food advertising is a leading cause of unhealthy consumption. It is also confirmed that food advertising leads to greater preferences and purcahse of the products advertised.What we can conclude from these facts is that we should try to avoid eating in front of TV or eat whatever is advertised on TV at that moment. When going to the store we should be led by the healthiness of a product purchased and not its package and great TV commercial. pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic SALE pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic hRQh. 5? *picB* CJaJph0h? )? h? )? B*picCJ aJ hmHnHphsHt INCLUDEPICTURE http//www. frechen20. de/include/downs/Editor_files/image/Sponsoren/Topsponsor/bauhaus%20Logo%20sahin(1). jpg * MERGEFORMATINET pic