We are going to Discuss What is Advertisement, Definition of Advertising, Features of Advertising, Objects of Advertising, Importance of Advertising, Active Participant in Advertising, Role of Advertising Marketing Mix, Role of Advertising in Society.
Introduction
Used for communicating business information to customers.
Provides information about the advertising firm, its product qualities, place of availability of its products, etc.
Advertisement supplements personal selling to a great extent.
Definitions of Advertising
‘Any paid form of non-personal presentation of ideas, goods and services by an identified sponsor, American Marketing Association.
According to Webster, “Advertising is to give public notice or to announce publicity”,
According to Gardner, “Advertising is the means of mass selling that has grown up parallel with and has been made necessary to mass production”.
Features of Advertising
Communication: Advertising is means of mass communication reaching the masses. It is a non-personal communication because it is addressed to the masses.
Information: Advertising informs buyers about the benefits they would get when they purchase a particular product.
Persuasion: The advertiser expects to create a favorable attitude which will lead to favorable actions.
Profit Maximization: True advertising does not attempt at maximizing profits by increasing the cost but by promoting sales. This way It won’t lead to an increase in the price. Thus, it has a higher sales approach rather than the higher-cost approach.
Non-personal Presentation: Salesmanship is personal selling whereas advertising is non-personal in character. Advertising is not meant for anyone individual but for all. There is an absence of a personal appeal in advertising.
Identified Sponsor: A Sponsor may be an individual or a firm that pays for the advertisement. The name of a reputed company may increase sales or products.
Consumer Choice: Advertising facilitates consumer choice. It enables consumers to purchase goods as per their budgets requirement and choices. The right choice makes consumers happy and satisfied.
Element of Marketing and Creativity: Advertising has proved to be of great utility to sell goods and services. When the message of the advertiser matches the expectations of consumers, such creativity makes way for a successful campaign.
Objects of Advertising
- To introduce a new product by creating interest in it among prospective customers.
- To support personal selling program.
- To reach people inaccessible to salesman.
- To enter a new market or attract a new group of customers.
- To light competition in the market and to increase sales.
- To enhance the goodwill of the enterprise by promising better quality products and services.
- To improve dealer relations
- To warn the public against imitation of an enterprise’s products.
Importance of Advertising
Promotion of Sales: It promotes the sale of goods and services by informing and persuading people to buy them.
Introduction of New Product: Advertising enables quick publicity in the market. A new enterprise can’t make an impact on prospective customers without the help of advertising.
Creating of Good Public Image: Advertising enables a business firm to communicate its achievements in an effort to satisfy the customer’s needs. This increases the goodwill and reputation of the firm which is necessary to fight against the competition in the market.
Mass Production: Advertising facilitates large-scale production. Mass production reduces the cost of production per unit by the economical use of various factors of production.
Research: Advertising has become a competitive marketing activity. Every firm tries to differentiate its product from the substitutes available in the market through advertising. This complies with every business firm to do more and more research to find new products and their new uses. If a firm does not engage in Reacher and development activities, it will be out of the market in the near future.
Education of People: Advertising educates people about new products and their uses. Advertising a message about the utility of a product enables people to widen their knowledge.
Active Participant in Advertising
Advertiser: Seller who manufactures and market consumer products are the prominent group of advertisers, retailers being the second prominent segment among advertisers, stock the products and sell them to the ultimate consumers. Government and social organizations are also active participants in this category.
Target Audience: It refers to the recipient of the advertising message. Advertising desire to cover this target audience for promoting sales.
Advertising Agencies: An advertising agency is composed of creative people, who conceive design, develop and produce, advertising messages with creative ideas and place it in the desired advertising media, for and on behalf of its client(the advertiser).
Advertising Production People(Artists): Artists like copywriters, artists, photographers, typographers, layout designers, editors and other creative people are usually employed by the ad agencies or, their services may be hired by the ad agencies on a job basis to help them produce impressive and persuasive advertisements.
Mass Media: Advertising messages are communicated to the target audience through different mass media, such as print media, outdoor media and direct mail like brochures, pamphlets, leaflets etc.
Government Authorities: The business of advertising is regulated by the government department. The government adopts laws and r
egulations which have a direct or an indirect bearing on advertising.
Role of Advertising Marketing Mix
Advertising and Product: At times, the product designed requires careful handling and operations. Buyers must be informed and educated on the various aspects of the product. This can be effectively done through advertising.
Advertising and Price: Advertising can convince buyers regarding the superiority of the brand and thus its value for money. This can be done by associating the product with prestigious people, situations, or events.
Advertising and Place: Place refers to physical distribution and the stores where the goods are available. Marketer should see to it that the goods are available at the convenient place and that too at the right time when the buyers need it.
Advertising and Promotion: Promotion consists of advertising publicity, personal selling and sales promotion technique, to survive and succeed in this competitive business world. Advertising can play a significant role to put forward the claim of seller, and to counter the claims of competitor.
Advertising and Pace: It involves the launch of new products or brand variations at greater speed than before. As and when new brands are launched, advertising plays an important role of informing, education and persuading the customers to buy the product.
Advertising and Packaging: The main purpose of packaging is protection of the product during transit, and preservation of quality and quantity. A creatively design package attract the attention of the customers. It also carries an assurance of quality and creates confidence in the minds of customers to buy the product.
Advertising and Positioning: Product positioning aims at creating and maintaining a distinct image of the brands in the minds of the customers. Through advertising the marketer can convey the positioning of the brand and accordingly can influence the buying decision of the target audience.
Role of Advertising in Society
Encourage Purchasing: Advertiser often influence members of society to purchase products based on instilling a feeling of scarcity or lack.
Reflect Cultural Trends: Advertising bridges the gap among people by communicating varied culture through advertising message. It bring variation in the social life.
Promotes Economic Growth: Advertising contributes to bring about all round development of the economy by increasing demand and by encouraging economic activities, it fuels the desire to shop and in turn, shopping stimulates the economy.
Improves Standard of Living: Advertising provides opportunities to people to improve their income. It motivates people to consume more material and thereby improves their standard of living.
Advertising and Brand Building: Brands are the identification that differentiates one business from another. However, today brands can also be defined as the personality they reflect to people in relations to status, emotional characteristics and subjective quality. They give the consumers a perceived knowledge of the product, its quality and uniqueness before they buy it.
- Brands ensure delivery of service as promised by them.
- Brand Personality acts as a potent brand differentiator and offer sustainable competitive advantage.
- Brand Personality also helps brand to gain market share, command price premium and insulates from discounting.
Approaches in Brand Building
Constant Innovation: Consumers need continuous innovation and new products. It is not always a new product even an improvement on the existing product is acceptable to the consumers.
Domination of brand: Brand building largely depends on the domination it creates on the competitors.
Prompt Availability: Prompt delivery of the product is one of the factors that ensure brand building. This is possible if there is proper coordinationation between the finance, production, and marketing department.
Integration of new and old media: Consumers have even changing demand. Due to availability of various media option the seller can push the product in the market by blend multiple media option. Thus advertising message are flashed to consumers through media mix.
Summary
- Advertising consists of all the activities involved in presenting to an audience a non-personal, sponsor-identified, paid for message about a product or organization.
- Advertising has become essential to promote sales, to introduce new product, to create good public, for largest scale of production, for educating people etc.
- Advertising is the integral part of every day’s life. It encourage people to purchase goods and services, bridges the gap among people by communicating varied culture through advertising message, contributes to bring about all round development of the economy by increasing demand and provided opportunities to people to improve their income.
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