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No More Retreat. We Must Admit To Advertisings Failure!

The 500000 Honda waste of money on live television advertising is perhaps the final straw in the acceptance of advertising as a means of communicating with consumers.

Our unwillingness to admit to the huge failings of advertising are reflected in our business institutions suffering from a loss of nerve to admit that advertising has become a total travesty and amount to a national moral funk. We have let advertising standards fall in almost everything and especially in understanding the true meaning of the word communication.

Our claims that advertising works reflect an unwillingness to look rather more closely at the evidence touted by the various bodies representing advertising and media self interest!

It would appear that sometimes a decision taken by Media/Agency/Client is so lacking in common sense that the only appropriate reaction is to bang ones head against a brick wall. However a blinkered advertising campaign such as Hondas is so bad that the outcome can be truly toxic. There are more and more grotesque examples of such decisions decisions lacking in any knowledge of the communications process emerging as advertisers try to cut through the clutter attract consumers attention etc.

I guarantee that the 500000 could have been far more effectively spent with total accountability. All is revealed in my book Television killed advertising out end September.

Advertising people dont understand the real world they dont understand the meaning of the word communication and with the decision to split the creative role and the media role there has been a proliferation of experts who still dont understand communication. Between them issues forth a startling amount of opinions as to what constitutes good advertising never for once realising that there is no such thing. Advertising people are subhuman living in a fantasy world in which communications can be controlled by creativity and supposedly sophisticated readership/viewing habits can instruct customers to read./watch their advertisements…they don’t of course! The world we live in is vastly different from the world they think we live in.

Perhaps the change to reality is already starting! US retailer quits TV for instore promotions! Although only a casuist would draw hard and fast conclusions from such sparse data it isn’t good news for the US TV industry that a major retailer like Gap boosted its bottom line after quitting the medium in favour of instore merchandising for several successive quarters.

The switch trimmed 18 off the firm’s marketing expenditure during its most recent quarter contributing to a 40 yearonyear leap in profits.

Sono more retreat let us rediscover the true meaning of communication and then start to provide our clients with the sort of marketing communication they deserve in the 21st Century.

Advertising has set no standards for the effective accountable marketing communication of products/services matched only by the total lack of relentless curiosity! The history of advertising is also one of constant rejection towards anything that questioned the supremacy of advertising despite the fact that the alternative on offer was substantially more effective and less expensive than advertising itself.

1. In a nutshell: marketing as we know it is a construct of the last century or so. Markets on the other hand have been around for thousands of years.
2. Interactive communication is not the same as online/digital. Truly interactive is “letting customers into the heart of your business”
3. In markets as opposed to marketing the sale was merely the exclamation mark at the end of the sentence. The rest was conversation and relationship.
4.”Listen. Measure. Respond.”
5. “Why” is more important than “how”.
6. At the farmers market the farmers let you taste the fruit. How can your customers “taste your fruit”?

So let us define Interactive Marketing communication. Interaction can be defined simply as straightforward communication between two parties. Presently we are in danger of losing the real meaning of interaction as we tend to focus discussions on the emerging technologies and neglect the communication process itself.

With an understanding of the real meaning of Interactive Communication existing media can be made interactive and subsequently far more cost effective.
Interactive Marketing Communication turns passive advertising into active advertising and actually alters behaviour during the communication and learning process.

In my book Television killed advertising to be published end September 2008 I detail just how much more effective
Interactive communication is when compared to conventional advertising and details the results of a research investment in excess of 5 m.

About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Having invested over 10 million in independent research Paul Ashby is ideally suited to present the case for the widespread use of interactive marketing communication. The research investment has proved conclusively that one exposure to an interactive “event” is far more effective in all key measurements than traditional advertising. Paul made this investment because his company Effective . Accountable . Communication is predicated on being totally accountable to its Clients. You can contact Paul at: paul.ashbyyahoo.com
Discover more on http://interactivetelevisionorinteractivetv.blogspot.com

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Marketing By Motivation

Today the author would like to share his experience in this week marketing daily life . After remove to a new Pumps Division for almost 1 month found many clarifications on correspondence either from manufacture and or to clients were basically biased or you can say “screw up” if you ask me about this? Honestly speaking I also don’t know what happen since I am new to this department.

I believe the systems in correspondence were missed out of target based on the following reasons :

1. Lacking of Sales Application Engineer
2.The incumbent person implementing Sales and Commercial is not having technical qualifications back ground.
3. Lacking manpower to do daily’s sales and operation.

Since the management trusted me to carry out and assist the department my main target firstly is fixing the internal communication between us. Secondly educating and motivating the SAC persons to know more of Pumps technical background as to smooth the daily operation.

Third developing market analysis comprising forecasting potentials customer new projects and follow up on technical side.

Sounds easy isn’t it ? No it’s not it is a multi task force job that I have to carry out.I am not complaining I love challenge.

In this topic I share the “Marketing by Motivation” it’s a words put it or inject to yourself that you have this enormous energy to do all the above stuff if the readers are known to NLP or hypnotherapythis is one of the case study to put into practice.

Although this marketing task is difficult I am optimist that I can put the team on the sucess level by end of this year.

The idea in this area is not about concept it’s about motivation in marketing campaign to all customer branding with the product knowledge into the mind share of potentials customer.

It is the same concept in Internet Marketing though you are working yourself you are competing with yourself it’s difficult but challenging isn’t it?

You don’t know how far your progress you can only know within your soul. It’s like a mind saying “I am tiredbut the other mind says “I have to keep pushing to the limit” it is mind power.

This is the key success in marketing either online marketing or offline marketing.

I hope we can motivate our self in this topic” Marketing by Motivation”.

About the writer:  Ari Lestariono is the owner of http://motivationaldaily.blogspot.com if you want to copy articles must stated the author’s name and blogs/sites