big idea of the day--eric. big idea? interrogate the product until it confesses!
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Big Idea of the Day--Eric
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Interrogate the product
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Until it confesses!
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Step One: What does WD-40 stand for?
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Answers to:
What are some uses?
What is its greatest strength?
What do people have against it?
Why is this more than a commodity?
How does it fit into people’s lives (when do they use it)?
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What if we had to write a positioning statement based on what we know
For target audience WD-40 is the frame of reference that benefit
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How might the benefit look as a proposition?
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What kind of ads could we do?Insight, sell, twist
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Investigate the Marketplace
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Investigate the Marketplace (category)
Demographics (incl. socioeconomic and cultural)
Psychographics (esp. values and attitudes)
Benefits sought
Buying behavior (seasonality, occasions, usage rate)
Brand Loyalty (what unites loyalists?)
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Simmons Choices III
Survey: 5,000 questions; 50,000 possible answers
Sample : 30,000 adults
Product categories; demographics; lifestyles; attitudes
Demographic/psychographic cross tab mother lode
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Simmons Choices III Demo
Think MRI+ with depth and breadth
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Denture Cleaner
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Strategic Questions
How might we want to position our product if we wanted to increase use with our best customers?
How might we want to position our product if we wanted to create trial with our least frequent customers?
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Target men or women?Advertise differently to men and women?
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Homework
Client: Walgreens:Product: Pregnancy Tests
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Homework—Simmons Due first class next week
In teams of three
Cross tabs
Columns: 1) Home Pregnancy Test used last 12 months (“yes”); 2) Attitudes>Health & Medicine> Any agree: OTC store brands work like advertised brands.
Rows: Demographics: 1) Age 22-24; Age 40-44
Answer: 1) Which is the better target and why?; 2) should they create a store brand or not?
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Teams 208.2
Adamus, Danzinger, Di Francesco
Elkin, Fox, Kaiser
Kaye, Kittel, Liu
Morrissey, Nadal, Rackover
Rubino, Schaefer
Ghias, Gurss
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Details
3 Choices III leaded computers in Bird Library, 3rd Fl.
GSIC (“Geographic and Statistical Information Center”)
Terminals reserved for us: Thurs. 1/27 10am-10pm; Fri 1/28 10am-6pm
Any trouble talk to Michael Pasquloni, 2nd Fl, rm 200
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Knowing the truth of the category helps you…
Break out of the false man-made (leader dominated) category
Sheehan’s first law
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Tampon AdvertisingWhat is it like?
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Knowing the marketplace psychographics…
Helps you create psychographic segmentation
Nissan segments
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Epicures
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Gearheads
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Purists
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Functionalists
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Road-Haters
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Negatives
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Helps you talk the audience’s language
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Big Idea of the Day