Advertising
In the current competitive world, an entity has to entice methods of marketing its product and services to an ‘inquisitive clientele’ as observed by a mill in his book ‘White Collar’. The most used mode of marketing is advertising. This paper tries to synthesize various issues surrounding advertising since time immemorial. These are like historical changes, considerations of the advertisers themselves and the rights and privacy of consumers. I am interested in exploring the following issues because they have affected advertising since time immemorial.
The field of advertising has experienced many historical changes over time. These dynamics are triggered by different aspects of marketing frontier. In the 20th century, advertising was subject to different factions in the society as observed by Rosen in his book ‘Introduction to Marketing’. These are like political, economic, socio-cultural and geographic ideologies. Some adverts were politically inclined with a view of winning consumers affiliated to a particular divide. These were rightist or leftists which distorted the image of many entities due to their biases while rolling public awareness programs on their products as noted by Thompson. Adverts were also mostly tailored towards up market consumers, thus discriminating the low-end consumers. This exclusivist view of advertisement alienated many down-market consumers leaving them neglected and betrayed in the society. Thus, their orientation on such company’s commodities deteriorated which in turn affects demand. On socio-cultural front, organizations adverts were leaning towards a particular gender. Commodities were advertised on female or male backdrop...
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... facts mentioned, the rights and privacy of consumers have to be considered while advertising a company’s product.
In conclusion, to make discovery in advertising, its issues have to be considered. These are like the historical changes that have occurred in the advertising industry. Also, advertising considerations are important in analyzing the advertisement path to take. The rights and privacy of consumers are also paramount while making advertisement decision.
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The author of this book Bruce Barton was a partner in a successful advertising firm during the 1920’s. This was a time when the industry of advertising was under going some major changes. These changes had a lot to do with a number of factors the first of which being the post war prosperity this meant people had more money than they ever had before. Another one of these factors had to do with the high number of teens who were now attending high school, this proved to be important because it created a whole other market which hadn’t existed before. One more factor was the advances made in transportation and communication, these advances allowed goods, people, and information to travel long distances relatively quickly intern allowing companies to grow large enough to spread their services nationally. Still another important factor was the invention of financing, this allowed people to pay for durable objects (large objects that would last a couple of years) with affordable installments or payments. But the biggest changes were the actual advertising practices themselves, many of which were pioneered by Barton and his associates, and didn’t become norms in advertising until after the release of Bartons book “The Man Nobody Knows” in 1924. This book served not only as a manual on how to advertise more affectively but also as an example of good advertising itself.
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