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Is Candy Dandy or Is Liquor Quicker? . A short discourse into Positive and Negative approaches in advertising. A recurring question. Marketers want their brands to have a nice, cozy image, enjoy a bond with the consumer. They are usually averse to negative propositions. Centrum marketing:.
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Is Candy Dandy or Is Liquor Quicker? A short discourse into Positive and Negative approaches in advertising
A recurring question. • Marketers want their brands to have a nice, cozy image, enjoy a bond with the consumer. • They are usually averse to negative propositions.
Centrum marketing: Positive versus negative stances, with sales as judge.
Campaign born in a Crisis. • The change of tenor for Centrum was born during the Asian Crisis. • What was a tactical campaign to reduce a decline in sales became a campaign of many years.
Sales was astonishing. • We didn’t just reverse the decline, we upped sales by more than 50%. • Then we turned the tactical into a campaign.
Campaign didn’t work. Pulled it out after a month or so.
Results? • 60% over the preceding year.
Thou Shalt Not. • The negative has stronger inherent drama. • The absence of a problem does not make for compelling ads. • Negative advertising works – very well.
Settling a question of psychology. • If one is aiming for a specific end result, then negative feedback will result in moving toward that end point. • Hill, W. (1985). Learning: A survey of psychological interpretations. (4th. Ed.). New York: Harper and Row. • Skinner, B. (1953). Science and human behavior. New York: MacMillan. • Skinner, B. (1968). The technology of teaching. New York: Appleton-Crofts. “ ”