Топик: Методичка по Английскому языку для экономистов
Neon displays
These are mostly used by large firms. The signsare usually displayed in city centres.
Technical journals
These are mostly used as an advertising medium by large manufacturing and distributing companies. They are read by persons and companies who are interested in this particular kind of product, and the journals will also contain other information thatis useful to the readers. Technical journals are usually printed once a month. Examples are The Hairdresser, The Radio and Television Magazine and the Farmers Live Stock Journal. Advertising in technical journals is a very good method of advertising.
Trade fairs and shows
The Motor Show, the Boat Show, the Radio Show and the Ideal Homes Exhibition are a few examples of trade fairs and shows. Dairy products may be advertised at agricultural shows. Aircraft may be advertised and displayed at the Farnborough Air Show. The disadvantage is that the shows and exhibitions are expensive to organize.
It is very difficult for advertisers to tell whether a particular advertisement or method of advertising has been effective, but there is no doubt that without advertising the customer would never hear of some products. Perhaps the most effective advertising of all is the recommendation of the product by a satisfied customer to a potential customer – advertising by word of mouth.
The language of advertising
Here are some methods used in persuasive advertising. Read them quickly. Decide which appeal to you and which don’t. Now think of an example for each type from your country.
persuasive advertising
1. Repetition The simplest kind of advertising. A slogan is repeated so often that we begin to associate a brand name with a particular product or service.
2. Endorsement A popular personality is used in the advertisement.
3. Emotional appeal Advertising often appeals to basics such as mother-love, sex, manliness, feminity.
4. Scientific authority Sometimes the advert shows a person in a white coat (i.e. a scientist) telling us about the product. More often it mentions “miracle ingredients” or “scientific testing” to persuade us.
5. “Keeping up with the jones’s” An appeal to pure snob value. You want to appeal to be richer or more successful than your neighbours.
6. Comparison The advert lists the qualities of a product in direct comparison with rival products.
7. An appeal to fear or anxiety This type is similar to 3, but works on our fears.
8. Association of ideas This is usually visual. Until it became illegal in Britain, cigarette advertising showed attractive, healthy people smoking in beautiful rural situations.
9. Information If a product is new, it may be enough to show it and explain what it does.
10. Special offers/free gifts This is a very simple and direct appeal – it’s half a price!
11. Anti-advertising This is a modern version which appeals to the British sense of humour. It makes fun of the techniques of advertising.
Do you agree that the only background for the problems with brand names would be:
- wrong pronunciation;
- wrong association;
- wrong translation.
Types of advertising
Introduction
1. Scope of advertising
Advertising serves many purposes and many advertisers, from the individual who places a small classified advertisement in his local newspaper to the big spender who uses networked TV to sell popular brands to the nation's millions.
2. Types
It is possible to identify seven main categories of advertising, namely consumer, industrial, trade, retail, financial, direct response and recruitment.