Answers To End Of Chapter Learning Aids

Marketing Applications

1 Assume that the contemporary apparel company Juicy Couture has embarked on a new IMC

strategy. It has chosen to advertise on TV during the NBC Nightly News and in print in Time magazine.

The message is designed to announce new styles for the season and uses a 18-year-old woman as the

model. Evaluate this strategy, and if appropriate propose an alternative.

2 Using the steps in the AIDA model, explain why a potential consumer in question 1 who views

Juicy Couture’s advertising may not be ready to go out and purchase a new pair of jeans.

4 It’s holiday time, and you’ve decided to purchase a box of chocolates for the person of your

choice. Evaluate how Godiva’s advertising, personal selling, public relations, and electronic media

might influence your purchase decision. How might the relativeimportance of each of these IMC

elements be different if your parents were making the purchase?

Student must imagine the relative weight they, as well as their parents, might put on each element of

Tiffany’s IMC strategy. Student likely will weight on public relations and electronic media more

5 Suppose you saw your instructor for this course being interviewed on TV about the impact of a

big storm on an upcoming holiday’s sales. Is this interview part of your college’s IMC program? If so,

do you believe it benefits the college? How?

6 A retail store places an ad in the local newspaper for yoga wear. The sales of the featured items

increase significantly for the next two weeks. Sales in the rest of the sportswear department go up as

well. What do you think are the short- and long-term objectives of the ad? Justify your answer.

the next 18 months. Your manager explains, “It’s real simple; just increase the budget 2 percent over

last year’s.” Evaluate your manager’s strategy.

8 You were sitting in the school cafeteria yesterday, and a young man from your marketing class,

whom you don’t know well, asked if he could sit down. He then started telling you about this very cool

new Apple product that allows you to record class lectures and play them back on an MP3 player.

Although you recognize the merit in the product, you later find out that he works for Apple. Do you

believe his action constitutes an ethical IMC strategy? How will it affect your attitude toward Apple

and the potential that you will purchase the product?

appropriate course of action.

Net Savvy

1 Visit http://www.thephelpsgroup.com and click on the “Our Work” tab at the top. In the Work

Portfolio, compare the IMC for the different companies. What were the goals of the integrated

marketing campaign? Which IMC components were used in that particular campaign? How do those

components contribute to the success of the IMC campaign in achieving its stated goals?

Consumer

Business

“Engineering Precision”

Online Marketing

YouTube Marketing Films

Twitter Marketing Films

Facebook Advertising Marketing Films

Company Website Marketing Films

Advertising Television

achieve?

Consumer

Business

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