Dienstag, 2. Februar 2010

Bibliography ~ BUY-OLOGY


Bibliography~
Source-
-          “BUY-OLOGY – How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong” by Martin Lindstrom
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-          Common facts (pgs. 11-12)
o   Used a 25times larger neuromarketing study than ever attempted before
§  Revealed hidden truths behind how marketing messages and branding work on the human brain
§  Our truest selves respond to stimuli at a rank far deeper than aware thought
§  Unconscious minds are in charge of our behavior
o   Study took 3 years beginning 2004
o   Costs = 7 million dollar (provided by 8 multinational companies)
o   People
§  Thousands of subjects
§  200 researchers
§  10 professors
§  10 doctors
§  1 Ethics team
-          Experiments
o   James Vicary projected 1/300 of a second advertisement every 5 seconds during movies (pg. 69)
§  “DRINK COCA-COLA” & “EAT POPCORN”
§  Results: 18.1% increase in COCA-COLA sales, and a 57.8% increase in POPCORN sales
§  Coined the word ~ subliminal advertising
-          Strategies (examples)
o   Guinness (beer) made losses (pg. 89)
§  Customers did not want to wait 10mins for their beer for the foam head to settle
§  Clever advertisement was used
·         “Good things come to those who wait”
·         “It takes 119.53 seconds to pour the perfect pint”
§  New ritual was born ~ customers waited longer
o   BUY-OLOGY team helps GaJol (tables against sore-throat) in Copenhagen (pg. 137)
§  Told them to buy newspaper space
§  Tagline: “if only Pavarotti had known about GaJol”
·         Was there for a visit but had a sore throat and had to cancel his performance
§  Pavarotti ~ Italian operatic tenor ~ famously known
§  It became an achievement that kept 15 years with the Danes ~ still connect Pavarotti to GaJol
o   PINK example (pg. 137)
§  BANK had trouble boosting its awareness
§  Colored it pink ~ serious bank does not go together with such a bright color
·         6 months later everyone hated it
·         9 months later the shares went up and everyone noticed it
o   Customers had associated the pink with the security of a childhood piggy bank
-          Sex in Advertising (examples)
o   One of the first ones in 1971 (pg. 177)
§  “I’m Cheryl, Fly me.”
§  “I’m going to fly you like you’ve never been flown before”
·         Increase in passengers by 23% after one year
o   Page 178
§  “Or the one showing a silhouette of a Volvo’s driver’s seat with its parking break extending in the air –precisely like an erect penis –over the tagline, “We’re just as excited as you are.”
·         Shows how sex is used in advertising
-          Beauty in Advertising
o   What is used (pg. 187)
§  Extreme beauty or celebrity
o   Ueber-attractive spokespeople for products are often used (pg. 187)
§  EX. George Clooney or Nicole Kidman
·         However a study revealed that often the spokesperson is remembered but not the product that is being advertised
o   Turn-off
§  Study at the University of Florida (pg. 187)
·         Women often find ultra-attractive women as a turn-off
·         Made two general categories:
o   Sexy
o   Wholesome
·         Women reacted positive to; un-made-up, wholesome, natural models and negative to; super pretty and “fake”
·         Women would buy (53%) products that allude to “love”
·         Women would buy (26%) products that allude to “sex”
-          The answer: the MIRROR NEURON
o   Mirror neurons (pg. 190)
§  Allow us to imagine ourselves being equally attractive, cool, good-looking, and desirable  &&& sex appeal
·         For example, a gorgeous model in underwear will make women belief they will look gorgeous if they buy the underwear
o   Male crotches on labels of underwear boxes
§  Not for gay men but ~
·         About visions of one’s ideal self
§  However, around 75% of men get their underwear from females ~ also look at bulges
o   Backfire mechanisms of mirror-neurons
§  Oliveriero Toscani (page 191) (photographer) made a photo of an anorexic model to show the negative sides of modeling
·         Effect ~ people did not see the danger but ~
o   Wanted to become skinnier

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