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Sofa King Band
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Do companies make what we want or do we want what companies make?
Are markets really driven by what people tend to go for or do markets lead people and convince them to want what they want us to buy?
In other words, does advertising make us or do we make advertising? |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Advertising tells us what to do.
Example: Wearing a frog on your head .. who would do that? But if all of a sudden every ad had a frog on the actors heads, and celebs started doing it, everyone would do it. |
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First African GFY Member
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 12,114
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We want what companies make.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: South Florida
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Brad I do whatever you do
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: 2006
Posts: 8,584
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No, we don't absolutely need electric can openers. But it's handy.
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BACON BACON BACON
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Poems everybody, the laddie fancies himself a poet
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we make advertising...think of all the time you spend trying to figure out what the people want.
in the end we sell them what we think they want..so in a sense..wait is this the chicken egg thing?...ugh..lol |
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Sofa King Band
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: FL
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When you do go shopping do you go for a specific item and that is the only thing you buy? Product researchers and developers are driven by the wants and needs of people. Marketing people have a product and they must sell it any way possible. Just my ![]() |
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Trailer Park
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its a two way street, I have tons of shit I dont need that I bought because they marketed it to me in the right way, but I also have shit I do need that I bought because I needed it.. but I bought it over competition because it was marketed to me in a way that it was more appealing, or it was a better product.
Marketing and PR are grey areas that are simply meant to appeal to peoples wants *or* needs. Porn is the same way, we don't really need it do we, but we sure want it (or they make it look appealing so we want it!). If they showed nekked pics of BradM all over the place, we certainly don't want it, we need it!
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Germany
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Companies want us to want what they make
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Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 1,792
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People will buy things that they need and/or things that they want. For instance men will never need or want tampons so they won't buy them. You can advertise until you're blue in the face but if the consumer doesn't need or want your product they won't buy it.
Advertising to specific markets will drive your sales and that's what's called marketing. ![]()
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