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Popular Advertising Techniques
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So many ways to convince us . . .
  • Here are just a few!
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Bandwagon
  • Everybody else is buying this product.
  • You don’t want to miss out!
  • Jump on the bandwagon!
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Testimonial
  • A celebrity endorses a product.
  • I can be just like him!
  • If it’s good enough for him . . .
    • It’s good enough for me!
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Transfer
  • Picture of a celebrity with product
  • Positive words, phrases, and pictures
  • Implied association with product
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Emotional Words or Loaded Words
  • Positive words make you feel good.
    • Buy the product!
  • Negative words make you feel bad.
    • This plays on your heart!
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Glittering Generalities
  • Words and phrases imply or suggest something . . .
    • without making guarantees or promises.
  • It sounds so good.
  • Listeners don’t challenge the real point.


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Name Calling
  • Slamming the competition
  • Selected words give negative impression of
    • Product
    • Person, or
    • Group of people
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Plain Folks
  • Appeal to the common person
  • Just like everyday folk!
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Snob Appeal
  • Only the elite use this!
  • You are special!
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False analogy
  • Comparing two things that cannot be compared.
  • A car is not a magic carpet.
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Card Stacking
  • Shows similarities between two products, BUT
  • Ignores the differences
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Avant Garde
  • Be the first to try it!
  • You are ahead of the times!
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Popular Advertising Techniques
  • Photos courtesy of the American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress and from Life Magazine.
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