Monday, November 7, 2011

Chapter 16/ Integrated Marketing Communications

Vans uses promotion so the target market can know about products such as sneakers, apparel and ultimately to buy products. The company makes sure that their potential customers and target market has them in mind when shopping for products. Vans has many ways in which they use promotion to encourage customers to buy their products:

Vans uses advertising as a form of paid promotion to make sure the audiences knows about their products. Advertising like the one in this magazine is expensive but the cost per contact is worth the expense if, the target market consumers buy the product. This is an example of persuasive promotion because the ad wants to appeal to the senses so the target audience will buy the product. In the AIDA concept, this may be used in the desire stage to attract consumers over competing products.

Vans uses its Facebook & Twitter pages to create good publicity with its consumers. It uses these websites to interact with the consumers and to find out how many might be willing to buy their next product. Social media websites are good public relations tools.

Vans uses sales promotions like the “Vans Classic Tales” promotion to encourage consumers to buy their classic sneakers like Vans Slip-ons, Authentics or Eras. On http://www.vans.com/classictales/ the company asks consumers who have had great memories of wearing Vans shoes to tell a story about one of those memories. This sales promotion is also to encourage potential consumers to buy and trust classic Vans shoes.

The social media and “Vans Classic Tales” examples are reminders for consumers to keep Vans products and brand in mind. Vans is vigilant in reminding audiences that Vans is a classic brand that cares about it consumers. In the AIDA concept, these examples would be in the interest stage. Vans uses its social media pages to spark interest once the target audience is on the page. The Vans Tales promotion is made to create interest by showing many stories about how experienced customers are satisfied with Vans.

1 comment: