Marketing Manipulation And Manipulation

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It is not secret that marketing plays one of the key roles of a successful business. As Phillip Kotler said: “Marketing is the science and art of exploring, creating, and delivering value to satisfy the needs of a target market at a profit. Marketing identifies unfulfilled needs and desires. It defines, measures and quantifies the size of the identified market and the profit potential”. Simply stated, marketing is everything you do to place your product or service in the hands of a potential customer.

In this project, authors will focus on one of the main components of marketing, which is advertising. According to dictionary: “Advertising is the act or practice of calling public attention to one’s product, service, need, etc., especially …show more content…

A reader will clearly understand whether the advertising influences people or not, also will recognize how advertising forces people to buy things they do not need. It is also important to distinguish between manipulation and influence. During the whole work, we will show exact examples and evidence of how actually advertising manipulates people and why we do not see it. On the other hand, we will also describe non-manipulative advertising and how people can avoid senseless purchase.

According to scientific research, only significant data was used during writing this project.

2 Communication in marketing

As it was mentioned before, an understanding of what customers need and want is the main aspect in marketing. This understanding comes with communication process between people. Firstly, it has to be mentioned what communication means. In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places. In business, it is a key function of management. An organization cannot operate without communication between levels, departments and …show more content…

We have freedom of speech, and since in general people are free to ignore advertising if they want to, but after all each initial group can be easily manipulated. Peacock K. (2003)
6.1 Nesquick

• Breakfast is better with the Bunny - As part of a balanced breakfast, NESQUIK® can help your kids stay active with 8 grams of delicious protein*, and it has 25% less sugar than the leading syrup brand.
• Low-fat chocolate milk like NESQUIK helps refuel and restore muscles because research suggests it contains the ideal 3:1 ratio of carbohydrates-to-protein.
• For a limited time only, enjoy our two new Double Awesome NESQUIK® Girl Scout Cookie™ flavors: Caramel Coconut and Thin Mints.
• Nesquik TV commercial video example: Available here
• When is the cold outside, enjoy hot inside! Nesquik.com

Nesquik manipulates by claiming that it helps children to stay active, having less sugar then some other competitors, low fat chocolate milk, helping to refuel muscles and other awesome effects. After reading of all this recommendations some people may think that there is any other more valuable way how to start their morning. Commercial telling, that Nesquik helps us feel more comfortable when iits cold outside. Of course not only Nesquik, but also hot tea will make us feel

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