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Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time, 2009a

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Chapter 4<br />

Consumers <strong>and</strong> the Communications Process: SS+K<br />

Gets to Know Its Consumers<br />

Figure 4.1 Twelve Months to <strong>Launch</strong>!<br />

We are now twelve months from the launch of the msnbc.com campaign. The SS+K team needs to<br />

start th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g seriously about how it’s go<strong>in</strong>g to make consumers crave the msnbc.com br<strong>and</strong> of news.<br />

Before they can do that, however, they need to take a step back to underst<strong>and</strong> how advertisers “talk”<br />

to customers—what works <strong>and</strong> what doesn’t, <strong>and</strong> what determ<strong>in</strong>es what works. This means we need<br />

to take a look at communications <strong>and</strong> break down a complicated process <strong>in</strong>to simpler elements. Does<br />

it matter exactly what we say? Who says it? Where people get the message? How about others’<br />

op<strong>in</strong>ions—to what extent are our own preferences shaped (consciously or not) by what we believe<br />

others like or dislike? And, with the magical world of technology, how might the<br />

advertiser/consumer relationship evolve?<br />

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books<br />

Saylor.org<br />

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