Techniques of persuasion: motivating the consumer

Advertising is a type of persuasive message that is designed to motivate consumers to buy a product.  The advertising industry uses specific techniques to appeal to their target audience.  This is a list of some techniques that are often used not only in advertising, but also in any persuasive message.

Card Stacking:  list of reasons why the product or service is good. Ads giving only the positive side of a product or service, ignoring negative aspects. Soda advertisements that neglect to mention the large amount of empty calories contained in the product.

Repetition:  makes product or service familiar to consumer. Where a message is repeated loudly and very often in the hope that it will eventually be believed.

Examples:
The product, HeadOn, is said or implied to cure headaches. One rubs HeadOn on one’s head. The television commercial shows a woman doing exactly that.






The element that is being repeated is the colour green. An element on a slide is a text, an image, a combination of text and image or colour of image or text. The green colour which comes at the top and bottom is making sure your eye stays on the slide for more time and it alternates between the top and bottom. This way we spend more time reading the ad.



Technical jargon:  identifies product or service with an idea. Uses technical words to impress the consumer.
Examples:
Nike has been using the slogan 'Just Do It.' since 1998. The phrase was coined by Dan Wieden, the co-founder of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy.


The Power of Dreams, Honda’s global brand slogan, expresses Honda’s ambition to realize and inspire extraordinary dreams


Logo:  identifies product or service with a symbol.  
Examples: 
The Nike “Swoosh” logo was created in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student at Portland State University. The logo represents the wing of the Greek Goddess of Victory from which the name Nike was derived.




Snob Appeal:  associates product or service with a personality or lifestyle. Where someone encourages us to think his product would make us better, or stand out, from everybody else.

Examples:
The ad I chose is a Starbucks ad that uses snob appeal.  The ad reads, “If your coffee isn’t perfect, we’ll make it over.  If it’s still not perfect, make sure you’re in a Starbucks.”  At the bottom is the slogan, “It’s not just coffee.  It’s Starbucks.”  Basically, Starbucks is claiming that their coffee is superior to all other coffee.  Anything else just won’t do.  I think this advertisement is persuasive because it makes me perceive Starbucks as the best brand.  Starbuck’s has an excellent brand and I think it would be really cool to work for someone like them one day.






Cause and Effect:  use this product or service and your problems will disappear
Examples:
 BUCHANG NAOXINTONG merupakan obat tradisional China untuk mencegah serangan stroke. Buchang Nao Xintong juga merawat dan memperkecil serangan jantung koroner.
    Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa obat ini menekan:

    * Aglutinasi trombosit akibat ADP.
    * Menekan pembentukan trombosis.
    * Meningkatkan volume aliran darah ke otak.
    * Memperpanjang waktu pembekuan darah.
    * Menghambat proses penyumbatan darah pada otak sehingga memperkecil resiko Serangan STROKE.

This advertisement using cause and effect technique if someone use this product his/her problem will disappear.

Emotional Appeal: uses emotion to sell a product or service (pity, fear, patriotism, happiness,etc.). Audience transfers that feeling to the product.
Examples:
Shock advertising could also refer to the usage of emotional appeals such as humor, sex or fear.












Fear appeals are often used in marketing and social policy, as a method of persuasion. Fear is an effective tool to change attitudes, which are moderated by the motivation and ability to process the fear message.








Price Appeal:  consumers will be getting something extra for less money
Examples:
ads with price appeal is often used to promote the sale of certain products. and an approach to advertising as a major factor in the price of the core message










What was done by Mc. Donalds want to work on a huge market, which has a market funds 'enough' and still want to feel the delicious

















Testimonial:  someone endorses the product. A famous personality is used to endorse the product

Examples:
Testimonial ads have a double advantage. They can be an effective way to engage and interest your audience. And a great way to characterize the brand's personality and relationship with the audience.









    Serena Williams promotes Gatorade. She wants her fans to buy it.

    So ALL of these respected people are trying to persuade people (fans) to buy a certain product. Thinking since their fans see them giving a thumbs up to the product that they will buy the item.{This is called TESTIMONIAL}.






    Sex Appeal: the product will enhance you sexual attractiveness.
    Example:
    The purpose of the imagery is to attract the attention of the potential customer or user. the product will enhance you sexual attractiveness.








    Described in the ad, group of a construction worker holding a plastic bag containing colorful drinks with the condition are still sluggish and dispirited. Then comes, the man took a glass of yellow drink Extra Joss and insinuated his friends, saying "“LAKI, minum Extra Joss”. This indicates more clearly who the target market segment by Extra Joss today.








    Bandwagon:  uses peer pressure to influence the consumer. If everyone else is doing it so should you. Where someone pressures us to do something just because many other people like us are doing it. Consumers assume that if others buy it, the product must be good.
    Examples:
    Sunsilk as a brand collaborated with hairstylist world, to create the appropriate shampoo products with different types of women's hair in the world. Sunsilk reinforce its brand as a brand that is trusted by the world's master stylist and make partnership in creating great products for women in the world.








    Confusion:  gains the consumers attention by confusing them, and then retains the attention as the consumer tries to figure out the message.
    example of the confusing marketing messages is this screenshot from the Playbook’s homepage. The tag line here is: “The world’s first professional-grade tablet.”
    I’m not at all surprised that Blackberry is pitching this as a professional-grade, enterprise tablet. These are the type of users I would expect to be buying a Blackberry tablet. IT departments are looking to Blackberry to provide a tablet that integrates well into their existing security standards and presumably all of the Blackberry smartphones they have. However, this message becomes confusing when you pair it up with all of the other messages and ads showing the Playbook primarily as a media consumption device. Users are shown watching music videos and playing games, not banging out emails or working on PowerPoint presentations. It’s going to be hard for enterprise users to take this thing seriously.


    Transfer:  associates the product with words or ideas that may or may not be related to the product.  The association seeks to transfer certain qualities to the product. Where an advertiser gets us to associate our good or bad feelings about one thing, to another unrelated thing.  
    "Sampoerna Hijau, asyiknya rame-rame" (read: smoking was associated with friendship)








    Name Calling:  the advertiser compares its product or service to the competition in a way that is favorable to the advertiser.

    Plain Folks:  the advertiser tries to identify its product with common people just like you. The suggestion that the product is a practical product of good value for ordinary people.
    Example:
    The first example is a everyday baby promoting different foods.
















    SUBWAY has a man promoting them by saying if you eat SUBWAy you will lose weight. This guy is basically telling you if you eat SUBWAY you will lose weight.















    Avante garden:
    Facts and Figures:
    Magic Ingredients:The suggestion that a miraculous discovery makes a product effective.Often seen in ads for diet pills.


    Weasel Words is used in advertising to make a claim look legitimate to the casual listener or reader. On closer examination it, too, proves to be empty and meaningless.
    Example:


    wow butter claims to "tastes just like peanut butter" does not actually peanut butter.  "tastes like" are weasels.

















    Commonly used weasel words include: "helps", "acts", "works", "can be", "up to", "as much as", "refreshes", "comforts", "fights", "the feel of", "looks like", "tastes like", and "strengthened".

     














    Bribery: This technique tries to persuade us to buy a product by promising to give us something else, like a discount, a rebate, a coupon, or a "free gift.” Sales, special offers, contests, and sweepstakes are all forms of bribery. Unfortunately, we don’t really get something for free -- part of the sales price covers the cost of the bribe.
    Example:
    Bribery seems to give a desirable extra something.  We humans tend to be greedy.

















    Glittering Generality:  the viewer is given a general feeling about the product, but not much else.
    Example:
    "Semua dokter gigi menggunakan Oral B" (note: that the number and location not been specified).











    In the ad, glittering generalities technique demonstrated through the actions and performance of commercial star. The soccer players can play with a very agile running and playing ball. Indirectly, the message delivered by this commercial is, if you use Nike, then you have a good performance in sports like the star field. It also depicted the life of football player reliable filled with prestige. It can be seen from the clothes worn while attending the event, the car driven, to the food they eat. Life like this that would be obtained if using Nike, a high level of life


    Bait and Switch: Dishonest tactic in which a salesperson lures customers into a store with the promise of a bargain. Consumers are persuaded to buy a more expensive item. Bait and Switch adv is now mostly done by the business by distributing invitations to prospective customers to take the prize for free then persuaded consumers to buy goods with a spectacular discount when price and quality of goods have been manipulated.


    Wit and Humor: Used to make audiences laugh, but provides little information about the product or service. Consumers remember the ad and associate positive feelings with the product.
    Examples:
    Customers are attracted to products that divert the audience by giving viewers a reason to left or to be entertained by clever use of visual or language.








    In the ad, Ronaldo wished to become the third team uniforms and unfortunately remains very small. Consequently, with the accompaniment of cheering spectators, Ronaldo out of the dressing room wearing a tight uniform. This section has been designed to tickle the audience belly
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    Sentences

    1. Pengertian Sentence (Kalimat). Menurut Ilmu Bahasa, sentence (kalimat) adalah sekumpulan kata yang mempunyai paling sedikit satu subjek dan satu predikat serta mengandung pengertian yang sempurna (lengkap). Sebuah kalimat diawali dengan huruf besar dan diakhiri dengan titik. Atau di dalam wikipedia ada dijelaskan akan tetapi saya tidak mendapati yang berbahasa Indonesia dan hanya mendapati yang berbahasa Inggris. Adapun yang tertulis didalam wikipedia adalah sebagai berikut : In linguistics, a sentence is a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, etc. Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the presence of a finite verb.
    2. Pembagian Kalimat
      • Simple Sentence (Kalimat Sederhana) yaitu kalimat yang hanya mengandung satu verb (kata keja) utama yang mencerminkan adanya satu gagasan saja.
      • Compound Sentence (Kalimat Majemuk) yaitu kalimat yang mengandung dua verb utama atau lebih yang menggambarkan 2 gagasan atau lebih yang disambungkan dengan kata sambung (conjunctions).
      • Complex Sentence (Kalimat Sempurna) yaitu kalimat yang mengandung 1 main clause (kalimat induk) dan 1 atau lebih anak kalimat yang dihubungkan dengan Kata Ganti Penghubung (Relative Pronouns).
      • Complex-Compound Sentence (Kalimat Majemuk Sempurna) yaitu kalimat gabungan antara kalimat majemuk dan kalimat sempurna yaitu kalimat yang terdiri dari 1 atau lebih kalimat utama dan 1 atau lebih anak kalimat.
    Perhatikan contoh-contoh kalimat berikut ini:
    • Jean is in the house (simple sentence)
    • It’s starting to rain and I have left my deck-chair outside (Compound Sentence)
    • The suspect denied that he had been in the neighborhood (Complex Sentence)
    • The man stole the jewelry and he did it in his home until he could safely get out of town. (Complex-Compound Sentence)
    1. Simple Sentence. A simple sentence is a sentence structure that contains one independent clause and no dependent clauses. A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought
      In the following simple sentences, subjects are in yellow, and verbs are in green.
      • The singer bowed.
        This simple sentence has one independent clause which contains one subject, singer, and one predicate, bowed.
      • Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon.
        that sentence contains a compound subject.
      • Alicia goes to the library and studies every day.
        that sentence contains a compound verb.

    2. Compound sentence. A compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses. It does not require a dependent clause. The clauses are joined by a coordinating conjunction (with or without a comma), a correlative conjunction (with or without a comma), or a semicolon that functions as a conjunction. A conjunction can be used to make a compound sentence. The use of a comma to separate two independent clauses in a sentence is accepted as part of the English language.
      In the following compound sentences, subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the coordinators and the commas that precede them are in red.
      • I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English. 
      • Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping. 
      • Alejandro played football, for Maria went shopping.
      The above three sentences are compound sentences. Each sentence contains two independent clauses, and they are joined by a coordinator with a comma preceding it. Note how the conscious use of coordinators can change the relationship between the clauses. Sentences B and C, for example, are identical except for the coordinators. In sentence B, which action occurred first? Obviously, "Alejandro played football" first, and as a consequence, "Maria went shopping. In sentence C, "Maria went shopping" first. In sentence C, "Alejandro played football" because, possibly, he didn't have anything else to do, for or because "Maria went shopping." How can the use of other coordinators change the relationship between the two clauses? What implications would the use of "yet" or "but" have on the meaning of the sentence?

    3. Complex sentence. A complex sentence is a sentence with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause (subordinating clause). The dependent clause is introduced by either a subordinate conjunction such as although, or because or a relative pronoun such as who or which.
      In the following complex sentences, subjects are in yellow, verbs are in green, and the subordinators and their commas (when required) are in red.
      1. When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give the teacher the last page. 
      2. The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error. 
      3. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow.
      4. After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies. 
      5. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying.
      When a complex sentence begins with a subordinator such as sentences A and D, a comma is required at the end of the dependent clause. When the independent clause begins the sentence with subordinators in the middle as in sentences B, C, and E, no comma is required. If a comma is placed before the subordinators in sentences B, C, and E, it is wrong.
      Note that sentences D and E are the same except sentence D begins with the dependent clause which is followed by a comma, and sentence E begins with the independent clause which contains no comma.  The comma after the dependent clause in sentence D is required, and experienced listeners of English will often hear a slight pause there.  In sentence E, however, there will be no pause when the independent clause begins the sentence. 

    4. Complex-compound sentence. In syntax, a sentence with at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses is referred to as a complex-compound sentence. Sometimes also called a compound-complex sentence.
      Examples
      • "The cat lived in the backyard, but the dog, who knew he was superior, lived inside the house".
        • Independent clauses: The cat lived in the backyard.
        • Dependent clause: who knew he was superior
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    BAAK Gunadarma

    Salah satu fasilitas dari Universitas Gunadarma yang dapat membantu dalam kegiatan belajar-mengajar dan juga kegiatan administrasi akademik. http://www.baak.gunadarma.ac.id/ banyak berisi tentang berita-berita terbaru seputar kuliah yang dapat memudahkan mahasiswa mengetahui berita terbaru untuk kuliahnya.

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    Gunadarma

    Sejarah Universitas Gunadarma

    Universitas Gunadarma, sekarang nama itulah yang melekat. Akan tetapi pada mulanya ada banyak perubahan dari nama tersebut. Antara lain adalah Akademi Sains dan Komputer Indonesia (ASKI) didirikan pada 7 Agustus 1981. Lalu pada 10 Juli 1984, Akademi Sains dan Komputer berubah nama menjadi Sekolah Tinggi Komputer Gunadarma (STKG). Pada 5 oktober 1985, STKG berubah nama menjadi Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Informatika dan Teknologi Gunadarma (STMIK Gunadarma) yang mengasuh dua jenjang pendidikan yaitu Program Pendidikan Strata Satu (S1) dan Strata Nol (D3), sedang jurusan yang dimiliki adalah jurusan Manajemen Informatika dan Teknik Komputer. Pada 4 Januari 1988, STMIK Gunadarma memperoleh status diakui dari SK Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan No.006/0/1988. Jurusan Manajemen Informatika dan Teknik Komputer STMIK Gunadarma memperoleh status disamakan dari Surat Keputusan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan No.0490/0/1989 pada 12 Agustus 1989.
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    Visi, Misi, dan Tujuan Universitas Gunadarma
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