Assignment help-Discuss the effectiveness of the overall marketing campaigns including advertising, personal selling, promotion, events, and public relations strategies
Evaluate the case of your choice, and respond to each of the questions below using both theory and practical managerial thinking as well as supporting research. Option 1: Red Bull (pp. 581–582)
What are Red Bull’s greatest strengths as more companies (like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Monster) enter the energy drink category and gain market share? What are the risks to their brand equity of competing against such powerhouses?
Discuss the pros and cons of Red Bull’s nontraditional marketing tactics. Should the company do more traditional advertising? Why, or why not?
Discuss the effectiveness of Red Bull’s sponsorships, advertisements, personal selling strategies, promotion, events, MBA 5501, Advanced Marketing 6 and public relations. Where should the company draw the line in terms of risk?
Recommend the next steps for Red Bull with respect to their marketing and advertising strategies. Option 2: Gillette (pp. 612–613)
Gillette has successfully convinced the world that more is better in terms of number of blades and other razor features. How did they do it? Why has that worked in the past? Will it continue to work in the future? Why, or why not? Will Gillette ever become as successful at marketing to women as to men? Why, or why not? 2. Why have Gillette’s sports marketing partnerships been so successful in developing their brand equity?
Some of Gillette’s spokespeople such as Derek Jeter and Tiger Woods have run into controversy after becoming endorsers for the brand. Does this hurt Gillette’s brand equity or marketing message? Explain.
Discuss the effectiveness of their overall marketing campaign including advertising, personal selling, promotion, events, and public relations strategies. 5
Recommend next steps for Gillette with respect to their marketing and advertising strategies. Option 3: Unilever (Axe and Dove) (pp. 632–633)
What makes personal marketing work? Why are Dove and Axe so successful at developing their brand equity? Discuss the effectiveness of the overall marketing campaigns including advertising, personal selling, promotion, events, and public relations strategies.
Is there a conflict of interest in the way Unilever markets to women and young men? Is it undoing all the good that might be done in the “Campaign for Real Beauty” by making women sex symbols in Axe ads? Discuss
