Advertisement is something which all the brands are taking it to aggressively so overshadow other competitor brands. From pen to Picture, every product or service has an advertisement today. Some are classy like Audi, BMA, KBC, Airtel, etc whereas low budget brands and government organisations still have lousy ads. Film stars and sports player making the best out of it. As soon as their movie gets hit or player make some record, their signing charges increases. More famous and costly the brand ambassador is, it directly reflects on the brand image.
But its sad to say that brands are doing everything to be the top players. Although just spending on the ads does not solves the purpose. Having so many competitor brands in the industry it becomes mandatory for brands to maintain on the quality. Because they cant take a chance to loose a customer because of quality reasons, which will lead to bad word-of-mouth publicity. Then no ad would be able to fix this up
Experiential marketing is something which is also gaining popularity now a days. Potential customers get a chance to experience the product like automobile companies have started conducted test drives free of cost at a mass level that too in a fun way. This gives a platform to brands to interact with customers and take their crucial feedback which can help them understand the pros and cons in their product, if any.
If you plan to buy a car, you decide the budget first and look for options which fall in your budget line. Discuss with your colleagues and friends and take their reviews. Analyse all the pros and cons, which include durability, mileage, pre sale services, post sale services which are very important in case of automobile as it needs constant servicing. Ads would be something which would inspire you to go for a product but collecting feedback from peer group and internet would be the first thing you would go for.
Therefore the brands should understand when they are spending millions on ads they should also simultaneously work on the quality of their products to keep them updated and try to revise it periodically to overcome its cons. Quality increases your customer base and people come to know about it through word of mouth publicity. More and more platforms should be designed for one to one interaction with customers. And these interactions should also result into actions.
Brands should also initiate their customers to write about the reviews on their websites as the culture of reviewing through internet is increasing. This reduces their effort of research and is convenient.
