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A psychologist’s guide to marketing
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Ross Macdonald Strategist [email protected]
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Life and careers in marketing
MadeBrave
Why marketing needs psychologists
Marketing
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So what is marketing?
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It’s not really this
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Price
Place
Product
Promotion
It’s sort of this…
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It’s not that!
Marketing is the process by which a firm profitably translates customer needs into revenue.
Mark Burgess
Could we say it simpler?
Marketing is communication?
Marketing is professional communication?
Marketing is professional communication to change behaviour?
But this doesn’t tell you very much
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We are Campfire, a Content Agency.
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Challenge: Revive a dying brand of men’s body wash
Insight: Competitors markets aggressively to men, but most body wash is actually bought by their wife or girlfriend
Solution: Make Old Spice the brand women want to buy for their man
An example
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So where can it take me?
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What else?
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Tips for getting in
Read up on the industry
Go speak to people
Get familiar with great marketing (Warc, Cannes, AdWeek, Pioneering Spirit Awards) - tip, you can probably access Warc through your university log in! Make the most of it
Look for an internship or experience
Be a bit different and get excited!
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Marketing needs psychologists
Marketing needs your skills
Man management & negotiation
Experimental design
Statistical literacy
Critical thinking
It needs your understanding
How emotions influence decision making
How to build creative environments
How colour influences emotion
Validity of personality tests for hiring
Because marketing is about people
Marketing needs psychologists
Because marketing is about people
And changing their behaviour
Marketing needs psychologists
The problem is, marketers sometimes forget that
Marketing needs psychologists
They talk about how ‘traditional advertising’ is dead and how people are fundamentally changing.
Marketing needs psychologists
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“It took millions of years for man’s instincts to develop. It will take millions more for them to even vary. It is fashionable to talk about changing man. A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man, with his obsessive drive to survive, to be admired, to succeed, to love, to take care of his own.”
Bill Bernbach
And we’re suffering as a result
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LONG-TERM DECLINE IN % WHO AGREE “I ENJOY TV ADS AS MUCH AS THE PROGRAMMES”
Source: TGI 1984-2018
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% of all UK adults who agree
Via BBH labs
Rory Sutherland and Richard Shotton among those doing it right
A warning note
Marketing needs psychologists, but it tends to reject sticklers
But be brave!
If you are a psychologist working in marketing, you are the expert
Marketing needs psychologists
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NONE OF US KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING
Bob Hoffman
@v_praveen & @vishalostwal9
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