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Over-marketing and brand suicide

In: Reverse Psychology Marketing

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  • Indrajit Sinha

    (Fox School of Business & Management of Temple University)

  • Thomas Foscht

    (University of Graz)

Abstract

Switch on your computer’ s broadband Internet connection and you are instantaneously bombarded with a blizzard of pop-up ads, all trying to sell you some-thing. Marketers now call you at home, load your message inbox with annoying junk mail, and then not so discreetly “place” their products within movies and television shows. The rationale they offer is that they are new ways of selling. Yet, are these intrusive and unsubtle techniques at all effective? In our view, any short-term gains that these ploys achieve by luring a few incidental buyers are overwhelmingly defeated by the longer-term damage to the brands, which is far more pernicious. In fact, these are the ways push marketers are engaging in a collective hara-kiri through cheapening their brand value. To understand how and why this is taking place, let us take a short detour into the intriguing world of branding and brands.

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  • Indrajit Sinha & Thomas Foscht, 2007. "Over-marketing and brand suicide," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Reverse Psychology Marketing, chapter 2, pages 23-50, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62506-8_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230625068_2
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    1. Szu-Chuang Li & Yu-Ching Chen & Yi-Wen Chen & Yennun Huang, 2022. "Predicting Advertisement Revenue of Social-Media-Driven Content Websites: Toward More Efficient and Sustainable Social Media Posting," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-20, April.

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