Feb 26, 2009
packaged?
packaging of Askul Battery Packaging
'how to say' -- Ace
Feb 25, 2009
packaging of milk
Feb 24, 2009
crumpled paper
881903.com
Feb 22, 2009
research - brand audit
brand: haagen Dazs,,,
as we can see,,
haagen dazs cares about their ingredients.
and that is their selling point!
check the above tvc,,
you can get the message directly.
tvc visual style= haagen dazs style
just a simple tvc,, with nice images
thats it.
so great.
http://www.helpthehoneybees.com/#/home/home/
haggen dazs have done something to contribute to our nature.
that is a project to protect honey bees.
http://www.helpthehoneybees.com/#/whyWeCare/whyWeCare/
u can see,, why haggen dazs so support this issue.
firstly,,, honey bees is really important to their ingredients,,
secondly,, target will appreciate to this brand because of their contribution,,
thirdly,, this project or campaign is a really successful adv strategy,,
fourthly,, in this project,, they can let many people know their ingredients are all-natural,,
its the main message that they wanna say
this is a good way and good strategy to promote ,, we have to learn;)
tvc reference
a series of tvc-- Creme Egg
i cannot upload the whole series,, too many,,
but so funny;)
Feb 15, 2009
Feb 9, 2009
SWOT analysis-APPOLO
SWOT OF APPOLO
STRENGHTH
- Long History
- Fresh (fruit from USE/ New Zealand)
-Natural (fruit)
- Healthy
- Low fat/ low Calories
- High Quality
- With real fruit, nutrient
- Well developed Machines
- Plenty of choices for customers
OPPORTUNITY
- People concern Health/Slim
- Many people are on diet
- Women/Girls like dessert
- Ice-cream stores are popular in
Hong Kong
WEAKNESS
- Low customers loyalty
-Do not emphasize the Selling Points
-Image is not clear
-Decoration is not attractive
-Wrong marker positioning
-Selling side products
-Location of stores are difficult to find
-People work in stores do not match the image
-The uniform they wear do not match the image
- Too many competitors
- Low recall from customers
- After financial tsunami,
People are not willing to spend
- Location of competitors are
easier to find
- Image of competitors are clear
- Competitors have more promotion
Feb 7, 2009
Swot sample
A Sample SWOT Analysis
In the sample SWOT analysis below, there are action items beside the weaknesses. You could also add action items beside each of the additional factors – strengths, threats and opportunities. These might be ways to capitalize or leverage on those strategic elements.
Most of the time, SWOTs do not include action items in that section of the strategic plan. I like to include them in the SWOT, and then carry them into the Action Plan, because it reinforces what element of the analysis necessitates the action. I have shown action items in the weaknesses section of the following sample SWOT analysis.
I have found that by doing it this way more attention and understanding is focused on accomplishing the action plan.
Organization – Internal
This section looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. The goal is to manage and control the weaknesses and take advantage of the strengths.
Strengths
- Our brand and reputation in our markets is strong. We are recognized as being professional, reliable and quality-driven.
- We have excellent employees who are well trained, customer oriented and efficient.
- We have a relatively flat organization (from bottom to top: 2 layers) which allows us to make quick decisions and be adaptable to changing market conditions.
- We work on a continuous improvement operating model.
- We capitalize on slow business periods by cross-training employees and taking employees out to meet customers which helps us to develop more capable employees and gives the organization more depth.
- We have built a strong program at our company; this helps us hire, train and retain the best people.
- We pay attention to our costs and contain costs wherever possible but not at the expense of quality, safety or the environment.
- We have begun to pursue a market and productdiversification strategy; this enables us to leverage our capabilities and minimize our costs and our risks.
Weaknesses
- We are not the low-cost or low-price supplier in the market.
Action: We need to continuously improve our productivity and efficiency to reduce cost. - We need to build stronger relationships with our Top 5 Customers.
Action: Make our service commitments and if we fail, admit our mistake, apologize, and learn how to improve. - Cost of re-investment is high.
Action: All capital expenditures must be planned and must have an acceptable payback (18 month). - We have recently focused on a diversification strategy which has a cost to implement.
Action: Focus on cost and resource synergies and ensure that all diversified products have a strong benefit to the organization as a whole. - We are at risk if we lose one or more of our top 5 accounts.
Action: We need to build new business, new markets and new services to mitigate that risk. We also need to ensure satisfied existing accounts. - We have too many price levels (for volume purchases).
Action: Conduct a pricing strategy review. Reduce the price levels to better fit the market and the products and services.
Macroenvironment or external environment (include an industry analysis): encompasses external factors. The purpose of this section is to identify opportunities and threats to the organization.
Threats and Opportunities are external to the organization. We can do little to impact them – they are not controllable by the business – but we can manage our way around threats and manage to leverage opportunities.
Significant External Impacts on Output and Growth
The global economy can have a significant impact on the business, our markets and our customers. Track economic indicators regularly and watch out for a ‘free falling’ economy, the size and depth of the problem, and the reach across all markets.
Opportunities
- New products and/or services expansion; look for low cost opportunities and ones that leverage our capabilities;
- Partnerships or alliances with other businesses – growing the business by partnering on specific work (for example, submitting RFP proposalsjointly);
- Growth potential of two new customers (30% increase projected for next 2 years);
- Opportunity for growth in under-represented geographic markets;
- Opportunity for growth in new locations;
- Cost of marketing is less in this digital age: capitalize on the lowered cost with a stronger program.
Threats
- Industry strength or weakness: impact of technology/digital age and the adjustment needed within the industry;
- Impact of global economy on local business;
- Foreign currency exchange rate variation: for example, the US/Canadian dollar;
- Unsustainable competitive actions and reactions that force a response. For example, new entrants into the market; competitors with lower cost structure and/or lower price structures; competitors with more products and services (a broader range can be more competitive); competitors with a very focused niche (can become the best); competitors who don’t make ‘smart’ decisions and disrupt the market.
A common attribute of profit leaders among large, medium and small firms is to build a very focused business strategy. One of our key growth strategies is to target growing markets to which we can apply our core competencies and/or expand services into higher margin operations.
SWOT
Simple rules for successful SWOT analysis.
- Be realistic about the strengths and weaknesses of your organization when conducting SWOT analysis.
- SWOT analysis should distinguish between where your organization is today, and where it could be in the future.
- SWOT should always be specific. Avoid grey areas.
- Always apply SWOT in relation to your competition i.e. better than or worse than your competition.
- Keep your SWOT short and simple. Avoid complexity and over analysis
- SWOT is subjective.
Feb 5, 2009
what is advetising?
Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brandof product or service. “While now central to the contemporary global economy and the reproduction of global production networks, it is only quite recently that advertising has been more than a marginal influence on patterns of sales and production. The formation of modern advertising was intimately bound up with the emergence of new forms of monopoly capitalism around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century as one element in corporate strategies to create, organize and where possible control markets, especially for mass produced consumer goods. Mass production necessitated mass consumption, and this in turn required a certain homogenization of consumer tastes for final products. At its limit, this involved seeking to create ‘world cultural convergence’, to homogenize consumer tastes and engineer a ‘convergence of lifestyle, culture and behaviors among consumer segments across the world’.”
Many advertisements are designed to generate increased consumption of those products and services through the creation and reinvention of the "brand image" . For these purposes, advertisements sometimes embed their persuasive message with factual information. Every major medium is used to deliver these messages, including television, radio, cinema, magazines, newspapers, video games, the Internet, carrier bags and billboards. Advertising is often placed by an advertising agency on behalf of a company or other organization.
Organizations that frequently spend large sums of money on advertising that sells what is not, strictly speaking, a product or service include political parties, interest groups, religious organizations, and military recruiters. Non-profit organizations are not typical advertising clients, and may rely on free modes of persuasion, such as public service announcements.
Money spent on advertising has increased dramatically in recent years. In 2007, spending on advertising has been estimated at over $150 billion in the United States and $385 billion worldwide, and the latter to exceed $450 billion by 2010.
While advertising can be seen as necessary for economic growth, it is not without social costs. Unsolicited Commercial Email and other forms ofspam have become so prevalent as to have become a major nuisance to users of these services, as well as being a financial burden on internet service providers. Advertising is increasingly invading public spaces, such as schools, which some critics argue is a form of child exploitation.
Feb 2, 2009
Michael Phelps
which is about Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps: "I Am Sorry" for Drug Photos
Michael Phelps has apologized for photos that
surfaced in Britain's News of the World Sunday
that show him apparently smoking a marijuana pipe.
"I engaged in behavior which was regrettable
and demonstrated bad judgment,"
Phelps said in a statement released to the Associated Press,
and posted on his Facebook page, Sunday.
"I'm 23 years old and despite the successes I've had in the pool,
I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way,
not in a manner people have come to expect from me.
For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again."
The photos were snapped in November --
three months after he set records by winning
eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics --
at a University of South Carolina house party.
bad image.....
after reading this news,
i was quite disappointed of him.
he won so many gold medals in olympics game.
it was so amazing and so attractive!
he is very famous around the world.
his image was positive,,
and plus, nowadays many clients like to find famous athlete
to represent their brand instead of pop star.
so phelps must star in many commercial
and represent some brands.
i frond some in youtube.
but,,, now,, his bad news must affect his image and popular rate.
most importantly,
this issue will affect the client's business volume directly.
past: phelps = powerful = professional = healthy --positive
now: phelps = unhealthy = drug = dissapointed --negative
colour tokyo
"colour is magic!"
i love it:)
coz i like "colour" and i like the strategy also!
this project is so interactive with the target audience.
in this adv, the client is sony.
and sony sells something new like science and technology.
i think it must make noice around tokyo and make people feel amazing.
adv awards
there are some internetional adv awards
and you can find many winners work in their website
so many reference:)
http://www.canneslions.com/
http://www.clioawards.com/
http://www.oneclub.org/os/
http://www.longxiawards.org/
http://awards09.dandad.org/
endless flower
love it!!!!!
i like to draw this kind of pattern very very very such!!!
i love this endless flower!!!!!:)
i want to learn how to make this....
Motion Graphics / Animation
i found these video on youtube just now.
i like this kind of stuff!!
i just realize that this kind of animation is called motion graphics (isnt it..)
Feb 1, 2009
UNICEF's Tap Project
i think it is a very successful adv.
coz it is a campaign that can spread a very improtant
message to the audience and change their mind.
DUCK DUCK
book design
actually i have seen this tv progamme once.
i think luk chi choung is so great. he is so crazy and with his great
passion on book design. i can feel how he like arts.
after watching this programme,
i know "visual sence" is very important for a designer.
so, we must observe more and study more.
http://www.gardencity.com.tw/
i always go to this web site because i am quite interseted
in book design (but adv is my NO.1 ..haaa).
in the website, it shows some of the layout of every book.
and the layout is not bad. it is a good reference for us.
the works
this programme is about hong kong's arts.
lam siu kei -- ECD
http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/talents/20080127.html#
lam siu kei :其實大部分我認識的出色創意人員,,他們的生活都很有規律,,平日拚命做很多功課,,汲收很多材料,,勤力比天才更重要
joyan...pls....work hard!!!
POWERFUL= PHOTOSHOP
ADVERTISING 101
i think it is so useful and so easy to understand.
so i reserve and borrow the book from the library.
i recommend this book to be your first advertising theories reference book.
because there are many case(hong kong adv) that you have seen be4. secondly, it is in chinese, so you can have the basic concept of advertising and marketing first, then read other reference book in english version(so many words.........@@'') , i think it will be more easy.