How effective brand names get you to buy
What do brand names like Coca-Cola, Tutti Frutti, Lululemon, Kit Kat and Jelly Belly have in common?
They roll off the tongue with a repetition that influences your spending habits, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Marketing.
Brand names containing repetitive sounds can influence our mood and thus our decision-making ability when it comes to choosing whether or not we buy certain items, claims University of Alberta marketing professor Jennifer Argo.
The researchers introduced the identical products to test subjects one at a time, citing the name for each sample aloud during the product description. Despite the same ice cream being used, the majority of respondents chose the brand with the repetitive-sounding name.
In other studies, giving people choices over everything from types of desserts to cell phone options yields similar results, Argo reports — provided there’s an audible repetition.
“The findings suggest that brand names containing phonetic sound repetition, if spoken aloud, are evaluated more favourably than those that do not contain such repetition or that are merely read silently,” Argo explains.
Good news for TV and radio advertisers, Argo adds.
By Gordon Powers, MSN Money
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