MKTG 2200 Quiz 3 Flashcards
primary purpose in persuasive message
-to have audience act or change beliefs
secondary purpose in persuasive message
build good image or communicator and communicator’s organization
- cement good relationship
- overcome any objections that night prevent/ delay action
- reduce/eliminate future communication on same subject
Credibility
audience’s response to communicator as source of message
-Expertise, image, relationships
How to build credibility:
- Be factual - don’t exaggerate
- Be specific - if you say X is better, show in detail how it is better
- Be reliable - if project will take longer or cost more than estimated, tell audience immediately
Use the direct request pattern when…
- Audience will do what you ask without resistance
- You need response only from people who can easily do as you ask
- Audience may not read all of the message
Use the problem-solving pattern when…
- Audience may resist doing what you ask
- You expect logic to be more important than emotion in the decision
Use the sales pattern when…
- Audience may resist doing what you ask
- You expect emotion to be more important than logic in the decision
How to organize direct requests
1) Ask immediately for the information or service you want
2) Give audience all the information they need to act on your request
3) Ask for the action you want
Organize a problem-solving persuasive message in the following pattern…
1) Catch audience’s interest by mentioning common ground
2) Define problem you share with audience
3) Explain solution to problem
4) Show that advantages outweigh negatives
5) Summarize additional benefits of solution
6) Ask for action you want
Use the following strategies to counter objections you cannot eliminate
Specify time, money required to act
- May be less than audience fears
- -Example:
- – “Filling out the forms should only take 10 minutes. Your responses will be put into our database—no more paperwork.”
why threats don’t persuade
- Don’t produce permanent change
- May not produce desired action
- May make people abandon action
- Produce tension
- People dislike / avoid one who threatens
- Can provoke counter-aggression
To encourage audiences to act promptly, do the following…
- Show that time limit is real
- Show that acting now will save time or money
- Show the cost of delaying action
What are ways to build emotional appeal?
- Storytelling
- Psychological description (create a picture using senses)
- help audience imagine themselves doing/enjoying what you ask
How do you organize persuasive problem-solving messages
- Be courteous
- Give solid reasons for requests
- Make requests clear
- Give enough information for audience to act
- Tone down requests to superiors
Organize negative messages to customers and clients in the following pattern…
1) When you have a reason that the audience will understand and accept, give the reason before the refusal
2) Give the negative information, just once
3) Present an alternative or compromise
4) End with positive forward-looking statement