Thursday, April 5, 2012

In response to Christine’s post…


Do you think that this type of advertisement will be successful?  Do you think the company will lose more money on this advertisement than gain money? Do you think they should place hugging vending machines for Coca-Cola in the United States?

                I think that there are both pros and cons to this new marketing strategy that Coca-Cola came up with. Having a vending machine that when you hug it gives you a free Coca-Cola is a great way to get their product out there. If something is free customers will not hesitate to take it. By doing this Coca-Cola is getting their product out there. However this might make them lose some money. There are many customers that would spend money on buying Coca-Cola, but with something being free the customer will most likely take the free hug and get a coke then actually spending the money. If Coca-Cola wanted to try to put the hugging vending machine in the united state, I would say to try it out for a little and if you are getting some results and it is actually increasing sales then it would be a good idea to keep it going. However I think that most people will just take advantage of the free soda and not pay to go buy more. 

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