Do Words Matter?
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This document discusses how words can have powerful effects and provides tips for choosing words strategically. It argues that context, nostalgia, and being interesting are important. It also recommends using new linguistic analysis tools to understand how words affect audiences. The key takeaways are to use nostalgia, understand context, be interesting, have fun with language, and leverage tools to analyze word usage and effects.
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Do Words Matter?
- 1. 1 DO WORDS MATTER? March 26, 2014 Janet Barker-Evans & Curt Munk
- 3. 3 “I wrote the same, but different words.”
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- 5. 5 =+AUDIENCE ENVIROMENT context IT’S ABOUT USING THE “RIGHT WORDS” =+BRAND BENEFIT content
- 6. 6 “I don’t care what it says, it just has to have appetite appeal.”
- 7. 7 “Just use the headline from the print ad.”
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- 10. 10 WORDS HAVE INCREDIBLE POWER Hurt or Help Build Trust, Inspire or Promote Focus on Commonality or Divisive Elements Sell or Alienate Confuse or Clarify
- 11. 11 AS MARKETERS, WORDS ARE OUR BEST BET…
- 12. 12 In reality, people respond to emotion first, and reason last..
- 13. 13 DECADES OF COPY TESTING… Perception Experience Memory
- 14. 14 It’s: Feel, Think, Do Not: Think, Do, Feel
- 15. 15 5 THINGS THAT MATTER
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- 18. 18 NOSTALGIA • Thoughts evoked by nostalgia are not always positive • However, "yearning for yesterday" as a message is more effective than not connecting with nostalgic thoughts
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- 23. 23 #2: CONTEXT MATTERS, A LOT!
- 24. 24 CONTEXT MATTERS! "MESSAGES ARE NEVER THE SAME FOR ALL RECIPIENTS BUT FILTERED BY NEEDS, CONDITIONS, SUBCULTURE, AND USAGE"
- 25. 25 =+AUDIENCE ENVIROMENT context =+BRAND BENEFIT content
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- 30. 30 POWER WORDS REALLY WORK, PROVIDED THEY AREN'T WALLPAPER IN YOUR CATEGORY • New • Improved • Free • Time-tested • Doctor Recommended • Scientific • Miracle • Now…
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- 34. 34 The words Judges use in opinion reflect their hierarchy in the appellate system… Cautious Words Hedging Seem Tend Suggest Assume Probability Usually • It could be the case that… • It might be suggested that…
- 35. 35 “Just use the headline from the print ad.”
- 36. 36 #3 - INTERESTING OFTEN BEATS SAFE
- 37. 37 THE NEW "INTERESTING" ADVERTISING WORDS • Luxurious • Decadent • Sugary • Sexy • Exquisite • Bitchin' • "I" • Solid • Nourishing • Brown • Well-molded • Sustainable • Post-consumer • "We"
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- 47. 47 #4 - LANGUAGE EVOLVES
- 48. 48 CREESE CRANCH PROBANG PORLAN OCTANDRIOUS COMPLEMENT-FIXATION SNOLLYGOSTER WORDS YOU'LL NO LONGER NEED, APPARENTLY
- 49. 49 “Incubus”
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- 51. 51 SOME WORDS ARE BANISHED BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERUSED…
- 53. 53 WORDS & EXPRESSIONS WE LIKELY DON'T MISS… Fiscal Cliff (2013) Occupy (2012) Mama Grizzlies (2011) "Friend" as verb (2010) Bailout (2009) Perfect Storm (2008)
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- 56. 56 "amazeballs"
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- 59. 59 #5 – WE HAVE GREAT NEW TOOLS TO GET OUR WORDS RIGHT…
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- 63. 63 FUNCTION WORDS MATTER • Personal Pronouns - You and My • Impersonal pronouns - It and That • Contractions - Can't and They'll • Articles - The and An
- 64. 64 LIWC: LINGUISTIC INQUIRY AND WORD COUNT Liwc.net
- 65. 65 FUNCTION WORDS Provide a window to the mind because they are connected to our social behavior at a neural level
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- 71. 71 SO WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR US? Audience understanding Matching benefits and language
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- 108. 108 CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION WITH US THANK YOU! @CurtMunk @webjanet Share your examples of great words on our Tumblr http://WordsInAction.tumblr.com Find this presentation at: http://bit.ly/dowordsmatter
Editor's Notes
- It was a lot more than just “different words” that she used. By knowing her audience, recognizing the environment, and understanding the power of words to elicit emotion, she was able to change their impact considerably. The emotion is what makes this so much more successful.
- Who are you more likely to pick up? If you are a Mom, or have a Mom or miss your Mom – the answer is easy
- Understanding the context alongside the content helps craft more compelling messages/The same is true when and where we meet our shopper. SO YOU THINK WE ALREADY KNOW THIS? WE KNOW BETTER?? Hmmm…. If that is true…..
- A client said this to me .This client, who shall forever remain nameless, believed that “Moms see the delicious food and reach for the package.” But that is so counter to what we need to do to attract the right people in the aisle blah blah blah
- I’ve heard this one too. Defies the medium: print is initimate, I choose to engage, I linger over it. It is also targetted by readership, I know different things about the reader. It’s a very different CONTEXT than in-store or on mobile, etc.
- We're only using a fraction of the power of wordsOur lessons from being in this business a while, and a few things we see which we think matter
- "On measuring the power of communications" Bruce Hall, Journal of advertising research, June 2004, pp 181 - 187
- Reason leads to conclusionsEmotion leads to action
- "The Power of Reflection: An empirical examination of Nostalgia advertising effects"Journal of Advertising, fall2004 pp25-35It gives us something else to feel when evaluating a messageJANET: Note that the visuals certainly convey nostalgia – but so does the headine. It COULD have said “Mom’s recipes”
- Legand campaign with sentimental music
- In-store and tv focus on family time
- Even in pet food – nostalgia works!
- Back to our original example – context makes all the difference
- FPO
- "When do advertising 'Power Words' work? An examination of congruence and satiation"Journal of Advertising Research, July/August 1993
- Middle EastHyperbolic language
- WashingtonUniveristy in STL and Northwestern Univeristy here did a study of Judicial rulings."Higher" judges used less hedging language in their opinions
- Back to Janet's example – Some brand managers and marketers lack experience – and confidence. So an approved line is better than an unapproved one. Self-preservation is a strong instinct.
- You'll never do anything remarkable is you're not prepared to be wrong.
- "The 7 words you can't say in advertising"Steve Simpson
- Humor isn’t the only thing that can be interesting
- Most shared IKEA product on social media
- Using the right word
- Snollygoster: a shrewd but unprincipled person
- If you're confused, an incubus is an evil spirit that, in medieval times, would descend upon women and have sex with them. That's right, Reebok was marketing rape shoes.Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_17686_the-8-most-ill-conceived-product-names-all-time_p2.html#ixzz2vt2clZF3
- LSSU.edu
- When we word cloud this out, there isn't a lot in here your grandmother would recognize
- When we word cloud this out, there isn't a lot in here your grandmother would recognize
- Fight between who gets credit for the word "Amazeballs"Perez Hilton or Elizabeth Spiridakis - fashion blogger
- If this topic had a rock star, it would be this man - Dr. James Pennebaker, University of TexasResearch on language use on health and social behaviorHe noticed something interesting
- Speed daters where language matches were more liekly to pair of than those whose language differesText language is a better predictor of relationship longevity than anything else we do
- Dead Poets SocietyLook for the "I"
- "The words that Bind" Discover, Nov 2013Marina Krakovsky
- "The words that Bind" Discover, Nov 2013Marina Krakovsky
- This is interestingBut the real value to all of us is to use these types of tool to understand how our brands are being discussed by shoppers and consumers.