Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Consumerism and you.

Have you heard!? Buying pig crap is the cool thing to do these days! Everyone is buying pig crap!? I wouldn’t get caught dead without my pig crap out in public!!

Chances are, if an individual watched a commercial advertising pig crap, they may actually consider purchasing pig crap. This is what is well known as Marketing. Businesses with a product are looking for larger products and economic growth. Using commercial ideas and paying largely influencing celebrities Businesses can create a media trend and thus make the consumer want to purchase the product. This is consumerism, how much of things a person buys, how many people buy them, why they buy them, how they buy them, these are all branches of consumerism. Consumerism is the study of the consumer, and through study, there are strategies in how to sway the consumers purchasing habits.

Sadly enough, this puppetering strategy is effective, and widely used. It is simply the best way for consumers to be informed of the product and persuade them. Simply surround them, and make it appealing in ways that have nothing to do with why the product was even created and there will be an undying need for that specific product in the mind of the consumer.

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