Thursday, October 3, 2013

Is Comparative Marketing the need of hour??


Markets are overflowing with similar product offerings in all verticals and thus are making customer confused on what to buy and what not.  Comparative marketing is all about highlighting the features and USP of products side by side to competitors.
HUL has been doing in over and again with its products and the same has been done by Pepsi and Coke over years. We have been watching the Colgate and Pepsodent Ads recently and the same was with Tide and Rin. The same has been a practice with other companies. 



Comparative Marketing is just not limited to products but the same has been used in Politics too, when we hear the long speeches comparing the development of one over other.

The real question still remains the same that are we really educating the customer by comparison and making the  buying process easy or we making his process more tough by confusing him over the points by highlighting points of which he is not much aware at times.