Tuesday, May 8, 2018

CMOs: Three Action Items to Improve Your Marketing to Millennials

Choosing a target market to advertise to can sometimes be challenging. With their immense and ever-growing purchasing power, millennials are becoming more and more of a target for advertisers. How can we best market products and services to a generation of consumers with short attention spans, expressive tendencies, and little interest in traditional ads? 

By KellyEhlers – featured on Forbes, June 27, 2017

Millennials are digital natives who grew up with technology. They are a very distracted group, but their tendency to multitask might be a positive – they are constantly switching between platforms, which makes it more likely that they’ll see an advertisement. Because they’re a very diverse group, it’s a challenge to catch all of their attentions at once. When it happens, though, it’s all worth it.


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By azfar – featured on SEOPressor, December 29, 2016

This article considers some of the characteristics of millennials. They look up to individuals instead of brands; reject traditional ads; are skeptical, socially-influenced, expressive, anti-establishment; and have short attention spans. They value honest advertising, reviews, and when ads are created specifically for them. They don’t just trust any ad, so we have to cater to their wants and needs.

Based on my review of the two articles and my studies at Northwestern, I've created three action items to remember the next time you think about marketing to millennials. 

      Pay attention.
o   We need to constantly be aware of how millennials’ preferences are changing and focus on what they want.
·      Advertise smartly.
o   Millennials do research, read reviews, weigh pros and cons, and go to their friends for advice when purchasing – we need to be honest and open when we advertise to them.
·      Trust the youth.

o   Millennials are the largest generation in the world, and we need to listen to what they want.


      Estie Gelman is a junior at Northwestern University studying Psychology, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Business Institutions.

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