Sunday, October 24, 2010

FIVE MINUTE ORAL PRESENTATION: Spread Your Glamour In The World


THESIS:

  • Translates style and trends for real American women

  • Content spreads form beauty, fashion and health to politics, Hollywood and relationships

  • They're often optimistic, always inclusive and can always separate the Dos from the Don'ts

  • Their readers live for fashion, live for beauty and most of all, live for Glamour


FIVE FACTS:

  • 79 % of Glamour readers say that friending a crush on Facebook is okay

  • Many Hollywood stars wear a pixie cut again

  • Eating a variety of vegetables may decrease your risk of lung cancer

  • Drink up two 8-oz. Glasses of water before meals helped dieters shed more pounds

  • iPhone owners have more sex than Blackberry or Android owners

Pixie haircut: 67pics.com

TRIUNE BRAIN:

  • First pages only ads: Limbic Brain

  • Some not beauty-related articles: Neocortex


8 TRENDS:

  • Many poll-results and comments by readers: Personal Shift, from mass to participatory

  • There is an iPhone-app available: Aesthetic Shift, from discrete to convergence


7 PRINCIPLES:

  • High-quality pictures: Production Techniques

  • Attracts young, female readers: Value Messages

  • By reading the articles and looking at the “girl next door pictures”, you feel connected and understood: Emotional Transfer

Hot boy: aaronandandy.com

29 PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES:

  • Hey, it's okay – page: Flattery

  • “Clothes for cool girls ( that would be you): Flattery

  • “Enjoy 2 great magazines for one low prize: Just $19.97”: Bribery

  • “Everyone's a Readhead Now”: Bandwagon

  • Using famous women, such as Taylor Swift, on the front cover, who are talking about private things and “women stuff”: Testimonial

  • Telling stories about the girl/boy next door: Plain Folks

  • Using pictures of pretty girls and hot boys: Beautiful People

  • Eating a variety of vegetables may decrease your risk of lung cancer”: Maybe

  • Presenting the former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: Strong Leadership
  • 58 % of readers polled on glamour.com have been in a friendship with benefits relationship”: Scientific Evidence


1 comment:

  1. Excellent work here, Sabrina.

    Way to use our power tools to dissect GLAMOUR.

    Bravo!

    Dr. W

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