A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

     A picture is worth a thousand words.  What is the meaning behind this phrase?  The meaning is instead of telling a story through a book or a speech a picture tells it all.  This phrase started in the USA in the early part of the 20th century.  This was attributed to Frederick Barnard, who published the effectiveness of graphics in advertising with the title "one look is worth a thousand words"  This phrase source came from the oriental Chinese proverb "One picture is worth then thousand words."  

   Why is a picture so effective in getting the point across?  When a person see's a picture they then can visualize the result.  Say someone is doing a study on how many houses were sold in a particular area over a ten year margin.  A person would draw up a chart showing the results in a ten year period.  People would see quickly what year did the best and what tear declined the most.

  A picture shows results instantly versus a long drawn out story that might put a person to sleep.  Like for instance if a person is teaching a algebra class.  Instead of just talking to the class on how to solve a problem he would show examples on the black board with a chart or drawing to help solve the problem.  We as students can visualize the result and then be able to work the problem our rather than just listen to the teacher talk all day.  They use a lot of billboard to get a persons attention so they can see a particular item, one that comes into mind is advertisements for a wrinkle face cream.   They show a face that is all wrinkly and ugly and then show a face that is beautiful when a person uses their product.  This is an example of a picture is worth a thousand words.

  So in a long story short a person would use a picture to tell a story.  Where they can visualize and understand the concept of the picture and shows from beginning to end, were it to be a product or a algebra problem.  Visualizing is the key in the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meaning/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html

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Lovemarks

    What consumers are most interested in is to be able to have an emotional connection. A consumer wants to connect with what's behind the brand.  In other words, what's behind the promise.  We has a society don't buy simply or rational, but emotional. Kevin Roberts professional opinion is that emotional buying is the key and not necessarily the brand name.  He calls this "Lovemarks"  Lovemarks is a brand that has established loyalty beyond reason.  These kind of love marks supply mystery and emotional support of what a person recognizes, maybe something in your past.  

   Consumers look up to celebrities like for instance Michael Jordan who started advertising Nike products.  People thought "wow, it must be the shoes that helped him in his success as a basketball player."  People wonder what kind of material that shoe is made out of that makes Michael perform so well.  Mystery drives people into buying a certain product, and no matter what, becomes a loyal consumer.  Nike prices shot up 70 to 200 dollars with Michael Jordan behind it.  People simply don't care about the price, just emotional need.

   From my experience, I have bought more name brands than generic brands.  Some product material wise I do buy because of the name brand.  I really never thought about why I prefer the certain name brand over others.  I do think it is an emotional need as well.  

   On the other hand, in food products, I do believe it is all about taste.  Like for instance, the cereal cheerios or quaker oatmeal and a generic brand.  I can tell the difference in the two and prefer the name brand.  In my experience clothing and food products are different in deciding name brand over generics.  

   Also I think we associate material items to our childhood experiences. Growing up and sticking with what products our parents used is some of the reason why we pick that certain product.  I do prefer Nike brands over the other brands because that is what brand I grew up with.  So I don't believe I buy logical, but as a love mark.  So we ask ourselves, why do we not buy logical over emotional? I believe it's in our nature to prefer emotional over logical.  

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/themes/