Effective Advertising

Gerard J. Tellis Jerry & Nancy Neely Chair in American Enterprise. He has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). His bachelor's degree is in chemistry and his master's is in business administration. Previously he worked as a Sales Development Manager for Johnson & Johnson, where he was responsible for brand management, new product introduction and sales staff planning. He joined USC's Marketing Department in 1989 as an associate professor, and was promoted to professor in Spring 1993. Professor Tellis is an expert in advertising & promotion, pricing and entry into new markets. He has published widely on these topics in many journals including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Advertising Research, Marketing Science and Sloan Management Review. His research on advertising has been noted in the professional and popular press, both nationally and internationally. He has won several awards for his research and teaching. In particular, he has recently won the Maynard Award for most significant contribution to Marketing thought in the Journal of Marketing, the Odell Award 1998 for best paper in the Journal of Marketing Research, and the Bass Award for best paper in Marketing Science. His recent book, Will and Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets, (co-authored with Peter Golder), was rated by Harvard Business Review as one of the best business books of 2001. He is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing Research. At USC, Professor Tellis teaches courses on Advertising & Promotion Strategy, Marketing Models and Philosophy of Marketing Science.

1. EVALUATING ADVERTISI NG IMPORTANCE OF ADVERTISING IN MODERN ECONOMICS 2. SWEET, SECRET WORKINGS OF ADVERTISING MYTHS ABOUT ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS TRUTH ABOUT ADVERTISING 3. A GENERAL THEORY OF FIRMS' ADVERTISING WHY FIRMS ADVERTISE: THEORY OF ADVERTISING DEMAND WHY BIG SUCCESSES ARE RARE: THEORY OF ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS WHY FIRMS PERSIST WITH INEFFECTIVE ADVERTISING: THEORY OF ADVERTISING SUPPLY 4. MEASURES OF ADVERTISING'S EFFECTIVENESS DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ADVERTISING VARIABLES MODELS OF THE HIERARCHY OF EFFECTS 5. RESEARCH DESIGNS TO ASSESS ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS LABORATORY EXPERIMENT FIELD APPROACH HYBRID APPROACHES 6. MARKET EFFECTS OF ADVERTISING INTENSITY CLASSIFICATION OF STUDIES FINDINGS ABOUT ADVERTISING WEIGHT FINDINGS ABOUT ADVERTISING ELASTICITY FINDINGS ABOUT AD FREQUENCY 7. ADVERTISING'S DYNAMIC AND CONTENT EFFECTS FINDINGS FROM MARKET STUDIES ABOUT ADVERTISING CARRYOVER FINDINGS ABOUT ADVERTISING WEARIN AND WEAROUT FINDINGS ABOUT AD CONTENT 8. ADVERTISING AS PERSUASION ROUTES OF PERSUASION LOW INVOLVEMENT OR PASSIVE PROCESSING REPETITION IN PERSUASION 9. ARGUMENT IN ADVERTISING HOW ARGUMENT PERSUADES AGRUMENT STRATEGY 10. EMOTION IN ADVERTISING HOW DO EMOTIONS WORK? WHEN DO EMOTIONS WORK? METHODS OF AROUSING EMOTIONS ROLE OF SPECIFIC EMOTIONS 11. ENDORESEMENT IN ADVERTISING TYPES OF ENDORSERS WHY ENDORSEMENTS WORK WHEN TO USE ENDORSERS STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS COLLECTION OF SINGLE SOURCE DATA

"Tellis has done a remarkable job. He has brought together an amazingly diverse literature. Unlike some other sources that claim to be able to measure the effects of advertising, Tellis's thoroughness and ability to understand and convey results of various experiments and statistical analyses helps the reader to separate the wheat from the chaff. Any student of advertising, whether new to the field or a seasoned veteran executive or researcher, should read this book." -- Alan G. Sawyer "Tellis offers incredible insight into understanding when, how, and why advertising works - all in fewer that 200 pages! Drawing from an extensive review of the literature, Tellis synthesizes results into a highly readable set of conclusions, focusing on advertising's effects on behavior and sales / market share that result from initial and subsequent exposures." -- Choice