{"id":306841,"date":"2010-02-11T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=50803"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:28:21","slug":"acura%e2%80%99s-marketing-budge-sees-50-jump-ads-will-tell-customers-why-acuras-are-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306841","title":{"rendered":"Acura\u2019s marketing budge sees 50% jump, ads will tell customers why Acuras are better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/2010_acura_zdx_press_b_images_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is it about Acura&#8217;s that makes them better than the competition? Can&#8217;t think of anything? Well, according to Acura, that&#8217;s because they&#8217;ve failed to effectively present their products to the customers (not because there is actually something &#8220;third-tier luxury&#8221; about the brand).<\/p>\n<p>According to the Acura&#8217;s vice president of advertising and public relations Steven Center, American Honda Motor Co. will boost the marketing budget for Acura by 50 percent in 2010, as compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our messaging for years has been too ill-focused and not about the product,&#8221; Center said. &#8220;The ads weren&#8217;t making the point and the point is: What is it about Acura that makes it better?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-50803\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Center said that Acura&#8217;s advertising will focus more on the brand&#8217;s patented body structure, high residual values and a surround-sound audio system. The ongoing launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/11\/20\/2010-acura-zdx-prices-start-at-45495\/\">Acura ZDX<\/a> and the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/10\/28\/2011-acura-tsx-sport-wagon-confirmed-for-the-u-s-for-fall-2010\/\">TSX wagon<\/a> will be the focus in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100208\/RETAIL03\/302089980\/1018#ixzz0fEzwXUTV\">Automotive News<\/a> (Subscription Required)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mif4-KLsqyaZT_IqR1VabwdkISw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mif4-KLsqyaZT_IqR1VabwdkISw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mif4-KLsqyaZT_IqR1VabwdkISw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mif4-KLsqyaZT_IqR1VabwdkISw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=1OHo41_U1Qk:nZ1i3EgVfzk:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about Acura&#8217;s that makes them better than the competition? Can&#8217;t think of anything? Well, according to Acura, that&#8217;s because they&#8217;ve failed to effectively present their products to the customers (not because there is actually something &#8220;third-tier luxury&#8221; about the brand). According to the Acura&#8217;s vice president of advertising and public relations Steven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}