Advertising budgets, advertising effectiveness, and the Navy's recruiting advertising program
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Authors
Arima, James K.
Subjects
Advertising
Recruiting
Evaluation
Budgets
Communication
Consumer
Radio
Regression
Television
Newspapers
Magazines
Effectivness
Direct mail
Promotions
Aids
Navy
Impact
Recruiting
Evaluation
Budgets
Communication
Consumer
Radio
Regression
Television
Newspapers
Magazines
Effectivness
Direct mail
Promotions
Aids
Navy
Impact
Advisors
Date of Issue
1978-12
Date
1978-12
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
eng
Abstract
A selective review of the literature on advertising effectiveness revealed no generalizable results for setting advertising budget decisions. The primary
problem is a lack of knowledge as to how advertising, as input, affects an output,
such as sales. All Navy advertising expenditures for 1976 and 1977 were allocated to counties by month for 1976 and 1977 and supplemented with recruiting
and environmental data to examine the relationship between advertising and enlistments. Total advertising expenditures were moderately related to total enlistments (R = .442), but this relationship was found to be the result of management planning and allocation of resources and goals. When advertising
and enlistments were made rate variables, there was no linear relationship
because the rate of advertising increased rapidly without a corresponding
increase in enlistment rates. A fourth root transformation of advertising
rates permitted application of a linear regression model where advertising was
found to be the most significant predictor of enlistment rates. Recommendations
are made for further studies and actions to evaluate and increase advertising
effectiveness.
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-54-78-009
Sponsors
Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, San Diego, California
Funder
N6R221 78 WR80009
Format
Citation
Distribution Statement
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.