Elaboration Likelihood Model

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Outline the Elaboration Likelihood model of persuasion. Explain how a mobile phone company might use knowledge of this model in a campaign to market a new phone. (4+6) The Elaboration Likelihood model of persuasion is one of the two alternative processing routes of persuasive messages found in the media. Recipients of the messages can be persuaded in two different ways, by involving two distinct processing routes, these two routes are the Central Route and Peripheral Route. The Central Route involves cognitive effort from the recipitant and consistency of active engagement; in other words the recipient has to be interested in the message and matter itself which results in permanent change in attitude/behaviour. While the Peripheral Route to persuasion involves minimal cognitive effort by the recipient, with persuasion taking place through factors other than the message commonly through the use of an attractive social model which is commonly used if there is a limited time to think about the message which in result could lack persuasion power to the recipient and therefore it results in a temporary change of attitude/behaviour. From this outline a mobile phone company might use the knowledge taken from the model in a campaign to market a new phone, through taking both routes of the Elaboration Likelihood model of persuasion which are the Central Route and Peripheral Route. The first factor to enable this process of persuasion would be by using Central route of persuasion which in result leads to permanent attitude change, which is important when trying to succeed in a new product. To enable this to happen the advert should be detailed with including strong arguments about the specific features of the phone, which will add attractiveness to the recipent of the product; an example could be by the styling/design of the phone to be aimed at the buisness population.
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