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Guerrilla Marketing—Innovative Or Parasitic Marketing? Modern Economy, 2013, 4, 1-6 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/me.2013.49A001 Published Online September 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/me) Guerrilla Marketing—Innovative or Parasitic Marketing? Gerd Nufer ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany Email: [email protected] Received April 17, 2013; revised May 17, 2013; accepted June 17, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Gerd Nufer. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Guerrilla marketing designates the selection of atypical and non-dogmatic marketing activities that aim to achieve the greatest possible impact—in the ideal case with a comparable minimum investment. Guerrilla marketing has developed into a basic strategy overarching the marketing mix, a basic marketing policy attitude for market development that goes off the beaten track to consciously seek new, unconventional, previously disregarded, possibly even frown-upon possi- bilities for the deployment of tools. It is a fine line between innovative, creative marketing and producing reactance in the minds of the audience by exceeding limits. While guerrilla marketing activities can be seen more and more in the marketing practice, the phenomenon is either discussed very controversially in the marketing science or even neglected completely in the scientific marketing literature. The paper gives an overview of guerrilla marketing. It describes and structures guerrilla marketing in a novel form and shows illustrating examples. Finally, guerrilla marketing is evaluated from a neutral perspective and developmental trends are traced. Keywords: Guerrilla Marketing; Marketing Communications; Marketing Mix; Innovative Marketing 1. Introduction 2. Characterization of Guerrilla Marketing These days, companies are primarily engaged in a com- The term “guerrilla” originates with the military. “Guer- munications competition and no longer in competition rilla” is the diminutive of the Spanish word for war, over products. Due to intensified communications efforts, “guerra”. Thus, “guerrilla” is equivalent to “small war” the attempt is being made to counter the increasing ho- or “partisan warfare” whose goal it is to weaken the op- mogenization of products by achieving a needs-oriented ponent in certain spots [3]. differentiation. The communications market is undergo- The transfer of the guerrilla concept to marketing ter- ing economic, communicative and social changes that are minology results in diverse interpretations and opinions making reorientation of communications policy a neces- as to the implementation and functions of guerrilla mar- sity. The willingness of the public to be subjected to a keting. The fundamental determinant in characterizing static, continuously repetitive and thereby allegedly bor- guerrilla marketing is its unconventional nature. “Guer- ing constant stream of information and communication rilla marketing is a body of unconventional ways of pur- continues to drop. According to various studies, the level suing conventional goals. It is a proven method of of information overload of a consumer amounts to be- achieving profits with minimum money” [4]. tween 95 and 98 per cent—i.e. only a minute fraction of For the following analysis a comprehensive definition the information being offered has even the slightest of guerrilla marketing is applied: Guerrilla marketing is chance of being absorbed by consumers [1,2]. as an alternative, holistic marketing approach. The con- To keep scatter loss as low as possible, an inter-in- cept designates the selection of atypical and non-dog- strumental shift is taking place in favor of non-classical matic marketing activities that aim to achieve the greatest communications tools, as the failure of classical, conven- possible impact with a minimum investment. Guerrilla tional forms of advertising to be effective becomes in- marketing has developed into a basic strategy overarch- creasingly evident. This is giving rise to a demand for ing the marketing mix, a basic marketing policy attitude innovative new marketing strategies such as guerrilla for market development that goes off the beaten track to marketing. Guerrilla marketing offers new and unusual consciously seek new, unconventional, previously disre- opportunities to counter the increasing consumer aver- garded, possibly even frown-upon possibilities for the sion to advertising. deployment of tools [3-5]. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. ME 2 G. NUFER There are many other approaches to defining and at- tempts at circumscribing the term guerrilla marketing. In reviewing these, one can identify constantly recurring constituent characteristics of guerrilla marketing. Ac- cording to these, guerrilla marketing is [6-8]: Unconventional; Surprising; Original/creative; Figure 1. Application of guerrilla marketing in the market- Cheeky/provocative; ing mix. Source: [3]. Cost-efficient/effective; Flexible; Unusual/atypical; Funny/witty Spectacular; Contagious. In summary, it can be stated that the philosophy of guerrilla marketing consists of attaining conventional Figure 2. Example of guerrilla product policy. marketing objectives with unconventional methods. Thus, Source: http://www.spreewaldhof.net surprising content can turn a classical advertising vehicle or medium into a guerrilla marketing activity. In this way, ures aim at gaining a competitive advantage over com- guerrilla marketing does not make traditional marketing petitors. In the context of the product policy, guerrilla obsolete, but has a supportive point-to-point effect and marketing can, for example, exert some influence on de- helps the marketing mix, mainly the communications cision-making factors with regard to the actual product, mix, to take on an innovative new face. At its core, guer- the packaging and the choice of a name. rilla marketing aims to be different and to attract atten- tion. As a rule, a comparatively smaller investment (than 3.2. Guerrilla Price Policy is common for traditional marketing) should achieve as great an impact as possible [3,7,8]. As early as the 1980’s Drypers, then a newcomer on the American nappy market, attacked market leader Procter 3. Marketing Mix for Guerrilla Marketing & Gamble and its Pampers brand with an aggressive pricing strategy with its low-priced nappies. Procter & With its creative and unconventional approaches, guer- Gamble reacted with a coupon promotion that offered rilla marketing can enrich the entire marketing mix, al- consumers a generous discount of 2 US$ with the pur- though typically in varying degrees of frequency of ap- chase of P&G nappies. But Drypers retaliated cleverly. plication (see Figure 1). Guerrilla marketing functions as They offered customers the option of also using the P&G a bundle of accompanying measures that make strategic coupons for the purchase of Drypers nappies—with suc- and tactical modifications to the classical marketing mix cess. The guerrilla element in this course of action is pri- to provide the company with an advantage through con- marily the flexibility and canniness of Drypers, in turning text-specific unusualness. the weapon directed at them around and using it as their The concept of guerrilla marketing was initially prac- own. Thus, guerrilla marketing decisions are also appli- ticed before it found its way, with some delay, into aca- cable to price policy. demic literature. Therefore the following classification of guerrilla marketing within the marketing mix draws on 3.3. Guerrilla Distribution Policy vivid examples of its practical application [3,6]. Customers who had pre-ordered the fifth volume of the 3.1. Guerrilla Product Policy popular Harry Potter-series entitled “The Order of the Phoenix” from the Weltbild publishing house were free Since the year 2000, gherkins of the Spreewaldhof brand to choose the time of delivery. The special aspect here have also been available in tins. Spreewaldhof packs its was the option of flash delivery by the German post, at popular 250 g gherkins individually, stylishly in ring-pull the witching hour between 00.00 and 02.00 hours on the aluminum tins that are sold at petrol stations, supermar- night of the publication date—and without any additional kets, discotheques and fitness centers (see Figure 2). The charge. In so doing, Weltbild wanted to offer its custom- break with the predominant stereotypical packaging of ers an unusual service and a time advantage. This makes gherkins in a glass jar as well as with the conventional it clear that guerrilla marketing can also be used in dis- distribution channels is apparent. These unusual meas- tribution policy. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. ME G. NUFER 3 3.4. Guerrilla Communications Policy tions. Finally ambush marketing mainly occurs in the context of sporting events. However, guerrilla principles can be most efficiently integrated in communications policy-related measures. 4.1. Low-Budget Guerrilla Marketing Viewed from this perspective, guerrilla marketing is among the non-classical forms of communications policy For small and mid-sized companies the emphasis of their (“below the line” activities). The deployment of classical communications policy is on the direct address of the tools of the communications mix forms the basis upon (often regional) target group with creative, unusual and which guerrilla marketing is selectively applied as an quirky ideas. Their aim is to underscore
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