Top 6 Most Effective Advertising Requirements

posted by TheMarbellaSEO 4:09 PM
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Most Effective Advertising Requirements

More and more people today are leaving paper advertising for the internet. Both have their pro’s and con’s when using them to promote your business. But you need to see that having a marketing tactic is just the start!

There are key things you need to gain from your marketing efforts to honestly create the most effective advertising system viable.These are the necessities you need to have to construct effective advertisements…

I. Tracking development is the first action to effective advertisements and is more imperative than most people imagine

1. You need to know how many times people actually look at, read or watch the
marketed material (your ad).

2. How many of those people actually inquired about your product or service?

3. How many of the people turned in to actual buyers?

4. Which advertisement created one of these events by potential customers?

II. Update the ad content / verbiage (split test)

– Watching the ads closely will allow you to know if each ad you placed is effective or not.

To determine if you will make changes or re-create the entire advertisement. There is no perfect way to state anything and the age, location and gender of the potential
clients will effect the way that your ad is perceived and evaluated. Giving a perfect reason to do a “split test” which is done by duplicating an existing ad and changing one detail. This detail can be as clear-cut as punctuation, capital vs. lower case, removing or adding a word or a different headline. It’s amazing the way one quick change in the verbiage or punctuation of the ad can change the effectiveness.

What you are trying to accomplish is to continue split testing to improve the

III. Target Your Audience (age groups, gender, location, etc)

– This is a very important piece of information because you don’t need to be selling ice to an Eskimo.You need to hit the ideal demographic for your product or service, and if you don’t know what that is you can find out.

Advertising to anyone outside of your ideal demographic of people will be throwing money out the window. As an example, if you want to strictly market to a near by audience you have to make sure that your ads aren’t seen on a nationwide range. groups~Targeting can be getting noticed by certain people} and targeting by hiding your {ads~can be staying hidden} from certain people which isincredibly important in order to stay cost sensitive.

IV. Be Seen & Stand out

– The fact is you have to be leveraging methods that will allow you to be seen. And seen constantly and consistently since {marketing can only work if people actually see the ad.} Meaning you have to not only use the most effective advertising methods to get your marketing out, but you have to “Stand Out”. If you are using banner ads you would want to have eye catching colors or an ad that has flashing/moving elements. Or if you are using a text ad you’d want to make sure to show that you have the best prices, quickest service, great customer feedback or how your service solves a specific problem. If you don’t tell people why they should click on your ad why would they? You ever wonder why so many people purchase the newest “Cosmopolitan” and “Men’s Health” magazine? Their headlines always get your attention

V. Be Cost sensitive

– This may be apparent but so many people forget that you need to supervise and revise your advertisements in all of your marketing efforts. If you are not paying attention to this you might be putting money into ad’s that aren’t effective. The idea is to fine-tune your ad’s until you are earning more than you are paying.

Here’s an example…

You have the flu and you just bought and used 2 different cold medicines.

Now tell me, which one actually worked? You can’t!

There is no way of knowing which of the two medicines you had taken actually did what you needed to feel better. So now next time you get a cold you will most likely buy both of the medicines again. What this has accomplished is now instead of purchasing the 1 medicine that worked for you; you are purchasing both and just giving money away.

VI. Become Automated

– Having automated advertising will make sure that every opportunity created from your marketing efforts is being worked. Whether you answer them by phone or email is up to you.

And I know what you’re saying “how can you have someone answer the phones 24/7”. Well you can and I’ll go over that another time. Your time is important and valuable so we want to be cost effective and apply marketing that can be updated quickly and does the work while you sleep.

To sum up you must be able to:

– Track effectiveness of the ad

– Update the ad’s content / verbiage (split test)

– Target Your viewers (age groups, gender, location, etc)

– Be Found!

– Be Cost sensitive

– Time sensitive (your time, and how long till the advertisement is shown)

– Automated

 

If you follow the steps above there is no doubt you will have the
Most Effective Advertising campaigns possible. To get more detail on the different methods of advertising and to better understand how to apply these steps visit the following link so you can make sure you have Effective Advertisements with the help of an industry known marketer James Love.



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