3 Keys to Making Your Advertising a Success
Posted on : 25-05-2010 | By : Peter Lawless | In : Marketing Consultants
Tags: advertising, advertising effectiveness, advertising success, measuring advertising effectiveness
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1. Setting Goals and Measuring Advertising Effectiveness
Before you dive deeper into ad creation and all that fun part of your marketing, always make sure you set goals for the individual campaigns first, so that you can measure the effect of any activity and see how it worked. In future, you will then be able to make a qualified decision whether to repeat it or not.
2. Aiming at the Right Target Market
For advertising to be effective it needs to be directly targeted at people who will respond to the advert with an action that will eventually lead to a sale. Do not listen to sellers of ad space who argue that if you take an advert out on the radio there is a good chance your buyers might hear it. We can guarantee that 99.9% of people hearing your ads will not be interested.
Therefore, be very keen at planning your marketing forward and to deciding yourself where you will be investing your advertising budget – remember your watering holes?
3. Powerful Content
Another thing to always remember is that “Content is King” which means the content of all your marketing collateral must provide solutions to customers’ problems and/or respond strongly to their desires.
So how can you make sure that when customers get to any of your marketing materials, they will find what they are looking for?
- Speak the language of customers
- Impress them with messages they relate to
- Use a clear “Call to Action” – tell them what to do next – clearly!
- Use testimonials from real customers wherever you can
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This is a gret post, Peter. I think that it is definitely more difficult for defining a clear strategy when it comes to participating in social media. However, there are great sites like SalesFuel that integrates with LinkedIn, so that B2B marketers and sales reps can use social selling to make warmer sales calls. Try the free trial and connect to 32+ million companies with in-depth profiles. I think that this site uses the three keys to advertising success