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A carefully selected marketing approach can work wonders for your business. It helps in creating brand awareness among customers and getting instant traffic for it. But business houses are registering a drastic fall in their market share due to stiff competition in present market condition. Marketing professionals always work towards solving this problem with easy to use effective marketing tools.

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Advertising Inflatables

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A carefully selected marketing approach can work wonders for your business. It helps in creating brand awareness among customers and getting instant traffic for it. But business houses are registering a drastic fall in their market share due to stiff competition in present market condition. Marketing professionals always work towards solving this problem with easy to use effective marketing tools. They handle the difficult job of product promotion together with creating a brand name for it and therefore rely heavily on beautiful and eye-catching product campaigns as they amuse people a lot thereby drawing maximum customer attention.

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Well there are, like Direct Mail, Internet, Telephone, Email (with permission), etc, and I’ll get to them later, for now, if you are advertising already, here are some important do’s and don’ts.

First make a decision to stop any current advertising that isn’t working for you. I have to say that first because, although it may seem obvious, many businesses keep on advertising in the same places year after year, whether they know its working for them or not!

Next work out a way to measure whether your advertising is working for you. Far too many businesses use up their advertising budget every year, without testing to see what is working for them. This doesn’t make sense! If an advert is working then fine, you want to keep running it and maybe even expand that particular advert further and spend more on it, but if an advert isn’t working you need to stop running it now, and instead allocate the money you would have used on it to other marketing methods, which have a much higher chance of success.

Then you should choose adverts that are designed to bring in a response. That is ‘direct response advertising’. There is a lot of talk in marketing circles about ‘brand’ advertising, but unless your company is a household name, brand advertising will have very little chance of working for you. Those large companies which use this method have spent thousands if not millions establishing their brand. If you are a small business then brand advertising will be a waste of your money.

This means that the purpose of your adverts should be to obtain a response. The bonus of this is that response advertising is easier to measure to see if its working for you.

So how do you put together a direct response advert?
Here is the proven formula for success: -

The most important part of the whole advert is the headline. If you don’t have an actual headline then it’s the first few words of the advert itself. It MUST capture the reader’s attention.

Tip if you have been using the name of your company here, stop, you should use this important space to lead with an exciting statement about your product or service.

The main body of your advert should speak to the reader personally and tell them about the benefits they will get from your product or service.

Don’t forget to include a call to action. This is where you tell the reader what they should do to follow through and get in touch with you or place an order etc. When you book an advert you should insist that it is placed on the right hand page, which is where people’s eyes are drawn first, so statistically more people will actually see, and have a chance to read and respond to, your advert.

Don’t book a long advertising run, or a large advert, until you have tested the advert first, and then only re-book if its working for you.

So, don’t waste your money on ineffective advertising, you could get much better results for less money using a mixture of other marketing methods. And meanwhile, only use adverts that have proved profitable for you.

Reeling in customers
The obvious benefit of a promotional product is that consumers using the product will become increasingly familiar with the brand. This will make the company more recognizable and memorable to consumers.

Popular promotional products, like a t-shirt with the company name on it, may become a man’s casual shirt that he wears to play basketball with his friends. Every time he wears that shirt, his friends see the logo and will recognize it later when they are looking to fulfill a need in that business. The friend will not recall where he saw the logo, but familiarity with having seen it before will give that company an edge. Or, think of promotional pens. Each time a consumer pulls it out of her bag to jot a note, she is engraving that logo into her memory a little bit further.

Showing customers you appreciate them
While promotional products help increase your companies’ brand recognition, and opens doors to new customers, your current customers are a critical part of the promotional product process.

When the competition gets fierce, your customers are more likely to stay with you because you have treated them so well. That could lead to referrals. Also, remember that if you have a special group of customers that gives you far more business than your average customer, you should consider giving them a better product than the other customers, especially if those customers are aware they are especially generous customers.

What are the best products today?
You are generally better off choosing products that will be used frequently rather than shoved in the back corner of an office, or thrown away after only one use. The greater likelihood the product will be used often, the more opportunities to increase brand recognition.

Though there are some obvious promotional products, like pens and t-shirts, carefully consider your clients and the nature of your business when making a selection. For example, Google gave web customers a wireless computer mouse in one of their promotional packages. This would not be appropriate for a gardener, but is highly useful and highly likely to be reused frequently by a web client.

Also, make sure you choose a product that does not fall apart easily, or a pen that is prone to leak. You want your customers to be able to say to their friends, “Oh this cool pocketknife? The company that does such-and-such gave it to me.”

Wearable items make up over a quarter of the promotional products industry, followed by writing instruments like pens, but there is no black and white “wrong” and “right” promotional product.

Make your decisions wisely, and boost your companies’ image with your existing and potential customers.

The actual art of advertising and branding is a lot more sophisticated and in-depth than the consumers they target may realize. Long before an advert even reaches the screen, or print, it has been subject to pain-staking research, focus groups, marketing surveys, and many other methods of determining the current state of the target market. Without this information, releasing a product runs the risk of commercial suicide if the consumer isn’t ready. There’s no such thing as luck where advertising a brand, either established or new, is involved. It takes a lot of hard work, grueling hours in meetings and highly skilled teams of creative minds to finalize a concept.

Part of this process, and a way of determining whether a new brand and accompanying advertisement has succeeded or not, is actually one of the simplest. By providing a group of consumers with either an image, a tag line, or even just a combination of colors and sounds, and they recognize the brand behind the advertising, then the hard work has paid off.

This is where the advertising and branding of a product is so important, by firstly ensuring that consumers will recognize a given product or brand. The next important factor is actually persuading consumers to associate certain attributes with your product. These can range from reliability, pricing, value for money, etc. This is one of the most difficult, yet most intrinsically important sources of advertising and branding success. An instance of this is if you mentioned mouthwash ? is there a brand that springs to mind immediately? How about favourite destinations to go on vacation ? does one resort receive more recommendations than others? Even if that particular resort hasn’t been visited by everyone who mentioned it, just the fact the advertising of that resort makes it sound so enticing that they perceive it’s the destination they should go to, is a sure sign of successful brand advertising.

Yet if successfully advertising a brand is difficult enough to begin with, it can be even more so trying to reach out to new markets with the same product. The stronger the brand and the more successful the initial advertising campaign, the more difficult it becomes to find new avenues. Despite possibly having the number one product on the market, any new advertising still needs to go through the whole process again from scratch. After all, what worked for one product is not guaranteed to work for another.

And this is where the true power of advertising and branding becomes apparent, and is the strongest proof yet that it’s one of the most important in determining whether a company succeeds or fails.