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Archive for October 29th, 2009

Oct
29

Elements of a Good Advertisement

Advertisements are all around us. Whether we’re watching television, driving down the freeway, flipping through a magazine, or listening to the radio, we are bombarded on every side by messages trying to get us to buy a product or service. And although there have been countless debates over whether or not advertising is effective and whether it really does influence people to purchase products, the fact is many companies will spend billions of dollars on a single advertisement in the hopes that it will increase their profits.

Good advertisements have the power to make people stop and take notice. You have to have been living under a rock not to notice the success of Geico’s caveman series or the iPod’s silhouette series of commercials and advertisements. And as a result of those advertisements, sales went up significantly for those two companies.

Advertising creates awareness of the product and can convey messages, attitudes, and emotions to entice and intrigue audiences. At least those are the desired effects of an advertisement. Needless to say, some advertisements fail miserably in their purpose.

So, what makes the difference between a successful advertisement and an unsuccessful one? It’s all in the design. Typically, larger organizations produce more effective advertisements, while newer and smaller companies are the ones that produce the duds. This is largely because bigger organizations have the money to hire professionals while smaller companies do not.

The advantage of hiring an in-house advertising developer or hiring an advertising agency is that you get the skills of people who have been trained in creating effective advertisements. Many have spent years and years going to school, studying past effective advertisements, looking at elements of design, and learning how to create their own effective advertising campaigns.

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Oct
29

Internet Marketing

“Local website developers often provide slots for business ad links used by local businesses.” Says an internet marketer who provides a news service to a community where news is lacking. “The blog provides an informative venue to share my opinions, the news, and other pertinent information required by the community, and I’ve found it means advertizing options for local businesses that are not online.”

But… How would you drive traffic to a local Main Street Business from a newsy blog online?

Maximize Keyword Seachability —

By making keyword searches for the name of the community plus the specific service a high priority on the blog, local folks find they can locate the offline business through ads on my website. More and more people begin to search Google before they hit the local phone book.

Text Ad Options Online —

I offer short text ads directed to a one page “ad” on my website to promote the local business if they don’t have a website. It doesn’t take long to put up a page, having a page available on my site encourages them to keep buying ads with me, and I get the benefit of more pages on my site, all relevant to my blog.

Inspired Local Blog Posts —

Local business events inspire news stories, local promotions and personal references to people who live in the community. The more their names are in print on my website, the more they look to see what I’m writing. I try to focus on events with people involved than on people, to alleviate liability issues, but I really up the scale of events when I write about them online, because the local economy benefits from tourist traffic too.

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