Monday, June 20, 2011

Best Advertising Solutions for Your Brand

In today’s blog, let us go through some best advertising solutions that will help you to position your brand with effective reach on target groups.

Television Advertising- Advertising your brand through television is one of the effective means to create a good impression about your brand on customers’ mind. Television Advertising is beneficial over other means of promotion as it provides audio-visual impact on viewers. Customers also find television ads entertaining and informative about various brands and their added features. This infotainment nature of television media makes it one of the best means to promote your brand amongst target groups. Television Advertising is poised to become an effective means of promotion in the future as well.

Radio Advertising- Radio Ads are ideal means of communicating with a mass target group. A cost effective channel of advertising, radio is also an affordable means. Over the last few years, radio embedded mobile phones have been introduced. Since then the popularity of radio advertising has been tremendously increased. Brands of all ranges advertise through the various radio channels. The portable feature of radio media is another advantage of advertising through this very medium. The launch of various FM channels is a clear hint how radio is still a favourite means of entertainment as well as for brand promotion.

Print Advertising- Print Ads reach out to customers in the form of newspaper/magazine classifieds or advertorials, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers etc. Various advertisers still opt for print advertising media to promote their brands. The induction of digital technology has provided another striking advantage for print advertisers to launch their promotion campaigns through this media. Print Advertising media has one advantage over other means of promotion. One can go through any print ad anytime either to seek any brand information or to utilize it as a reference for future promotion campaigns.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

How your business benefits from advertising?

Running a business (whether product or service related) is a customer-centric marketing activity. In order to generate awareness amongst the customers about the business, one has to launch various advertising campaigns through multiple means or channels to make customers aware about its presence in the market. Advertising is infact the only means to bridge the gap of communication between brand or business owners and customers. Advertising is beneficial for every business owner as it helps in generating good revenue for the company or business firm. A business firm benefits from advertising in many ways. Following are some advantages of advertising that benefit every brand or business owner. Take a look-

Advertising informs your customers about your product or service- An advertising campaign is the only means to inform your customers about the presence of your product or service amongst the target groups in the market place. This information is important for your business to familiarize itself and take part in the prevailing competition in the market. If one doesn’t advertise his product or business, his business may probably remain unnoticed by customers. Through an print advertising ad campaign, the brand or business owner informs, educates and generates awareness amongst the target groups.

Advertising is a constructive means of marketing that helps the business owner to generate more revenue for his business. The consumers are attracted by the features or benefits of the product or service through the way they are advertised. If the customers are convinced that the qualities of the advertised goods or services are worth buying, they would consider spending their money to buy or adopt those goods or services. Advertising saves customers’ time and energy by making the brand message easily accessible through various channels. Television Advertising, Radio Advertising, Print Advertising, Outdoor Advertising and even internet and mobile advertising- all these means of advertising play significant roles while communicating the brand message to target customers.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Does the growth in the number of ad media succor brand owners?

Brands are newly introduced in the market only through an advertising channel. Customers seek details about the brands through various ad campaigns that are telecast or published through the numerous ad mediums. Television Advertising, Print Advertising, Radio Advertising and Outdoor Advertising, all these promotion mediums play important role while transmitting the valuable brand messages to target customers who are also the prospective buyers of the very advertised brands. Today’s blog focuses on why growing number of advertising channels assist brand owners to richly position their brands.

Choosing the right medium of communication is one of the important strategies of an advertising campaign. While an effective media channel successfully delivers the brand message, a less effective medium of advertising fails to provide the targeted impact on customers’ mind. Especially when the buying behavior of customers is quite unpredictable, the advertiser should tactfully convey the brand message through a reachable ad channel that will convey the brand message at any cost.

Brand owners spend heavily on ad campaigns of their products with a sole objective to increase revenue of the advertised brands. Every penny that is spent for an ad campaign is an investment that is converted into revenue once the brand is successfully positioned in the market. It is therefore a highly important criterion to deploy the ad campaign through a rich media that will not fail to deliver the brand message amongst the targeted groups.

Of late, advertising practices in India have been quantitatively as well as qualitatively enhanced. The inductions of various new mediums of brand communication and the launch of hi-tech tools have enabled brand owners to advertise brands on richer platforms. Conventional techniques and tools are also replaced by brand new ones. Brand advertising therefore has become a favourite for advertisers. All in all, the growth in the number of ad media eventually succors brand owners to promote their brands.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Three Tenacious Means of Advertising

Today brand advertising is beyond the norms of mere promotion of a brand or business amongst target groups. Also with the induction of rich technologies, brand advertising norms have completely changed over the years. Modern brand advertisers deploy latest tools and techniques of advertising to ensure that their brands are effectively positioned amongst target audiences. In this blog, let us have a look at the three persistent means of advertising continuously adopted by brand owners for all these years.

Television Advertising- For decades, brand commercials through television media have been a favorite means of finding out information about various brands. Providing audio-visual impact on audiences, television commercials inform and simultaneously entertain viewers and thereby provide them a rich brand experience about the advertised product. Today, television commercials are still one of the top mediums of advertising for a wide range of brand owners and lacs of people still prefer to watch various brand commercials through the multiple television channels.

Radio Advertising- Radio Advertising is one of the cost effective means of brand promotion that also provides a mass appeal to the masses. Radio Ads provide good impression about brands through its attractive jingles. Also the commercial span is usually short for radio ads that enable listeners to avail of valuable brand information within seconds. The rising number of FM channels has so far enhanced the interest of brand owners to adopt this portable advertising media.

Outdoor Advertising- One of the earliest modes of advertising, outdoor media is an effective channel to reach out to customers through a larger than life approach. Outdoor Ads are omnipresent. Customers can go through a brand message any time of the day. Modern Outdoor Advertising practices are implemented through the induction of digital technology. Brand messages now reach customers quickly and attractively through the various digital mode of outdoor advertising such as digital signage, electronic kiosks, LCD/LED displays etc.