Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Maximizing Advertising Results

By Dennis Gartland II

With proper testing, education and methodology you too can be guaranteed results from your advertising.

Is it possible to guarantee results form advertising? If you approach advertising as a science instead of an art results are fairly predictable.

In any case this is just an inquiry for the goods or service. This is real evidence your advertising is working and generating a return on investment.

In today market it is easier to get someone to fill out a form online or send an email than it is to get him or her to go to a store and talk to a salesperson.

Now it may take twice or three times as much Conviction in Copy to make a Consumer write an Inquiry for goods, and post it, as it would have taken to make that same Consumer inquire verbally for the goods advertised, when passing a store that should sell them.

The ad that directs consumers to a retail store should have as much conviction in its copy as a successful mail order advertisement. Otherwise lower price and something better sales tactics will affect the consumer.

If the ad fails to convince the consumers with a "Reason why" and conviction it could direct him to a retail store where they are switched to a competing brand, the retailer is overstocked in, or that the salesman prefers. In which case we would be helping our competitor's bottom line. Half the money spent to keep the brand on people's minds results in the substitution of non-advertised goods for the advertised through General advertising. The ad must therefore give them a better Reason to buy your goods than he is likely to get from the Salesperson for the competitions goods that Salesman will want to substitute. It must give him this reason in such lucid thought-form that he can comprehend without effort, so impressively that he will believe our reasoning Claims. It must accomplish this in spite of his natural distrust of all Advertisement statements.

Because, if the Advertisement fails to thus fortify the Consumer with "Reason-Why" and conviction, it may simply send him to the Retail Store to be switched on to a competing line of goods with which the Retailer is heavily stocked, or which his Clerks favor the sale of in preference to ours. In that case the Advertising we pay for would sell goods for our non-advertising competitors. Half the money spent to "Keep-the-Name-before-the-People" results to day in this substitution of non-advertised articles for the articles advertised through General Publicity or branding.

In contrast to general publicity "Reason-Why Advertising" or Salesmanship-on-Paper, ROI is predictable. Consumers need only be convinced 1 time, through "Reason why advertising" or "Salesmanship- on-paper," we thus convince him, and more than fortifying him against substitution.

With reason why advertising they begin using the article with an advance knowledge of, and belief in, its good points, his appreciation becomes permanent if the goods merit it. He therefore makes a second, third, and further consecutive purchases of the article as a result of having once read a single convincing "Reason-Why" advertisement about it.

We also help his imagination to find and recognize, in the article advertised, the very qualities claimed and proved for it in the Copy. These qualities he might never have discovered for himself, nor appreciated if he had casually discovered them, in a mere Curiosity purchase.

He therefore makes a second, third, and further consecutive purchases of the article as a result of having once read a single convincing Reason Why advertisement about it. This is where large and cumulative profits must come to the General Advertiser-on the second, third and continued purchases by Readers of the first advertisement that reached their Convictions.

The difference in Results from Space in which this direct selling force of "Reason-Why" has been used, and in results from similar space filled with "General Publicity," is often more than 60 per cent. Conclusive tests on Copy have clearly proved this, and preceding article cites a vivid example of it from actual experience

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