Sunday, January 10, 2010

Success In Small Business Advertising

By Kris Ann

Running a successful business takes more than ensuring that you have inventory, happy customers and appreciated employees. One of the most important aspects to running a successful business is utilizing the proper advertising tools. Below you will find some tips that will assist you with promoting your business in a successful way.

THE MESSAGE - When advertising for your business consider promoting just one aspect of your business by using a key phrase that places emphasis on just one thing. Keep the phrase simple and use it as a common thread throughout all of your advertising, whether printing on promotional products or using in print advertising, keeping one message will help have a superior impact on your business.

WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE?- You need to decide on who your targeting audience will be and focus your campaign on their likes and dislikes. It is also important to appeal to your audience and make your marketing specifically for this demographic. This is the best way to make a large impact and drawn new customers in.

HOW CAN YOU BE REACHED?- No matter what type of advertising you are working with always make sure that you offer contact information. Include you phone number, address, web address and email addresses. By offering various contact options you are allowing your customers to choose a contact method that is most comfortable to them. It is also important that no matter what method of contact is utilized, by the customer, a quick and friendly response is given in all situations.

CREATE INTEREST - Advertising does not need to tell a person everything about your business, as a matter of fact that is the last thing that you want to accomplish with your advertising. Generating interest and a curiosity about your business is a much more effective way to get a customer to make the initial contact, making further contact for more information about your products and services affords you the opportunity to make the sale without having the customer dismiss your product or service before ever contacting you.

It doesn't matter what form of advertising you use, as long as you follow these few basic principles you are sure to have one of the most successfully advertising campaigns you have even put together for you business.

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