Saturday, April 2, 2011
Executing Your Advertising Campaign On The Net.
I’d like to face the issue of planning an advertising campaign. When planning a campaign it is very important to determine the goals at first. Perhaps you might think that it’s just an irony of mine. But I tell this rather seriously. The matter is that so many people can’t fully understand what they actually want in their advertising campaign. Some guys want to get some traffic, some buyers want to get targeted visitors for their website, others want both these variants and cheaper certainly. To understand what tools are best to use, you should work out your objectives first of all.
For example you sell some sort of construction equipment and it is obvious that you need buyers. Accordingly, you should use the preferred instrument for advertising. So I don’t doubt that sooner or later you’ll start with just search advertising at first, then maybe you’ll move to contextual advertising. If you want a lot of traffic to your portal, cheap traffic, then you should try media advertising. Perhaps you are interested in branding. May be some interesting events have recently occurred in your company such as re-branding or you’ve just released a new product, which no one knows in the world yet, but you know for sure that there are people who are interested in a particular subject, might use your product.
Having defined the objectives, you should set priorities for what you advertise exactly within the specified budget. As you can see there should be always some kind of budget and it is fixed certainly. I’m sure that it would be better to promote successfully a single product line or a couple ones rather than waste the budget on ten product lines while getting nothing in the end.
Now I’d like to mention another very important stage, which is almost always missed to my great regret. Of 50% of customers come from sites where pages with goods are unavailable or they simply come across the main page with phone numbers. So I just want to say that when a particular user enters the site, he can’t understand what to do. The vast majority of advertisers are used to sending all traffic to the main page and offer users to choose what they want and find everything by themselves. It’s very uncomfortable I should say. So you should take into account this peculiarity.
Besides this you should plan your budget thoroughly and certainly in advance. Without a properly planned budget you’ll be unable to start up an advertising campaign. Perhaps for this purpose you’ll require reading several books on financial planning in order to succeed with forming a budget. And of course you need to learn such basic things as programming languages to understand the technical side of advertising. In fact placing a banner isn’t the sane as placing a slice of ham on a piece of bread. I hope you’ll learn all these technical peculiarities by yourself.