Advertising Strategies

Advertising Strategies

Advertising Strategies

Advertising is among the items that are most crucial to the growth and development of the product or service provided to a company. It is a way of letting people knows about the product. Advertising is also a way of influencing people's way of thinking towards buying a product or service. There are myriad mediums through which advertising is possible, such as television, newspapers, magazines, radio, posters, billboards, gift schemes and promotions, agents, cinema slides and a lot more other ways depending on the advertiser's creativity. The basic idea is to use media to promote the company, the product or service. The advertising strategies used are varied, and these are extremely important with regards to getting positive results.

Companies spend a lot of money on advertising, and rightly so, as expense on advertisements is seen as a good investment. There are a number of ways in which advertising is handled by organizations. If the company is small scale, the advertisement part will be handled by the marketing department, or sales working with an advertising agency. Larger companies often have an advertisement department of its own, and will have a manager for advertisement, who advises the vice president on advertising strategies. The advertising department has the job of propose a budget for advertisements, as well as of developing advertising strategies that are powerful and viable, as well as to approve various advertisements and campaigns.

There are different styles of advertisement; there can be a number of classifications with respect to the style of address made to the public and the aim of advertising Informative, Persuasive, Reminding, and Reinforcing. There are numerous ways in which all of these work and most of these have been categorized into various sub types.

Informative advertising aims at giving people information, telling them about the product. These will create knowledge and awareness of the product.

Persuasive advertising is a way of creating a preference or liking for the said good. Persuasive advertising is extremely common, and companies have gotten a whole lot more subtle at present. There is a good use of psychological techniques in today's persuasive advertising strategies.

Reminder advertisements are a way or stimulating repeat buying of a good, a way of keeping the interest alive.

Any one type of these advertising strategies will be implemented depending on the target market, the market situation is analyzed thoroughly at first, and it is then that the exact style of advertising is decided on.

To cite an example, consider these market situations

If the product is in a mature class, and the company producing is a leader in the market, but the brand usage low, the strategy for advertising will definitely aim at promoting the brand, and stimulating more usage.

If the product is a recent one or its product class is new. Also, the company producing it is not the market leader. However the brand is superior to the leaders. This will require a strategy in convincing the market on the superiority of the brand.

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