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dimanche 9 février 2014

The Advantages Of Newspaper Marketing

By Jayne Rutledge


Over the years, many people have been adverting their businesses on newspapers. Newspaper marketing has been seen as effective and that is why many businesses still use this method today. To create ads on newspapers, you are supposed to contact a newspaper company of your choice or write a promotion letter and send it to their editorial staff. The ad will actually be placed on a strategic page on the local newspaper for your audience to read. Discussed in this piece are the benefits of using newspapers to promote your business.

To begin with, you notice that a great number of people read newspapers every day. This means that you can target many people with just a single ad you place on newspapers. Also, you can only target those people you want. This is not like television or radio advertisements that target all people as long as they are listening or watching news on their screens.

Next, people can keep newspapers for future reference. This is because they come in hard copies unlike broadcast advertisements whereby all words spoken diminish in thin air. It is no wonder to see people reading old newspapers. This may be due to the fact that they saw some adverts some days ago and since they has no time to go through them, they preserved the newspapers in order to read them later.

This method is actually cost-effective. It cannot be compared with television or radio advertisements whereby you pay for every word spoken. With newspaper marketing, you only pay for the space occupied by your advert or article. If your budget is small, you can decide to utilize a very small space so that your budget fits well.

If you choose to advertise on newspapers, you will be allowed to choose the content of message you want your target audience to read. You can also change the nature of the content on daily basis to suit the needs of your potential customers. Updating content in newspapers is good because people can get bored if they keep on reading the same thing every day. If you include articles, make sure they are informative and educative.

This type of business promotion can be used by bother small and big businesses. This is different from other media like televisions whereby only large scale businesses are recognized since they can pay for the adverts. With newspapers, it does not matter the size of your business as long as you are able to pay for the small space you utilize.

Newspaper advertisement can be effective if utilized well. Many people make a mistake of posting adds only once and assume that all targeted people have seen them. This should not be the case because not all people read newspapers on daily basis. It is advisable that you post continuously so that people who will not be able to assess the newspaper on a particular day will find similar advert the following day.

The other benefit of newspaper marketing is that people can view the ads regularly. With broadcast media, many people can miss the channels. Also, some of your target people do not own radios or televisions. But newspapers are available to anyone and are cheap. People purchase newspapers and take their time to read what is contained therein.




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