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Image Advertising and Name Recognition Isn’t Everything!
Posted by: | CommentsGrowing up, we were aware of certain brands and images that evoke, in some cases, nostalgia. We can all image dreamy days on a summer beach reaching for a cold drink from our COKE Cooler – it was red and had a white bottle cap on it. Tony the Tiger served our morning breakfast to many of us. Hertz was guiding our parents into the drivers seat of a new rental car. These were big companies with big advertising budgets. We knew their names, recognized their logos and we responded accordingly. Unfortunately, not every business is able to make it on Image Advertising.
Nowadays, an interesting phenomenon occurs with many business people when they are questioned regarding the success of their advertising. Repeatedly, a similar response is heard. “I have no ideamost of my business comes from referrals. If in fact most of their business is from referrals, well then that demonstrates that once they have secured a client they treat them well. But it leaves a big hole in their Marketing Program that must be looked at if they are to continue to grow at rates that referral business will never measure up to.
There is a definite gap between how the large companies address their market and how most businesses must address theirs. It is vitally important therefore to understand this delta and be able to accommodate and address it. Given the fact that not every individual contemplating self employment can benefit from a University or College degree in marketing, how do successful operations find their way to the methods that work. If you dont have the budget to afford to advertise like a Coke, Pepsi or Home Depot how to you attract that new prospect.
The best way to do this is to make your advertising dollar accountable to you. By this I really mean, regardless of whatever method you choose to use, every dollar spent must have a measurable return so you can validate its success. The best way for small to medium sized businesses to accomplish this is through a technique known as Direct Response Marketing. One business has actually incorporated Direct Response Marketing as a fundamental underpinning of a marketing program they provide. What this means is that as a user, regardless of your experience or lack thereof, with this form of advertising, you have a mentor extremely well versed in how it operates and how best to manage it. Automated Marketing Solutions, or AMS is the answer.
AMS provides a full array of marketing technology tools and processes that allow any company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program using tried and proven methods. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technique. But it doesnt stop there. AMS provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human input.
The benefits to this system are substantial time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks. It also provides consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest. If you would like to learn more about Direct Response Marketing and how it can benefit your business visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and benefit from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.
News-Style Advertising vs Image and Name Recognition Advertising
Posted by: | CommentsIn some ways, communication has caused our planet to shrink. A news event anywhere in the world today can be communicated, almost instantly, to anywhere else in the world. Newspapers, Radio, Television and the Internet have all contributed to this. Like any technology that brings benefits, unfortunately, there are also disadvantages. Our world is one of communications overload. Over the course of an average day we are exposed to news, commercials and advertising through all of the above forms of media. The result of this is that we have become conditioned to blocking out all but those items that we are interested in.
This has presented marketers with a challenge. How do they ensure that their target audience responds to their message? How do they get by the spam-like filters we have all developed to protect ourselves from information overload on a daily basis? This is where News-style Advertising comes in. This style has been developed to slip past our advertising filters. This is accomplished by presenting the marketers message in a manner more consistent with news. News-style advertising doesn’t look like advertising. It has no pictures or graphics. It contains no slogans or logos. There is nothing associated with it that would give the reader any reason to suspect that it is being sponsored by any company or individual. It contains a headline, copy and a method for the reader to get additional information, such as an 800 number, if they buy into the copy.
The reason why this type of advertising is simple and tends to get past our mental spam filters. Say we scan a newspaper or magazine and see something with a Headline that appeals to an issue or problem we are dealing with at that time. Because it is news-like in appearance it is non-threatening. Our need drives us to read the article, generally short in nature. This is also appealing since it does not represent a great deal of investment on our part. The response mechanism allows us to get more information if what we have read in the article makes sense to us. It also represents a viable solution to our issue. It is because it is non-threatening in nature that it is able to generate the response numbers up to 500% better than other techniques.
This very effective form of advertising has been incorporated into a dedicated marketing strategy by one successful company. That company is Automated Marketing Solutions; or AMS. AMS provides a full variety of marketing technology tools and processes that allow any company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program using tested and proven methods such as News-style Advertising. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technique. AMS also provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human interaction. The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest or desire to do business with them. If you would like to hear more about News-style Advertising and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. Learn how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.
Why Marketing is so Important
Posted by: | CommentsIf you are starting out in business, a few things are generally understood. First of all, you need a plan, secondly you need to have a product, and thirdly, you should have a pretty good idea of who your market is. Also, you need to ensure that you have secured the financing that will see you through your company start up, until the business starts to pay you back.
But how many of us truly understand the real Nature of our business? Is it really about having the best technology, the best knowledge about your product or industry or the most offices available to make it easy to contact you? It might surprise you to learn that, although all of these things are important and do serve a key purpose in your business, they are not what your business is really about.
Your business is about MARKETING your products and services. Todays consumer is a much more sophisticated shopper who does their homework before making a purchase. The advent of instant access to consumer information has done away with spontaneous purchasing or using the local store or shop because it is convenient. Although we may still patronize friends or friends of friends in the business we are interested in, we also look beyond these methods to make sure that we are still getting the deal we want. To be successful today any business person needs to accept this and adjust their thinking about what their business is really about. And once again, that is Marketing their business.
Any business person has to realize that first they are a Marketer and a Retailer, Banker, Doctor, Real Estate Agent or Broker second. Your role as a marketer is paramount to your success whatever you focus your attention on. An athlete, in the world of sports, who trains and prepares the most is the one that is going to stand out in their field. In the business world, the marketer that incorporates and practices the best marketing methods will win.
Success in business is dependant on two things, attraction of new customers and then their retention. This is why Marketing must be priority one regardless of all of the other tasks that face us in our day-to-day operations. The purpose of this article, by the way, is not to dismay you, but rather to provide you with some insight about marketing opportunities that are available to help any business incorporate these best marketing practices into their operation. And they are available today. Automated Marketing Solutions or AMS is a full service provider of marketing technology and solutions that incorporate the latest Direct Marketing techniques. AMS Direct Marketing solutions provide inexpensive, results oriented programs that use proven sequences to attract and retain customers. Their solutions work for the smallest start-up business to mid sized companies.
A key aspect of their technology solution is the ability to place an entire Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. What is meant by Auto-pilot? Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, it is loaded into AMS Lead Management System. This system provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human interaction.
The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for apathy. If you would like to hear more about AMS marketing programs and how they can benefit your business visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.
