A Marketing Agency's guide to Advertising

A Marketing Agency's guide to Advertising

by Adriaan Brits

61 pages· 2016

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What sells your product or business?
What gets people familiar with your brand name?
What grows your customer base and company?

All these questions and more can be answered with advertising. Advertising is a vital part of your success. Everything hinges on advertising. As Bill Gates said: "If I am left with 2 pennies, I will spend 1 penny on publicity". Addvertising gets your name, business and product into the public eye.
Many top companies if not all successful companies can credit their success to great advertising. Some of these companies include Lego, Elizabeth Arden, Calvin Klein, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Apple, Facebook.
Without a doubt, advertising sells. In today’s society, technology has brought in various medias some a bit more recent than others. As a result, advertising is now accessible on social media, websites, blogs, emails, and mobile devices. Advertising has become revolutionary. Today you can advertise on multiple platforms. The impact of your advertising has gone from local to global.
Advertising is like a microphone. You are the speaker holding the microphone. Advertising amplifies the message that you are conveying to your audience. The effect of the microphone is that it spreads your message further than your natural voice would, no matter how well you project it. More people can hear you. The effectiveness of your message and its delivery will hold your audience captive until you have completed your message. Once they have heard your message they can follow through by approaching you afterwards or buying your product. The point is that advertising is your partner in business growth and brand awareness.
Whatever your goals for your product and services are, this course is for you. Here you will be learning the ins and outs of advertising and what makes advertising successful. We will guide you through the process of advertising and how to create your own advert should you choose to keep your advertising in-house instead of contracting an advertising agency.
Unlike other advertising courses that emphasize social media, we explain the various advertising types and medias that you can explore. The choice about how you advertise your product or service is up to you. You may choose to use one media or several. To keep you current with the fast paced nature of advertising and technology, we have included a lesson on user-generated advertising which is sure to encourage people towards your product or service and engage more with you.
Think of those adverts that stand out and made you think “that’s a great ad!” What makes those adverts stand out from the myriads of adverts that bombard us daily whether it is on the Internet, TV, Radio, magazines, newspapers, or other media. What emotional response did they trigger in you?
Your answers to these questions will show you that the people who created the adverts understood both the advertising process and the audience they were targeting. This is why psychology is intricately woven into advertising forming the basis of so many reasons why advertisers take the approach that they do.
The psychological understanding of advertising is largely overshadowed by courses that are focused on helping you generate money and increase customer-base. We believe that understanding the psychology of advertising will help create adverts that will maximize your results and appeal more effectively to your audience. Advertising is an art and a science that deserves to be well executed.
Where other advertising courses hone in on a single facet of media or cover the basis, we have opted to bring you an in-depth and current understanding of advertising that will help you achieve awesome results.

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