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Five ways to cut ad costs
http://www.DrNunley.com Advertising and marketing are two of the most expensive and necessary parts of running a business. Whether you have a service outlet in a strip mall or a web site, getting people through the front door is never cheap. More than half of business owners say advertising is the most puzzling part of running their business. More than half of all new businesses that don't make it say they simply ran out of advertising budget before the customers started coming in. So it's vitally important you advertise enough, while making sure you can afford all that advertising for as long as it takes to build your sales (and that can often take many months longer than expected). Here are five simple ways to make your ad dollars go 1. Stay with a single ad campaign. Pick something that is important to customers, promote it, and stick with your message. Each time your ad runs it builds upon the last time. Don't listen to your friends, your employees, and that little voice inside your head that says "I'm sick of this same ad." It's just when you think you can't stand to see that ad one more time that prospects are starting to notice it for the first time. 2. Don't waste money on fancy stuff. Make your ad no better than it has to be. There are plenty of designers, copywriters, producers, and ad agencies who will push you to spend more. Make sure it really will make your advertising more effective, and otherwise don't spend extra. 3. Buy small ads regularly. That is better than plowing all your money
into one big ad that runs only now and again. For years I've put my clients' ads in DEMC. This 'zine has one of the largest subscriber audiences around. Even better, the intense and consistent quality of the content makes sure those many readers are really *reading* the newsletter issue after issue. For less than 40 bucks an issue, your little ad can be in front of over
200,000 targeted readers. Can you find anything like that anywhere in
radio, TV, newspapers, or even online? 4. Target, target, target. Putting your ad in front of 12 people who are known to REALLY want your product or service will always get more sales than blasting your ad to millions who couldn't care less. Most of us will get more results from an article in a small home business magazine than we will from an ad in Newsweek. Targeted advertising usually costs more, often a LOT more. 5. When an ad doesn't work, do your best to find out why.
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