Tips on creating an advertising campaign.

Advertising and promotions is bringing a service to the attention of potential and current customers. They are best carried out by implementing an advertising and promotions plan. The goals of the plan should depend very much on the overall goals and strategies of the organization, and the results of the marketing analysis, including the positioning statement.

The plan usually includes what target markets you want to reach, what features and benefits you want to convey to them, how you will convey it to them (this is often called your advertising campaign), who is responsible to carry the various activities in the plan and how much money is budgeted for this effort. Successful advertising depends very much on knowing the preferred methods and styles of communications of the target markets that you want to reach with your ads. A media plan and calendar can be very useful, which specifies what advertising methods are used and when.

For each service, carefully consider: What target markets are you trying to reach with your ads? What would you like them to think and perceive about your products or service? How can you get them to perceive the benefit of your product or service? What communications media do they see or prefer the most? Consider TV, radio, newsletters, classifieds, displays/signs, posters, word of mouth, press releases, direct mail, special events, brochures, neighborhood newsletters, etc.

This artwork was executed as part of a series of ad concepts for DTS, a premium digital entertainment company.

What media is most practical for you to use in terms of access and affordability? The amount spent on advertising is often based on the revenue expected from the product or service, that is, the sales forecast.

You can often find out a lot about your customers preferences just by conducting some basic market research methods.

Before you start your advertising campaign…

… you should also know what you want to say. It’s called positioning.

Positioning includes identifying the unique market position, or “niche”, for your organization. Positioning is accomplished through market analysis. Market analysis includes finding out what groups of potential customers (or markets) exist, what groups of customers you prefer to serve (target markets), what their needs are, what products or services you might develop to meet their needs, how the customers might prefer to use the products and services, what your competitors are doing, what pricing you should use and how you should distribute products and services to your target markets.

There’s a lot to consider when advertising your business. You should be running your business. Let Saturn Creative do all of the creative advertising work for you.