Advertising Strategy Review

Be it small firm or large multinational— most advertising directors get promoted because they are good collaborators and do well managing people.
While their advertising strategy skills vary, when it comes to translating those skills into making their advertising strategy succeed the directors follow pretty much the same playbook.

Reluctance To Experiment

That playbook has many names — but following the herd…also known as lock-stepping though daily corporate advertising strategy…is all too common.
Have an an advertising strategy idea for reaching new markets?
Want to test a different way of getting and keeping customers?
Sorry, but without top management support and attention even the smallest advertising strategy experiments go nowhere.
This reluctance to experiment has become epidemic and may already have taken hold of your sales organization.

To buck this trend try these tested advertising strategy tips

They are simple, straightforward and easy to implement — but they work.
Put them to work and you will get more out of every sales dollar you spend.

•  Advertising Campaigns: “Almost any advertising question can be answered cheaply, quickly and finally by a test campaign. And that’s the way to answer them — not by arguments around a table.

• Salesmanship: “Advertising is salesmanship. Treat it like a salesman. Force it to justify itself.”[singlepic id=1 w=320 h=240 float=right]

• Good Business: “…most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returns.”

• Things Too Costly: “Many things are possible in advertising which are too costly to attempt. That is another reason why every project and method should be weighed and determined by a known scale of cost and result.”

• Letter Writing; “Letters to inquirers, follow-up letters, whenever possible they should be tested. Where that is not possible they should be based on knowledge based on tests.”

• Offer Service:”Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or your profit. They seek service for themselves. Ignoring this fact is a common mistake and a costly mistake in advertising.”

Heed these advertising strategy tips! They are as relevant today as when first published in 1923.

They come from an advertising man named Claude Hopkins.
Although he was the highest paid copywriter of his day, Hopkins was  more than just a great ad writer. He was a visionary who turned advertising on its head by using scientific principles to test which ads worked…and which failed.
For Hopkins, if you aren’t testing the market by measuring how well (or poorly!) your ads are doing then your advertising is a hit or miss gamble.
In his book SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING he shows you how to remove this gamble from your advertising.[singlepic id=16 w=320 h=240 float=right]
It’s all here. From making small controlled advertising strategy tests with a limited budget to split copy testing of headlines and short copy vs. long copy.
Not just another memoir of advertising strategy jargon and personal opinion.
This is tested advertising wisdom that has stood the test of time.
Indeed, what you get today from any of the marketing gurus is simply a repackaging of what Claude Hopkins said nearly a century ago.
Regardless of your business or the marketing and advertising you plan to do, you’ll do yourself a HUGE favor by referring to this direct marketing advertising strategy book and the timeless wisdom it contains.

Direct Marketing Advertising Strategy Explained

Reader comments…       

• “Nobody, at any level, should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book seven times.” – David Ogilvy

• “If Claude Hopkins was alive today, he would absolutely dominate internet marketing.”                                                         – Lance Jepsen, Author of: Internet Marketing:Profits That Lie Hidden In Your Website

 Beneficial For Anyone In Marketing Or Sales 

• “This will be a beneficial read for anyone in marketing or sales. Even though this book was written 90+ years ago, most of the principles discussed are still relevant today.” …The Book Reviewer

• “Considered the father of modern advertising techniques, Hopkins believed advertising should be measurable and justify the results it produced. In SCIENTIFIC ADVERTISING he explains precisely how to do that, and the principles he discovered and documented are as true today as when they were first written.” Travis McAshan, web designer & search marketing consultant.

• “If you’re serious about learning about marketing that really works, get this book.”…MarkAtwood.com

• “This book is a must read if you’re serious about advertising…These methods work. They always have. They always will.”  Ian Lurie, in Internet Marketing.

In this direct marketing book you will learn to test everything you do on a small  scale…before spending money on a larger scale.  In this way needless  advertising strategy  blunders are avoided.

It’s this no-nonsense approach that has always struck a chord with me…and why I recommend this advertising strategy book so highly to my Marketing Direct subscribers.
Bottom Line: Your advertising managers and bean counters will smile with approval because the tips for avoiding common advertising strategy blunders are based on the tested fundamentals of successful direct marketing sales generation strategy.