Say What? (Conveying the Proper Message in Marketing)

Apr 3
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2008

Kaye Z. Marks

Kaye Z. Marks

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How to convey the proper message when marketing

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Often,Say What? (Conveying the Proper Message in Marketing) Articles what makes a marketing campaign such as your full color brochures and color flyers effective is the message that is conveyed to your target clients. And it is not just quality message, but the right message that you convey in your advertising flyers. When you are able to convey your message in the most effective way possible, then surely you will generate the leads you need to grow your business.

 

Effective communication is indeed crucial. It is how you create your message and the way you interpret it that makes it easy to your recipients. Especially with your promotional flyers, creating your specific message and then carrying it out in your promotional campaign are actually the most important aspects of communication.

 

Creating your idea therefore is more an art than a science. Sure, you have to be precise and clear with what you want to say. But more than anything else, your message should be a creative process which can only be limited by your own imagination. Hence, when you develop what you want to say to your target clients, you need to consider three things: general message factors, message structure, and message testing.

 

The first one, general message factors are those things that make a big difference in your marketing campaign. This includes the demographics of your target audience, the kind of medium used, product factors, and your general advertising goal.

 

Second, you have to consider the message structure which allows you to compare and distribute your message according to the appeal of your product, its value, and your slogan. Your product appeal is a message that gets the attention of your target clients. Whatever is the impact of your marketing campaign, it can be emotional or humorous, as well as fearful and sexual. It can also be the most cost effective product amongst the many products in the market. Whatever your appeal, your ad should have qualities that make it hard for consumers to resist.

 

Message testing on the other hand, is the process of getting feedback from potential clients and customers before you run your ad to the general public. The most common feedback method is to create focus groups where you present several types of your message. You then test the impact it creates to your group so that you can measure the effect you will have when you decide to actually run it.

 

Finally, when you run you ad campaign, be sure to measure the results. Often, the results are relative to the goals you have for your marketing campaign. This means that your results may not always be related to increased sales. Rather, if your objective is to promote awareness of your product then your ad campaign can be measured in terms of how many people know your product by this time.

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