Persistant Advertising Will Do No Harm!

Persistant Advertising Will Do No Harm!

By: Martin Lemieux

From my experience, I've been on many discussion groups and
have spoken to many other like minded people. The one topic
that always seems to arise is how to get massive sales right
away.

Not only massive sales but quick sales. Well let me clear
something up for you. Creating MASSIVE sales takes much
dedication, persistence and especially patience. Not to
mention planning & money!

See the unfortunate part is that people give up. Not only do they
give up but they usually give up right before they succeed. I have
a friend who's tried 4 times to start a roofing business and keep
it going. I asked him, what kind of marketing plan did you have?

He said "well none actually, I was trying to rely on word of
mouth advertising to get me started and a few ads here and there".

Now, don't get me wrong, if you can get a fantastic "word or
mouth" campaign going then you won't have any problems. See the
problem wasn't that my friend couldn't do the work but that his
"sphere of influence" was very small. Hence he was having problems
getting word of mouth working for him!

So I suggested to him that he place a very small ad in the
newspaper around the surrounding area. It turned out that he had
already tried an ad in the paper but, he had placed a one time ad
almost the size of the whole newspaper and hardly got any business
out of it. Which never mind cost him a fortune.

I explained to him that persistence is the key, yes a lot of
people will see the ad, but as soon as they are done reading it,
they will forget it ever existed. So I said to him, grab a small
15-20 word ad and put it there for the rest of the year!

So moving on a little, his ad started off small but then grew more
and more profitable! See it takes about 21 times for your visitors
to see your ad until you make a sale.

21 times Martin???

Yes about that... we are so saturated with ads it has to be
imprinted in our minds before we can even remember just one
specific one. So the reason for having my friend put out a small
ad instead of one massive full page ad was to allow his potential
clients to get used to the fact that he wasn't going anywhere and
his business seemed legitimate and profitable.

It's all about getting into your prospects sub-conscious and
staying there until they are ready to buy!

So just remember when you're trying to decide between a one time
shot that might cover coast to coast or a smaller ad that will
cover coast to coast 12 months a year, always stay with persistant
advertising!