THE EFFECTIVE E-ADVERTISEMENT

Written by Joseph Tope


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Customer Preferences in Online Advertising-Part 3 of 3

Written by Karon Thackston


In part two of this series, we discussedrepparttar annoyance factor of online ads and how to overcome them. In this last article, I'll tell you how to use behavioral traits to direct advertising efforts rather than demographics.

I am a strong proponent of defining your target audience. If you don't know who you are communicating with, how will you be able to do it effectively? Jupiter Communications' (www.jup.com) survey backs up my claims.

What Difference Does Behaviorism Make? I'm sure almost everyone has heardrepparttar 101174 phrase features vs. benefits. The entire premise behind this statement is that you must tellrepparttar 101175 audience what's in it for them. How, if you don't know their concerns, their hopes and their needs, are you going to define benefits that will make a difference to your target customer?

The difference between demographics and behaviorism is that one tells yourepparttar 101176 basics andrepparttar 101177 other tells you repparttar 101178 details. Demographics let you know that your customer is a man employed in upper management who is 45 years old, has 2 children and makes approximately $50,000 per year.

Behaviorism tells you that, because he's a man, he is compelled by information-type ads. (If he were a she, she would most likely respond to animation or sound.) It also tells you that he's burned out on corporate politics, having a mid-life crisis, can't being to think of how he's going to pay for college for 2 kids and is in bad need of a raise! Now… which profile do you think you could communicate more effectively with? The demographic orrepparttar 101179 behavior? (It's a rhetorical question!)

Target Everything About Your Advertising People hearrepparttar 101180 phrase "target marketing" and "target audience" allrepparttar 101181 time. But do you understand how extremely important those phrases are torepparttar 101182 success of your marketing campaign? You simply must, MUST know your target audience.

When you communicate with them through advertising, you absolutely have to be able to address their fears, their problems and their concerns with a solution. They want to know what's in it for them. If you don't understand what they need, you simply can't answer that question.

Targeted advertising increases sales!

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