The Strategy of Advertisement

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The Strategy of Advertisement An advertising strategy is a campaign developed to communicate ideas

about products and services to potential consumers in the hopes of

convincing them to buy those products and services. This strategy,

when built in a rational and intelligent manner, will reflect other

business considerations (overall budget, brand recognition efforts)

and objectives (public image enhancement, market share growth) as

well. As Portable MBA in Marketing authors Alexander Hiam and Charles

D. Schewe stated, a business's advertising strategy "determines the

character of the company's public face." Even though a small business

has limited capital and is unable to devote as much money to

advertising as a large corporation, it can still develop a highly

effective advertising campaign. The key is creative and flexible

planning, based on an indepth knowledge of the target consumer and the

avenues that can be utilized to reach that consumer.

Today, most advertising strategies focus on achieving three general

goals, as the Small Business Administration indicated in Advertising

Your Business: 1) promote awareness of a business and its product or

services; 2) stimulate sales directly and "attract competitors'

customers"; and 3) establish or modify a business' image. In other

words, advertising seeks to inform, persuade, and remind the consumer.

With these aims in mind, most businesses follow a general process

which ties advertising into the other promotional efforts and overall

marketing objectives of the business.

STAGES OF ADVERTISING STRATEGY

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As a business begins, one of the major goals of advertising must be to

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