24 December 2011

The Advantages of Advertising In Mags

By Amy Long


Mags are enormous business; at the moment there are a projected 150,000+ magazines publishes worldwide in dozens of languages. While most of these magazines are not precisely household names, it is obvious that there's a giant market for advertising in mags.

Advertisers benefit from the sheer number of selections in this media format as well as that mags tend to have a comparatively narrow audience, making an allowance for a larger degree of target promoting than is possible in most kinds of print media. Magazine advertising may not offer you the same sort of readership as the nation's papers, but the ability mags have to reach a target market makes them extremely attractive.

Magazine advertising, like most sorts of print media can be placed where the marketer wants it to appear,eg a particular section of the magazine or maybe in the feature story. If you don't request a specific placement, your ad may appear anywhere in the magazine; though many advertisers feel it's well worth paying a premium to have their advertisement placed where it is absolutely certain to receive the notice of readers. Since many publishers will be pleased to work out a ROP price for special placements, don't be frightened to negotiate for the most favourable rate.

Some careful media planning including a detailed cost/benefit research is necessary to achieve an optimum ROI for your magazine ads. The right placement in the right publication can yield incredible results apropos brand awareness and sales, while a poorly planned media buy can represent a complete waste of resources.

It's well worthwhile to build good working relations with magazine editors, just as you would with pros working in different types of media. Include them among the recipients of your product stories statements and promotional releases (possible sources of free hoopla not to be passed up, actually) and make a point of making a little time for them at events "it might not hurt to take them for lunch now and again either.

Magazine advertising may not have exactly the same level of traceability as do pay per click advertising, but they remain a valuable tool for building awareness and shopper loyalty in a specific audience over a period of time. Magazine readership has a tendency to be very regular, with ongoing mag campaigns a warranted method of making the repeated impressions which lead to sales.

They may not be as trusty a method of driving swift sales, but mag advertisements have a ability to build brand identity and awareness which Pay per click advertising simply isn't capable of. It's a quality that makes magazines an advertising location which firms would be well advised not to pay no heed to.

Another benefit of advertising in magazines is the much greater versatility in design they offer to the advertiser; and the much larger cultured appeal they provide to the patron. While this is also something out of doors advertising can offer to a certain extent, a magazine advert invites the reader to look closer, permitting larger latitude for creativity on the part of the advertiser.

Magazine advertising in publications which attain your focused demographic make an ideal place to scream about your brand and get out your message about what you can do for these potential buyers. It's maybe the most visual of print media - a format which can let you are saying a lot more to the consumer than you might think.




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