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<p>As an active <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.ellejewels.etsy.com" target="_blank">jewelry designer</a> who attends meetings and workshops all the time, I hear a lot of jewelry business owners complaining that their online stores are not a success at all. I used my web design experience and a lot of research in the domain to gather a few hands-on tips for you to use and turn your online jewelry store into a business success.</p>
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<p><strong>Photos that sell the product</strong> – The most important thing you have to remember when you have an online jewelry store is that your customer will not be able to feel your jewelry or try it on to see what it looks like. Therefore, clear photos that show as much detail as possible are very important because, afterall, the photo sells the product. Multiple photos for each item are very helpful to show your potential customer all the details. If you have a necklace, try to have at least one photo on a stand, so they can see what it will look like around their neck. If your necklace has a pendant, take an up-close photo of that alone, so you can show all the details of the stones used. When taking photos of jewelry it is crucial that you do that in daytime, without flash. This approach will show the true colors of the stones used without unnecessary reflections.</p>
<p><strong>Search-friendly sites</strong> – If you have the possibility to add a search function on your site, please do so. People don’t always know the names of the stones they are looking for and a search functionality will give them the possibility to look for pieces that have a certain color for instance. The idea here is to create the easiest way for your clients to find what they want. When somebody looks for a pearl bracelet, it will be much easier to type that in the search box and hit “Go”, than look through your entire bracelets category to find what they want. Having a search function on your website will be very helpful to your customers but it will certainly add a little more work for you. When you add a product to your store you will have to always remember to tag it with terms that other people might be searching for.</p>
<p><strong>Detailed information </strong>– Product descriptions are very important as well when it comes to online jewelry stores. After your client sees the photos, they will want to know what was used to make that piece of jewelry. Try to give as many details as possible about the materials and techniques used as well as sizes. The overall size of the necklace is important, but also include the size of the pendant if you have one, as photos don’t always show the true ratio of the pendant. If you are a custom jewelry designer, I found that people are always interested to find out what your inspiration was. Share that with your visitors and raise their interest in your products.</p>
<p><strong>One size doesn’t always fit all </strong>– Since you are selling items that people wear, remember that “One size fits all” doesn’t always apply. Create your jewelry at standard sizes, but always offer people the opportunity to order a smaller or larger item. This way you will increase your clientele.</p>
<p><strong>The price is right </strong>– Last but not least, price your jewelry pieces right. As there is a significantly large number of online jewelry stores, you have to be competitive, but at the same time respectful of your work and the materials you use. The art of pricing is probably one of the most difficult, and there is no exact formula or how-to. Using your best judgement and a lot of research in the market area that you are trying to reach, you can find the formula for your prices.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Philip Yaffe â??I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is, I donâ??t know which half.â? This succinct resume of the advertiserâ??s dilemma is often attributed to John Wanamaker, the department store pioneer. Some people prefer to give the credit to Henry Ford, the automobile pioneer, or other [...]]]></description>
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<p>â??I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The problem is, I donâ??t know which half.â?</p>
<p>This succinct resume of the advertiserâ??s dilemma is often attributed to John Wanamaker, the department store pioneer. Some people prefer to give the credit to Henry Ford, the automobile pioneer, or other favorite business giants. Whoever said it first, it is certain that it has been said thousand and thousand of times since.</p>
<p>The significance of the observation is nothing short of astounding. These are people whose business is investing and harvesting financial assets, yet when it comes to advertising, they freely admit to wasting at least half of their money!</p>
<p>But the observation can be turned on its head. Viewed from this perspective, it means that these same extremely clever and resourceful marketers believe that the power of advertising is so great, even at only 50% effectiveness they still get their moneyâ??s worth. This is equally astounding!</p>
<p>The value of advertising can most easily be seen with mass marketed products. For example, a breakfast cereal launches a major advertising campaign; within a few days to weeks the sales figures will reflect the impact of the campaign. With technical and industrial products, the picture is not quite so clear. Few people buy a car or a piece of industrial equipment on impulse. They build up to it over a long period of time, so that the cause-and-effect relationship between advertising and sales is virtually impossible to evaluate.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, advertising is indispensable. So the question is, can you construct advertising campaigns that will assure the best return on investment (ROI), even when that return cannot be directly measured?</p>
<p>The answer is both yes and no. It is â??noâ? if you believe that advertising by nature is more of an art than a science. It is â??yesâ? if you believe that advertising is a combination of both art and science.</p>
<p>It is certainly true that advertising has a major â??artâ? component, i.e. that people who have a â??feelâ? for it are likely to produce better, more effective advertising than people who donâ??t. Unfortunately, this verity has led to the false conclusion that advertising is predominantly art, i.e. a matter of taste.</p>
<p>When advertising is viewed as largely a question of personal preference, the rational component of the exercise takes second importance. Worse, it often degenerates into a kind of pseudoscience of rules and regulations with no scientific justification:</p>
<p>&#8211; Be positive: no one likes negative advertising</p>
<p>&#8211; Avoid simple, straightforward headlines; headlines should â??teaseâ? readers into the advert</p>
<p>&#8211; Use big, bold visuals; people are impressed by pictures</p>
<p>&#8211; Show the solution, not the problem: this is reassuring to potential buyers</p>
<p>&#8211; Never write more than 15 &#8211; 20 words of body copy; no one reads body copy anyhow</p>
<p>&#8211; Make payoff lines (slogans) clever and memorable, not explicit and to the point</p>
<p>The summation seems to be: Advertising is entertainment. If you can attract attention and give a show, then you will sell.</p>
<p>One writer on the subject bluntly stated: â??Advertising consists of first hitting people in the face with a pie, then delivering your message.â? It is of course true that you must attract attention before you can deliver your message. But just how seriously is anyone like to take your message while he is wiping whipped cream off his face?</p>
<p>Advertising may have elements of show business. But if it is only show business, it will fail. On the other hand, if we are more detached in our analysis &#8212; i.e. if we put the art of advertising and the science of advertising into better balance &#8212; we many learn some valuable lesions. And gain some valuable commercial leverage.</p>
<p>I have done considerably work in pharmaceutical marketing. Doctors are perhaps the most difficult targets in the world, because what you â??sellâ? them is ideas and information, which later on they may or may not turn into prescriptions for their patients. Thus, while the following examples relate specifically to doctors and medicines, the underlying principles are universally valid. Throughout this article, wherever you see the word â??doctorâ?, mentally substitute the name of your potential technical and/or industrial customer and see how well these ideas fit.</p>
<p>Facing the Facts</p>
<p>David Ogilvy, one of the most highly regarded gurus of consumer advertising, asserts: â??Very few advertisements contain enough factual information to sell the product. There is a ludicrous tradition among copywriters that consumers arenâ??t interested in facts. Northing could be farther from the truth.â?</p>
<p>If this contention is valid for housewives, how much more valid must it be for doctors!</p>
<p>Medicine is a serious business. When a doctor reads a medical journal, he is looking for medical information. Otherwise, he would be reading something else. It therefore follows: Advertising in medical journals that gives real medical information is likely to attract more attention and achieve better results than advertising which doesnâ??t.</p>
<p>If this seems self-evident, medical journals bear witness to the opposite. The majority of adverts tend to fall into two categories:</p>
<p>1. Lots of words, but little real information (lack of a focused message).</p>
<p>2. A clever headline, a pleasing pictureâ??and no information at all.</p>
<p>The excuse for the first kind of advert is often: â??It is a new product; we need to create a personality for it.â? It is hard to imagine how an empty personality, based solely on errant prose, will result in positive promotion.</p>
<p>The excuse for the second category of adverts often is: â??It is a well known product; this is simply a reminder advert.â? Certainly it makes sense to remind the doctor that a medicine exists. But it makes even more sense to remind him of why he is using it, if he is already using it. Or why he should be using it, if he isnâ??t.</p>
<p>The 80/20 Rule</p>
<p>The objection will now be raised: Doesnâ??t this â??art + scienceâ? concept of advertising necessitate long body copy? Does it make sense to write long body copy when no one reads it anyhow?</p>
<p>Letâ??s examine this contention in reverse order.</p>
<p>For every 100 doctors who read the headline and look at the visual of an advert, letâ??s say only 20 will actually read the body. Does this represent an 80% wastage? Emphatically no.</p>
<p>The 80/20 rule is a fundamental tenet of technical and industrial marketing, i.e. in general 80% of sales come from 20% of customers. The same principle applies to advertising.</p>
<p>Readers who just look at the headline and visual, then turn the page, at that moment are not the real customers for the product. Those who remain to read the body copy are the real customers for the product. This is the ideal moment to tell them bout it, because this is when they want to know about it. Otherwise, they too are likely to turn the page and an excellent selling opportunity will be lost.</p>
<p>Body is important, in fact vital, because it is your only real chance to make the sale. But how long should that body copy be?</p>
<p>This is like asking how long is a piece of string. You donâ??t answer this question by counting the number of words. Rather, you consider the value of the words. The best guide is: If the body copy contains one word more than needed to deliver the message, it is probably too long; if it contains one word less than need to deliver the message, it is definitely too short, regardless of how many words are used!</p>
<p>Of course, it makes no sense to simply print the prescribing information. As Bill Bernbach, a legendary practitioner of consumer advertising, has written: â??Be certain that your advertisement says something to the consumer; that it informs and renders a service. Then be certain that it says what it has to say in a way no one has ever said it before.â?</p>
<p>Notice the balance in this advice.</p>
<p><strong>First:</strong> â??Be certain that your advertisement says something to the consumer.â? This is advertising as a science. Determining what you want to say about your product and what you ought to say about it are two different things. This is why most good advertising starts with market research. And never lets anything go to press before it has been thoroughly tested.</p>
<p><strong>Second: </strong> â??Be certain that your advertisement says what it has to say in a way that no one has ever said it before.â? This is advertising as an art.</p>
<p>How the advert expresses its message, both visually and verbally, can vary dramatically depending on who is saying it. The total impact the advert will achieve intimately depends on the talents of the art director and the copywriter, the so-called â??createsâ? of the business.</p>
<p>The Use and Abuse of Creativity</p>
<p>Introducing the copywriter and art director into the discussion raises the vexing question of creativity in advertising.</p>
<p>â??Creativity&#8221; is probably one of the most abused and misused words in English or any other language. As we have seen, some people think it means hitting people in the face with a pie. We have also seen the dangers of this approach. Surprising and shocking people in order to gain their attention can:</p>
<p>&#8211; Undermine the credibility of the serious message you are trying to deliver.</p>
<p>&#8211; Lead to rapid advertising â??wear-outâ?. You can surprise and shock people only once; after that, you are likely to have no effect. Worse, you may have a negative effect!</p>
<p>Stripped of mythology, saying what you have to say in a way that it has never before been said simply means: Putting forward the essentials of the message in such a way that they cannot be ignored &#8212; on the first exposure and on subsequent exposures.</p>
<p>So much emphasis is placed on attracting attention and conveying a message on the first exposure (â??pie in the faceâ?), very little thought seems to be given to what will happen, if anything, on the second, third and subsequent exposures. This is the concept of â??wear-outâ?; after how many exposures does the advert stop having any useful impact?</p>
<p>The concept of wear-out is closely allied to the idea of repetition. Unlike supermarket adverts, adverts for prescription pharmaceuticals seldom appear only once (â??Buy now before supplies run out; Special discount prices, stock up nowâ?). Instead, they usually run for at least several months, and often a year or longer.</p>
<p>True, few doctors read the same advert more than once, but they cannot help seeing it more than once. They will certainly see it much more often than they will see the pharmaceutical representative who visits them. Advertising is the most frequent and most consistent point of contact between the doctor and the company.</p>
<p>A truly efficient advert should have impact each and every time it is seen &#8212; whether it is read each time or not. This is why the fundamental structure is so important. And why it is well worth spending the time and energy to get it right, i.e. concept development not only for journal adverts, but also for brochures, mailings, oral presentations, symposia, etc.</p>
<p>How do you create advertising with such power and longevity?</p>
<p>In general, any advert that communicates the product name and main sell proposition in a flash should continue to work as long as the underlying strategy remains the same. The assumption is, each exposure &#8212; even if it is only as long as it takes to turn the page &#8212; reinforces previous impressions of the message in the journals, mailings, etc. Adverts that rely on â??teaserâ? headlines or other indirect approaches are more problematical. It is far more likely that the doctor will perceive this kind of advertising as promotion rather than information, and will turn the page with no reinforcement of the selling message.</p>
<p>Courage and Conviction</p>
<p>A truly effective long-life advert may not always appear smashingly striking at first sight; however, if it is well constructed it will grow and gain strength over time. By contrast, an advert that is extremely striking at first sight &#8212; this being its major attribute &#8212; may in fact lose power over time. Sometimes overnight.</p>
<p>Developing advertisements that sell on first and subsequent exposures admits of no hard and fast rules. Some times it may mean an extremely factual advert that looks almost like editorial copy; other time it may be an advert with a highly emotional content. It all depends on the nature of the product; the nature of the market, and what ideas, true or false, are already in the doctorâ??s mind.</p>
<p>There is more to good technical and industrial advertising than meets the eye. Indeed, a superficial analysis is likely to be very misleading, with very expensive consequences. To properly evaluate an advertising campaign, it is necessary to know the underlying strategy and the objectives that strategy is designed to achieve.</p>
<p>By way of example, here are the descriptions of three advertising campaigns I produced when I was creative director of a specialized medical advertising agency. You may not fully understand the products, but look closely at the description of each advert.</p>
<p><strong>1. Product: Vasodilator</strong></p>
<p><strong>Objective: </strong> Increase prescriptions by repositioning it as the first product of a new, more effective therapeutic class</p>
<p><strong>Headline:</strong> â??6 Actions on the Blood and the Vessels to Combat Claudication and its Premonitory Symptomsâ?</p>
<p><strong>Visual: </strong> 6 symbols in the form of a rectangle representing the 6 modes of action</p>
<p><strong>Body copy: </strong> factual, moderate length</p>
<p><strong>2. Product: Benzodiazepine</strong></p>
<p><strong>Objective</strong>: Stabilize leadership position/market share in an anti-benzodiazepine marketing environment</p>
<p><strong>Headline:</strong> â??My Conditions for Prescribing an Anxiolytic to My Patientsâ?</p>
<p><strong>Visual:</strong> Intelligent, serious-looking general practitioner speaking the headline</p>
<p><strong>Body copy:</strong> factual, short</p>
<p><strong>3.</strong> <strong>Beta-2 mimetic bronchodilator</strong></p>
<p><strong>Objective:</strong> Maximize sales potential by overcoming market prejudice to using oral beta-2 mimetics in the treatment of nocturnal asthma</p>
<p><strong>Headline: </strong> â??Asthma: Night Is the Enemyâ?</p>
<p><strong>Visual:</strong> Artistâ??s impression of the experience of a night-time asthma attack, painted by an asthmatic artist who actually suffers such attacks.</p>
<p><strong>Body copy:</strong> factual; extremely short</p>
<p>At first glance the vasodilator and benzodiazepine adverts might appear uninspired, even banal. They are unlikely to win any awards for advertising â??creativityâ?. On the other hand, the asthma advert is exactly the type that could win a creativity award.</p>
<p>Despite their superficial differences, fundamentally they are quire similar. All three adverts had very high awareness and credibility scores. One of the so-called â??banalâ? adverts was so well received &#8212; and had such an impact on sales &#8212; that when we proposed a more â??imaginativeâ? version, the product manager, originally unconvinced by it, growled: â??If you touch my advert, I will break your arm.â?</p>
<p>Conclusion: All three adverts were extremely creative in the real sense of the word, because they:</p>
<p>1. Clearly reflected the nature of the product</p>
<p>2. Precisely addressed the needs of the market</p>
<p>3. Elicited the desired response (won prescriptions)</p>
<p>The serious advertiser would do well to bear this functional definition of creativity uppermost in mind.</p>
<p>It takes courage to reject an advertising campaign proposal that is striking, cute, funny, artistic, etc., in favor of one that doesnâ??t seem to possess these desirable characteristics. A so-called â??unimaginativeâ? campaign that clearly responds to the needs of the market and has the innate capacity to grow and develop (i.e. continue generating sales) is considerably more creative, in the true sense of the word, than one that flashes like a meteor, then dissipates its energy and loses impact before it has had a chance to do its job.</p>
<p>Philip Yaffe is a former writer with The Wall Street Journal and international marketing communication consultant. He now teaches courses in persuasive communication in Brussels, Belgium. Because his clients use English as a second or third language, his approach to writing and public speaking is somewhat different from other communication coaches. He is the author of <strong>In the â??Iâ? of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing &amp; Speaking (Almost) like a Professional</strong>, available from the publisher (storypublishers.be) and Amazon (amazon.com). Contact: phil.yaffe@yahoo.com, phil.yaffe@gmail.com</p>
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<p>Introduction:</p>
<p>An advertisement as an object and an advertising as a process has lots of contents and players to bring that concept. As an object it is the Ad designer or the agent who has the role to play, while as a process it is the beholder who has the responsibility to accomplish the objective. In between these two there are other players also to play their separate roles. While the whole issue is to manage and explore the benefits, the role of advertising, being used as a marketing tool canâ??t be ignored. This is an attempt to define what an advertisement is, and how it is related to other objectives.</p>
<p>Definition</p>
<p>Advertising is a process to communicate the desired message of the producer to the customers. In other words it is the process by which the message is being passed to the consumers by proper means of communication. In a well versed form it is one of the marketing mix to promote goods, services, companies and ideas through an identified sponsor. One of the 4Pâ??s of marketing is the promotion strategy. Advertising being a part of promotional mix helps a lot to the marketers to promote their products.</p>
<p>Elements of advertising Process</p>
<p>There are different elements of advertising. Their relevancy depends upon the demand of a particular situation and so can easily move in the priority list to fulfill the need of the situation. As enlisted and shown in the figure depicted above â??an advertisement as a product has several elements to be judged (in the process starting from concept to reality) to come as a product to meet the objective of the companyâ?.</p>
<p>The importance of advertising depends upon various factors such as nature of the product, Industry to which it belongs, competition in the market, market intensity, stage of the product or the brand in its life cycle, effect on per capita consumption, customer loyalty, brand credibility and media.</p>
<p>Advertising is a component of marketing mix has a lot to do in the market to meet an objective of the beholder. Being a communication process to put the information about the intended â??idea or thoughtâ? to the target audience or defined customers in a manner to satisfy the intended need is not an easy task. In a very subjective way it is all to bring the concept into reality to work and meet the intended need. Through advertisement, the beholder tries to put their information into the market for their ready acceptance. The intensity of competition has led a lot of pressure on promoters and advertisers to make a creative, responding and effective advertisement.</p>
<p>The need of the market has created a different role for advertising to play in the area of marketing. For a well established product or brand, advertisement has to just communicate its relevance by transferring the information to the market. But, for a product or an idea which is either in an initiation stage or just to move, advertising has a lot to do in the market for that product. Nature of the product and its stage in its life cycle is also a great determinant of advertising, to be designed and to get figured in the market.</p>
<p>Four Pâ??s of marketing and advertising</p>
<p>Product and Advertisement: There are three kinds of products shown in an advertisement. They are General Products, Esteemed or logical products and Competitive Products. To advertise a general product information used in an ad is all the benefits of the product and its appeal to the target audience. For logical products the information to be conveyed through the advertisement is the need or satisfaction level to which the product is designed. For competitive product the comparative appeal is used in an advertisement to promote the product.</p>
<p>Place and Advertisement: To convey information through advertisement place strategy covers culture, age, gender, emotion, demography, geography, society, class of people, Income class to be shown in the advertisement and through that to target the desired audience. By this an advertisement helps to promote the product and to reach the targeted audience.</p>
<p>Price and Advertisement: In an advertisement pricing strategy usually designed to convey the comparative benefits and price structure with the competitive products and to target the desired customers to meet the objective.</p>
<p>Promotion and Advertisement:  An advertisement is usually defined as a promotion strategy to promote the intended idea and meet objective. When all the other 3 Ps gets compiled in an advertisement it is the advertisement (a part of the promotional mix) which has to serve the intended need.</p>
<p>Advertising budget and cost</p>
<p>There are different categories of advertising media to be used for advertisement. A company has to go through a thorough search of different available options, budget for advertisement, mass effect of the media and analysis of cost and benefit of the available media to meet the objective. The choice of the option depends upon available options, different objectives subject to the restriction of resources to be used. For example to meet the objective in terms of its effectiveness television advertising is used, for others such as  for great branding and reach a large audience magazines are used, while to assist in cornering the market mail order and leaflets are used. By advertising oneâ??s business with internet marketing strategies one can save on his advertising budget and one can run his advertising budget into arrears if he starts up his internet marketing with the wrong advertising company. To opt certain media one has to thoroughly evaluate the objectives, resource constraints, target reach, accessibility and per capita effect.</p>
<p>There are different types of advertising. It covers Television, Newspaper, Magazine, Mailorder, Banners, Cost per click, Google SEO, Weblinx etc. While their effect is respectively, mass effect, budgetary effect, cost justification effect , an easy lead access effect, brand development effect, easy access and lesser cost effect, website promotion effect and in budget advertising effect. The criterion to select an option to advertise is restricted with the purpose, the obligation, the resource constraints and the earlier outcomes of those options.</p>
<p>All the efforts for advertising are to put the information in the market and get the desired objective fulfilled. Though the definition is very subjective the outcomes are a mix of qualitative and quantitative one. Examples of subjective outcome is supporting the branding process, place the informations at the right place, stimulating intention and motivation to buy etc while the measurable outcome is sales growth, increase in per capita consumption etc. The measurement of an outcome of a selected option becomes a base for evaluating the decision of the company or the organization moved up with that decision. While the same outcome, becomes an evaluating parameter for others to use, as to evaluate that available option.</p>
<p>An ad campaign has different issues to meet the target. Its content covers, message, appeal, slogan, words, celebrities, media, kind of satisfaction etc. An ad is a complete justification of the need and the requirement. Though the justification has several grounds to get a trade off among different available options, the need to serve and manage that trade off cant be ignored. It is the resource capacity, which ultimately talks about the whole of the advertisement. The other factors which affects the decision is available options and the need.</p>
<p>Advertisement has an important role in marketing to meet the objective of the beholder. For an organization or the beholder for whom it is designed, for the ad designer, for the sponsors, and for the customers as a whole advertising has different meaning. For the sponsor it is the communication, for the beholder it is the objective, for a customer it the rationale to decide. To serve different needs of the society it is designed and used differently. The significance of advertising cant be ignored as it is the mean to communicate and get the desired result. As a mean to inform and to add to the credibility the strategy behind designing an advertisement and its content, there is a lot of factors to be judged and to comply with. Being an effective marketing tool advertisement is used to meet several needs and hence to fill the gap in the market.</p>
<p>Advertising : Different players their association and role :</p>
<p>Manufacturer/Initiator</p>
<p>1.	What?</p>
<p>2.	How?</p>
<p>3.	Where?</p>
<p>4.	To Whom?</p>
<p>5.	By Whom?</p>
<p>6.	How much?</p>
<p>Ad designer/ Ad agencies</p>
<p>1. What?</p>
<p>2. How?</p>
<p>3. By whom?</p>
<p>4. Where?</p>
<p>Sponsor</p>
<p>1. Where?</p>
<p>2. To whom?</p>
<p>3. When?</p>
<p>4. How?</p>
<p>Customers</p>
<p>1. What?</p>
<p>2. How?</p>
<p>3. Who?</p>
<p>Evaluator</p>
<p>1. Shift in per capita consumption</p>
<p>There are five main players playing with an ad concept to come as a product. They are manufacturer, Ad designer, Sponsor, Customers and the Evaluator. These different persons have different roles in formulating the purpose. As shown in the above picture they are concerned with different parts as to play in this process. Though the start and end point is not restricted but it all depends upon the requirement and available options. To enrich their role they have different role criteria either to be put to initiate the concept or to evaluate the same on different grounds, in an advertisement process, as shown in the below mentioned diagram. The terminology and the contents that have been used to define the roles of each head have the effect of their responsibility, the stage where they have to play or contribute and their part in the whole communication process to lead the concept of advertisement into reality.</p>
<p>After fulfilling the initial criteria these all have to stick towards different parts of their role within a predefined set to bring advertisement concept to work. The role of these players and the requirement of their role gets judged with the whole issues as defined in the below mentioned figure.</p>
<p>Ad designer/ Ad agencies</p>
<p>1.Message</p>
<p>2.Content</p>
<p>3.Language</p>
<p>4.Media</p>
<p>5.Target audience</p>
<p>6.Slogan</p>
<p>7.Methods</p>
<p>8.Brand association</p>
<p>9.Customer loyalty</p>
<p>10.Brand acceptance</p>
<p>Manufacturer/Initiator</p>
<p>1.Product/Idea</p>
<p>2.Concept</p>
<p>3.Budget</p>
<p>4.Segments</p>
<p>5.Gender</p>
<p>6.Value addition</p>
<p>7.Associated benefits</p>
<p>8.Celebrities</p>
<p>9.Media</p>
<p>10.Language</p>
<p>Sponsor</p>
<p>1.Budget</p>
<p>2.Cost/benefits</p>
<p>3.Media</p>
<p>4.Timimng</p>
<p>5.Target audience</p>
<p>6.Brand loyalty</p>
<p>Customers</p>
<p>1.Brand value</p>
<p>2.Valueaddition</p>
<p>3.Offerings</p>
<p>4.Ad association</p>
<p>5.Need satisfaction</p>
<p>6.Ad message</p>
<p>7. Earlier experience.</p>
<p>Evaluator</p>
<p>1.increase in per capita consumption</p>
<p>2.Customer acceptance</p>
<p>3.Market credibility</p>
<p>Advertising: Evaluation</p>
<p>Now about the product or the theme which get informed through the advertisement has to take the market acceptance. If the requirement of all meets properly the intention of the message gets served with proper acceptance in the market. Being a challenging and required issue of the market all parts of the process have to meet effectively. Based upon the results in terms of sales growth, market acceptance, and credibility as desired initially the advertisement also required to be evaluated in terms of its effectiveness. There are different methods of evaluating advertisement effectiveness. Few of them are rating point (rp) and target rating point (trp). It tries to show the percentage of the universe of the existing base of users/customers that can be reached by the use of each media outlet in a particular moment of time. The difference in these methods is because of the size of the sample and their dimensions. Hence we can put that these methods could be used to make an advertisement to fulfill the segmentation strategy with the more refined method i.e. trp.</p>
<p>To sum up</p>
<p>Advertising has a critical role in marketing. It helps in promoting the product, improves sales growth, puts the information into the market, effects people to initiate the action. Apart from its role for a beholder for whom it is designed it has a great contribution in generating a sector with employment opportunity and by that creating its contribution to the society. The affect, credibility, and the requirement all could be easily measured by its current role in the market and the economy. From both as a need and as a competitive requirement, advertising serves a lot in the market. Being an important marketing tool it servers the need of all the players and by that proves its credibility to contribute towards the needs and objective.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you looking to grow your business? Are you someone who has just started a business and you want to let other people attract to your new business or products? Then opt for advertising, the best option for you. Yes, unless you advertise your product or business, you can never wish of being successful in the market.</p>
<p>Unless the masses know about your new product or business, it would be very difficult to survive in the market. Well, you can always go for print <a title="Advertising" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.worldwideadvertisingnetwork.com" target="_self">advertising</a> for your product or business. Print Advertising does not cost much compared to television advertising and you get good response from the masses.</p>
<p>If you are ready to burn a hole in your pocket, then you can definitely go for television advertising. The response that you get from the Television Advertising would never disappoint you. Whatâ??s more, this form of advertisement is considered to be the best one as it reaches every nook and corner of the world within seconds. In this way you can make a public response of your product through different forms of advertising.</p>
<p>Try to utilize more aspects</p>
<p>If you are seriously thinking of expanding your business then you can always go for outdoor advertising. This form of advertising has become very popular in recent years. You can hire or make use of your own vehicle for publicity of your product by putting a big banner or do a road show with lottery or even quizzes.</p>
<p>So you need to plan well in order to go for an effective <a title="Advertising, Airport Advertising, Outdoor Advertising, Print Advertising, Radio Advertising" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.worldwideadvertisingnetwork.com/services.asp" target="_blank">Outdoor Advertising</a>. Your goals should be very clear and you need to know the market, location and audience well without which you cannot target the customers. So preplan yourself and try to make the best advertisement possible so that it attracts more crowds.</p>
<p>Go for other forms of advertising</p>
<p>If you thought that there is only print advertising and television advertising, then you are wrong. With the advent of the FM radio, there are businessmen who go for radio Advertising as well. You do not have to pay much as compared to television advertising.</p>
<p>This is the main reason why people opt for Radio Advertising to reach to the masses especially the young generation or the people who are always on move. Also nowadays you can find Airport Advertising, basically airport advertising mainly targets toward the high end and global customers.</p>
<p>This is indeed considered to be a new and better form of advertising where audience from different parts of the world can be targeted about your business or product. After all itâ??s all about customers. For more information about Worldwide Advertising Network in terms of Advertising, Airport Advertising, Television Advertising, Print Advertising, Outdoor Advertising, Radio Advertising, Internet Advertising, Mobile Advertising &amp; Media please visit us at: www.worldwideadvertisingnetwork.com</p>
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