Be Easily Recognized with a Postcard Advertising Campaign


by Bcurtis - Date: 2007-04-18 - Word Count: 532 Share This!

Grow your business and increase sales by making sure your customers remember your business when they want what you have.

Postcards offer you many unique benefits when compared to other types of advertising. As a reminder, here are some of the advantages postcard advertising offers:

1. low cost for design, printing, and postage delivery
2. small enough for customers to easily carry in their pocket.
3. efficient because they do not require envelopes so they catch the customer's attention easier.
4. easy to organize for test marketing on small groups before sending to a larger group.
5. versatile in use to solicit repeat business and new business in the same mailing.
6. easy to track results by having recipients bring their cards in for a prize or discount.
7. able to keep your advertising away from your competitor's view by not sending them a card.

A business can increase the power in these marketing advantages with postcards by creating an advertising campaign with their postcards. An advertising campaign is a series of advertisements sharing a common element or theme. Each postcard advertisement has all the advantages listed above, and the series of advertisements in a campaign creates a greater impact than any one of the postcard advertisements. The repetition of a common advertising theme starts to drive its own level of recognition. For example, a customer receives a postcard from a local restaurant advertising "all you can eat fish on every Friday night". The first time he received the postcard he views the ad just long enough to know which restaurant it was, but he is not hungry for fish and tosses the ad. He receives the ad again the following month, and this time with a glance he already recognizes the restaurant from the common theme of the ad and this time he studies the details of what is being offered, but he is still not hungry for fish. Later he receives another postcard ad from the restaurant and fish sounds good so he decides to go.

With all advertising it is the goal of the business to catch the customer's attention at the time he wants what is being offered by the business. By repeating the ad the business has a higher probability of catching the customer at the right time. That is not all though, because the repeated ads create a recognition by the customer. After a while the customer can immediately recognize the business sending the ad. Therefore, he does not need to study who is sending the ad and just needs to view what the ad is about. Through repetition the business has already made it easier for the customer to view what the ad is about. After some period of repeating the ad the customer is more likely to just start thinking about the business when he wants what is being advertised even without the ad being in front of him. This recognition created through the advertising campaign's common element or theme has now delivered a far greater value to the business than just sending a bunch of unrelated ads.

To summarize, postcard advertising has many benefits to consider for marketing a business. These benefits can be increased dramatically by developing an advertising campaign.

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