News-Style Advertising Vs Image and Name Recognition Advertising

Written by Sven Makowal

Saturday, 19 September 2009 17:14

by SvenMakowal

In some ways, communication has caused our planet to shrink. A news event anywhere in the world today can be communicated, almost instantly, to anywhere else in the world. Newspapers, Radio, Television and the Internet have all contributed to this. Like any technology that brings benefits, unfortunately, there are also disadvantages. Our world is one of communications overload. Over the course of an average day we are exposed to news, commercials and advertising through all of the above forms of media. The result of this is that we have become conditioned to blocking out all but those items that we are interested in.

This has presented marketers with a challenge. How do they ensure that their target audience responds to their message? How do they get by the spam-like filters we have all developed to protect ourselves from information overload on a daily basis? This is where News-style Advertising comes in. This style has been developed to slip past our advertising filters. This is accomplished by presenting the marketers message in a manner more consistent with news. News-style advertising doesn't look like advertising. It has no pictures or graphics. It contains no slogans or logos. There is nothing associated with it that would give the reader any reason to suspect that it is being sponsored by any company or individual. It contains a headline, copy and a method for the reader to get additional information, such as an 800 number, if they buy into the copy.

The reason why this type of advertising is simple and tends to get past our mental spam filters. Say we scan a newspaper or magazine and see something with a Headline that appeals to an issue or problem we are dealing with at that time. Because it is news-like in appearance it is non-threatening. Our need drives us to read the article, generally short in nature. This is also appealing since it does not represent a great deal of investment on our part. The response mechanism allows us to get more information if what we have read in the article makes sense to us. It also represents a viable solution to our issue. It is because it is non-threatening in nature that it is able to generate the response numbers up to 500% better than other techniques.

This very effective form of advertising has actually been incorporated into a robust marketing strategy by one company. That company is Automated Marketing Solutions or AMS. AMS provides a full suite of marketing technology tools and processes that allow any company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program using tested and proven methods including News-style Advertising. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technique.

AMS also provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human interaction. The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest or desire to do business with them. If you would like to hear more about News-style Advertising and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. Learn how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

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