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What is advertising campaign? Tips for effective ad campaign

Do you own a business. No matter what is its magnitude. It requires advertising to reach its objectives, to acquire the attention of the targeted customers. It is possible to reach a large number of targeted audiences through an advertising campaign. An advertising campaign found to help a lot in reaching a large number of targeted audiences. The advertising campaign is the advanced method of advertising. Since advertising campaign is known as an advanced method of advertising. Let us start to know what is advertising and what are the advanced methods of advertising to end with the advertising campaign and tips for an effective advertising campaign which are the objectives of this article.

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Advertising

Advertising or traditional advertising is a marketing communication made to acquire the attention of the targeted audience or consumers. Since the traditional advertising proved to reach more number of targeted audiences, advanced methods of advertising found to be more promising to reach the objectives of a business within the specified interval of time. Similar to any field related to business, advertising also adopted new technologies to reach more people and  referred as online advertising.

Online advertising

Online advertising can be known as the advanced method of advertising. Since advertising is a form of communication made through traditional media to gain the attention of the targeted audience. The online advertising uses internet to communicate the promotional content to get the attention of the targeted audience. It includes email marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), social media marketing along with many types of display advertising such as web banner advertising and mobile advertising. What ever may be the form of advertising either traditional or advanced, it is nothing but communicating a message about the product or service. As the distinction between traditional advertising and online advertising has been discussed. Next is advertising campaign or ad campaign, which is an another advancement in advertising. An ad campaign differs to have a theme and time frame from traditional advertising or online advertising. So let us go forward to know advertising campaign and tips for an effective ad campaign.

Advertising campaign

Since the word, campaign, refers to a series of operations done in an organized way to achieve a goal. An ad campaign or advertising campaign is also a series of advertisement messages communicated to share a single idea and theme of the business which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). More briefly, an advertising campaign is a series of marketing communications or advertisements that provide promotional messages with a theme for  a specific interval of time. As the theme and time frame are the two qualities of an ad campaign that makes it different from all other forms of advertising. Determination of a theme for the advertising campaign is the critical part in ad campaigns. The theme is expected to set a tone for the individual advertisement. The theme of an ad campaign is nothing but the central message that will be communicated in the promotional activities. The campaign themes are usually developed with an intention to run an ad campaign for a specified period of time. But many of the ad campaigns are found to be short-lived or run for short durations due to the factors such as  ineffective theme or fluctuating market conditions and / or competition in the marketplace and marketing mix. So let us discuss about tips for an effective ad campaign.

Tips for effective ad campaign

Since the main objective of the advertising or ad campaign is to gain the attention of the targeted audience. Few of the important tips to run an ad campaign effectively are shown below.

  • Identify the targeted audience and design the ads to attract them or to gain their attention.
  • Concentrate to show all the benefits of the product through an ad or through a series of ads.
  • Focus to get the maximum exposure of the image you have or create an image for the firm or business, if you don’t have already and get  required exposure.
  • Spend money on the ad campaign to earn money in return, there should not be any constraint to invest money on it to reach its objectives.
  • Do some research to find the right place or space of interest of the targeted audience and advertise in the right place only
  • Prepare a budget plan to run an ad campaign most effectively.
  • Run an ad campaign through all channels that expected to reach a more targeted audience
  • Concentrate to attract the targeted audience only, if you are the owner of a small business. Since no product gets the attention of all the audience.
  • Review the results of the ad campaign to know whether it is reaching the targeted people or not.
  • Monitor the status of the ad campaign by asking new customers about your ads and interesting things in your advertisements.