Advertising

Advice How do I create a good ad campaign?

Your ad campaigns will only be successful if you know your audience extremely well. Your campaign must have a specific focus and speak to a certain demographic.

Advice Should I appoint an advertising agency?

A good advertising agency will be able to work with you to deliver a quality campaign that you wouldn’t necessarily have the skills or time to develop yourself in-house.

Advice How do I create a good ad campaign?

Your ad campaigns will only be successful if you know your audience extremely well. Your campaign must have a specific focus and speak to a certain demographic.

Advice How do I figure out which advertising channels to use?

Advertising is all about reaching as many customers as possible and maximising your return on investment. In order to make your advertising as effective as possible, you need to make sure you know your audience and where they are consuming media.

News Don’t stereotype gay consumers, advertisers warned

Start-ups have been urged to ensure advertising aimed at LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) consumers is subtle and avoids stereotypes, following calls from a senior ad man for greater business focus on the community.

News Super Bowl ads 2012: Five key trends and five great ads released before the big game

Here are five big trends from Super Bowl marketing in 2012.

Mentors Should I be a bit more short-term this year with my marketing activity?

Personally I think the annual marketing plan should be thrown out. It's not long enough to be strategic, and too long to stick to.

Taskmaster Target an unusual market

Most of the time advertising is all about hitting your target market, which is very logical. But why not try something new?

News Keeping traffic within Facebook reduces cost-per-clicks by 45%: Report

Small businesses have been urged to build their presence within Facebook, following a new global report revealing advertisers who keep traffic within Facebook can reduce cost-per-clicks by 45%.

News KPMG report downplays influence of social media

A global study by KMPG reveals 86% of the consumers surveyed actively engage in social networking regularly, but only a third say social media influences their purchasing decisions.

News Most complained-about ads of the past decade revealed

Start-ups can spice up their marketing with more risqué material but shouldn’t rely on it, an expert says, after the advertising watchdog released its most complained-about advertisements on record.

News YouTube’s top 10 viral ad hits offers start-up insight

Start-ups who want their advertisements to go viral should link their product or service to topical and/or timely events, an expert says, after YouTube announced the top ten viral ad hits of 2011.

Start-up TV How to make your ad go viral

Every business hopes their ad will ‘go viral.’ But you don’t need a big budget to do this, or even create a particularly good ad. This ad, for a US taxidermy company, was one of the most downloaded ads on YouTube in September. Six million hits and counting…

Start-up TV Another Facebook payday for the Winklevosses

If you allege that someone stole your idea for long enough, you can begin to make money through parody, as the supposed brains behind Facebook, the Winklevoss twins, show in this new ad.

News Google places ad for group buying deal on traditionally simplistic homepage

Google has taken the unusual step of running an ad for a group buying site on its normally plain homepage.

News Groupon Australia defends itself against accusations of “bait and switch” tactics over iPad 2 deal

The head of group buying site Cudo has accused Groupon Australia of engaging in bait and switch tactics for advertising a deal for an iPad 2 in a daily email but only emphasising the price of an accompanying docking station product.

Features Tuning in to the advertising bargains

Want to know how small businesses get such great bargains and punch well above their modest marketing budgets?

News Dangerfield “F word” ad sends strong message to start-ups

Start-ups have been warned not to cross the line between cheeky and crass marketing, after teen fashion label Dangerfield came under fire for using the “F word” in its latest ad campaign.

Features Top 10 PR disasters

From News of the World’s phone hacking scandal to BP’s botched media response to its oil spill, disaster can strike even those companies with highly experienced PR teams. Here’s what you can learn about handling your own PR issues.

News Twitter to open up promoted tweets to advertisers

Twitter is to place advertisements in the timelines of users who follow a particular brand, but an industry expert says small businesses should be wary of using the network as an advertising platform.

Features 10 Cannes Lions ads to learn from

You may not have access to Pamela Anderson or Jenson Button to help boost your cause, but it shouldn’t prevent your efforts to produce a stellar ad campaign.

News NAB ‘break-up’ a PR lesson for start-ups

Start-ups have been urged to take heed of the success of advertising agency Clemenger BBDO, which won the Grand Prix PR award at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival for its work for client NAB.

News Warning to SMEs as Harvey Norman franchisees fined for bait advertising

Small businesses are warned to pay attention to their catalogue advertising after six Harvey Norman franchisees were fined for advertising items they could not supply.

News Location-based offers popular for petrol and food

Two thirds of consumers like to receive location-based offers when shopping, with petrol, restaurants, groceries and fast food the most popular items for location-aware ads.

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