Businesses have had to make a lot of difficult decisions this year. Organizations of all shapes and sizes have had to tighten their belts and adjust their budgets. Many brands are struggling to attract new customers and keep them engaged. As you consider strategies to reach your target audience, it [...]
Print ads give your designers and marketers a lot of room to get creative. But what’s the best way to use all that space? Some print ads are successful because they blur the line between advertising and content. This is often easier to do in print than digital because readers [...]
It's easy to track sales from digital ads. There's no mystery about your return-on-investment (ROI). And if an ad campaign doesn't produce the results you're expecting, there are lots of ways you can optimize it. Print ads don't work like that. You can create unique URLs and special landing pages, [...]
In 1995, Newsweek ran an article claiming that all the hubbub about the Internet was overblown. It’s online communities couldn’t possibly replicate the benefits of face-to-face interactions, so “this trendy and oversold community” would never last. The author claimed online stores were overblown and that “my local mall does more [...]
So, you’ve got a slot for a print ad in an upcoming magazine. You have a full page spread—maybe even two pages—to communicate a big idea, create positive associations with your brand, and drive results. There are no hard-and-fast rules about what your print ad should look like. You want [...]
Designing print ads can be tricky. They’re often far larger than their digital counterparts, which means you have more space to work with—but it can easily feel like too much space. There’s also more at stake: once they go live, there’s no turning back. You can’t just pull a print [...]
It’s notoriously difficult to measure the full value of print ads. It’s simply impossible to track every conversion or to measure the impact of exposing your audience to your brand. But that doesn’t mean print ads aren’t valuable. In fact, they play a vital role in branding, and psychology teaches [...]
On Facebook, 99 percent of people scroll past your ad without clicking. More than 90 percent of all content (blog posts, videos, webpages, etc.) gets no traffic from Google. And the average email has an open rate of 21 percent. In other words, the vast majority of marketing gets ignored [...]
As your brand explores what to do with your advertising budget, someone will inevitably ask, is print advertising still worth it? Why invest in print ads when you have so many great digital options? Digital advertising has some major strengths that print ads can’t replicate. It’s far easier to measure [...]