| We have a complete understanding of the Latino
marketplace, its culture, diversity, economics, consumer habits
and growth potential. Advertising to Hispanics is our full-time
job so we know, what works, where and when in the Wichita
Hispanic Community.
Top Ten Reasons to Advertise Frequently:
1. People have new wants and needs every day. Very few people
need any specific item on any given day. In half of all general
merchandise categories measured in a recent consumer shopping
study, the decision to buy and the actual purchase were made
in one day. Frequent advertising reaches this “thin
market” when they are ready to buy, not just when you
are ready to sell.
2. Frequent advertising reaches your customers, regardless
of reading habits. Frequency builds awareness, awareness builds
familiarity, and familiarity builds trust. Conventional wisdom
says your audience needs to be exposed to your ad 2.5 times
to sink in and build awareness. Just like dieting, advertising
gets the best results over time. Each ad builds on prior name
recognition.
3. Frequency offers the best rates. Most newspapers today
offer incentives for increasing frequency. Whether the incentives
are for repeating an ad in a given period, or for contracting
to run a certain amount of space in a certain period of time,
or investing a certain amount of money, newspapers recognize
the need for frequency and encourage customers to use it.
4. Today’s ad may influence, but tomorrow’s ad
will close the deal for a lukewarm prospect. Like pushing
a ball up a hill, it is better to push slowly and get there
rather than to push quickly and run out of steam halfway up.
5. Frequent advertising helps you beat your competition. If
you are not advertising as much as your competition, who is
more likely to reach the customer who is ready to shop?
6. Every day you open your store you: Keep your shelves stocked.
Keep your phone connected. Make certain your staff comes to
work. So, shouldn’t you invite customers in by advertising
frequently? Advertising is one of your smallest expenses.
But not using it often enough can kill your business. For
the average business, the investment in advertising could
be as low as two to three percent.
7. Frequent advertising = higher than average results. Every
business needs new customers every week. A study conducted
by the Advertising Research Federation and American Business
Press measured the profitability of products that were advertised
with varying frequencies and discovered that the more frequently
advertised products resulted in higher profitability.
8. Frequent advertising helps spread your sales evenly throughout
the year. You can help avoid spikes in customer traffic, use
resources efficiently, and manage inventory.
9. Frequency helps your advertising cut through the clutter.
Mohammed Ali did not become the heavyweight champion of the
world by punching 20 people one time each. No, he became the
champ by punching one guy 20 times. By applying frequency
to the poor opponent’s head, Ali was able to bring his
message home.
Have you ever trained a puppy? Did you find yourself repeating
your commands? Is that more likely to get the pup to change
behavior? Repeating yourself to a target customer increases
the odds that your message will get through. According to
djnr.com, morning-after recall of most major TV campaigns
generally falls below 10 percent. If you come in at 10 percent,
you are a hero, even though 90 percent don’t even remember
the ad. Of those who do notice, very few focus on it, and
fewer still understand it. Even fewer are motivated to act
on it.
10. People forget. What are the statistics about how fast
people forget? It used to be that something like 80 percent
forget a message in 24 hours.
From Minnesota Press Pas
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