by Pedro Pacheco

Created on: April 02, 2008

Advertising is used since the beginnings of the times. People want to sell products and services and how can they make the visible to the potential costumers? You guesses it, through advertising. Advertising is the art of giving people information about new products and services, it's the art of convincing people that your product or service is useful to their lives. What advantages will the costumer get if he buys the product?

One thing very important to keep in your mind is the competition available. I bet you won't find a single market without a single competitor. Competition is the best thing that exists on this earth and do you know why? It's very simple. If god didn't give us competition we would still be just some useless beings crawling in the ground because it's competition that makes us give the nest step further and to get the prize, or food in that time. Earth size is the same every time. Ok, it got bigger than it was some millions or billions years ago, but since animals are here that the size is still exactly the same. This means that the number of creatures increase but the food sources are the same, they can increase but their own food sources are still the same so they don't increase just like that.

That's why competition exists and is so important. It gives the costumers more and better options to choose from. A market with no competition isn't likely to have high quality products. Guaranteed!

The first thing you have to do with your advertising campaign is to outstand the competition. Remember that your target is the costumer and not the competitor! Don't be fool and make the same mistake the some companies do that design a product just fro the competitors. Poor fools... The costumer is king. He has the money you want and he must get something really good in return right? Give him something really valuable.

A great advertising campaign is one that presents a good product in a way a costumer can't refuse. How to do that? Very simple. All costumers have needs that you must please. I am not just talking about food and shelter. I am talk about the need of having fun and things like that. Please them and they will please you too.

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