Tips For Keeping Your Advertising Campaigns Organized

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It goes without saying that every business must have an effective advertising campaign in order to draw customers and get them to buy their products or use their services. A good advertisement provides a satisfying answer to the important question: Why should the customer buy from you rather than from any one of the hundreds of other suppliers that are out there? Advertisement campaigns require great effort to keep them organized – for of what use is a disorganized advertisement campaign?

As with everything in our lives, it takes a great deal of effort to put an advertising campaign together and not much effort to cause it to become disorderly – that seems to happen by itself. This article will give you some tips to make sure that the campaign stays in perfect order.

Beginning the organizing process

One of the first things that you need for organizing your advertising campaign is a calendar. You may find that you need three calendars, each of which looks at the campaign from a different perspective and containing different types of information. The three types are:

• An internal calendar to be checked by those who work within the organization.

• A “client-facing” calendar.
• A campaign calendar on which a breakdown of the advertising schedule is given.

Each of these three is made available only to certain people. The internal calendar, for instance, may be seen only by members of the advertising agency. Their purposes are also different: The internal calendar, whose purpose is to improve the advertising workflow and make the communication of deadlines smoother, contains ad specifications, media types and outlets, and traffic deadlines, as well as internal notes. The client-facing calendar records what types of media have been used and when the run dates occurred. The schedule breakdown calendar outlines the media schedule in greater detail than the client-facing one – the details it includes are specific to the type of placement for each media type. Thus, for ads that were broadcasts on the radio and television, this calendar gives information on the day parts and programs. Eventually you should have a complete campaign summary drawn up with the campaign criteria, the run dates, what media types will be used and of course the budget and how much of it is devoted to each medium.

Use of computer apps

Apps are available that make running an advertising campaign easier. Those for mobile phone are especially pleasant to work with because of the ways in which you and the ads can interact. One is the “To Do” app to help you stay organized. You punch in what you need to do and when you need to do it and an alarm will go off at that time. Others include the following:

• Amazing Advertising Tips: This app comes in the form of a “book” that is read on mobile phone. The tips that it gives are very valuable for the advertiser; among them are “Tell your audience what kind of support they’ll get after they buy” and “Think of ways to get your site or business in the news.”

• Nationwide Advertising: An especially valuable app that makes it possible to place ads in tens of thousands of newspapers all across the country.
• LocalSpin: Allows the user to get honest reviews from those in the local community, rather than from total strangers thousands of miles away.

All the apps listed above are compatible with the iPad and iPhone, and all can be downloaded for free from http://appfinder.lisisoft.com/tag/mobile-advertising.html.

Keeping the campaign organized

Now that we have discussed the steps involved in organizing the campaign to begin with, we can get down to the subject of making sure that things remain that way. And that simply involves maintaining the effects of the processes outlined above. Thus, once you have your calendar set up, it becomes a matter of seeing that it is continually attended to-items must be continually added to it and deleted from it as soon as they are fulfilled, and the calendar must also be constantly checked to make sure that the schedule is being followed.

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2013-01-16 07:50:56

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