How can offline media advertising benefit small businesses?
The new age marketing, “online marketing” is being seen as an important means of advertising owing to its global reach and affordability. Yet, as the storm dies down, the picture that is emerging is that when it comes to advertising, print still rules the roost. The traditional mode of advertising, via print is still used as a marketing tool to reach millions of prospective viewers owing to its wide reach and loyal readership. Even today, offline mode of advertising is the most cost-effective and beneficial tool of marketing for small businesses and enterprises. Exploiting the benefits the offline media advertising, Webwindows, a UK based media agency has been providing small and mid sized online companies the opportunity to advertise their offerings on the Webwindows page, which appears as a coloured weekend supplement in seven leading newspapers and magazines in the UK. Webwindows has been successfully influencing a large belt of viewers to go online and purchase services after reading the classified ad in the newspapers. Webwindows has successfully proved what it has believed in: Online media is best for making purchases but when it comes to creating awareness about products and services, newspaper advertising is the most effective.
According to Webwindows, even today, newspapers enjoy a considerable percentage of reader-ship in most countries. Though the use of Internet is on the rise, there are thousands of websites struggling for visitors and traffic. Webwindows feels that even though online companies opt for SEO methods, which includes usage of key words, spiders and robots, RSS feeds etc, to drive traffic to their site, they can get a better conversion rate by advertising offline. Webwindows supports its case by pointing out that many online companies strive to produce the maximum key-word heavy content to acquire a good positioning on the search engines and be viewed by maximum viewers yet despite striving so hard for hits, quality hits cannot be guaranteed, wherein the online consumer goes up to purchase the product offered by the website. Therefore, online business organizations need to opt for offline media advertising tools to spread their message or awareness of their products to readers of newspapers. This is exactly how Webwindows functions. Webwindows assist online business enterprises with their target focused offline advertising services at the most affordable price. Webwindows assist businesses in 360 degree aspects of offline media advertising right from deciding the best newspaper for their classified to best place to size to content to help them reach maximum consumers in the most effective way.
According to Webwindows, newspapers guarantee a wide exposure of your ads to the consumers who love to flip through the pages with their bed tea or at their leisure time. On the other hand, Webwindows rightly points out, people only access notepads or computers at the time of work. Then again, Webwindows feels that offline advertising is more cost-effective when compared to online advertising. Also, the most important tool on online advertising, Google’s AdWords, not only charges advertisers on the cost per click basis, it does not guarantee productivity in terms of purchase by the clicker. Coming to your aid at this point is Webwindows with a readership of 5 million people; the company helps you reach your target audience in the most effective way. With their meticulous ad placements strategies, Webwindows convinces a large segment of viewers to check out the online company after reading its published advertisement in the newspaper.
So, if you’re looking for cost-effective means of advertising that also guarantee results, offline media of advertising is the most dependable mode. Moreover, with well established offline advertising companies like Webwindows leading their expertise to small businesses, you can definitely count on the power of newspapers for your brand awareness.
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March 27th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Hi There,
Congratulations for thinking ahead before applying a quick fix to your apparent awareness problem. Many great products failed to be proitable because they are spending too much in the wrong media to reach their users.
A great advertising or marketing needs to start somewhere. The right place to start before even thinking what to say and where to say it is to look at your product proposition. People in the industry call it USP ( Unique Selling Proposition). Analyse your product. Identify who would want it and why they need to want it. Be honest and identify the killer reason to make people want. Do not fall into the common trap of "my product has everything better" as usually it is not the case.
Then analyse the "who" element and what makes the decision to buy. Sometimes it is not the end user that makes the purchase decision.
Now you have identify who wants it and why they need to want it you can safely select your media.
It is most important to indentify what is most cost effective instead which is the cheaper one. How cost effective is measured by numbers of people IN YOUR WHO list that reads or it reaches( you can get it from the media audit for printed media like newspaper or estimates rom the publisher), how much you pay for it (production cost and distribution cost)and how many will respond to the ad(your creativity in ensuring that more people in your list to respond) . Average out with various media.
For ATL advertising just look at the survey report.
Good luck on the strategy.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Really? LOL