Friday, October 10, 2008

The Secrets of Successful Marketing Campaigns

By Andrew Carlson

The secret of a successful marketing campaign is to do a proper testing of the market. It can help you identify the other essential factors of the campaign, such as the timing of the campaign, the deliverance of the message across etc. One can find the answers through rigorous market testing.

Testing requires a study of previously done campaign and evaluates the effectiveness of each. Is an email campaign useful? Can an SMS campaign reach the market effectively? Is putting ads on the newspaper good enough? Will advertising on TV achieve what you want? Once you decide on your baseline, continue to test the results. Is the wording of the campaign ok? Will it cause controversy? Only then can you define what is it that you want to be included in the campaign.

After designing a campaign and deciding which medium to use, you can go on and experiment on subject lines and how different subject lines will impact the success of the campaign. Subject lines are important because they are usually the first and most prominent thing that viewers see. A strong subject line will lead to strong sales! Remember that the data you record must be of a big number so as to increase the accuracy of the results and that even this does not guarantee anything because everyone has their own tastes. However, the variance can be reduced by testing a lot of times.

Another thing to note for email campaign is to make sure that your links are working so that the customer can reach you easily. A spoilt link creates the impression that your credibility is low and leads to people not wanting to buy from you. Also, there must be technical support provided so that your customers will not be driven off because of technical difficulties.

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