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26 Jun 2009Marketers today all understand that the primary purpose of any advertising is to get a response. It is to attract qualified prospects that can, by using other marketing methods, be converted to customers. It follows therefore that the more prospects that one can attract, the better the chances are that a customer base will grow. Small, medium and large companies all have to accomplish this same goal. How they achieve that goal is what differentiates the successful ones from the short lived ones.
Historically we have all grown up with certain brands and images that evoke, in some cases, nostalgia. We can all imagine dreamy days on a summer beach reaching for a cold drink from our COKE Cooler. It was red and had a white bottle cap on it. Tony the Tiger served breakfast to many of us. Hertz was guiding our parents into the drivers seat of a brand new rental car. These were big companies with big advertising budgets. We knew their names, recognized their images and we responded accordingly. But not every business is able to make it on Image Advertising.
In some ways, communication has caused our planet to shrink. A news event anywhere in the world today can be communicated, almost instantly, to anywhere else in the world. Newspapers, Radio, Television and the Internet have all contributed to this. Like any technology that brings benefits, unfortunately, there are also disadvantages. Our world is one of communications overload. Over the course of an average day we are exposed to news, commercials and advertising through all of the above forms of media. The result of this is that we have become conditioned to blocking out all but those items that we are interested in.