Does Your Advertising Incease Sales?
by: DennisGartlandII | Total views: 10 | Word Count: 305 | View PDF | Print View
Religion is opinion Advertising should be based on facts. Religion must continue in the realm of Opinion, because no one can decide which Creed is right;, and which wrong, till he dies and finds out the facts for himself. And no mere man who died has ever come back to Earth to settle the dispute. But, it is different with Advertising, as it is with Mechanics or with Medicine, all three of which can be conclusively tested.
Many Advertisers, seem satisfied to spend their money on mere Opinions about Advertising when they might have invested it on Evidence about Advertising. These are the Advertisers whose business must die before they can be convinced that general publicity (merely keeping the name before the people) is wrong and Salesmanship-on-paper right.
Do you No a company that would give a salesperson a commission over a report from him that he was "Influencing Sales" for their other Salesperson? They would expect him to prove he was earning his salary by making a satisfactory record on sales. That is just what the advertising employer should demand from his advertising expenditure, proven sales, carrying a satisfactory profit. And, if he insists upon it he can get the kind of advertising which will actually produce sales instead of vague "Branding."
Advertising is and should be "Salesmanship-on-paper." If it is anything less than Salesmanship it is not real Advertising, but only "name recognition." And, "General Publicity" admittedly claims only to "Brand," to make sales easier for the salespeople.
Bad Advertising makes the same lame excuses as a Salesman who failed to earn his salary in actually selling goods. But General Publicity, or any other Advertising, should be judged by the same standards as the Salesman is judged, viz., by the goods it is clearly proven to sell at a given cost per dollar invested in it.
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