Monday, June 16, 2008

Most Important Facts To Consider In Banner Marketing

Banner marketing is one of the most provocative promotional campaigns offered by ad agencies. Whether on a tight budget or generous budget, advertisers can take advantage of these visual display ads to pull traffic from one website to the advertisers' domains. The main purpose of these ads being strategy to pull potential crowds through just a small piece of display ad, therefore, the art form involved in this campaign plays significant role.

A banner marketing tool is basically a few lines or a single line text teamed with graphical components. Many advertisers assume it is so simple to create and use a banner ad when all they have to take care are two things – just a few words or lines and some imagery factors. Is that so? Let us see, what should we take under considerations if we are planning to use banner ad promotional campaigns?

Many a companies have tried and tested banner marketing campaigns and failed even after investing generously. And they have given banner ad a bad name. Nonetheless, still big players in online business industries have made profits profusely using banner ad campaigns properly. So make sure, it is not just about to spend money with generosity but to spend time generously too, for planning as well as experimenting and not to forget in monitoring the results after publishing ads.

Make sure the attention is well spread through texts and graphics as both the ingredients are crucial to make a break a banner ad. So the tone and efforts to be paid should be balanced – none of them be too loud to suppress the other. First of all, such ads arrest viewers only for a few moments. Therefore, if texts are smaller, simpler precise and catchy – an ad can draw more traffic to it.

Stress on your customers' expectations from your site and products – the content should convey that the site is all about they are hunting of. You may incorporate call to action phrases like, 'visit here', 'click here' or 'click now'. Flash or animated banner marketing ads are potent to draw 25% more traffic than standard ads. So include some movements and number of slides to have your viewers moved by your ads instantly. Designing or pattern should conform the style pattern of your website to help viewers identify the website easily through ads. Finally, ensure the file contains not to graphic content to be heavy and to be loaded quickly.

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