Thursday 29 August 2013

Online Vs Print Advertising - Which One Is Better?

By Vandana Dhawan


Entrepreneurs have various methods to promote their businesses. Online advertising and print advertising are two major advertising methods available to promote businesses. There are various discussions and comparisons about the effectiveness of these two methods. Which one is the best? Is it online adverting, or is it print advertising?

Actually, it is not easy to say that one method is more effective than the other. Both these advertising methods have their unique characteristics and benefits. The benefits they give may differ from one business to another according to the nature and the target market. Read following attributes that each method has and decide yourself.

When we consider the speed of both these methods, online advertising is quicker than print advertising. When consider print advertising, it consumes lots of time for advertisement designing, printing and distribution, because most of the activities are done manually. It may take days or weeks to complete the entire process. But in online advertising, even though it takes some time to create the advertisement; all the other processes will take only a few minutes or a few hours.

Online advertising again in the head when considers the exposure. Circulation of a newspaper or any other print material is minimal when it compares with the internet. You can distribute your marketing message globally though the internet. Print media have many geographical barriers, but the internet does not have. Sometimes, you must repeat your advertisement in print media to achieve good results.

You can specifically target your potential customers through online advertising. Through search engine marketing and keyword optimization, your ads will display only to your target audience. However, it is rather difficult to target a specific set of people through print media. Hence, online advertising will bring potential customers to a business more than print advertising. However, print media is very useful to reach to people who do not use the internet and the people who are not IT savvy.

When compare the cost, online advertising is cheaper than print advertising. However, there are many costly promotional methods exist online. Therefore, the cost factor may vary according to the method you use either online or print media.

According to the above factors, you may think that online advertising is always more effective than print advertising. But there are instances where print media bring benefits than the internet. Some features are credibility and tangibility. Therefore, we advise you to use both these methods to promote your business and gain business success.

Whatever form of advertising you want to go with, a full service marketing agency can provide you all the solutions.




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