Marketing With Surgical Precision Using Custom Postcards
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 Time: 11:03 PM
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Whether you are using cheap postcards or you are spending hundreds of bucks in poster printing, precision is the big key to a successful marketing campaign. You need to know how to go after your target markets precisely in the right way so that they respond to your marketing message. If you want to know how to do this, just read on. I'll give you a few tips on how to do marketing with surgical precision with specific methods in custom postcard printing.
• Postcards geared towards social class – Gearing your postcards for certain social classes is quite easy. It is all about quality and presentation. The more higher the social ladder you target with your marketing postcards the better your postcard quality and design should be. So for those posh luxury marketing postcards, you may want to bring out the big guns and use the best quality postcard materials with professionally made cover photographs and a luxurious layout. The lower you go down the social ladder, the more casual and cheaper you can be with your postcards.
• Postcards for age demographics – Targeting certain ages with marketing postcards is a little bit trickier. You will need to delve into the cultural icons and trends of the specific generation you are catering to. So if you are promoting something for teens or young adults, you will need to know the movies, books, TV shows and Internet websites that they like, to have an idea of what they want and what they respond to. Go older and you'll want to allude to certain events, personalities and cultural trends in the past with your marketing message.
You should also take into account your target demographic's priorities. Younger people tend to favor themselves and success, while older people tend to want to help more with their family and community while of course wanting more to relax and enjoy themselves. Use this knowledge to create marketing messages that cater to these priorities. Invite those younger readers to better themselves with your product or service, while you can entice the older readers to relax, enjoy or find meaning in helping his or her family or community. This should make them respond more to your postcard printing.
• Postcards for ethnic groups – Marketing towards certain ethnic groups is all about your images. This means that your postcard covers should display something that is more familiar to the ethnic group you are marketing with. The models or people in your postcard of course should always have the same ethnicity as the one you are promoting to. This gives a subtle but instant effect of engaging the reader. Use anything else and you risk alienating your reader just a bit and losing some advantage in your marketing message.
Great! That is how you do marketing to specific target markets with surgical precision. You must determine their specific interests and preferences via their demographics. The closer you are to your target market and demographics the more successful you will be in marketing. Good Luck!
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