Introduction
For a business to flourish, it is necessary to commence the marketing activity for the business. In the marketing activity, the details about the business products are given and the benefits of these products are told to the people. Without the marketing work, businesses are unlikely to prosper. It is very difficult to grow the business without the marketing work. If the marketing work is not done then people would not get awareness about the product of the company and the business is unlikely to survive in the longer run. Advertising must be done to get the people know about the product of the company.The advertising work can be done in many ways. Advertising can be done through different means of communication. These means may include TV, Radio, Internet and billboards.
Detail
Advertising can also be done indirectly by outsourcing the advertising work to some other company, which is quite proficient in the advertisement work. These advertisement companies provide the advertisement services to other companies in return get the financial benefits. Advertising direct can be considered as the company is doing the advertisement work by itself. There are many things that are supposed to be considered for direct advertising.Direct advertisement can be done through many means as explained earlier, however advertising direct can also be considered in the context that the organizations is itself carrying on its advertising activity, which means it is not outsourcing its advertising work. However this meaning might be vague. Advertising direct is better understood by explaining it in the context of direct means of communication. For the advertising direct an organization needs to carry on a separate advertisement department, which will cater the advertisement activities of the business.Advertising direct can be done through TV. For advertising directly on TV, an organization needs to contact such a TV channel in which it considers feasible to place an advertisement. However, the organization should select such a channel which is most likely to be seen by the people, so that maximum number of people knows about the products of the company. Advertising directly through television is usually expensive, as there are many requirements which need to be fulfilled for advertising on TV.
Features
Advertising direct can also be done through radio. For such a purpose a radio channel is selected. In this type of advertisement, during the radio transmission, the advertisement of the company’s product is played on the radio. However,in this case as well the most listened radio channel must be selected for the advertisement purpose. However if the organization affords then all the radio channels can be covered. Advertising direct can also be done through, newspapers and magazines. The newspapers and the magazines usually have classified pages are solely meant for purpose of advertisement. This is usually cheapest amongst all the direct advertisement means.
Comments
Advertisement directs can also be done through billboards, which are placed on the roads. This is another expensive mean of advertisement. The size and the location of the billboards cause the cost of the advertisement to fluctuate. Advertisement directs can also be done by means of brochures and pamphlets. In this type the products are usually mentioned in the form of pictures and the specifications are printed. However, these are some of the direct means of advertisement, which are supposed to be used for advertisement. Because without advertisement an organization is unlikely to flourish.
