The Rise of Online Advertising, and why I don’t get it
On the one hand online advertising is growing, and on the other hand stats show they are not effective. Can someone explain?
For a couple of years I have been blogging to help others. Now has the moment come where I need your help!
My question is very simple:
Why do marketers keep advertising online, while clearly it doesn’t seem to be working?
And before your click away, no, this is not yet another blog post “yelling” to stop advertising, and to start doing content marketing.
This is something else, and I am merely trying to get my head around something.
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The Art and Science of Online Content Creation
da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, a diagram of the ideal proportions of a man’s body.
Knowing how to write for the online world is of strategic importance these days. If you know how to write for the web, your content will be found, and it will be read.
Your content might be fantastic, but if it is not written for the online world, you might as well not create that content.
But how do you create online content that actually gets read?
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The Online Elevator Pitch in Marketing
Recently I bumped into a video on Youtube in which they explained how to draft your Elevator Pitch.
It made me immediately think about how we marketers build our messaging.
Too often I see advertisements, promotional e-mails or websites, which just don’t make sense, because they try to convey way too much information, which makes the message “fuzzy”.
Or if the message is very short, it is a 2-layered message which is difficult to “decode” on the receiving end.
Everyone wants to have a great Elevator Pitch. But how do we get that concept into our marketing?
How do you do that?
How do you leave a powerful and impactful impression?
If you ever wanted to defend your great idea, or your great new product, you know how difficult it can be synthesize your message to the core, which means “killing off” your favorite parts of the full story.
Most people talk way to long, write too much, and bring to much level of detail. They don’t know when to give little information, and when to give more.
Creating an elevator pitch is about “killing your darlings”.
And so is creating a strong message to your target audience: “kill your darlings”. Weed out everything you don’t need. Go back to what really counts for the end-user.
The online Elevator Pitch
We live in a digital world, where photos, images, audio and video have become really important. Just look at the success of Pinterest, Slideshare or Instagram.
And online, people will only give you a few seconds of attention.
You literally only have a few seconds to pass on your message, to make a good impression, and make them want to know more.
A few seconds.
