is advertising good or bad?
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Advertising is both good and bad.  \n\nIt is good if it makes you aware of products and services that you can use and will be helpful.   For example, advertising is used to help you become aware that Ninetendo is introducing the new Wii game system.   Being a rabid gamer, I find this advertising useful.\n\nIt is bad if it irrelevant to your needs and is not helpful.  For example, I will not eat McDonalds therefore the advertising is wasted on me.  That is ineffecient for McDonalds and for me. \n\nKeep in mind that many charities also use advertising to let people know that they exist and that they perform an important function.    \n\nTelevision shows receive funding from advertisers.   Without advertising, there would be no television content or people would have to pay to see content.  \n \nI don't think advertising is immoral unless the advertising is an explicit lie.
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The design is great, a little more work on the content would be great. Also the ads can really turn somebody blind :)
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ensure u have a good PRODUCT,at a good PRICE,in a PLACE where demand exists,have good PROMOTION for the product like advertising
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My husband has worked in radio for 25 years.  He says radio is the best form of advertising because it is the only legal form of subliminal advertising there is.  Your radio is always on.  You may not consciously be listening to the commercials, but your brain is hearing them anyway!\n\nHumerous commercials, either on radio or TV, always make me stop what I am doing and pay attention, because I have a very stressful life and I can use all the humor I can get.
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in marketing investment and result is proportioned if the product and place of marketing is good.no use marketing ice in the artic.
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First of all, if there's no truth to what you're advertising.  People will feel cheated too if you do not reveal something in your advertising because you know they won't buy it, if you add it to that.
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because it is an advertisement
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Word of mouth is the WORST way to promote ANY kind of company. It's only attraction is the cost of 0. Consider this...what you say in any ad is JUST (if not more, really) as important as WHERE you say it at or through what media. With word of mouth you have NO CONTROL of your message. So even with the best intentions, someone could be talking you up and actually affect the listener negatively about what you can do. You never see your failures...only the successes with word of mouth.\n\nI would suggest radio, on stations that play the type of music you most like to produce. You know musicians are also listening in...best place to catch them. Next in line would be different music magazine publications or local 'hip' publications. The ones that talk about the art and entertainment scenes or the party places and such.\n\nYour CHEAPEST way is to make a flyer to post at record stores and intrument shops. HOWEVER, if you want it to have a great effect, either put your MOST into making that piece look amazing and keep your copy simple and bottom line as to what is in it for the prospect and don't gush on about yourself and what great equipment you have. That is important, but only in the way that actually affects what your target audience would want to do or be looking for. Always write from thier viewpoint...not yours. Also...make the graphics eye catching, yet not confusingly busy and keep a level of class and elegance to appear much bigger than you actually are. No matter your size.
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Saving lives is good.  \n\nBut why is your 'question' posted here, in Advertising and Marketing and not in Health?   Because it is an ad.\n\nThis this is not a forum for advertisements.
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Well the advertising communication uses AIDA model. That Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. And i think this is a general plan in any good comminication
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Well there are certain things which runs in the background but are extremely critical to proper functioning of the system.\nIn your example the purpose of the ad gets a major setback. Imagine those who are not that well acquianted with the language and interpreting the ad totally wrong.\nMy answer is yes.
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Hey Wayne, \nWell  I sort of told you but\n\n1. Some TV ads are quite good and educational\n2. Kids can be informed about the latest stuff\n3. Kids can know what's new in restraunts and stores\n\nSee ya,\n\nAllen FAng
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There are certainly ethical issues with the advertising industry. It is by its very nature designed to subvert people's will and cause them to act in the interest of the advertiser and not in their own interest.\n\nModern advertising techniques were created in Nazi Germany in Hitler's propaganda ministry. It included cinematic techniques such as those developed by Leni Reifenstahl's 'The Power of The Will', which lionized Hitler. The Nazi propaganda worked so well that in 1945, the Americans took their research and put it to work on Madison Avenue. In the same way they also took Nazi rocket technology and scientists, and used them to go to the Moon.\n\nThe point of designing a good effective advertisement is to direct the viewer's attention, arguably to misdirect it. While I enjoyed creating advertising for clients who made good products, you can't realistically make a living restricting your clientele. Eventually, I moved into the technical end of printing where I was happier.
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here is my answer with thanks to Roy H. Williams Nicknamed "the Wizard of Ads" i have editted some of the contents though\n\nOutdoor advertising/billboards: this reached out to more people but are limited to a picture and usually no more than eight words. \n\nRadio: Reaches the second most people for a dollar, however it can only be loosely demographically targeted. \n\nCable television: offering the impact of moving images as well as spoken words. It can be targeted geographically \n\nBroadcast television: Big prestige. Big bucks. But is able to target psychographic profiles. do note to buy specific shows and never to buy a rotator. \n\nNewspapers: Reach customers who are in the market to buy today. Unfortunately, people not currently in the market for your product or service are less likely to notice your ad than if it had appeared in another media. \n\nMagazines: may be expensive, but high-impact with tight targeting. Weakness is infrequency of repetition. \n\nDirect mail: Highly targeted, all the way down to the level of the individual but it is not cheap. \n\nYellow Pages: for customers who has yet to make up his or her mind.\n\nhope this helps =)
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At my company we call is FAB\n\nFeatures tell\nBenefits sell\n\n\nWhen advertising, be specific to audience, if you list a feature......  This pen is RED\n\nList the Benefit  ...........  Red sticks out and will be easier to see.....
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Yes, I do.\n\nI also think that they believe its good advertising, as well. They are a business, and social action doesn't help them unless it sells clothes.
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Those that do are advertising