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Advertising to an Ad Blind Public

Friday 19 December 2008 @ 6:20 pm
Face blindness
John Reed wonders:


It has been said that you cant get blood from a turnip. This saying implies that it just wont work, as what you seek does not exist where you are looking for it. Advertising a business online can make one feel as though they are attempting to get blood from a very hard turnip.

Pay per click advertising has been a nice way to get noticed in the past. This has changed over time primarily for those that dont have the large amounts of revenue that is required to stay on top.

Due to bidding wars over high volume keywords, even newly popular keywords can quickly get out of reach for website owners trying to get noticed on a budget. The daily struggle between the pay per click advertising heavyweights often trample the dreams of upstarts in various industries. Face it. Advertising is a money game if you arent innovative in your approach to getting your shareand your competitors share of the buying publics attention.

While many marketers have found success using pay per click advertising as their primary means of advertising what it is they have to offer. Many more advertisers have been frustrated at their advertising campaigns results or lack thereof and the number of pay per click campaign short comings is actually growing as a more knowledgeable Internet community recognizes and avoids ads in search of relevant content. Folks, the reduced effectiveness of standard pay per click campaigns will only continue, as more and more web surfers become ad blind.

Today, unless you are just floating in money, you have to see pay per click advertising as if it were a turnip that you are trying to get blood out of. There isnt enough consumer attention for everyone. So increasingly, smaller, less experienced marketers are running into a formidable barrier to getting quality web traffic.

Yet, the battle goes on day after day between advertisers vying for ad positions that will capture all of the buying public attention they can.

Now, lets look at the way to get the blood out of a seemingly bloodless turnip. Most would agree that one would have to be innovative to get todays consumers to slow down and read about a product that they had no prior interest in without some type of incentive. Whether it is the opportunity to learn something or the potential of a new product to make their lives easier, something has to make that customer stop and focus.

Conventional pay per click advertising doesnt provide this and as stated before, is actually loosing its ability to capture web users attention. Currently, it is left up to the banner ad designer, or the owner to create a jaw-dropping ad. Whether done by price or aesthetic design, this method has its limitations and a high failure rate in many industries. Been there. Seen that. There are few tricks that most web surfers havent already seen. Dont allow your campaign to be a pay per click victim. Aggressively think and innovate.

The word (advertise) is used a lot these days. But truth be told, most marketers are losing touch with what this term actually means. The definition the word (advertise) goes something like this; to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it. There was a time when a banner ad could contain enough information to do this and firmly grab a users attention. But if you notice, so many industries are saturated with competitors saying the same thing that all of the marketing ads appear to be nothing more than a clich directed at a public that is listening less and less. Cheap, large quantity, must go, sale etc. Simply stated, it is hard to be unique in a saturated industry when all you have to grab the users attention is a 125 X 125 ad, a positioning off to the side of the page and a couple of seconds of attention time with potential customers.

You have to grab web surfers by their existing desire and then use that attention window to flood them with the positive aspects of your product. A click-through DOES NOT equal having a web surfers attention. Much like conversations where one of the participants is not focusing on what is being said, most click-thoughs fail to truly communicate the information needed to make a sell. The web surfer isnt listening. They are skimming and often miss 95% of the points about your product that would convince them to buy. The result is low or no sells.

A new way of advertising online called Error Marketing www.errormarketing.com allows webmasters to engage web surfers with every word of their websites content while paying less money for their advertising.

For less than 10 dollars per month, advertisers can get focused attention from potential customers and the perfection of their web copy. By preparing the web surfer to stay longer before they reach the website, Error Marketing really affords advertisers the most comprehensive opportunity to sell their products and services.

Error marketing works by the advertiser placing a bounty or cash reward on any potential errors found on their website. The web surfers come looking for the errors. This increases the stickiness of your website as potential customers stay longer, and read more of the websites content, discovering the product benefits on a deeper level. Because they read all of the website content, they catch the full impact of the websites sells pitch and subsequently present a much more stable target for marketers to gain that elusive sell.






Silhouette Blinds Great Advantage To Window Fashions

Thursday 3 July 2008 @ 9:16 am
Face blindness
Low Jeremy wonders:


Silhouette blinds is the enhancement of combining all the major advantages of shades, draperies and blinds into a single magnificent design. This is considered an exquisite trend for windows improving any types of room. Fabric vanes are suspended between the sheer fabric facings tilt so that you can adjust or choose the amount of sunlight or privacy that suits your mood and need.

The advantages of silhouette blinds are:

- Privacy and light control precision.

- There are seven lovely fabric choices ranges from two to three inches vane sizes.

- Designer colors are available in pull palette varying from subdued to intense hues.

- The hardware components are precise, high in quality and deliver a quiet and smooth operation.

- The fabrics are anti static and soil resistant.

- The hardware components are color coordinated.

- The shapes are created with specialization having motorized options.

Silhouette blinds are incorporated with different features so that the consumers could easily determine whether it suits their needs.

Silhouette material is made of fabrics available in three vane sizes such as two, three or four inches. The sizes of the blinds have a width ranging form 6 to 120 inches and a height ranging from 12 inches to 120 inches. There are 186 color combinations to choose from.

Silhouette blinds have five scales regarding light and privacy control.

1. Minimize the glare if you don’t need privacy.

2. For moderate privacy, you need to soften the light entrance.

3. For substantial privacy, you need to soften the light entrance also.

4. Light diffusion for complete privacy.

5. Virtually blocks the light for providing the most privacy and controls over available light.

Silhouette blinds are applicable in different shapes of windows and doors including angles, arches and trapezoids, sliding glass door, circles and French doors. There are three available operational systems where you can choose from varying from Ultraglide retractable cord system, Tilt-Only Low-Profile system and EasyRise continuous loop system.

Silhouette blinds has a complete uniform exterior appearance with horizontal orientation on window shapes incorporated with safety features, energy efficiency and sound absorption components.

There are two motorization options available including electrical-powered switch or remote control and battery-powered PowerRise.

Silhouette blinds has an either excellent ultraviolet protection ranging from 90 to 95 percent or superior ultraviolet protection ranging from 95 to 99 percent.

Silhouette blinds has the elegance for improving your home decorations in the best way possible.