8 ways to Advertising
1.Develop a product with specific utility – functions, features, and potential benefits that are relevant for an identified set of potential users.2.Identify such users as specifically as possible – in the form of an actual means for reaching them – names, titles, addresses, phone numbers, common "events" where you and they can be face-to-face, either individually (an in-person “call”) or collectively (an industry conference) or through some intermediary (direct mail letter or via print-media or other types of advertisement).
3.Truly understand the issues that your intended users see as “hot.”
4.Relate those issues to the functional capabilities of your product and then back to the potential benefits that users would realize if they were to start using your product.
5.Figure out pricing and terms. Figure out any additional “collateral” to be associated with selling/purchasing the product (added benefits, incentives, etc.).
6.Communicate the simple facts that the product exists and that it is available for purchase and is ready to use immediately.
7.Motivate the targets to take some type of pro-active action (calling for more info, calling you to chat, inviting you to come see them, inviting you to call them, showing up to participate at an “event”).
8.Ask for the order. It's amazing how many companies never actually ask their targets to make a purchase decision.