Pros And Cons Of Newspaper Advertising

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Newspaper Advertising

Even though the era of newspapers ruling over all the other kinds of media is over, but that doesn’t mean, they have retired from their job of informing people about what’s happening around the globe. It’s because of their simplicity and authenticity that most of the people including millionaires prefer them over Googling. And that’s what leaves a plenty of business opportunities for the companies to make use of newspaper advertising and gathering a powerful customer base around them. Putting up an ad about your business in a newspaper is quite an effective way both for small and large businesses in gaining exposure in the target market, for generating product sales and ensuring a recurring business. Although, …show more content…

Since with the help of newspapers you can narrow up your audience to the desired demographics or a group of people with particular mindset who are forced to purchase your product by an action driving call to action headline.

Cons of newspaper advertising
Decline of readership levels Thanks to the advent of the internet, the print media is now replicating itself in the online world, too. But it’s not just media but also the media followers with more than half of the American being online and an ever increasing number, the readership level of print media is facing a quick and sorrowful decline. Even though the print media can never by fully replaced but still, to maximize the benefits of advertisements, the businesses will have to pay for both, offline and online, version of ads.

Cost Out of all other advertisement media, newspapers are considered to be one of the most expensive means of increasing the reach of your brand. It is quite risky to go for an ad in the newspaper for a business that pays 1500 dollars for the ad, but in return gets just 0.5% of ROI. That’s what makes constant monitoring of advertisement strategy and the outcome of it extremely

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