Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Steps On Doing Newspaper Marketing

By Eloise Hewitt


A newspaper has given great help to people who wants to be updated on the latest happens in their area or even around the world. But, nowadays, the newspaper is getting replaced by televisions and by social media networks. Because of this, selling newspapers have been difficult for its publishers.

It will always be a challenge for a publisher or an editor on how they will do marketing. Before doing any newspaper marketing, one has to carefully think of ideas on how to market it. Doing the right marketing step will help their newspapers convey information to a lot of people.

News stand kiosks can be used as a tool to market your newspapers. It should be in an area where there is high activity or there are many passersby. You can set up some kiosks in the mall and other commercial areas. Set it up in the train station or beside a bus stop. You should place a sign on the kiosk which can be seen right away. If there are news stands that is exclusively selling your paper, you can paint it with colors which matches your paper. The salesman may wear a shirt with your logo on it.

You can also advise your writers and other staff to create accounts on social media networks. This will also show others what kind of writers and staff your firm have. Others are not interested only on the latest happenings as they also like to read about updates of the lives of others . You can also create an account which is exclusively for your paper where readers can post comments or ask you questions. You can use the social media to advertise your news online.

You can have a section inside it that contains testimonials from your advertisers. These testimonials are ads in which they talk about how their business has grown or succeeded after advertising on your paper. From these testimonials, other advertisers will be convinced or would also like to place their ads on your list.

Other publishers just use fake names to convince people. But, it would be more convincing if you would be featuring real success stories of real people. Feature these as often as you could to help convince others to place their ads too.

A contest would also be a good way to advertise it. You can hold a story writing contest from time to time and then give assurance to your readers that the winning stories will be published. You do not have to tell them which stories would be featured so that they will constantly buy and read to look for the winning stories.

You can ask the owners of the establishments who placed their ads on your published product to place a sign of your newspaper outside their stores. They would always be willing to do this. They also want people to see the ads they have paid for in your paper.

The newspaper has been a medium on keeping people up to date. Nowadays, with the help of technology, anyone can keep themselves updated through the internet. Doing the right ways to market your papers will help you keep up with technology.




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