Month: December 2018
Advertising is a type of communication done through various media by industries, non profit organizations, business firms, individuals etc. Advertising actually informs and educates target audiences about a particular brand or service and influence them.
The job in advertising requires researching the client products and services, identifying the USP, briefing the team, coordinating with team and client, understanding the audience and delivering the best.
Advertising is one of the most important tools of marketing. People who are creative by nature can find advertising as their dream job. Today there is huge range of products and services in India. So advertising companies are hiring professionals to balance with the growing need.
There are professional training advertising institutes in India that offer diploma courses in advertising. Every company, organization use advertisement to promote their brand. Advertising job demands for qualifications and one can find a range of degrees and diploma courses available on journalism, mass communications and even public relations in advertisement.
Different types of advertising courses are offered in advertising institutes to cater to the specific needs of the field. The most popular among them are Diploma in Advertising, Diploma in Advertising & Communication Management, Diploma in Advertising & Marketing, and Diploma in Commercial Arts & Advertising. Some of the Advertising institutes offer Post Graduate Diplomas like PG Diploma in Advertising & Marketing Communication and PG Diploma in Public Relations & Advertising. Certificate courses of different duration are also available in this field.
The institutes offering the course are Futuristix Media Communication Centre, Sadhna Academy For Media Studies, Atharva School of Business, National Institute of Event Management, Delhi Film Institute, Genesis Institute of Business Management, Mass Co Media, Gecko Animation Institute, Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication, National Institute of Creative Communication etc.
As the communication and marketing technologies are growing, the advertising career is also growing. In return, it is opening vast opportunities for the talented advertising professionals. One can find job in Television, Newspaper, Websites, Radio etc.
In India, a career in advertising is booming. Advertising jobs have become quite popular. Youths having the desire to do something different are thronging the world of advertising today. Not just in India, but this career is highly in demand internationally.
To make an effective advertisement, the advertising personnel has to become a bridge between the customer group, the owner and the media in which the advertisement is to be featured.
Where Not to Put Your Money
Using and finding an online marketing plan that works is not easy. However, if you can wade through all of the list building and joint venture membership sites there are a few that actually work that will not break your bank. The biggest difference between a brick and mortar business and an internet business is a budget. Very few online advertisers give this any thought they just jump into a list building membership, pay their membership fee and find that it takes a lot more work than they are lead to believe. This generally leads to more money spent and sometimes show no inkling of a return on their investments i.e. more loss than gain.
AdSense a Better Investment of Your Time and Money
We see the billboard equivalent advertisements in the form of banners and popup windows with clickable links that drive traffic to the specific websites for the product and services presented. Moreover, the breakthrough that showed the most promise was a program called AdSense designed and implemented by Google. The AdSense advertising program innovated the industry of online advertising by integrating advertisements germane to specific websites that were similar to the products having representation by the banner and text ads. This would appear on the side panels at the top or bottom of a given website.
The biggest drawback of the list building and Joint Venture Memberships is that they sell no actual product or service. They sell systems and as usual not all systems work because at the start they become over populated within months, sometimes even weeks from the release and so no real money can be made using them. It is the same with affiliate programs. The only way to promote them, in a realistic manner is through an AdSense campaign. This targets your audience by putting ads on the side of search pages about similar websites to yours and you earn money through the amount of clicks and of course through selling the actual product or service associated with the affiliate program or your own service or product.
Coupled with an AdWords campaign
AdSense drives higher quality traffic through the keywords specified and congruent with the given product or service presented in the AdSense campaign. Move forward to the year 2014 and the internet, coupled with television make a match unsurpassed by any other combination of media in history. Add social media, which has integrated all forms of media like magazines, News shows, Sitcoms and any other type entertainment. So why not use AdSense to drive quality traffic it is cost effective and easy to put into action.
B2B websites can offer huge opportunities for international traders. This article offers detailed information on how these business to business websites work.
A B2B website serves two parties – the buyer and the seller. These are also known as leads. The main function of this website is to enable visitors to find the leads they want in the shortest possible time. A buyer may be looking for seller leads, and a seller may be looking for buyer leads.
By using the search function, one can easily locate the right type of leads on a B2B website. The search tool will allow a visitor to search by country, and to view only buyer or seller leads. The search starts when the visitor enters a few keywords (likely to be keywords for some product or service), select the required options, and click on the search button. The website will then make a query to the database and return the search results.
Alternatively, a visitor may choose to browse the leads in the business directory. Similarly, he can choose to see leads from a certain country, or only buyer or seller leads. These two simple functions will help the visitor locate the leads that he wants quickly.
To serve the needs of international traders, the better B2B websites even allow freight forwarders to list their services for free. This is important for any import export business. With the information, an online visitor can easily check the charges for using these services when importing from various countries. In addition, you may also expect to see information for trade show events that are posted for free by trade event organizers.
Given the numerous benefits offered by B2B websites, one would expect a listing to be pricey. However, contrary to popular believe, a listing in a B2B website can cost as little as 25 USD a year. Often, B2B also allow businesses to sign up for free. They do so because they want businesses to try out their services, and also because they want to attract as many leads as possible. Active B2B directories with many active business listings are certainly more valuable to international traders.
Sometimes, when visiting a B2B website, you may come across a special feature called “Keyword Auction”. Keyword auction allows businesses to bid for higher positions in the B2B directory. For example, when a user searches using a keyword phrase “phone”, your contact details may be listed at the bottom of the page. As such, the user didn’t have a chance to contact you. For more exposure, you may want to consider using this feature to bid for a higher position. This gives you greater visibility, and will allow you to receive more leads.
Finally, for maximum exposure, you can always buy banner advertising on a B2B website. This is more costly than listing services or keyword auction, but it will attract attention more easily. If the products and services you offer have a more general appeal, this advertising channel may work well for you.
As you can see, there are many ways to advertise your services on a B2B website. Be sure to choose those that will give you the maximum return on investment.
The conventional way of pay per click advertising has become pass as no more is the idea of an advertisement appearing on the side of search engine an option that works as expected and there is always a desire for something more that will draw instant attention. This is where contextual advertising comes into prospect and acts like a breath of fresh air for the ad publishers.
Contextual advertising
Actually contextual advertising is basically a form of pay per click advertising where the ads get displayed like banner ads or pop-ups on other websites that share the same keyword as the keywords used in your advertisement. Contextual advertising is supposedly a favorable way of advertising as it is considered a source of targeted audience and the click rate as well as conversion rate too is supposedly higher here. With contextual advertising whenever people type a keyword on the search engine, they get to view your advertisement as well as the content of the website. With this mode of advertising there are dual benefits, not only the publisher gains clicks but also the website publishing the ad gets traffic.
In text ads
Where we are discussing contextual advertising, we cannot miss on in text ads. Now these ads are supposedly an advanced form of contextual advertising and are most preferred by webmasters across the globe. In text ads appear to be less pushy and more targeted than any other form of pay per click advertising. Actually what happens here is that the keyword used by you and the publishing website is same and therefore the keyword becomes the source of advertisement. The keyword in the content of the website where you are publishing your contextual ad has double underline as well as a bubble .So whenever anybody moves the cursor on the keyword, the bubble gets display where there is precise information regarding the publisher as well as advertisement. If the viewers get impressed and interested by the information then they can click on the bubble and o through your contextual advertisement and if they are not interested then they can ignore it.
Muthurwa-South East Commercial Park-35 acres.
OCTOBER 2010 LISTING WESTLANDS
Westlands 4.125 acres Peponi Gardens @ 480 m Negotiable Westlands 2.1 acre Eldama Ravine @ 160m negotiable[prime for redevelopment to town houses] Westlands 3. 1 acre ring road @ 200m . Ideal for development of flats. Riverside drive-0.657 acres @ 110m Muthangari-Kabarsorian Drive 10 bdr. House on 1 acre with swimming pool @ 110m. Westlands Junction of Chiromo Lane/Westlands Road 0.5 acre Westlands 3rd gate from Continental Hotel acre Westlands 1/3rd acre opposite Holiday Inn .Old Bungalow @ 70m. Westlands Rhapta road acre with 8 flats Westlands Rhapta road acres with old house Westlands opposite C.C.K after Kianda School 1 acre @ 110m Lavington 1 acre Ndoto road[coming soon] Lavington Mugumo Drive-5 bedroomed ensuite 1 acre @ 100m Valley arcade 1 acre ideal for flats @ 110m. Kilimani along Kirichwa road 1.6 acres @ 230m Kilimani-Junction of Ndemi road and Muringa road. 2.2.acres @ 350m. Kilimani Along Joseph Kangethe road. 1.6 acres @ 170m.
KAREN Karen 5 Acres. Tree lane. Red soil @ 22m per acre Karen 8 acres next to Banda schol @ 20 m per acre Karen 2.5 acres next to Shade Hotel with 5 bedroomed house @ 90m. Karen Don Bosco 2.5 acres @ 18 m per acre Karen Don Bosco 4 acres @ 18m per acre Ngong town 1/8 acre @ 5.2 m Langata . 23 acres next to Langata Barracks @ 15m per acre
KAREN 25 acres subdivided into 5 No. 5 acre plots @ 22m per acre-Next to Catholic University 10.5 acres @ 15m per acre near Banda School. L.R No. 7793/9 UPPER HILL 1 Acre opposite KASNEB @ 200m
UPPER HILL Upper Hill 2 acres @ 400m opposite Kadhis Court Upper hill next to Taj Apartments Matumbato road acres @ 100m per acre Upper hill next to KASNEB 0.6 ACRES @ 130m Upper Hill next to KASNEB 2.6 acres @ 200m per acre
Ruiru Bypass 49 acres @ 2.2m per acre 47 acres @ 2.2m per acre 50 acres @ 2.2.m per acre Ruiru Town next to NTBS Colloege 10 acres @ 20 m per acre KISERIAN Kiserian Pipeline Ruirie area 2 pieces each of 10 acres@ 900k per acre Kiserian Pipeline 100 acxres Kiserian Pipeline 100 acres @ 1 m per acre MOMBASA ROAD Mombasa road at Athi River turnoff 116 acres @ 7m per acre Syokimau 5 acres @ 30m per acre. 2 km form Mombasa road Kitengela 15 acres 2nd row @ 1.6m per acre[17km from Kitengela town] Embakasi Utawala 12 acres @ 2.8m per acre Syokimau-3 km from Mombasa road. 12 acres @ 5.5 m per acre
EASTLEIGH 1.Pangani 1/4acre old house@32 m 2. Eastleigh section 3 . 1/4acre @ 35m
Various parcels. Price on request.
KITENGELA Various parcels. Price on request.
# Ngong Rd, acre near Adams Arcade,fronting Road- Office Block/Apartments, 120M # Westlands 1.5Acres,Chiromo Rd,Hotel, Office Block – 390M # Msa Rd, 2.5 Acres, behind Tuskys Godown, 45 M # Msa Rd, near KPA, 3 Acres, 18M – # Msa Rd, 10Acres- Touching tarmac, after Mlolongo -Prime for housing Estate- 10M per # Msa Rd, 20Acres-near KPA-Industrial-10M per acre # Syokimau, 5Acres- 2km frm Msa Rd — Highly developed area- 25M.. # Dagoretti Corner-0.5acres /Wanyee Rd, at the end of Riara Rd — 30M # Thika Rd, Clayworks, 1/8th, touching tarmac for flats – 7M # Langata, behind Carnivore – acre-Commercial/Flats – Fronting road – 18M # Langata, 1.5Acres- near NHC- – For Apartments – 35M # Ruaka/Limuru Rd – On tarmac-1/4Acre-Flats-12M
Larger Parcels ranging from 10 – 3000 Acres available in various places like Msa Rd, Thika Rd, Kitengela, Nyandarua, Nanyuki, Kiambu Rd, Ruiru etc. 1 Mombasa road. Near City Cabanas 4 acres @30m per acre 5 acres @ 30m per acre 10 acres @ 30m per acre 20 acres @ 30m per acre 2. Joska near Kamulu[very fertile land] 40 acres 18 km from main road @ 550,000 per acre 20 acres 3 km from main road @ 500,000 per acre 3. School. 1.5KM from Joska,opposite V.O.K. 8 Acres containing borehole and School bus. 14m 4. House on acre land for sale ,Joska @ 3.5m 5. 100 x 100 ft plot for sale near Bypass Embakasi Ranching Company @ 1.2m. 6. 100 x 100 ft plot for sale Embakasi Ranching Cvompany near Bypass @ 1m 7. 11 acres Giathie Farm @ 2.2m per acre 8. Tractor for sale @ 1.5m 9.Joska 40 acres 3 km from main road @ 550,000 per acre 10.House and 100ft x 100ft plot near Dune, Joska @ 1.3m
Francis Gichuhi www.a4architect.com +254721410684