Sunday, April 27, 2014

Ideas On How To Do Newspaper Marketing

By Eloise Hewitt


For a long time, many people have read the newspaper to get updates on current events in their place and even world wide. These days, televisions and social media networks are slowly replacing the newspaper on relaying news to people. Publishing companies find it hard enough to sell their newspapers because of it.

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.

A kiosk can be a great tool for marketing your newspapers. The news stand kiosk should be in a place where there is a lot of people. You can place them in commercial areas like the mall. You can also have some of it at train stations or bus stops. The news stand should have a sign which can easily be seen. If you have kiosks that sell your paper exclusively, why not try painting it with colors that would match your paper. You can provide the salesman with some t shirts with your logo.

You can make suggestions to your writing staff that they should make an account on any social media network. This is a way to share to others how great your staff could be. There are those who are not fascinated on current events but also find interest on what others do. Make sure that you also create an official account for your paper. Use the existence of social media to your advantage.

Inside your paper, there must be some section that has testimonials given by your advertisers. The testimonials should describe how the business of your advertiser has been successful since they posted an ad on your newspapers. In this way, more people would be interested on including their ad on your listing.

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.

Organizing some contests is also another step to promoting your paper. Hold regular story writing contests and tell them that you would be publishing the winning story. There is no need to announce to them which winning story you would publish so that they will have to buy and read your gazette on a regular basis.

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.

Newspapers have always been a medium of conveying information to others. Now, with the advanced technology, you can use the internet to search for information you like to know about. Marketing it properly will help your newspaper compete with the technology nowadays.




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