Eight Different Ways to Advertise A Product, Business And Service

Advertise simply means a way of bringing new customers to a business, product or service. The process is to advertise using an advertising method that suits the business, product or service, cost and target consumers, customers and audience. To Advertise the advertiser will have several options to choose from, as traditional media such as print materials and new social channels such as social networks both have their advantages.

1) Advertise Online Using Google AdWords

To advertise on websites, blogs and social media networks that gets heavy traffic is one way to get the word out about a business, product and service. To advertise on social networking sites such as Facebook have advertising campaigns and advertising managers that allow advertisers to advertise to specific demographics and niche. These adverts show up only next to profiles that meet the specifications of the business, product service and target market.

To advertise on the internet in general the advertiser will have plenty of options for advert placement. The best known service used to advertise is Google's AdWords, but hundreds of other companies can help to advertise ones adverts on suitable sites.


2) Advertise Using Facebook Social Media Marketing

To advertise through Facebook social media platform is an attractive marketing strategy for new businesses, products and services, because to advertise on Facebook social media consumes little or no monetary cost. To advertise using this process the advertiser will need to invest significant time in building a presence, and making the content engaging such that it would attract lots of followers. To advertise using the Facebook social media marketing strategy the advertiser will have to offer frequent premiums for followers of the advertisement, in the form of discounts, and giveaways, free gifts, to advertise this way can help a lot. To advertise a tangible product, the advertiser can also use verbal means by word of mouth by giving evaluation units to influential bloggers, and Facebook pages with a considerable amount of followers, for example the Facebook page Npower https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070134780663 has a total of 10,000 organic followers under the job niche, so to advertise a business, product or service such as job, or education would go well with this Facebook page.

3) Advertise Using Traditional Newspaper Advertisement
To advertise using traditional form of advertising, such as using the daily and weekly newspaper advertisement allows an advertiser to target a specific geographical area. To advertise using this advertisement method the advertiser should attach an incentive, such as a coupon, to the advert, this can help the advertiser to access the effectiveness of the advert. To advertise by buying an advert in a section relevant to the advertiser’s business, product or service, for instance, a recruiting firm advert in the job section, can also help the advertiser to reach target audience.

4) Advertise Using Targeted Radio Advertising
To advertise using targeted radio advertising such as a catchy jingle, skit and quick tag line an advertiser can improve a radio advert's effectiveness. To advertise using this method the advertiser must match the radio station the advertiser chooses with the advertiser’s target demography. If an advertiser wants to reach adults aged 40 to 70, an adult contemporary radio station is best.
If an advertiser wants to reach youths between 18 to 39 then an alternative or urban radio station is a good media to advertise.

5) Advertise Using Local or National Television Advertising
To advertise using local or national Television might consume time and effort, but this method can be effective if the advertiser advertise a product, business or service with a high price. A national TV advertisement can cost as low as ₦47,454,840.71 though this price can vary widely based on market trends. The advertiser can justify the difference in price if a Television advertisement can reach customers who would not respond to radio advertisement.

6) Advertise Using Public Speaking Events
To advertise effectively using this method, the product, business or service the advertiser wants to advertise must relate to the advertiser’s own expertise. To advertise using this method the advertiser should offer services to organizations that could gain from the advertiser’s workshops, seminars or lectures. To advertise using this method the advertiser should bring business cards and promotional materials to the event to encourage the audience to spread the word about the advertiser’s services, products or business.

7) Advertise Using Door Banners, Leaflets, Handbills And Flyers
To advertise using door banners, Leaflets and Flyers such as canvassing the community, placing flyers, leaflets and handbills in mailboxes or hanging banners on doorknobs, car wipers, pasting banners on windscreen of commercial vehicles and car door handles, is a good method to advertise your business, product or service to target a specific area and to ensure that the potential customers sees the advertiser’s information. Although most homeowners or vehicle owners will discard the information, gaining a handful of customers may be enough for a positive return on the advertising campaign investment.

8 Advertise Using Event Sponsorship and Appearances
To advertise a product, business or service through event sponsorship can take several shapes. The advertiser might get an acknowledgement in the event program, the advertiser might have an on-site location where the advertiser can give out sample product, or the advertiser’s company logo might appear on the event posters. To advertise using this method, an alternative for events that needs a hand-stamp for entry, the advertiser should provide the venue with a stamp that bears the advertiser’s company logo; the attendees will then have the advertiser’s logo close by for a day or two.

Eight Different Ways to Advertise A Product, Business And Service

Advertise simply means a way of bringing new customers to a business, product or service. The process is to advertise using an advertising method that suits the business, product or service, cost and target consumers, customers and audience. To Advertise the advertiser will have several options to choose from, as traditional media such as print materials and new social channels such as social networks both have their advantages.

1) Advertise Online Using Google AdWords

To advertise on websites, blogs and social media networks that gets heavy traffic is one way to get the word out about a business, product and service. To advertise on social networking sites such as Facebook have advertising campaigns and advertising managers that allow advertisers to advertise to specific demographics and niche. These adverts show up only next to profiles that meet the specifications of the business, product service and target market.

To advertise on the internet in general the advertiser will have plenty of options for advert placement. The best known service used to advertise is Google's AdWords, but hundreds of other companies can help to advertise ones adverts on suitable sites.


2) Advertise Using Facebook Social Media Marketing

To advertise through Facebook social media platform is an attractive marketing strategy for new businesses, products and services, because to advertise on Facebook social media consumes little or no monetary cost. To advertise using this process the advertiser will need to invest significant time in building a presence, and making the content engaging such that it would attract lots of followers. To advertise using the Facebook social media marketing strategy the advertiser will have to offer frequent premiums for followers of the advertisement, in the form of discounts, and giveaways, free gifts, to advertise this way can help a lot. To advertise a tangible product, the advertiser can also use verbal means by word of mouth by giving evaluation units to influential bloggers, and Facebook pages with a considerable amount of followers, for example the Facebook page Npower https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070134780663 has a total of 10,000 organic followers under the job niche, so to advertise a business, product or service such as job, or education would go well with this Facebook page.

3) Advertise Using Traditional Newspaper Advertisement
To advertise using traditional form of advertising, such as using the daily and weekly newspaper advertisement allows an advertiser to target a specific geographical area. To advertise using this advertisement method the advertiser should attach an incentive, such as a coupon, to the advert, this can help the advertiser to access the effectiveness of the advert. To advertise by buying an advert in a section relevant to the advertiser’s business, product or service, for instance, a recruiting firm advert in the job section, can also help the advertiser to reach target audience.

4) Advertise Using Targeted Radio Advertising
To advertise using targeted radio advertising such as a catchy jingle, skit and quick tag line an advertiser can improve a radio advert's effectiveness. To advertise using this method the advertiser must match the radio station the advertiser chooses with the advertiser’s target demography. If an advertiser wants to reach adults aged 40 to 70, an adult contemporary radio station is best.
If an advertiser wants to reach youths between 18 to 39 then an alternative or urban radio station is a good media to advertise.

5) Advertise Using Local or National Television Advertising
To advertise using local or national Television might consume time and effort, but this method can be effective if the advertiser advertise a product, business or service with a high price. A national TV advertisement can cost as low as ₦47,454,840.71 though this price can vary widely based on market trends. The advertiser can justify the difference in price if a Television advertisement can reach customers who would not respond to radio advertisement.

6) Advertise Using Public Speaking Events
To advertise effectively using this method, the product, business or service the advertiser wants to advertise must relate to the advertiser’s own expertise. To advertise using this method the advertiser should offer services to organizations that could gain from the advertiser’s workshops, seminars or lectures. To advertise using this method the advertiser should bring business cards and promotional materials to the event to encourage the audience to spread the word about the advertiser’s services, products or business.

7) Advertise Using Door Banners, Leaflets, Handbills And Flyers
To advertise using door banners, Leaflets and Flyers such as canvassing the community, placing flyers, leaflets and handbills in mailboxes or hanging banners on doorknobs, car wipers, pasting banners on windscreen of commercial vehicles and car door handles, is a good method to advertise your business, product or service to target a specific area and to ensure that the potential customers sees the advertiser’s information. Although most homeowners or vehicle owners will discard the information, gaining a handful of customers may be enough for a positive return on the advertising campaign investment.

8 Advertise Using Event Sponsorship and Appearances
To advertise a product, business or service through event sponsorship can take several shapes. The advertiser might get an acknowledgement in the event program, the advertiser might have an on-site location where the advertiser can give out sample product, or the advertiser’s company logo might appear on the event posters. To advertise using this method, an alternative for events that needs a hand-stamp for entry, the advertiser should provide the venue with a stamp that bears the advertiser’s company logo; the attendees will then have the advertiser’s logo close by for a day or two.

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RE ANAMBRA COMMUNITY DEMANDS TO SEE THEIR KIDNAPPED SON ALIVE

RE: HOW MAN WAS KIDNAPPED WHILE EATING NOODLES WITH A FRIEND.

My attention has been drawn to social media publications making the rounds where my family and I are carefully maligned and defamed through a craftly woven syllogism by one Izunna Okafor in a post made on August 17, 2023 across various online platforms and shared in various social media handles.

I use this opportunity to set the records straight.

My name is Mr. Ndubuisi Morah, the MD Fut-King Oil and Gas Filling Station one of which is situate at Otoko, Awkuzu in Oyi Local Government Area by Igbariam School Road. I am an investor and my interests span from oil and gas into real estate. I am a successful business man with verifiable sources of incomes and my entire Ukpo Community can attest to this. I have been in business for a long time without any blemish until this present blackmail which I defend thus.

Mr. Onyeka Nnakwue has been a friend and we got acquainted during my apprenticeship in Lagos. Our friendship lasted up until I left Lagos State to establish in Anambra State especially at Awkuzu.

It was at my Fut-King Oil and Gas Filling Station along Igbariam School Road that Onyeka ran into me one day and our friendship was reignited.

He was now based in Anambra State and even though he introduced himself to me as a very successful business man, I have never been able to pinpoint which area of business he now specializes in. He is still unmarried at over 45 years of age and he often blamed this on his poor economic standing.

Most times, he relies on me for his upkeep while making promises that he cannot fulfill. Once in a while, I have to fuel his car and even provide for his daily meals. For me, friendship is about sacrifices and sharing of each other's burdens.

I have never been perturbed by this overdependence; after all, it will be uncharitable for me to claim that there is no way I benefit from his companionship and acquaintance.

Yes. We have often shared moments of camaraderie but on that fateful day of June 29th, 2023, I never invited him to share "a jollof noodles meal" with me as speculated in the malicious trending stories. He came on his own as usual but this time, it was to collect some electrical items kept with me for safe keeping.

Two days before we were Kidnapped, exactly on the 29th day of June, 2023, my friend, Onyeka had arrived my Petrol Station with some electrical appliances for safe keeping. He complained that he had a vehicle breakdown and his mechanics could not fix the vehicle instantly. But on that fateful day, he arrived with the same vehicle to pick up those items.

I did not make any calls to him neither did I in any correspondence or format extend any invitation to him within that time frame to come and join me in my jallof indomie as the petitioners alleged. This is 21st century and these claims are easily verifiable using modern ICT methodologies to check my call logs on MTN.

We were already exchanging pleasantries when the men of the underworld struck. We were both whisked away and bundled into their vehicle booth.

At their detention camp, we initially were kept together but got separated after a few days. I was blindfolded most of the time and tortured without mercy.

The kidnappers requested a Ransome of =N=100 Million Naira initially and demanded to know how they would get the money or they would kill me. May I at this point remind them that they did not take us with our phones. I told them that my younger brother, Mr. Nonso can be contacted to raise whatever demand they make.

I was aware that they were in constant negotiations with my younger brother. I am also aware that their negotiations dropped from initial One Hundred Million Naira (=N=100,000,000.00) to Fifteen Million Naira (=N=15,000,000.00).

I was later to discover that my brother mistakenly believed that the negotiations were for both of us, my friend, Mr. Onyeka Nnakwue and I.

I was so traumatized during my captivity that at anytime I was given opportunity, I only focused on what they wanted me to do.

My brother paid the =N=15,000,000 ransom on the 8th day of July, 2023 in Bitcoin with the following particulars:

*TZ3Js5cMmswG2Rb46JsZi1q6RSrTkCKvhT*

*The network is Trc20*

I was released from captivity on the 14th day of July, 2023; that was six days after payment of the N15,000,000 ransom.

I wondered how a yet to be identified man can claim to have sighted me within that time frame that I was under captive as bogusly claimed by my friends relatives in their online narratives.

Part of the correspondences between my brother and those kidnappers are not hidden. My friend's family can deploy technology and collaborate with our GSM providers for our call logs and contact tracing and tracking and stop the unwarranted blackmail on my person and that of my younger brother - Nonso Morah as well.

My call logs and correspondences as well as the transactions made with my handset within the period of my captivity should be within MTN's domain. As such, both my Network Providers and that of their brother's network will clear some of their suspicion since both phones were collected from my Filling Station by my younger brother; who equally informed me that he was making correspondences with both phones. He informed me that it was my manager who relayed our kidnap incidence to him.

My brother equally informed me that one of the persons he interacted during fund raising was
Rev. Arinze Nnakwue, my friend's relative but he bluntly told him that their family cannot raise any money and that he was personally been owed arrears of two months by his church. My brother never interacted with him again over same issue neither did he or any member of my friends relative contact my brother until after my release.

I wondered how the petitioners will misconstrue such gruesome experience to mean "childish stage-managed kidnap."

The position of the petitioners is an attempt to subject me into another round of psychological trauma and it is both regrettable, saddening and unbearable to me. I have had enough torture and trauma. My harrowing experience is not something anybody can wish even his worst enemy.

For emphasis.

I was kidnapped together with my friend who visited me. We were taken to the kidnappers camp and later separated. I was physically assaulted most of the time. When I told the kidnappers that my brother runs a Bet9ja Shop, they assaulted me more claiming that I was not sincere with them. They told me that Onyeka had already informed them that my brother, Nonso was equally into Oil and Gas business like myself.

I, told them it was a misunderstanding, that my brother operates a Manual Cooking Gas Refilling business and that he ventured into the business new through my empowerment.

Meanwhile, my ransom was raised from family members and close associates through my brother Nonso.

On my release, I was on blindfold when some items were placed on my palms by my abductors who ordered me to put them in my pockets. I was later to discover that those were my friend's items.

On my release, I was dropped at the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway some kilometers away from Ukpo junction. I found my way to the construction site in that Junction area where I rested for a while before making it home.

Few days after my release, I was whisked away again together with my younger brother by men of the Special Anti-Kidnap Squad, Awkuzu on trumped up allegations from my friend's family claiming that I had kidnapped their brother and my friend. The experience that my brother and I had there at Anti Kidnap Squad, Awkuzu is better imagined, it was horrible, life threatening and dehumanizing.

At the end of these ordeals, we were later released with apologies. But the scars of the torturous experience we had are still visible on our bodies.

It is disheartening that relatives will not rally for their loved one in the kind of debilitating situation that we found ourselves. We all know that kidnapping is usually for ransom and one of the victims saving grace was ones ability to settle his captives.

I make bold to inform the general public that my friend, Onyeka cannot be kidnapped by anybody who knows him. In fact, he has no kidnapping value. Consequently by my own assessment, it was a coincidence that resulted in the abduction of both of us leading to gruesome experience that we shared.

I sincerely do not know the whereabout of my friend currently and there is no way I can get in touch with our abductors. One would have expected that the monies wasted in witch-hunting and scapegoating my brother and I should be better deployed into tracking, tracing and further investigations.

I am pained that my friend is not yet released. I sympathize with the family and I am willing to collaborate with them in any meaningful measures that will lead to the successful discovery and safe release and or arrival of their brother who is also a friend.

For now, I am both traumatized, devastated and broken. And I need rest not further trauma.

My final wish is for my friend to gain freedom the same way I gained mine. I pray for his release or his whereabouts discovered.

I join my friend's family in praying the police for a discreet and thorough investigation into all these happenstances in order to unravel the mysteries behind our kidnap and indeed all kidnappings for ransom in this state. I equally place our help in the hands of the almighty God who is the author and finisher of our life.

Amen!

RE ANAMBRA COMMUNITY DEMANDS TO SEE THEIR KIDNAPPED SON ALIVE

RE: HOW MAN WAS KIDNAPPED WHILE EATING NOODLES WITH A FRIEND.

My attention has been drawn to social media publications making the rounds where my family and I are carefully maligned and defamed through a craftly woven syllogism by one Izunna Okafor in a post made on August 17, 2023 across various online platforms and shared in various social media handles.

I use this opportunity to set the records straight.

My name is Mr. Ndubuisi Morah, the MD Fut-King Oil and Gas Filling Station one of which is situate at Otoko, Awkuzu in Oyi Local Government Area by Igbariam School Road. I am an investor and my interests span from oil and gas into real estate. I am a successful business man with verifiable sources of incomes and my entire Ukpo Community can attest to this. I have been in business for a long time without any blemish until this present blackmail which I defend thus.

Mr. Onyeka Nnakwue has been a friend and we got acquainted during my apprenticeship in Lagos. Our friendship lasted up until I left Lagos State to establish in Anambra State especially at Awkuzu.

It was at my Fut-King Oil and Gas Filling Station along Igbariam School Road that Onyeka ran into me one day and our friendship was reignited.

He was now based in Anambra State and even though he introduced himself to me as a very successful business man, I have never been able to pinpoint which area of business he now specializes in. He is still unmarried at over 45 years of age and he often blamed this on his poor economic standing.

Most times, he relies on me for his upkeep while making promises that he cannot fulfill. Once in a while, I have to fuel his car and even provide for his daily meals. For me, friendship is about sacrifices and sharing of each other's burdens.

I have never been perturbed by this overdependence; after all, it will be uncharitable for me to claim that there is no way I benefit from his companionship and acquaintance.

Yes. We have often shared moments of camaraderie but on that fateful day of June 29th, 2023, I never invited him to share "a jollof noodles meal" with me as speculated in the malicious trending stories. He came on his own as usual but this time, it was to collect some electrical items kept with me for safe keeping.

Two days before we were Kidnapped, exactly on the 29th day of June, 2023, my friend, Onyeka had arrived my Petrol Station with some electrical appliances for safe keeping. He complained that he had a vehicle breakdown and his mechanics could not fix the vehicle instantly. But on that fateful day, he arrived with the same vehicle to pick up those items.

I did not make any calls to him neither did I in any correspondence or format extend any invitation to him within that time frame to come and join me in my jallof indomie as the petitioners alleged. This is 21st century and these claims are easily verifiable using modern ICT methodologies to check my call logs on MTN.

We were already exchanging pleasantries when the men of the underworld struck. We were both whisked away and bundled into their vehicle booth.

At their detention camp, we initially were kept together but got separated after a few days. I was blindfolded most of the time and tortured without mercy.

The kidnappers requested a Ransome of =N=100 Million Naira initially and demanded to know how they would get the money or they would kill me. May I at this point remind them that they did not take us with our phones. I told them that my younger brother, Mr. Nonso can be contacted to raise whatever demand they make.

I was aware that they were in constant negotiations with my younger brother. I am also aware that their negotiations dropped from initial One Hundred Million Naira (=N=100,000,000.00) to Fifteen Million Naira (=N=15,000,000.00).

I was later to discover that my brother mistakenly believed that the negotiations were for both of us, my friend, Mr. Onyeka Nnakwue and I.

I was so traumatized during my captivity that at anytime I was given opportunity, I only focused on what they wanted me to do.

My brother paid the =N=15,000,000 ransom on the 8th day of July, 2023 in Bitcoin with the following particulars:

*TZ3Js5cMmswG2Rb46JsZi1q6RSrTkCKvhT*

*The network is Trc20*

I was released from captivity on the 14th day of July, 2023; that was six days after payment of the N15,000,000 ransom.

I wondered how a yet to be identified man can claim to have sighted me within that time frame that I was under captive as bogusly claimed by my friends relatives in their online narratives.

Part of the correspondences between my brother and those kidnappers are not hidden. My friend's family can deploy technology and collaborate with our GSM providers for our call logs and contact tracing and tracking and stop the unwarranted blackmail on my person and that of my younger brother - Nonso Morah as well.

My call logs and correspondences as well as the transactions made with my handset within the period of my captivity should be within MTN's domain. As such, both my Network Providers and that of their brother's network will clear some of their suspicion since both phones were collected from my Filling Station by my younger brother; who equally informed me that he was making correspondences with both phones. He informed me that it was my manager who relayed our kidnap incidence to him.

My brother equally informed me that one of the persons he interacted during fund raising was
Rev. Arinze Nnakwue, my friend's relative but he bluntly told him that their family cannot raise any money and that he was personally been owed arrears of two months by his church. My brother never interacted with him again over same issue neither did he or any member of my friends relative contact my brother until after my release.

I wondered how the petitioners will misconstrue such gruesome experience to mean "childish stage-managed kidnap."

The position of the petitioners is an attempt to subject me into another round of psychological trauma and it is both regrettable, saddening and unbearable to me. I have had enough torture and trauma. My harrowing experience is not something anybody can wish even his worst enemy.

For emphasis.

I was kidnapped together with my friend who visited me. We were taken to the kidnappers camp and later separated. I was physically assaulted most of the time. When I told the kidnappers that my brother runs a Bet9ja Shop, they assaulted me more claiming that I was not sincere with them. They told me that Onyeka had already informed them that my brother, Nonso was equally into Oil and Gas business like myself.

I, told them it was a misunderstanding, that my brother operates a Manual Cooking Gas Refilling business and that he ventured into the business new through my empowerment.

Meanwhile, my ransom was raised from family members and close associates through my brother Nonso.

On my release, I was on blindfold when some items were placed on my palms by my abductors who ordered me to put them in my pockets. I was later to discover that those were my friend's items.

On my release, I was dropped at the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway some kilometers away from Ukpo junction. I found my way to the construction site in that Junction area where I rested for a while before making it home.

Few days after my release, I was whisked away again together with my younger brother by men of the Special Anti-Kidnap Squad, Awkuzu on trumped up allegations from my friend's family claiming that I had kidnapped their brother and my friend. The experience that my brother and I had there at Anti Kidnap Squad, Awkuzu is better imagined, it was horrible, life threatening and dehumanizing.

At the end of these ordeals, we were later released with apologies. But the scars of the torturous experience we had are still visible on our bodies.

It is disheartening that relatives will not rally for their loved one in the kind of debilitating situation that we found ourselves. We all know that kidnapping is usually for ransom and one of the victims saving grace was ones ability to settle his captives.

I make bold to inform the general public that my friend, Onyeka cannot be kidnapped by anybody who knows him. In fact, he has no kidnapping value. Consequently by my own assessment, it was a coincidence that resulted in the abduction of both of us leading to gruesome experience that we shared.

I sincerely do not know the whereabout of my friend currently and there is no way I can get in touch with our abductors. One would have expected that the monies wasted in witch-hunting and scapegoating my brother and I should be better deployed into tracking, tracing and further investigations.

I am pained that my friend is not yet released. I sympathize with the family and I am willing to collaborate with them in any meaningful measures that will lead to the successful discovery and safe release and or arrival of their brother who is also a friend.

For now, I am both traumatized, devastated and broken. And I need rest not further trauma.

My final wish is for my friend to gain freedom the same way I gained mine. I pray for his release or his whereabouts discovered.

I join my friend's family in praying the police for a discreet and thorough investigation into all these happenstances in order to unravel the mysteries behind our kidnap and indeed all kidnappings for ransom in this state. I equally place our help in the hands of the almighty God who is the author and finisher of our life.

Amen!

Joshua Fred a junior secondary school student of Mater Dei Heights College, Satellite Town, Amuwo Odofin Lagos state has emerged the winner of The Lagos State Boy ChIld Initiative under the Robotics Category. Fred Joshua developed a program that can be used to develop an electronic calculator.