Things to Consider when Selecting Advertising Agencies

by - June 27, 2018


Things to Consider when Selecting Advertising Agencies

When we establish any business organization our ultimately goal would be to achieve the main objectives of an organization. They will ultimately target to sale their products or services and they are more aware on the marketing mix of 4Ps such as product, place, price and promotion. Among them promotion is one of the important element of market to known to the eyes of consumer and it is also important to promote the product more effectively so they can increase their customer and they trust over their products. Marketer see the advertising as a part of a promotion strategies therefore marketers should follow some method when selection of agency (William, Weigold, & Arens, 2013). Advertising agencies are independent business organization composed with creative and business people who develop and prepare and place advertising media for sellers to find the customer for their goods and services. Here are some few to be considered when selection of agencies and they are as follows.
  Selection of Agency
      There are various types of agency. Some can be full-service agency whereas other can be part- service agency. Each type of agency has different outlook and advertisement activities. The selection of agency depends on the marketer wants full service agency or part-time agency. Full service agency involves in complete advertising functions and has large number of expert employees. It looks upon the customers as key clients and communicates with prospective purchasers. Where part time agency is offers services on free of cost or project basis. They perform various outside activities and coordinate the activities.
·         Compatibility
      The selection of advertisement agency also depends upon the compatibility of the agency. As per the company requirement, the company hire the advertisement agency. For that they might visit various agencies in the search of its merits or demerits, services types. It is the method of handling the accounts and using the available opportunities.
·         Agency Team
      Under this, the marketer might select the advertisement agencies depend on the agency team. The Agency team includes management specialists, market researchers, copywriters, media and design experts, production managers and directors. As per the agency team’s experiences, thinking and attitude and their personalities have positive effect on the selection process.
·         Services
      Different advertisement agency provide various services and the services provided by the agency can evaluated with a view to chose the best advertisement agency. The services such as accounting, general agreements, project estimation, selling attitudes and other services perform by advertising agencies are considered in evaluation on their efficiency and credibility in performing.
·         Creativity
      Creativity is an important part of advertising. When the advertisement agency are capable to provide great effort on the creativity there will be more chance on the selection of such advertisement agency. Many business marketers don’t want to ignore such type of agencies and have willingness to work with such agencies.
·         Problem-solving Approach
      Advertisement agencies which have capability on problem solving approach can be more useful and superior for the selection of the agencies. When a business organization has problem with the promotion of any products they might search to such agency which have probability in solving the problems.
                 Some other method in selection on agencies can be years of experiences, location of advertising agencies, images, their past performances, attitude and approach, skill and experiences, Cost and recognition.
References
Selection of an advertising agencies (n,d) from www.drypen.in Retrieved from http://www.drypen.in/advertising/selection-of-an-advertising-agency.html
Moriarty, S., Mitchell, N. D., Wells, W. D., Crawford, R., Brennan, L., & Spence-Stone, R. (2014). Advertising: Principles and practice. Pearson Australia.
William, A., Weigold, M., & Arens, C. (14th- 2013).Contemporary Advertising.New York: McGraw-Hill. 

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