Agencies can make an impression with your budget

As 2013 is coming to an end marketers and business owners are making plans for next year, particularly on their advertising and marketing budget and which agency can provide independent and ultimately the most effective advice on how to spend that budget.

Previously, an effective marketing campaign would use two or three media channels. Today, this has jumped to an average of seven channels such as print, tv, outdoor, radio, PR and a smorgasbord of digital options. Media agencies can determine the right mix of these channels to both suit your brand and your budget.

The main kinds of media to get a company’s message across include the following:

• Paid (once the traditional) – tv, radio, print.

• Owned – the brand’s own website, Facebook, twitter, blog etc.

• Earned – word of mouth, PR.

In 2013 the fastest growing media is owned; Facebook, Twitter, blog etc. Although all of these channels are free, they cost money to set up, maintain and to create worthy content.

So what is the right combination you ask? First you must ask what are you trying to solve, and second, if consumer does ‘x’ now, what do you want them to do in the future?

Only by identifying these questions can you decide how to split your budget amongst the appropriate channels.

Agencies like Sunny Media speciliase in determining the most effective media channel mix. We have on our team specialists in the fields of media, digital and PR to strategically plan your split between paid, owned and earned media.

With the full suite of specialist communications disciplines to tap into, an agency can provide you as a marketer or business owner the benefits of our expertise to ultimately create brand awareness and sales for your business.

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