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The Advertising & Communication Effectiveness Program For The Publishing Industry

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Why advertise in your magazine?

Does advertising in your magazine really work?

Now, Leonard Kirsch Research provides you and your staff with powerful documentation that advertising in your publication works.

Advertising & Communication Effectiveness (ACE) programs are custom designed to evaluate the performance of printed communications.  ACE programs may be conducted by mail, telephone or personal interview.

Each study contains basic demographic questions and identifies the reader's purchase responsibilities by product category.  This allows the publication to measure advertising performance among the prime prospects-the purchase decision makers.

The following questions are typically asked for each advertisement studied:

Whether or not advertiser has made sales call in past 60 days

Whether or not the advertisement attracted the reader's attention

Whether or not reader began to read, or read half or more of the advertisement

Purchase actions taken

Norms are developed for each issue by type of advertisement (color, black & white, partial page, full page, multi page, and position in magazine) and product category.  Results are tabulated in total and among purchase decision makers for each advertisement.

Editorial elements are evaluated by their ability to attract and hold reader's interest (attracted attention, began to read, read half or more).

Services included in the typical ACE program when a mail methodology is used:

Leonard Kirsch Research's assistance in developing the program, sample and questionnaire

Typesetting and printing of cover letter, questionnaire and postcard reminder

Mailing of survey with a one dollar incentive and follow-up postcard reminder five days later

All postage

All data processing

Two copies of each advertiser's confidential report

Two copies of the publisher's report which shows all results

Working meeting to discuss the study's results and to assist the publication's staff in the proper interpretation and presentation of the study results to the advertisers

 

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