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No matter what your business or who you are marketing, direct response radio advertising essentially works the same.
Whether you have a direct-to-consumer business, a retail business, an online business, or a combination of those, direct response radio ads can be an effective way for you to reach your target audience and to get a good return on investment for your marketing spend.
Before you jump into direct response radio ads, let’s explore what these are and the fundamentals of how they work.
The name “direct response advertising” is perhaps self-explanatory. If you are wondering “what is direct response marketing,” direct response means that the consumer responds directly to the ad that they listen to.
By having consumers respond directly to an ad, marketers can better measure the effectiveness of the ad and may further tweak it; including making changes to the ad itself as well as the placement of the ad.
If this form of advertising was not measurable, it would be called “awareness” or “branding” advertising, as those are less measurable and more about just raising the awareness of a brand.
While you can still do polls to determine whether awareness is rising as a result of a given “awareness” campaign, that is not as easy to measure as people directly contacting you due to listening to your radio ad.
A major benefit to direct response radio advertising, and a big factor in why it still thrives, is that you can measure your results and change things until you are happy with your ROI.
The basic direct-response strategies are to buy placement in radio media and create your ad, then to air your ad; broadcasting your message to an audience.
The cost per reaching your audience is measured as CPM, or cost per thousand impressions.
Some of those people will respond to your ad, giving you a response rate.
From the people that respond to your direct response radio ad, some of them will place an order.
You then can determine your CPO (cost per order) or CPA (cost per acquisition of a new customer) based on how many people heard your ad and how many placed orders.
Once you have data on the effectiveness of your campaign, you can tweak things to make it even better.
There are a few things you can do to make your direct response radio marketing campaign even more cost effective in the long run.
Once you have a customer, be sure to do what you can to retain that customer, keep them coming back for repeat, and even have them refer others. By doing so, you increase how much you earn, while the cost for originally acquiring that customer remains the same, improving your ROI for your direct response radio advertising campaign.
Some ways to increase LTV and keep customers coming back include:
Similar to how there are ways to improve the lifetime value of each customer, you can also work to improve your cost per order or cost per acquisition with direct response radio ads.
Some strategies to do so include:
Work With Hybrid Media
Now that you know a little bit more about direct response radio advertising, you may be ready to start planning your own campaign. For professional help getting your radio advertisement heard by your target audience, work with the team at Hybrid Media. We help our clients place their radio ads so that they reach their audience and get the best ROI. Contact us for a free consultation today!
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