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Online merchants have come to know that the best way to market their business is by way of e-zine advertising.  Contrary to what some may believe, however, life is never as simple as all that, and the act of placing an ad in an e-zine doesn’t guarantee that customers will be motivated to visit your website.  If the ads aren’t effective, it’s nothing more than a waste of time, effort and money.  In order to run a successful e-zine ad, it’s best to test them out quite thoroughly first.  This is the philosophy that savvy entrepreneurs have adopted in the past – which is what has made them so successful, in the first place.

Perhaps the greatest benefit of advertising in e-zines is the ability to target specific groups, which would be more likely to generate the amount of business that a company would enjoy.  For instance, if a company that offered beauty products were to advertise in a children’s magazine, that wouldn’t target the biggest audience for the type of merchandise being offered.  Advertising those same products in a magazine that targets women provides the company with a much greater chance of selling a higher volume of products.  This would also be true for a company that was interested in selling toys – they wouldn’t capture the greatest audience in a sporting magazine, but would do quite well by advertising in one that directly targeted children.

In order to determine the best methods of testing for your e-zine ads, you’re going to need a set of guidelines that will produce results which translate into more money for your company.  There are a lot of types of testing and analysis that can be done today, but if you’d rather run your own testing without the burden of overspending, consider the following suggestions.

• When advertising any product, the most effect means of running a successful ad is to think of it from the perspective of your target audience.  Instead of including information regarding benefits that your company might receive, you’ll need to fill the ad with the types of things that would most appeal to the consumer.  Show them how it will benefit them to purchase the product that you’re offering.  Be sure to focus on the specific target group, and jot down whatever comes to mind before committing to anything specific for your ad.
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• Using that same set of benefits and advantages, create a dozen headlines that you feel would be appropriate to make your e-zine ad capture the consumers’ attention.  If, for instance, you’re offering hand-made wool sweaters for dogs that are customized to include the colors and designs that are specifically requested by the consumer, bring that out in your headline.  One example might be, “Customized Fashions for Your Pet,” or, “One-of-a-Kind Originals for Fido”.
• Never write an ad and simply submit it for publication in an e-zine.  More than one version should be written – from different angles and focusing on different benefits – before it’s determined which is the best for capturing the attention of the target audience.  Keep in mind that the intention is for consumers to click onto the links that will direct traffic to your website, and that won’t happen if they’re not given the proper motivation to do so.
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• Tracking links are a very good way to determine which ads – and which e-zines – are more successful.  With a few carefully placed links to your sales letter, you should be able to get a good grasp for which ones are doing the job, versus the ones that are rather ineffectual.   Otherwise, you could well be wasting your time and resources by peppering the wrong types of e-zines with ads that don’t produce results.  Of the tracking services that are currently available, www.linkcounter.com and www.hyperlinktracker.com are two that are not only highly effective at tracking such information, but are also free of charge.
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• Once you’ve determined which headline is best, be sure to use it for all of your e-zine ads, and send it for publication in at least a dozen of them.  It’s best not to publish in e-zines that charge a fee for such services, and there are quite a few that offer the placement of ads without charge.  By targeting the free ones, you’ll save yourself a great deal of money and be able to reach the largest audience possible if you place the ad in a variety of e-zines.  Remember that you’re best chance of reaching the widest audience is by targeting e-zines that have at least 1,000 subscribers.
• Next, send the same text – but use different headlines – to the e-zines that seem to enjoy the most popularity.  These will be the ones that typically receive the most clicks from visitors.  By placing approximately a dozen ads (with twelve different headlines), you’ll probably reach an even wider audience, since different approaches appeal to different types of consumers.
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• Only after this type of testing has been done should you submit your ads to e-zines that require payment for advertising space.  By this time, however, you’ll have a very good idea of which ads have been the most successful, so you can order solos or ads that are reserved for top sponsors with the confidence that you’ll ultimately receive a higher return on your investment.  These ads should be placed in e-zines that have at least 10,000 subscribers.  If, after you place your ads, you discover that you’re getting a lot of clicks but not many sales, simply change the text of the ad.  The headlines are working well enough to capture the consumers’ attention, but something within the content of the body isn’t doing the trick.  Be sure to make any necessary price adjustments, as well.  If you’re either overcharging or undercharging, potential sales will be lost.
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While these testing techniques can be fruitful in the long run, don’t be fooled into thinking that they’re either guaranteed or that they don’t require a lot of work in order to realize an eventual sales increase.  For those who prefer to leave this type of work to the professionals, there are some excellent marketing firms out there which can create, test, publish and track for you, without the burden of high fees for such services.