The greatest advantage of online advertising is that it focuses on a specific segment of a market. It’s like paying a sniper, but without the hassle of the outlay of the flack-jacket, the nifty cammo attire, zooty sunglasses and the seriously expensive gun license — never mind all the relevant training and dodgy bank accounts — but that’s another story…
Unlike shot-gun marketing that aims at a non-specific target, blasting in the general direction, hoping something will ‘hit’, sniper advertising creeps up on its target, lines it up in its crosshairs and evah so gently, pulls the trigger. That the fallen target normally stands up again, and remembers the brand that felled it in the first place and then typically comes back for more, is just plain weird…
