Monday, February 16, 2009

Key steps to successful infomercials

Infomercial production is crucial to having a successful DRTV campaign. The image you portray to your viewer will make or break their impression on the product. The production process includes some of the following steps. It is important to research, but also to pay close attention to this process:

1) Research your products target market. Get to know your customer and how they will use your product to benefit their lives.

2) Write a script to capture their attention.

3) Create an understandable and clear demonstration. You need to be thorough in how your product works and how simple it is for the end user.

4) Cast characters in your infomercial who are relevant and relate-able. If the audience does not understand the character, they can not picture themselves using it.

5) Testing your commercial: Once the production is done, use a focus group of people to critique and (hopefully) compliment the things you have done correctly and what you have missed the mark on.

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