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- Hypertext for Advertising <sum05 1 5>
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- Why hypertext? Good hypertext makes ideas in information intuitively
- ============= obvious to others. This is accomplished if:
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- │ 1) Ideas are indexed, not words <link30> │
- │ 2) Users find ideas with minimum effort <link04> │
- │ 3) Users see relationships between all ideas <link57> │
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- Assuming you have the skills to do this, how should you
- apply your talents?
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- Selling expensive If you sell very expensive equipment or complex
- goods & services services, potential customers face a difficult task of
- ================ understanding the when, why, what, and how of your goods
- or services. As a consequence, many customers postpone
- or bypass purchase decisions that are potentially
- beneficial to them. Critical thinking about your
- services just may require too much effort.
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- The solution? Put all the reasons, questions, regulations, costs, and
- ============= uses for your products/services in hypertext format, then
- loan computers to your customers. (more)
- The benefit? Hypertext helps customers quickly find whatever decision-
- ============ making information they want (as well as purchase
- reasons they never imagined). Often, the tying of your
- hypertext efforts to just one sale of a complex
- product/service more than offsets the cost of creating
- such a system.
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- Increased In measured tests, information presented in hypertext
- retention formats produced higher comprehension and better
- ========= retention than when presented in the traditional
- classroom lecture environment. <link17>
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- If this is true, hypertext could outsell many of your
- existing salesmen, particularly if your business uses
- cold-calls to acquire customers.
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- Does it work? You bet! I use hypertext ads to sell MaxThink, HOUDINI,
- ============ and HyperLink (all are complex software concepts).
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- Dynamic Good hypertext can be a dynamic advertisement which
- advertising anticipates and quickly answers every concern imagined
- ============ by your customers. Rather than intrude on customers,
- your hypertext system can provide a detailed customer-
- driven description about your services. <link44 2 1>