How To Create Your Own Radio Ad

Marketing Deviant: Making a radio advertisement is a good way to target consumers into buying your products or services. In this short article, I’ll show you how to make your very own radio advertisement for little to no cost. You can use a voice recorder to record your ad, but I advise using a computer or laptop with a microphone so you can record your ad and mix in music much easier and faster to create a radio ad.
To record from your computer, you can download some free voice recording programs from Download.com or use the “sound recorder” provided from your Operating System. It should be located inside the “accessories” folder in “program files” (Windows Vista). Most radio ads run for 15, 30 or 60 seconds. In your radio ad you could explain what products or services you offer with the name of your company, website, location, and phone number. If you are selling a very high advance product then you would need to explain the functions and the reason why it is beneficial to buy it from your ad.
Next you would need music to make your radio ad more appealing. There are free programs to combine your recording and music file together. Using download.com again, type in keyword “music mix” and use the “freeware filter box” and choose the programs you want to use (Window Vista users may have a hard time finding free music mix programs). The music you use for your ad cannot be “louder” than your message or your advertisement would be ineffective. If you use music for your ad, you must ask for permission from the music artist (expect to pay a royalty fee) who created it unless you created it! However, there’s a site that gives insight on public domain music which can be used without paying royalties.
Once you are done with your ad, you just saved from a few hundred to a thousand dollars just by creating the ad yourself.
How to Create a Radio Ad [Marketing Deviant]