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Pay-per-click web advertising is the best investment an advertiser can make. In the eighteen months since MacDowell's halved its television advertising and doubled its web advertising, its sales have grown by nearly 30% and it has opened forty more stores to keep up with demand. This is just one example of the fact that television advertising is on its way out, and smart businesses will continue to up their investment in pay-per-click ads.


The argument claims that web advertising in the best investment an advertiser can make. It supports its claim by citing an example of MacDowell's whose sales grew by 30% in the months in which is halved its television advertising and doubled its web advertising. It could be, however, that the argument manipulates facts and presents a distorted view or that the example reveals a leap of faith. Thus, the argument is ill reasoned and has many flaws.

Firstly, the argument readily assumes that reducing television advertising and increasing web advertising has led to 30% increase in the sales of MacDowell's because of which it had to open forty more stores to keep up with the demand. But this could also be reasoned that the competitors of MacDowell's shut their businesses due to some reasons, because of which the demand for MaCdowell's business increased and therefore it had to open 40 more stores which led to the increase in 30% of their sales. Hence, it could be that some other factor led to the increase in demand for MacDowell's business and web advertising did not play a major role.

Secondly, the argument states that television advertising reduced by half but it fails to mention the quality of television advertising. It could very well be that the television advertising has improved in quality over the last eighteen months. For instance, although MacDowell did twenty television advertisements earlier but none of them created an impact on the customers or failed to pass the right message to the customer, then those 20 advertisements were futile - but now it does 10 advertisements but with more focus on the message and has improvised on the quality of the advertisement then it creates a bigger impact on the customers and help increase their sales. Therefore, one can very well argue that the quality of television advertisement has led to the increase in sales for Macdowell's.

Thirdly, the argument fails to mention the business MacDowell does. It could be that the television advertisement were outdated in MacDowell's business and introducing web advertising had become necessary. In this case, not all smart businesses should invest in pay per click web ads. Moreover, the argument just compared two types of advertising. The argument fails to mention other types of marketing which can help the businesses increase their sales. Without analysing all types of marketing, one cannot say that web advertising is the best one.

In conclusion, the argument is weak because of the above mention reasons. It should analyse the different type of businesses and the marketing techniques that helps each. It should also evaluate all possible reasons which led to the increase in sales of MacDowell's. Thus, without assessing the impact of web advertisement on other types of businesses and without analysing the demand for all types of marketing, one cannot conclude that web advertisements are the best investment an advertiser can make.