What is Internet Marketing?
Posted on 02.20.08 11:35AM under Blogging, Internet Marketing
Even before I took the free online training course offered by WebCEO, I already have my own understanding of what Internet Marketing is. For me, Internet Marketing is basically promoting your products and services with the use of the Internet. I was right with that but I did not know anything more about Internet Marketing until I delve more into its core. From the online training, I learned that for you to make use of the Internet as an advertising platform in promoting your goods and services, you can use the different marketing strategies which are widely used by site owners such as Email Marketing, Banner and Text Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Interactive Advertising, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) which includes Search Engine Optimization and Pay-Per-Click Advertising and Social Media Marketing Methods consisting of Blog Marketing and Viral Marketing.
The growth of Internet Marketing is very fast considering the benefits that it offers such as making huge amounts of information accessible to consumers at a low cost. Many companies that apply Internet Marketing can cut cost in their sales force and thus save money. Website owners will also have a bigger chance of reaching their target markets as they can easily distribute information not only to local prospects but also to their national or international audience.
When a person browses the Internet and searches for something he needs, he will type in certain keywords related to what he is looking for. In this way, the website which has those targeted keywords will definitely draw in some prospects which may eventually become buyers. As you can see, this only shows that through Internet Marketing, you can get immediate results. Online marketing initiatives usually make the user click a certain button or message which leads to a website and allows the user to perform a targeted action, whereby the outcomes of this whole process are measurable and traceable.
There are also limitations for this type of advertising strategy. Since Internet Marketing relies solely on the Internet as its marketing medium, there are still many people who are unable to access these valuable information due to poor internet connection especially when big companies integrate high-end or complicated web pages in their websites thus making it almost impossible for customers using dial-up connections or mobile services in downloading several files. When consumers also make purchases online, they are unable to exercise their other senses such as touch, taste, smell or even try on tangible products.
Aside from the limitations, there are also some security issues involved. Before a customer can buy something, he needs to provide his personal information. Many consumers are hesitant to provide these information because they fear that merchants will share their information to other people. As a result, merchants integrate security measures to protect their consumers’ identity such as using security encryption in every transaction. Another issue is how reliable the online store is in sending the item that was actually purchased online. Site owners address this concern by using reliable and trustworthy e-commerce bonding solutions.
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