In these days of vast Internet use, people generally have the intention to attach everything of their daily life to the Internet. So the concept of promotion and marketing are also get co-related with each other. Lets discuss a little about the Internet marketing.
Internet marketing, some times referred to as the e-marketing or the online marketing, is the marketing strategy for the services or the products applied through the use of Internet. Due to the low-cost and the global nature of the Internet, the Internet Marketing concept is gaining some rapid popularity. The other cause of the popularity of this concept is the interactive nature of the Internet. Internet marketing is a procedure of mounting and promoting a group using the online medium. Factually, Internet Marketing doesn't always mean to the website. The scope of the Internet marketing is beyond the website building or operating through the website. Internet marketing strategies include each and every aspect of online advertising services, products, and positively the websites that include the email marketing, market research, and the direct sales strategies.
Here are several types of Internet Marketing. Let us discuss a little about them.
Search Engine Marketing: SEM or search engine marketing is a special type of Internet Marketing, which looks for to endorse the websites by mounting their appearance in the pages of Search Engine Results. This type of Internet Marketing could be divided into several categories such as paid placement, search engine optimization, and paid inclusion.
E-Mail Marketing: E-mail marketing is a special form of direct Internet marketing that uses the electronic mails as the component of interacting commercial or fund-lifting messages to a target audience.
Blog Marketing: When the Internet Marketing is done through the uses of the web-blogs, then that type of online marketing is called the Blog Marketing. Don't mix up the blogs with the general corporate websites. Generally, a single marketing topic comes through the blog at once.
Viral Marketing: Viral marketing is the marketing technique, which uses the already existing social networks to create the brand awareness, through spreading the computer viruses. Now, this method is not always good, since the viruses could hamper the computer of a customer. So it could create bad reputation for the marketing product.
Interactive Marketing: This is another way of Internet Marketing by the one-on-one interaction between the product manufacturer and the customer through Internet.
Advantages:
(1) The main advantage of the Internet Marketing is the one-on-one interaction between the manufacturer and the customer. The mails or the messages are sent to the customers in bulk but when the customers are opening the mailboxes, they are getting the mail addressed directly to them
(2) Among the other advantages of Internet Marketing you could include the demographics targeting by the online marketers, measurability, customer response and the immediate results.
Disadvantages:
If people are not aware of the latest technologies this Internet Marketing strategies could go in vein. On other hand, customers could have the lack of experience on feeling the product.
Bottom Line:
Though these Internet Marketing strategies have some drawbacks, it is expected that the Internet Marketing will be more popular in near future.
