Thursday, April 19, 2012

Internet Marketing

The marketing which is done through internet or web or online is called as Internet Marketing. The dictionary meaning of marketing is, theory and practice of commercial selling. It is the division of a company which markets its products. Internet marketing refers to advertising of goods via web and email to drive direct sales through ecommerce as well as sales leads from website or emails. Internet marketing can be categorized into the following specialized areas such as web marketing, email marketing, social media marketing, affiliate marketing, display advertisements on your blog/website, search engine optimization (SEO), referral marketing, blog marketing, article marketing, banner advertising, online press releases.

  ü  Web marketing includes affiliate marketing, promotional websites, online advertising through search engines, ecommerce, and organic search engine result through SEO.
v  Affiliate marketing: It is a process of marketing of products or services by rewarding one or more affiliates (that is you) for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s own effort.

  ü  Email marketing: It is a method of marketing through a commercial message to a specific group of people using electronic mail (email). It involves both advertising and promotional marketing efforts via email messages to all the customers.

  ü  Social media marketing: It is a process of gaining traffic or attention through social media websites such as Facebook, twitter, Youtube, Digg and LinkedIn. It involves both advertising and promotional marketing efforts via the social networking websites.

  ü  Blog marketing: It is a method of posting comments and expressing opinions on other’s blog to announce the marketing strategy to get the desired outcome of internet marketing. You can do forum posting, do-follow posting, linking your blog to others.

  ü  Article marketing: It involves writing article related to your business or products. It is one of the vital way of promoting your goods or services to a new customer. It has a tendency of republishing around the internet to a wide audience.

   ü  Referral marketing: It is a method of promoting the services or products to new customers through referrals.

   ü  Search engine optimization: It is a process of improving the visibility of your website or blog or any web pages in search engine via the natural or unpaid search result.

   ü  Banner advertising: It is a marketing idea which involves placing the web banner or banner ads on a third-party website or blog to drive traffic to a company`s own website and increase product awareness. The offline equivalent of this form of online marketing would be traditional ads in newspapers or magazines or radio or television. But in this modern age, internet marketing is the best way of selling products or services to the maximum number of customer.

  ü  Online press releases: It involves placing a newsworthy story about a company, its website, its people, and/or its products/services with on online wire service. Thank you.

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