Monday 19 August 2013

What is Internet marketing and why we need it for our business

With the help of internet we can deliver all the information related to our product or services to the customer very easily. It’s called Internet Marketing or Online Advertising. It includes email marketing, social media marketing, display advertisement, pay per click campaigning, search engine marketing and mobile advertising.

These are some specialized areas where we can break down internet marketing such as:

Email Marketing- Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which affect direct to existing or potential customer. In this marketing a commercial message is send to a group of people and promotes our product through email.  Research says 43% of emails are likely to open in a mobile so we can say Email marketing is a very easy way to reach your potential customer.

Social Media Marketing- Social media is one of the best and inexpensive ways of marketing. Social media is very easiest available platform and anyone can access it very easily through internet and in today’s scenario many mobile phone companies provide the facility of social media on their cell phone. With the help of social media anyone can promote his business and anyone can express and share their opinion and ideas. It’s a platform where we can boom our business in very short time and get the customers interest and opinion on our business through likes or comments.

Search Engine Marketing- Search engine marketing is the process of gaining traffic and visibility of any web site in a search engine result page (SERP). SEM may be paid or unpaid, through SEO can earning traffic free or unpaid, that manages or optimize the web site content to achieve the higher ranking in search engines, and the pay per click is one of paid process of advertising for our website or its products on internet.

Display Advertising- Display advertising is an advertisement which includes logo, text, graphics, images/ animated images, location maps etc. It looks like a standard size banner ad included with images and logo, and you will see many websites. Display advertising is one of the very popular ways of getting profit online for your business, and you can trace your targeting audience through this campaign and measure clicks, visit and revenue of a website.

Inbound Marketing- Inbound marketing is marketing through content where we can make content and share it with the world. The component of the inbound marketing is- Blog, Video, white paper, EBooks, SEO and Social media marketing. We can define the inbound marketing through these phases as:

1) Attract customers & generate traffic
2) Convert visitors to leads
3) Convert leads to sales
4) Turn customers in to repeat higher margin sales
5) Analyze for continuous improvement.

Internet marketing is very crucial, important and convenient way to grow a business rapidly; we can provide all information related to our product, online which is very helpful for the customers to understand the products and services.