internet marketing strategies Question And Answer
what is the importance of marketing using internet?
give more information on the benefits of using internet and
the market strategy of using internet
Answers
As the internet is becoming such a used environment, people are using more often to find products and services. Although it is not vital to have a web presence, this does depend on the nature of your business.
If you have a small cake shop, a web presence is hardly going to make, or break your business, but could make more people in your area become aware of your shop. This does not mean that a web presence could do no benefit, in fact, if you were really ambitious, you could end up selling your cakes to people all around the country, it all depends on how far you want to go with your enterprise.
If your business can benefit from being exposed on a broader base, then an internet presence can be of very real benefit. The imporatnt thing to remember, is that by having a web site, does not automatically mean your business will suddenly be inundated with prospective clients. Your site needs to have visibility and that is another whole process altogether.
Think of it as building a hotel. You build this wonderful place and then wonder why nobody stays there. Well if no one knows about it, no one will come there. You need to advertise it and put up signs. On the internet, the "putting up of signs" is similar to finding you site/pages in the search engines. This means that your site needs to have some work done on it, to make is "search engine friendly". You can do this yourself, or you can hire an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company.
But beware of those companies that promise you the world, take your money and give you no results.
As a good starting point, do a search on any of the search engines for similar business models to the one you have/propose. Use search terms that would answer the kind of question your business would be in a position to answer.
Look at the results and see how many other businesses have a web presence and how they go about listing their services, or describing their business.
When you are connected to the Internet, and build a website you are connecting to the whole world and you have the ability to show your product/service to the whole world, there in no such media like the internet. The exposure that you can get is unrealistic. Athor positives are that you dont have to deal with people, you can sit in teh confortof your hom and earn money. You can take this business on teh go with a laptop, you dont need an office, you can take up vacation and do your work, while enjoying a sun bath. Oh yes. And there is flexibility of work. You choose your time and you are your own boss. If you dont feel like working today then thats ok. You can choose your own time. Hows that. Is there any other business marketing area which has all these features?
Spencer Jones
http://www.onlineincomestartup.com
The purpose of marketing is to have better profit management for your enterprise. You may achieve this by higher sales and/or sale at higher price or by reducing cost. Once you understand this you can use Internet to your advantage by getting more suppliers at lower cost, higher sales in increasing market size or finding more customers willing to pay higher price.
http://www.webpageblueprint.com/web-marketing.php is a good page that talks about this:
Benefits of Online Marketing vs. Traditional Marketing
1. You can easily quantify the value of the traffic and the return-on-investment of your marketing dollars. One of the hardest things about marketing is that many times you can't tell what the financial benefit of your marketing was so you don't know if your marketing is making you money or costing you money. With traffic tracking systems, custom landing pages, and other techniques you can run a much more efficient operation.
2. You can more easily test market strategies by starting with a small budget of $5 to $50. In the offline marketing world you'll see many examples of people who tried to advertise through newspaper ads by spending $1,500 then complained that it was wasted.
3. The greatest thing about online marketing is that it is cheap to scale. For exameple, take SEO. Once you are done with your site - including optimizing your pages - then you are all set. When your site grows, your SEO efforts will be leveraged to your advantage and your traffic will grow with very little extra SEO effort.
Web marketing is very important nowadays, especially that we are entering into the age where more and more people are now logging on to their computers.
Just see the success of ebay. More people opt to shop online. And because of this, you have to also market your product online because the "market" tells us so.
Mary
http://gbwatch.com/
