What Is Online Marketing?

Marketing and advertising online today is entirely different from the past when the transition from traditional marketing to online marketing was still relatively new. Traditional marketing is focused solely on trying to attract attention with flyers, newspaper ads, newspaper/magazine sponsorship of telemarketers, or a show on the local station. The problem with these is that they cost large sums of money to get started. They require a large investment to get started and are "out of business" once the campaign is over. Online marketing is a much smaller investment and yet one that can give more long term benefits, as well as faster results.

What is Online Marketing?

Online marketing is marketing a brand on the internet and involves a much larger investment than offline marketing because there are many different components involved. For example, a newspaper advert costs around $300.00 per week to run in the national paper. Generally you are allowed a 95% rate of return and so you get a $5,000,000,000 (instead of $1,000,000,000) return on your advertising investment. However, with an online advert, you can get up to a 1% rate of success. An example of this is your text in an email. A 2005 study was done by Permission Research and it found 81% of the respondents said they would click on links in emails. These are facts and are not my opinion pieces. In conclusion to this, if people still don’t and don’t read magazines, newspapers, or newspapers, and they still want more information about a particular subject or business, they will simply click on a link in the email to find out more.

 

Benefits Of Online Marketing

Online marketing is perfect for some businesses, but it is also beneficial for others. The main benefit of online advertising is its visual aspect. By utilizing the principles of visuals, the website is visualized and in effect, reached a larger number of people, giving a company more exposure. The production of an online video is much simpler compared to traditional forms of advertising and can be done with a much smaller investment. This type of advertising will introduce potential clients to the company and help make the company recognizable to those who are searching online for a particular product or service, regardless of what type of business or industry that company is in.

Creating a strategic marketing plan for broadcasting an online video is easily done with a few clicks in the computer. Having a plan will ensure that you choose strategies that will generate a return on investment and will bring in a large number of buyers. Any marketing strategy should also have a budget to ensure that you are not spending your budget on strategies that simply are not working. This is completely the wrong way of doing business, especially in this economy. The last thing you want to do is spend your advertising dollars on strategies that are not giving you any return on your investment.

Banner ads in particular are a form of online advertising and a very popular type of online marketing today. These ads can be made very cheaply and are fast to construct so that they can be put together very quickly and then placed in many locations. However, some online marketing strategies are still being undertaken by many traditional businesses and so this may not suit your business and will require you to consider the time, cost, and efficiency of placing banner ads in prime locations.