Internet marketing tools

Educational and Research Institute of Economics and Management, NUFT

Ivanna Kulinich

Vira Mirochnyk

 

During last years the rapid development of information technology has allowed creation of virtual environment with specific characteristics: dynamic business opportunity, lack of territorial and political limits. These properties are transforming the Internet environment and dynamically developing modern business processes, provide additional opportunities for optimization and increase efficiency, creating conditions for «spillover» of business, and sometimes entirely in the virtual environment.

However, despite the rapid pace of global popularization of the Internet, there is still no single tool business in cyberspace. It should also be noted that the scorecard evaluating the effectiveness of Internet-marketing activities also requires clarification.

Internet marketing combines the creative and technical aspects of the World Wide Web, such as advertising, design, development and sale. In addition, Internet marketing also involved in the creation and ad implementation during different stages of interaction with customers cycle.

Internet marketing divided into different types:

1.    affiliate marketing;

2.    display Advertising;

3.    e-mail Marketing;

4.    inbound Marketing;

5.    search Engine Marketing;

6.    social Media Marketing.

Affiliate marketing is one of the tools of Internet marketing. It can be defined as a method of promoting a business in the network (webmasters-partners), in which the partner receives a reward for each visitor, subscriber, buyer and / or sale, made due to his efforts.

The term «partner marketing» also refers to an entire industry in which there are a number of specialized companies and single professionals who implement this form of Internet marketing in all its diversity.

It can also include partner networks, affiliate program managers and various types of single partners (freelancers) who have in their arsenal a variety of methods for promoting the goods and services of their advertisers.

Partner marketing to some extent intersects with other methods of Internet marketing, because partners use the same methods as most direct online sellers. These methods include search engine optimization, e-mail marketing, contextual and banner advertising.

Display advertising on the Internet has many forms: traditional banners, teasers, video, blocks in e-mail, even mobile banner advertising, etc. In some sources, a parallel is made between display and display advertising on the Internet, especially when it comes to the evolution of visual (in contrast to contextual) advertising using interactive elements, video and audio content, RTB technology.

Email marketing is one of the most effective Internet marketing tools for business. It allows you to build direct communication between the brand (or business, the company) and potential or existing customers. The result of such communication can be expressed both in increasing customer loyalty to the company, and in increasing new and repeat sales, that is, in other words – withholding and returning customers.

Inbound marketing is advertising a company through blogs, podcasts, videos, e-books, mailings, seo, social networks, and other forms of content marketing.

Search engine marketing (SEM)) - a set of measures aimed at increasing the attendance of the site by its target audience from search engines. The methods of search marketing include all the methods that solve this problem, from direct attraction of targeted traffic to links from sites less relevant to the site, ending with work inside the site, increasing the relevance of the site to its target audience.

Social Media Marketing (SMM) is the process of attracting traffic or attention to a brand or product through social platforms. This is a set of activities to use social media as channels for promoting companies and solving other business problems.

The advantages of online marketing is not only because there is a clear opportunity to reach the target audience. It offers flexible control of advertising communication. However, even a modest advertising budget guarantee maximum results.

No less important fact of Internet advertising is that the large part Internet users is educated people with incomes above the average level, which attracts the attention of potential advertisers various products and services.

The impact of Internet technology on marketing activities of the company increases. In today's global market and new information technologies and the Internet to reduce the costs of carrying out marketing functions of the company. Therefore, the prospect of future research in this area should be a better understanding of the use of Internet technologies in marketing communications.

Popularity of online marketing is growing not only among business companies but also among ordinary network users, who want to promote their websites, blogs.

Nowadays the development of Internet marketing is closely linked to the situation and prospects of development of e-commerce. Due to the rapid development of scientific and technological progress online marketing becomes not only topicality but also gradually becoming the main form of communication with consumers many business entities of different sectors of the national economy.

 

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