Online Marketing Advantages
by: Jim Grayson
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Online marketing benefits the supplier by allowing low cost access to a huge number of customers and benefits the buyer by providing a means to fully research the market prior to making a purchase.
Although it is increasing in popularity a number of barriers to growth remain. Even in highly developed countries not everyone has access to reliable high bandwidth internet. There are also concerns over security and identity theft. Governments are reacting to these and similar concerns by encouraging the rollout of high speed internet connections and enforcing new laws on consumer rights and in turn online brand protection.
As online marketing grows so too do technologies and methodologies associated with it. The tools available to the online marketer are increasing in both number and sophistication. Pay per click advertising is an example of this. Originally introduced in a basic format at the start of the century it has developed into a highly sophisticated and easily accessible marketing tool. The effect of a pay per click advertising campaign can be monitored in more or less real time. The effects of using different keywords and phrases can be assessed both in cost and sales and can thus be optimised readily.
New tools are coming along that make pay per click advertising even easier to manage. Software is available that will track keywords of the advertiser and the competition, thus providing a means to fine tune the marketing campaign in order to stay ahead.
Online marketing still represents a tiny fraction of the total global expenditure on all forms of marketing, but it is becoming so efficacious that it is bound to grow into the available space. The only thing that seems to be batting against it is the evolving habits of the target audiences. Just as people become immune to virus infections, they are becoming immune to many forms of online marketing. The term banner blindness, which refers to website visitors' ability to ignore banner advertisements even at a subconscious level, is an example of this. However, pay per click, which targets actual search results remains effective.
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