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March 07, 2008
The benefits of internet marketing
The wide spread of Internet had incited businesses and customers to be part of a global marketplace. Internet use expanded the physical boundaries of companies to reach a worldwide virtual community and seek greater marketing opportunities in the competitive business world environment we live in today. Internet marketing, also known as online marketing or Emarketing, is one of the most effective and powerful tools to market and sell products or services online. Similarly to traditional marketing, Internet marketing strategies incorporates customer service and acquisition, public relations, information management and business sales. Internet marketing incorporates various Internet marketing practices such as search engine marketing, pay per click advertising, email marketing, affiliate marketing and blog marketing among others.

Internet marketing is flexible and convenient. It provides companies with continuous online presence and available marketing information. It gives companies business advantage as it enables a two-way communication to build credibility as well as increase customer satisfaction and promote their loyalty. Internet marketing offers consumers the ability to easily and quickly access unlimited sources of information, search for desired products, learn about new technologies and purchase goods and services in their own privacy and comfort.

Internet marketing is measurable. With the use of web analytics and other tracking methods, Internet marketing has become a reliable marketing and advertising tool employed to track campaign performance and measure its marketing effects. It empowers companies with the competence to trace, monitor, calculate and analyse all aspects of their online marketing campaigns. It empowers advertisers to alter and improve their campaigns based on the measured results.

Internet marketing offers strategic advantages. It uses the Internet as an efficient medium to continuously advertise and promote products at a relatively low cost compared to the amount charged for one week radio advertising campaign or one page advertising in a regional or national publication. Internet marketing provides companies with cheaper space to display their marketing ads, continuous online presence to promote their products and services as well as flexible and easy content change process. Internet marketing also helps advertisers and marketers save on paper, printing and postage. It offers low cost of communication and information exchange between companies and customers which ultimately improve product, promote customized orders and improve online technical support.

Internet marketing outperforms other offline advertisings such as mail, print, radio or TV, due to its convenience, flexibility and effectiveness. Traditional marketing is expensive, immeasurable and less effective compared to Internet marketing. Traditional advertisings represent indirect and impersonalized messages delivered to a wide range of people who did not choose to view or to know about particular products. Internet marketing had created many opportunities and unique benefits to the advertisement industry. It enables companies to reach out for potential and current customers and target specific audience based on their activities and purchase history. Targeted customers are more likely to respond and interact with new products and services since they are actually searching for these specific contents. Relative to other media, Internet marketing is instant and fast. People take the time to respond to a commercial or a billboard, while they respond and interact instantly with a website or online ads.

Compared to offline marketing like print, radio and TV, Internet marketing is expanding and prospering rapidly to touch several industries including music, banking, and sports. Being targeted, effective and measurable, Internet marketing offers companies competitive business advantages. Many small and medium size companies are focusing on Internet marketing as an efficient and powerful tool to reduce costs, save time and effort whilst boosting sales. Many companies benefit from Internet marketing as a fundamental and vital tool to extend their businesses form local to global markets. It promotes cost-effective , global reach and real-time advertising tool to project the company  into new markets worldwide while saving on the expenses resulted from operational costs, sales forces, market research, as well customer service personnel.