Showing posts with label Internet Marketing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet Marketing. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Mobile Marketing v/s Internet Marketing

Mobile marketing will be bigger than online,

There is lot been said and written about mobile marketing in India. With more than 200 million (both CDMA and GSM) mobile subscribers as compared to 35 million internet users, this medium offers a wider audience base.

Though, in spite of such huge market size available, not many media planners are looking mobile as marketing option. Recently, ad spends on mobile stood at around Rs 8/- to 10/- crores.On the other hand,

Internet marketing is reach sky high in terms of marketing opportunities. Of late, internet advertising has seen a humongous growth in advertising, around Rs 200 crores is spend on internet. Internet being more of interactive medium, it’s become the first choose for the advertisers to glue in their target audience and communicate the message to them effectively.

Advantages in both mediums

Mobile Marketing


1) Wider audience
2) Better in getting responses from customers
3) SMS based campaigns and recently used WAP based campaigns
4) Good for promotions and discount coupons
5) Can be targeted

Internet Advertising

1) Interactive and active audience.
2) More effective for carpet bombing
3) Viral based campaigns and now having more interactive based campaigns
4) Can be used for branding and click to call promotions
5) For mass communications

Similarity in both mediums

• The mediums are very effective in engaging the target audiences for longer time frame.
• Target based communications are still possible.
• The customers are readily interested in knowing and understanding the communication

Monday, January 14, 2008

Internet Marketing Trends

We see a number of changes in the way in which companies market their brands on the internet.

The top 10 internet marketing tips are:

1. Optimize your websites content:


First and foremost, get your website content right. Make sure it is easily read by both humans and search engines. An essential variable applied by Search Engines in the way in which they rank websites is based on the relevancy of the content that the search engine is indexing.

2. Create a content development strategy for your website:

In addition to optimizing the existing content on your website, it is essential that you develop a strategy to continuously increase your websites content on an ongoing basis. All new content should be written specifically with the web reader in mind and should also be optimized for the search engines.

3. Invest in a paid search (pay-per-click) campaign:

When you pay for traffic (visitors) that click on your advertisements that are being advertised on search engines, this is called pay-per-click or search engine advertising. Paid search allows you to quickly leverage search engine traffic by bidding for keywords that are related to the products or services that you promote and sell on your website. Paid search advertising is particularly beneficial to companies who are not yet well ranked on search engines through natural search.

4. Publicize your website through article marketing:

Article marketing is regarded by Internet marketing experts as one of the most effective promotional methods to publicise your website and to increase the number of back links (incoming links) to your website content. To ensure ongoing awareness, articles should be submitted to suitable article directories, content publishers, article announcement lists and content syndication (RSS feeds). Make sure to publish the content on your own website before submitting it to article directories and publishers. Make it easy for the reader to bookmark your content on social search engines by including a bookmark button at the end of each piece of content.

5. Develop a social media marketing strategy:

Studies show that by the end of 2007 more than 60% of top global companies will have had some form of social media marketing strategy in place. Corporates and small business owners should create a clear social media marketing strategy as part of an integrated communications and marketing strategy. Social Media has become an essential component of online marketing and search engines are adjusting their rankings to include search personalization. One of the effects of the social media revolution is an exponential increase in the amount of content online.

6. Create a Company Blog:

In the past, corporates have been focusing marketing and communications efforts on becoming faceless. This has changes significantly. The online consumer wants to engage with companies that have an online personality. More and more companies are starting to realise the significance of establishing a company personality and we are starting to see more Corporate Blogs coming alive. Business Blogging will continue to become more lucrative as more and more people look to new media such as Blogs and social websites for insight.

7. Experiment with video marketing:

There is tremendous power and revenue-generating potential in Video Marketing. With the rapid ongoing growth of YouTube's traffic in addition to the emergence of Internet Television websites, streaming video is dominating the international web and marketers are quickly scrambling to capitalize on this exciting channel. As companies seek to simplify video sharing, video marketing will become more interactive which could have huge implications for Affiliate marketing.

8. Engage your audiences with web widget marketing:

Widgets have made significant strides as an accepted marketing technique in recent months. Many new Blog oriented services are launching Widgets providing businesses with the opportunity quickly introduce their services and new products to audiences.

Web Widgets are small applets that live in HTML and provide miniature versions of a specific piece of content outside of the primary web site. Web Widget Marketing is not only an exciting new marketing technique; it is fast becoming one of the leading brand-building marketing strategies for businesses advertising online.

9. Discover the benefits of mobile media marketing:

Mobile media marketing has continued to grow at a meteoric pace as many web companies recognise the huge potential in mobile marketing. As new technologies emerge and standard websites are converted to ones can easily be accessed by mobile devices, companies will need to ensure that there websites are mobile-friendly. This leads the way for new and innovative opportunities to provide the consumer with improved brand and marketing experiences.

10. Create an effective email marketing strategy:

Introduce an effective Email communications strategy as part of your marketing strategy to grow your existing customer base and to expand your client base significantly through permission marketing and regular targeted communications. Engaging your customers with relevant, targeted information when, where, and how they want it is crucial to marketing success. By combining technological advances with tried-and-tested best practices, the future still looks bright for email marketers.

To conquer commercial combat, a significantly powerful Internet presence, supported by a brilliant E-Marketing Strategy, is paramount to ensuring that you remain competitive, increase revenue and magnetize your customers!

Article written and credits to:Gillian Meier