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Advantages of Internet Marketing

By Justin Harrison

Despite the rapid expansion of internet marketing there are still many businesses who are wary of this new concept and prefer to stay with tried and tested marketing strategies. However traditional advertising techniques marry well with internet marketing while the unique advantages of the latter more than enhance the possibilities of a successful advertising campaign. Let's look at some of them:

The web is precisely what it purports to be - world wide. The implication is that you aren't limited to a physical edifice, rather you have the benefit of an online business open around the clock which reaches beyond your local neighborhood to a global clientele. Bacause there are millions of users online daily looking for goods or services, the opportunites to broaden your base of potential clients is limitless.

It is a great advantage for small businesses to use online marketing in contrast with other types of advertising. It is cost effective when you compare it with traditional advertising techniques that employ such things as a sales staff, t.v or radio advertisements or printed page. Placing product and service information on a website is convenient for your customers and saves you time and money. Another advantage of internet marketing is the ability to see which advertisements are working the best so in the end you will come out ahead despite the initial investment.

Unlike newspaper advertisements, for example, internet advertising enables you to reach your target audience effectively. Interested consumers can find your website by searching for the specific product or service that you offer. You can also place your adverts on niche websites which will be visited by your target consumers. By using email marketing to promote new products or services, either by buying email addresses of potential customers or by following up on visitors to your own website, you are able to target thousands of people at once, whether they live across the street or across the world.

Last, but certainly not least, is the fact that the success of internet marketing campaigns are easily measurable. It is almost impossible to determine how many customers respond to advertisements placed in newspapers or screened on the television. However, by using web analytic software, internet advertisers can establish not only the number of people who see their adverts, the number of repeat visitors and how many visits their website receives as a result of the click through rate (CTR) from any specific advertisement, but also the amount spent by individual customers and, if required, the demographic profile of the customers. As a result, advertisers can evaluate the effectiveness of the different marketing strategies they are using and modify them accordingly.

In summary, internet marketing is a cost effective way to market your business to a targeted audience without geographic or time limitations and has the added benefit of allowing you to assess on a daily basis the effectiveness of your marketing campaign.

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