E-commerce and Online Business Reference

Introduction and literature view

Internet marketing, also referred to as i-marketing, web-marketing, online-marketing or e-Marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet . The power of internet, a type of medium , you can truly get your business out there to lots of  people not with in days but minutes. One can get results 10 times faster than back when it was in the 90′s.The internet marketing has effected the conduct of business and trade pattern.Industries and firms are increasingly influenced by the application of internet marketing , as are the people who use it for communicating and purchasing .Internet marketing lowers communication costs , reduces the length of time to market for goods and services and make possible to deliver of information in a digital format(Secrets of e-commerce, international trade center,2009).

There are people that keep looking for different ways in which they can advertise their products. The most common way is to do it in a way in which it would be ocular to the persons that are targeted. Many people and businesses that have a constant source of funds will usually use the TV. The reason being is that the television is the leading source of information to the people of the world with over forty percent of the words consumed by people’s ears. However, there is a new way in which people have begun to advertise. This new way is internet marketing and can actually be done in so many different ways. It is so effective because people that are all over the world can be influenced. As long as the internet spreads around the world, the influence that internet marketing has will continue to grow. There are so many ways in which someone can advertise their marketing services and tools throughout the internet. They can do it through a blog or any other ways that are easy to access the public. The best thing that marketers love to see is that the ways in which they advertise are free. This means that there will be a higher net profit for them. For this reason, a lot of people have entered the internet marketing realm. Also, a lot of the people that market online are unaware of the fact that they are online marketers. (William Guenter, 2010)

It’s hard to believe, but just ten short years ago, there were only a handful of entrepreneurs who took the Internet seriously. Having goods and services marketed on the internet seems second nature now, but actually internet marketing is a relatively new phenomenon. When the internet first started and more of the public began to access it, companies began to realize that they could utilize the internet to provide information to potential customers. On November 4, 1994, the leaders of the movement to commercialize the Internet got together to share their visions of where they thought business on the Internet was headed. There were two remarkable things about this event. First, how incredibly accurate their visions turned out to be. Second, the entire historic meeting was captured on video! The key to the Internet’s explosive growth in the 1990s was commerce – buying, selling and marketing.  The first examples of internet marketing were simply text websites. They were very basic and simple with no pictures or graphics. As the internet started to develop, more and more companies realized that they had a global audience at their disposal. Websites became more complex. They contained pictures of products and graphics intended to keep the customer interested. However, they served their purpose as people began to turn to the internet for information about companies and what they had to offer .Eventually, the technology existed so that companies could sell their products right from their website. E-commerce began to grow very quickly once methods to securely provide your credit card number became available. Consumers could now order products right from their home. Companies could reach customers all over the world. Online auction sites became very popular as people could sell their items to each other for a small fee .Today, putting up a web site, buying traffic and taking orders is so easy that hundreds of thousands of people around the world make all or part of their living from the Internet.

Ten years ago, only a small handful of people did .The company that made the difference was Netscape. Netscape made using the Internet easy and not just for users, but for people who wanted to use it to publish and sell products and services as well.Ten years ago on August 9, 1995, Netscape’s shares went public and its co-founder, 23 year old Marc Andreessen was suddenly worth 0,000,000. The Internet boom was on. Online auction sites became very popular as people could sell their items to each other for a small fee.There also was an increased use of the internet as a source of advertising. Companies began to place ads on other websites to promote their products.

The internet has even been used as a primary source of advertising. Companies have created innovative advertising programs, sometimes referred to as viral marketing. Viral marketing seeks to create a buzz about a product through word of mouth. Some viral marketing plans even use alternate reality games in order to promote a particular product.

The internet marketing is a growing global trading platform .As internet technology advances , internet marketing is likely to be used in almost every conceivable way to exchange information and trade goods and services. Small and rural businesses may be among the biggest beneficiaries because Internet marketing provides unprecedented opportunities to trade across borders. The Internet has brought media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet marketing in terms of providing instant responses and eliciting responses are the unique qualities of the medium.

As more and more people choose to shop online, internet marketing is quickly becoming a fast and reliable method to create an ever-increasing cash flow. People across the globe, in steadily increasing numbers, are making this venue of shopping their favorite way to purchase the items they need. As more and more people choose to shop online, internet marketing is quickly becoming a fast and reliable method to create an ever-increasing cash flow. People across the globe, in steadily increasing numbers, are making this venue of shopping their favorite way to purchase the items they need.(Alfred Sant , 2010 ) .

Not surprisingly, interest in starting an Internet marketing business has increased exponentially, as more and more people realize that the opportunity is indeed possible to achieve. The earning and growth potential of Internet marketing is also enormous. More and more customers are turning to online shopping while Internet availability is increasing globally. Once the you’ve mastered the skills and expertise needed in running a home business on the Internet, the risk is low.(Adrienne collier , 2010 ) .

Purpose of study:

Now a day’s marketing is not as simple as we think it should be , as world has become a small place where people know each and every activities taking place in any part of the world . Electronic media has developed much advancement in the field of marketing. So to move with such a speed internet marketing is introduced in order to modify the marketing techniques particularly used by different companies in a globalization era . The case analyzed in the study is Pakistan Railways with respect to internet-marketing. The electronic media makes it possible to capture the daily number of visits to particular website and the interested customer in purchasing the product online or showing interest in the product by asking details through e-mails. Through this process one can introduce the loyalty programs to reward customers who frequently purchase the same brand, with the intention of enforcing their loyal behavior and may be even turning them into advocates of the brand.

The objective of the research from Pakistan Railway perspective is to study how the internet marketing is helping in generating the part of total revenue by getting the data comparison of expenses and revenue generation.

Methods:

I have used the method of getting my secondary data through personal visit of Pakistan Railway headquarter information and technology department. They provide me data by the several visits and sending them e-mails . They didn’t provide me exact figures of revenue generate from internet-marketing but give me data in % form of whole revenue. The data which they provide me is from the year of 2004 to 2009. I get the data which is related to the expenditure on doing internet-marketing and their role in generating the money and the part of whole revenue of Pakistan Railways.

Procedure:

First of all I understand the basic importance of internet-marketing in today world of globalization, in which buying and selling are taking place without visiting the particular place in any part of the world and things are at your door step. In this country (Pakistan) things related to technology are not moving with that pace which is the requirement of globalization but effects can be seen when I visit the Pakistan Railway I.T department in order to see that both the purchaser and seller are interested in using the new way of doing business. The data which I have collected was not of single person but of different companies are visiting the websites in order to see the rates and book their orders only by sending mail to related person of Pakistan Railways.

Results:

Years

Exp.

PR %

2004

48

4

2005

58

6

2006

68

10

2007

78

12

2008

88

16

2009

98

20

As we can see from the graph created through the data that revenue is also increasing from the year 2004, this increasing trend is steadily moving. When finally reached to year 2009 then it obtains a significance improvement toward becoming the major part in the total revenue of Pakistan Railways.

Recommendation and Conclusion:

The final conclusion one can get is that more information about the products of same company must be available online or internet. Related search words must be available for the search engines to get to the related sites in order to improve the profitability of any company. Focus should be more on the availability of the information of the products of the company

References:

William Guenter (2010) Article: Ways in which people market over the internet.

Adrienne Collier (2010) Article: Internet Marketing, why its growing more appealing   and why it should appeal to you.

Alfred Sant (2010) Article: Internet marketing Hidden Secrets! Insider secrets that expert marketers “Donot want you to Know”

International Trade center (2009), Secrets of e-commerce, second edition, (9, 10)

It is known that marketing – is a human activity aimed at meeting the needs and wants through exchange.Components of marketing are: product, price, marketing, advertising.

Marketing can not be equated with marketing or sales promotion.Marketing can be viewed as a mechanism for adjusting the production of goods or services to market needs.

One of the leading theorists on management, Peter Drukker, spoke about the purpose of marketing this way: “The goal of marketing – to make efforts in marketing unnecessary. His goal – so good to know and understand the customer that the product or service will be exactly the approach of the last, and sell themselves”.

Infrastructure development of the global Internet and commercial Internet have led to changes of ways of doing business and the emergence market.Internet was used as an interactive channel companies interact with business partners and customers, ensuring maintenance of interactive marketing (Internet marketing) and implementation of direct online sales.Traditional business processes (sales, marketing, logistics, etc.) in the networked economy taking new forms.

Thus, the rapid growth of e-business and e-commerce became the basis for the emergence of Internet Marketing (online marketing).Internet marketing tools are significantly different from the traditional marketing tools.

The main advantages of online marketing, compared with off-line marketing tools include:

wide coverage of the target audience (the globalization of the market);

Personalization, interaction with customers;

reducing transaction costs.

Internet Marketing – a complex of measures for the promotion and sale of marketable goods and services through networking online.To promote the products and services on the Internet must have its own Web-site which should be submitted to various information about products or services and the means by which consumers can place and pay for your order.

Currently, Internet marketing – is an independent activity that relates to e-business.In the Internet there are many sites that provide marketing services (services to promote the site in search engines).

The main functions of marketing: market research, pricing, advertising, sales promotion, marketing, assortment planning, etc.The main focus of Internet marketing is the promotion of the site in search engines.

That site promotion in search engines is a prerequisite for achieving effective interaction with the target audience or customers as well as search engines and subject directories are the main channels through which target visitors come to the site.

Website promotion in search engines – a set of all marketing activities for the promotion of a site on the Internet to life came to be known target audience, and was visiting the clients:
1) promotion of a site (building a reference base);
2) optimizing website for search engines;
3) advertising on the Internet;
4) surveys, support for communication with the client (the organization of effective customer feedback, online learning to their needs);
5) continued support site, search engine optimization and monitoring of the effectiveness of its operation;
6) change in marketing plans in line with the changing situation.
Site Promotion
Web site promotion – is: check-in site in search engines and specialized directories, link exchange, placing paid links on the popular Web-servers in order to strengthen the credibility of the resource, an indication of email and Web-site address in all advertisements.
Site optimization
Optimizing your website for search engines – is: optimization of site structure, keyword selection, entering keywords in the text and title of the site.
Internet advertising
Necessary to distinguish between advertising their own Web-site and advertising on the Internet as a kind of business.Advertising as a kind of business based on providing space in the pages of your site for placement of paid links to Web-site customer.

Internet advertising site – it is a range of services aimed at both the active involvement of the audience to the site, and in shaping a positive image of the company.

Go to online advertising are:

banner ads (the target and image);

contextual advertising (eg ads from Google, advertising Begun, Yandex);

In addition to Internet marketing are: Direct marketing or direct marketing, Network marketing or network marketing.

Direct marketing

To promote the products on the Internet using Direct marketing.Direct Marketing (Direct Marketing) provides maximum efficiency and selectivity of effect.Direct marketing involves creating a client database and organization of this database to personalize the interaction with customers (direct mail, personalized personal selling, and so on).

Network marketing

To promote their products on the Internet using MLM or Network marketing – a form of nonstore retailers.The essence of MLM or network marketing comes down to the fact that by promoting goods or services, sales representatives the company is also offering customers become sales representatives of this company.

MLM also known as Network Marketing or Network Marketing as well as distributors form a network or a hierarchical organization for the promotion of goods from buyers who are also distributors.MLM – is one way to retailers through a network in which each of the distributor does business.

Internet Marketing Articles and Knowledge Sharing

The Future Of Ecommerce Sales Is Promising…But Is Yours?

There is no question that over time, ecommerce sales have continued to rise as more and more people turn to the internet for their shopping. It’s much easier to take a quick commute to your computer, surf the net for a short while, and purchase what you are looking for than it is to go out to a store for the same thing. Because of this, the future of ecommerce sales is looking bright.

Don’t Sabotage Your Search Engine Optimization Company

As the Internet becomes a valuable marketing tool, many organizations are hiring a search engine optimization company in order to help increase their online exposure. Unfortunately, there are many errors that those same organizations often make that sabotage the efforts of the search engine optimization firm that they have chosen to work with. Learn more about these errors and what harm they can cause to an SEO campaign.

Organic SEO or Pay-Per-Click Advertising – Which Should You Choose?

Two of the most popular methods a company can use for online marketing are organic search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising – and these are often used in tandem. However, when a business has a limited marketing budget, which approach has the advantage and which offers a better return on investment? While pay-per-click can offer immediate results, organic search engine optimization may lead to more clicks. Learn more about the pros and cons of each of these methods.

The Death of Google Adsense And Other Myths

Recent changes within the Google Adsense program have shaken up many online marketers. Could this mean an immediate demise of Adsense is in the cards? Better yet, will CPA or Cost-Per-Action advertising mean the death of Google Adsense and contextual ads?

Latent Semantic Indexing: What Is It?

Latent semantic indexing was introduced in an attempt to improve the service offered by Google and other search engines to those using their services. This article is a must read for anyone interested in Internet Marketing.

The Promise of Behavioral Targeting

Behavioral targeting is relatively new but catching on fast. The Internet, with its ability to record behavior, is largely responsible for the increase in behavioral targeting. Marketers like targeted ads because they reach specific consumers, eliminating waste and increasing advertising efficiency. Forrester Research queried marketers interested in using behavioral targeting and found that 52 percent already use it, 17 percent are testing and 31 percent plan to test later this year. The study identified the top three benefits of behavioral targeting.

10 Steps to Creating Your Internet Marketing Plan

If you’re the owner of a small service business, having a solid Internet marketing plan in place can both increase your name and brand recognition locally in your geographic area, as well as expose you to a whole new set of potential clients throughout the world.

Marketing Your Business On The Internet

How can a business that is already successful in reaching their local market extend their marketing reach online? The good news is that the traditional offline marketing that has always worked so well will still work at least as effectively to promote your online presence. The other side of the coin is that to promote your business online, the old traditions need some updating to keep up with online marketing best practices.

7 Strategies to Choosing an Effective Domain Name

A friend of mine calls me the “Domain Queen”, since at one time I owned around 50 domains. I’ve let many of them go (I own only 22 now) as my business has changed and developed, or I’ve just simply lost interest in the project. I’m often asked how I go about picking effective domain names, so as the “Domain Queen”, I’ll share my thought process with you.

Why Your First Online Business Should Be Google Adsense

Since its launch in 2003, the Google Adsense program has revolutionized web publishing, translating visitors’ clicks into money, turning blogs and websites into money making machines for millions of website owners. If you’re thinking of making money online here are some reasons why your first online business should be Google Adsense.

Demystifying Your Competitor’s Ranking Success

Part of Internet Marketing involves demystifying your competitor’s success by putting on your detective garb because you are going to have to investigate all aspects of their website; even the deepest darkest corners.

10 Step Web Design and Development Contract Agreement

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Adsense Authors: Who Are These People?

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Writing your Resource Box for Success

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To maximize your website traffic through the search engines you need to focus on the Big 3 !

What or who are the Big3? They are Google. MSN and Yahoo search. This article will take you through these three search engines and what you can expect from them in terms of achieving results both in a short term, as well as a long term basis.

Analyzing the New Yahoo! RSS Report for Marketers

RSS: Crossing into the Mainstream, is a white paper on RSS usage published by Yahoo! This article analyzes the keyfindings and what it means for Internet marketers who are interested in maximizing their marketing strategies using RSS technology. Among their findings is that while becoming more common, very few Internet users are aware of RSS even if they are using it. This means that further elaboration is needed to encourage the use of RSS.

Internet Marketing Time Management.

This Internet marketing article by Ryan Ginster gives his thoughts on ways to maximize your time, effectiveness and profits when it comes to Internet Marketing through understanding the three stages of the business process and the stage you are in, using checklists and tracking your results.

Is Your Business Podcasting? Well, It Should Be.

This podcasting Internet marketing article gives an overview and the potential marketing value of Podcasting, and how to leverage this new media technology for maximum benefit. This new media Internet Marketing audio technology provides ample opportunity for businesses and individuals to leverage their subject matter knowledge and expertise to generate increased brand exposure, improved product awareness, increased sales, greater online visibility and additional revenue opportunities.

Paid Search and Branding Tools

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Domain Name Registration – Key Tips For New Online Businesses

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Web Copy – What You Shoud Know First

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How and Why To RSS

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RSS and The 10 MOST Powerful Reasons WHY You Should Be Using It

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It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It

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10 Tips For Bloggers

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Are Search Engine Submission Services Worth It

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One Way Link Building Secures Long Term Ranking Results

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10 Easy Steps to a User Friendly Website

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Links Are All About Reputation

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Using Web Metrics To Improve Your Web Site
This article gives an overview of the importance of understanding what our site visitors are doing at our site, why we need that information and what we should do with it.

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The Internet is rapidly becoming a crucial part of modern business. Contemporary businesses are now moving toward e-commerce in order to compete globally. Use of internet marketing services has increased considerably due to immense competition. If you are planning to hire any Internet Marketing Company for your website promotion you need to know about the basic things about internet marketing services. Internet Marketing is simply a way of promoting your business by implying internet strategies. The advantages which you can draw from internet marketing services include:

• Low cost: The most important benefit of using internet marketing services is the low cost associated with it. Internet marketing company tends to provide solutions at a very competitive rate which makes it a best choice for promotion.

• Visibility of results: You can always view the results of Internet Marketing services so that you can evaluate the effectiveness of your Internet marketing company.

• Maximum exposure for your business: Using Internet Marketing Services will enable you to compete on a larger scale. Your target market increases and you get international exposure since your clients are now no more geographically bound to specific location.
These are few of the advantages which you can get from your internet marketing company but the next big question is how? This is because of the immense information present over the internet. For instance, if you search for the legitimate Internet marketing company in Google you will get 1,030,000 search results. So you cannot analyze all the options before you select any one Internet Marketing Company for you. In order to get the best Internet Marketing Company for your website promotion you need to recognize the key elements of Legitimate Internet Marketing Company.

• Understanding about the Search Engine market: Your legitimate partner company should be aware of all the latest trends, terms and conditions, and practices of all search engines like, Google, ping, MSN and Yahoo.

• Understanding about SEO Optimized Website Structure: Website Structure plays an important role while promoting your product and services on the web. No matter how much catchy and interesting your website design is, if your clients are not seeing it then the purpose of your website gets useless. Internet Marketing Company has professional skilled developers, who have got expertise in the website content, site map, Meta Tags, and use of keywords. The added advantage of Internet Marketing Services is that it will progressively increase your website ranking in major search engines. So in order to get maximum advantages from Internet Marketing Services you need to hire the expert who is aware of all the requirements of SEO and Search Engine Friendly website.

• Understanding about White Hat and Black Hat practices: In the web marketing, many players are using malpractice for earning short term benefits. These practices are termed as Black Hat techniques. You need to know that using Black Hat Internet Marketing Services can result into ban of your website. You must always seek for Genuine Internet Marketing Company, which implies White Hat or legitimate Internet Marketing Services to promote your website.

In short, Web or Internet marketing is the best way in which you can achieve the target of growth plus market share. By looking at the advantages of Internet Marketing and selecting the right internet marketing services will help you to get ready to experience the benefits of modern sensation. You should always keep yourself up-to-date regarding search engines policies, and latest internet marketing trends, doing this will make you aware of what is happening around you and what are the latest trends which can make you compete better on the internet while improving your ranking.

Most Effective Internet Marketing Tools The promotion of products and services that is carried over the Internet is known as Internet marketing. Lowered marketing costs and distribution of information to a wider range of audience are some of the positive changes brought about by Internet marketing. Websites, emails, forums, blogs and articles are commonly used for Internet advertising and online marketing. Owing to the audio-visual aspects of the Internet media, marketing through the web is more effective. Moreover, web marketing targets a very large audience, thus achieving speedy advertising of products or services. What are the various tools used for web marketing? Which of them are the most effective ones? Let us see.

If you are an Internet marketer, it is necessary for you to understand the importance of putting yourself in the shoes of your prospective customers. In fact, any marketer needs to think from the perspective of his/her potential customers in order to devise the best marketing strategy or apply effective marketing tools. In the literal sense of the term, thinking from the point of view of the customers is not a marketing tool, but it is a marketing tactic. In fact that is the gist of any kind of marketing and web marketing is no exception.

Keywords: Think of what the Internet users do. Yes, they surf the net, browse a number of sites and bookmark their favorite ones. If you want to increase the number of visitors who bookmark your website, it is important to furnish it with authentic content. Do you know who is the first to read your website content? In fact, it is not a human user; it’s a search engine. It is extremely important for a website to rank on leading search engines. Only then can a marketer look forward to increase website traffic, thus achieving business growth. And for a website to rank high, its content needs to contain the most-searched and frequently sought words and phrases known as keywords. Keyword analysis plays a vital role in helping a website rank.

Pay Per Click Advertising: It is an Internet advertising model wherein an advertiser pays if a user clicks on an Internet advertisement. Search engines, advertising networks and websites use this advertising model. In this advertising technique, advertisers bid on keywords. When web page content relevant to the bidden keyword is displayed, advertisements related to it are also displayed, thus creating chances that the web page visitors will click on them. Websites charge advertisers on the basis of the number of clicks the advertisements receive. Google AdWords offers pay-per-click advertising wherein advertisers specify the words and phrases that are likely to trigger their advertisements. Their advertisements are placed in the category of sponsored links on the search results page of Google.

Google AdSense: AdSense is an application run by Google and can be used as an Internet marketing tool by website owners. They can enroll to Google AdSense, whereby they can host text, image or video ads on their websites. The advertisers are charged based on the number of times an advertisement is clicked or on the number of times it appears on the website.

Article Marketing: Articles generated with the application of SEO techniques serve as effective Internet marketing tools. Website owners make use of SEO tips and techniques to search for the most-searched topics and to generate keywords. Articles based on frequently searched topics are generated and published on the websites. The articles often consist of back-links to their website, thus achieving more user visits. Article marketing is often used by small businesses, whereby they submit small articles about their products or services on websites in order to publicize their business.

Blogs and Forums: Blogs and forums give the businesses, an opportunity to interact with their target customers. Through blogs, they can create awareness about their products and services among their customers. Forums serve as platforms for discussions, whereby marketers can interact with their potential customers.

Emails: Small businesses use email marketing to achieve business promotion. Emails sent for the purpose of enhancing or maintaining customer relationship as well as those sent in view of acquiring new customers fall under the category of email marketing. Emails can be made to carry advertisements and commercial messages, whereby, the readers are encouraged to opt for a certain product or service. Emails are one of the most effective Internet marketing tools used today.

Social Networks: Existing social networks are popularly used for business promotion. Businesses aim at increasing brand awareness by spreading their message through social networking websites. The process is known as viral marketing. The use of video clips, Flash games, ebooks as also plain text messages on social networking websites is in wide use today.

These were some of the many effective Internet marketing tools that are used today. For an efficient use of any of the online marketing tools, it is essential for the Internet marketers to devise an effective Internet marketing strategy. The Internet is in itself an effective tool for marketing. Careful planning and an intelligent implementation of some of the best Internet marketing strategies is the key to success over the web.

The Ultimate Internet Marketing Strategy

If you believe that you can jump in, make a website, submit it to a few directories or blogs, sit down, relax & watch those thousands of dollars (that you’ve seen in many marketers’ checks) to come, then you need to stop right there. It isn’t going to happen. You need to think: who you are and where do you want to be in the future. Whether offline or online, there are only two things that matter: “Buying” and “Selling”. Basically, to simplify, it all comes down to this:

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Think about it… There are millions of people buying online every single day. If they’re not buying from you then whose fault is that – theirs or yours?

Before you even start creating internet marketing strategy for your website(s), you need to do a research. That’s where it all begins actually. Just like in any business, you have to understand where you are and what can you do.

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Phase 1 – Online Research

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In this phase, you must research your market. Who are your main competitors? What are they doing online? PPC, SEO, press releases, develop their own products, do affiliate marketing or Adsense? What are their weaknesses? Do they offer a guarantee? Is their product really good? Do they build links constantly or not? Who is your favorite customer? Where do they hangout: MySpace or YouTube? Are they freebie seekers or desperate buyers? What forces them to buy one or another product? Read reviews, forums, testimonials to find out as much as you can about your target market.

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Phase 2 – Data Analysis

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If you’ve performed a thorough online market research, it’s time to systematize the data you have. Write down what are the main strengths and weaknesses of your competitors. Maybe you have more time than your competitors? Or maybe you know some targeted traffic source that others don’t. How might this affect your business?

Which are the places your target market usually visits? What are their main concerns? Maybe they’re not satisfied with the products in the market. Can offer something better, maybe in a form of a bonus? After that, you come to the next step, which is developing your internet marketing strategy.

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Phase 3 – Strategy Development

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When you already know your target market and your competitors, you are able to start making your internet marketing strategy (or strategies). Just sit down and think about: who you are and what you can offer to the target market.

It involves a little bit of planning. What marketing methods you’ll use and which ones you can afford? PPC, SEO, email, blogging, podcasting, video blogging, webinars, viral traffic generation, link building, banner exchange or others…? You must prioritize your web marketing tactics. Find out what’s going to bring you positive ROI in the shortest time possible.

Do you have enough time to perform search engine optimization? If so, then sit and do everything you can, day in day out, to rank at the top in search engines. Don’t have time? Then buy PPC traffic and start testing your landing pages effectively.

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Phase 4 – Monitoring Performance

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When you have an internet marketing plan, you can start implementing it right away. The last step is to start monitoring your internet marketing campaigns. Which keywords people typed into search engines to find your site? Which keywords brought you the most money in PPC marketing? Are you satisfied with your SEO rankings or not? Do majority of your visitors leave your site without even spending 30 seconds? And so on…

There is no formula for an effective Internet marketing strategy. It depends on your individual situation. When you realize your strengths and weaknesses, you’ll be able to come up with a great marketing plan. No matter if you’re thinking about Adsense site, affiliate site or your own product. When you find out what you’re able to accomplish with your resources at the moment, you can create a great web marketing strategy for your online business and finally breakthrough on the internet.