By: Mr Hashem Alaidaros MKT 445 What we will learn Today? • What is E-Marketing? • What is the differences between Ebusiness, Ecommerce, and Emarketing? • What are E-Business Models? • What are the advantages of Emarketing? • What are the method used for Internet marketing? Internet • The Internet is a powerful channel that presents new opportunities for an organization to: o Touch customers o Enrich products and services with information o Reduce costs Why Internet Shopping? • Enables consumers to shop or do other transactions 24 hours a day, all year round from almost any location • Provides consumers with more choices • Provides consumers with less expensive products and services by allowing them to shop in many places and conduct quick comparisons • Allows quick delivery of products and services, especially with digitized products Cont. • Consumers can receive relevant and detailed information in seconds, rather than in days or weeks • Allows consumers to interact with other consumers in electronic communities and exchange ideas as well as compare experiences • Facilitates competition, which results in substantial discounts Why not Internet Shopping • Security and Privacy Difficult to convince customers that online transactions and privacy very secure • Customers do not trust: o Unknown faceless sellers o Paperless transactions o Electronic money • Switching from a physical to a virtual store may be difficult • E-payment is not in place in many places o e-Business, e-Commerce, and eMarketing in the Internet Age e-Business Involves the Use of Intranets, Extranets & the Internet to Conduct a Company’s Business e-Commerce Involves Buying & Selling Processes Supported by Electronic Means E-Marketing “e-selling” side of ecommerce 3-7 Cont. E-Business is doing business electronically: • • • • keeping the workforce informed of new policy via email, managing your employee benefits online, managing customer information online, keeping track of projects with graphic displays and automated reports, • managing sick days and vacation days, • placing orders (eCommerce), • making sales (eCommerce), Cont. • An E-Business does not have to do eCommerce. • E-Commerce is a common business task and is money/traded goods specific: sales occur, orders are placed, and money/trade goods exchange hands. • E-Business encompasses all internal and external electronically based activities and processes. • E-commerce is part of E-Business, which focuses on the electronic commercial transactions between and amongst organisations and individuals Industries Using E-Business E-Business Models • E-business model – an approach to conducting electronic business through which a company can become a profitable business on the Internet Cont. E-Business Models B2B Electronic marketplaces, or e-marketplaces, present structures for conducting commercial exchange, consolidating supply chains, and creating new sales channels. Their primary goal is to increase market efficiency by tightening and automating the relationship between buyers and sellers Existing e-marketplaces allow access to various mechanisms in which to buy and sell almost anything, from services to direct materials B2C • Common B2C e-business models include: o e-shop – a version of a retail store where customers can shop at any hour of the day without leaving their home or office o e-mall – consists of a number of e-shops; it serves as a gateway through which a visitor can access other e-shops C2C • Online auctions o Electronic auction (e-auction) - Sellers and buyers ask consecutive bids from each other and prices are determined dynamically o These sites allow anyone to buy or sell item and pay a small fee to the site operator, often collected as commission on the transaction. o The most successful auction site is eBay. Summary and examples of transaction alternatives between businesses, consumers and governmental organisations Terms Brick-and-mortar business - operates in a physical store without an Internet presence. Pure-play (virtual) business - a business that operates on the Internet only without a physical store. Examples include Amazon.com and Expedia.com. Click-and-mortar business – a business that operates in a physical store and on the Internet. Examples include REI and Barnes and Noble. Mixed-mode (Online & Offline) The role of mixed-mode buying in Internet marketing Benefits of online marketing Other Benefits of Online Marketing 1. Speed of launching advertising campaigns. Advertising banners or textlinks can be created quickly and placed on websites within hours. Compare this to creating a magazine, radio or television ad which could cost thousands and take weeks to create. This also allows you to change messages on the fly if you need to. Try doing that on TV or Print Cont. 2. Tracking. Advertising campaign performance can be tracked with such precision that one can see exactly how many people are viewing your ad, responding to it and ultimately buying your product. This information can be viewed on an hourly basis if needed. Advertising messages can also be delivered based on website visitor preferences or behavior. How to e-Market a web site? • Several methods of promotion are in use today: 1. Banner ads 2. Pop-up ads 3. Email Marketing 4. Affiliate Marketing 5. Viral Marketing 6. Search engines and directories 7. Blogging and Podcasting 8. Mobile marketing Cont. • Traditional media: • local newspapers, • radio programs and • mass mailing campaigns 1. Banner Ads • Most Web advertising uses banner ads o It is a small rectangular object normally at the top of the Web page which displays stationary or moving graphics o These ads are created using animated GIFs, or objects created in Shockwave, Java or Flash Cont. Pay a site to display the banner ad • Use a banner advertising network who acts as brokers between advertisers and Web sites that carry ads • They often broker space on large Web site like Yahoo, which has high traffic volumes and are therefore expensive Measuring Cost for Ads o Cost per thousand clicks (CPM) o The cost per one thousand clicks may range from $1 to $50. 2. Pop-Up ads • The pop-up ad is an ad that appears in its own window when the user opens or closes a page • The pop-behind ad is a pop-up ad that is behind the existing browser window o Ad-blocking software prevents these ads from displaying 3. E-Mail Marketing • Internet Mailing List: • A group of people with similar interests who discuss their favorite topics via email • Some of the ways that email has been used for Marketing are: Permission Marketing is the sending of emails to people who request further information on a product or service (for example) o Combining content (e.g. articles or news stories that are of interest to the target market) with advertising messages o Cont. A mass email promotion to an untargeted list is called spam and is disapproved by the online community • Email marketing is very cost effective and with good results, i.e. 5-15% response rate • What is different between Junk and spam mail? • 4. Affiliate Marketing • In affiliate Marketing a Company’s Web site includes products or services offered for sale by another company in exchange for a commission o Example: o Amazon.com has over 800,000 affiliate sites 5. Viral Marketing • Viral Marketers rely on non-customers being told about products or services by existing customers • An example of a viral Marketing campaign is Blue Mountain Arts o When an electronic greeting card is sent to a person, a link to Blue Mountain is included which they click on to read the card; they are now more likely to send a card themselves 6. Search Engine • Search-engine ad: an advertisement tied to a specific keywords in a search engine. • When selected keywords are typed in a search box, an appropriate ad is displayed. 7. Blogging and podcast • Blog: Short for web log. • It is an online digital diary or forum where text, photos, video, and other material can be posted and made available to the public. • Podcast: A recorded audio program available online for download in a file format that can be easily transferred to an MP3 player