New Challenges in the European Area: Young Scientist’s 1st International Baku Forum 2013 Dimitar Shopovski TV advertisements Advertisements on radio stations Newspaper advertisements Leaflets Catalogues Posters Nowadays the success of our business depends of our present on internet. The goal of internet marketing is to bring your ideal customer at the right time and the right place, and to open new opportunities for your business. Marketing is based on the same principles for centuries, only changed the ways of its realization The first web ad that clicks (later known as banner ads) was created in 1993 by the company GNN 4 Achieving an online presence of your business Synonyms: E-marketing web marketing online marketing More efficient and faster way of DOUBLE SIDE communication More flexible and cheaper marketing Creates greater value for the brand being advertised Presence 24/7/365 More effective promotion SEM – Search Engine Marketing SEO – Search Engine Optimization E-mail marketing Social Media Marketing Ad Banners Video Marketing Blogging 2 polls Some internet researches Formal and informal discussions with managers of companies from the Republic of Macedonia Processing results Has your company realized an online presence? Yes, via web page 14% Yes, via web blog 15% 6% 61% Yes, via social networks (FB, Twitter...) Yes, via mix of previous 4% No Has your company Internet Marketing Strategy? Yes, but it is integrated with global marketing 24% strategy in company 30% Yes, it is maintened by marketing agency Yes, it is managed by CEO of the company, not written on paper 9% 37% Our company has not IMS How much money is you budget for Marketing? less than 10.000 MK Denars/mounth 43% 10.000-30.000 MK Denars/mounth 26% 30.000-100.000 MK Denars/mounth 4% More than 100.000 MK Denars/mounth 9% We don't have budget for IM 17% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50% Do you know the features of IM and did you implement it? we imlement it in our company 55% we know the features, but we don't implement in… no 26% 4% clasic marketing is better than IM 13% something other 2% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Do you plan to increase IM budget? 21% Yes, in our next budget we will have IM budget 43% We will continue with same IM budget We don't plan to add IM 36% budget Do you know about SEO and SEM? 21% 28% Yes, excellent knowledge Middle knowledge I don't know about SEO and 51% SEM Have you ever used an email marketing campaign? 6% 45% 49% Yes No We use every day If you company has Web Page, did you have implemented SEO? 30% 34% No, but we are planning to implement SEO No Yes, we have implented SEO 36% Do you use banner ads in other web pages to refer to your web page? 47% 53% Yes No Do you use web traffic analytics tools? 38% 62% Yes No The process of forwarding the classic ads (traditional advertising) to new types of marketing takes place in the world's largest economies. 86% of companies in the Republic of Macedonia realized an online presence (website, blog, social media, the combination of the previous) 14% do not generate any online presence It is necessary informing managers about the possibilities: - 50 Eur. cost static web page (single or annual) - 200+ Eur. for more modern web page - Free way of advertising through social networks - Opportunities for e-mail marketing - Cheap banner ads 100 MK Denars/day depending on the popularity of the medium Organizing seminars and webinars to educate the managers about benefits using EMarketing. Better promotion of services of IT companies Creating national strategy improving business environment and using of E-Marketing as first option advertising business products or services.