Advertising for Online Businesses
The internet is a huge business and its constant and significant
growth attracts more and more businesses to be online. In 2004, online
sales reached $117 billion (www.comscore.com with more than 812
million internet users (www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). All
these internet users are potential customers and it is essential to
exploit such an opportunity.
However promotion is crucial, not only to increase traffic. A basic
principle is: if people do not know you, they can not buy anything
from you. With the incredible increase in the number of existing
websites, it is likely that you may not be noticed. The internet not
only gives you the opportunity to sell online, it also enables to
advertise online and the advantages are numerous. However, there is a
trend to forget offline advertising and its benefits as it is
generally more expensive, indeed not affordable, especially for small
businesses.
This paper deals with the importance of integrating both online and
offline advertising when running an online business in order to run an
effective campaign which will generate traffic, sales and increase
profits. It first briefly describes what is considered as online and
offline advertising and then goes on to discuss the importance of
combining the two methods.
Online advertising corresponds to advertising done on the web or
through emails. It consists of search engines and directories,
banners, pop-up, emails, newsgroups, affiliate programmes, viral
marketing and the content of the websites. Some of these elements
exist with variations. For instance, banners can be static, animated
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* www.paynetsystems.com/blog/2004/12/offline-advertising-strategies.html
* www.successfuloffice.com/dont-forget-about-offline-advertising.htm
* www.thinkmetrics.com/comparing-online-and-offline-marketing.php
* www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/smallbusiness/wpn-2-20021226OnlinevsOfflineAdvertising.html
Book
· Wright, R. (2003) The Ultimate Dictionary of Business and Marketing,
London, Earlybrave Publications Ltd
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[1] Direct-Response Advertising - talking directly to the customers by
TV, radio, mail, the internet, telephone and inviting a response
(Wright, R. (2003) The Ultimate Dictionary of Business and Marketing.
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