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Monday, December 1, 2008

Internet marketing understanding

Introduction
Internet marketing is term that says “use of internet and other network system for selling our products online and increasing our online presence.” Internet marketing is a process to promote a web site for selling products and increase visitors. The Internet has many unique benefits for marketing, most important is lower costs for the distribution of information through all over the globe. Internet marketing provides interactive nature for seller and customer both in terms of providing instant response. Internet marketing has a broader scope because it refers to digital media such as the Internet, e-mail, and wireless media.
Component for Internet marketing
Developing a web site
Web site is a main component for internet marketing. Developing a site is conveying the company’s message to customers informing him about the features and benefits for choosing our company. Web site is medium for selling a product or service online. It is a great way to get online identity.
SEM (Search engine marketing) it is technique to get higher ranking in SERPs (search engine ranking pages) via SEO(Search engine optimization) and drive internet traffic to our site with natural way. Use pay- per- click (PPC) ads or purchasing pay-for-inclusion (PFI) listings in website directories, which are similar to offline yellow page listings.
E mail marketing it is a way to distributing information about a product or service or for soliciting feedback from customers about a product or service through Email. Email addresses of customers may be collected or purchased. Various methods are used, such as the regular distribution of newsletters or mass mailing of offers related to the company's product or services. Email marketing is essentially the online equivalent of direct mail marketing.
Online Press release this method involves putting newsworthy story about a company, its website, its people, and/or its products, its services with on online wire service.
Internet Marketing VS Traditional marketing
One- to - one approach
This is the most important feature of internet marketing. Through internet, one can reach potential customers as the results are displayed directly to them as per their requirement, so marketing messages can reach them personally. This approach is used in search marketing, where the advertisements are based on search engine keywords entered by the user.
This is not possible in Traditional marketing.
For the specific interests
With the use of internet marketing we appeal to a specific behavior or interest, rather than reaching out to a broadly-defined demographic. Internet marketing is different from normal offline marketing because our customers' interests are very specific. We target their interest and get potential customers for us.
Features of internet marketing
Most inexpensive and effective marketing tool
Get targeted customers
Reach across the global
Excellent ROI (return of investment)
Requires customers to use newer technologies rather than traditional media.
Online security is major concern for both companies and consumers.
24 hours availability for costumers.
Effects of internet marketing
Internet marketing makes large effect on the retail-oriented industries including music, film, pharmaceuticals and banking. It also affects marketing industry. In just few years, online advertising has grown tens of billions of dollars annually.

Website Design understanding

Web design is the process of designing a web site. Web design is a combination of processes like conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution. We can say these are the phases of the web design. Web design is a graphical way to deliver content via internet in combination with Web browser under stable language such as HTML. The objective of web design is to create a web site, a collection of pages that reside on a web servers and present content and interactive features to the end user in form of Web pages.
Web design is made from different elements like text, bitmap images, forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Now days Web design combines with more complex media such as animations, videos, sounds which requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment.
Web design can be classified as static or dynamic.
Static page content doesn’t change on every request unless not edited by human.
Dynamic page content depending on the user’s input. So with the help of dynamic page we can make our website interactive.
Good Features of Web Design
Text
Text should be good enough to read.
An image doesn’t interrupt Text.
Page loading Time
Size of page should not be exceeding more the 100KB so pages can download quickly.
Navigation Structure
Navigation is clear and in hierarchy manner so user can easily navigate website.
Graphics
Site should not be too much graphics heavy. This will increase site download time.
Links
Link colors should coordinate with page colors
Links are underlined so they are instantly clear to the visitor

Browser independent
Website must be browser independent. It looks same in any browser.
User friendliness
Web design should be user friendly so user can easily navigate through whole website.
Search engine friendliness
Web Designs should be search engine friendly so it can be optimized for high search engine rankings.
Types of website design
Content Sites
Custom website design
E-Commerce website design
Community website design
Educational and reference sites
Corporate and government website design
Search and web portals website design