Monday, February 18, 2013

The Modern Strategies Of Online Marketing

By Steven Michaels


As technology continues to advance businesses have to device newer ways of interacting with their clients. The internet has emerged as one of the most effective ways of advertising goods and services to customers. The traditional approach to advertising was mainly outbound-based. Messages targeted masses with no or very little consideration for market heterogeneity. This is no longer the case today as most forms of marketing are designed with the end consumer in mind.

Mobile advertising has continued to grow in leaps and bounds. Estimates show that about 75% of the world population has access to a mobile device of one form of another. Having realized this, many marketers have created web content that can be easily accessed via these devices and as a result, it has been possible to reach the masses.

The use of social media for advertising is another interesting development. Social pages such as Google+, Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn are no longer restricted to social issues. They have emerged as some of the most effective routes of getting to customers. They allow marketers to engage their current and future customers on various aspects related to their goods and services.

SEO or search engine optimization is the use of web content that can be easily found by a search engine with the aim of increasing the flow of traffic towards a particular page. Many web designers have to ensure that their websites, blog sites or business social pages, contain the most frequently searched keywords. These are placed is strategic locations that will give them an edge over similar pages.

Attribution modelling is a feature that helps advertisers to evaluate how various forms of advertising are performing. It helps track the number of conversations that can be directly or indirectly be attributed to the advertising action. Consequently, marketers will be able to know whether or not they need to continue using this type of advertising.

There has been increased use of Local Store Marketing (LSM). Local companies have used this service to modify advertisements to conform to the requirements of their immediate environments. This has gone a long way into helping improve their listing in local search results. It has also helped many businesses, both big and small, to engage their customers as well as measure their success.

The world of technology is very dynamic. As technology continues to continually change, the ways of doing business also have to change. One of the reasons as to why business has to embrace new technology is to ensure that marketing is not only cheap but effective as well. The near future is set to see even more changes in the area of advertising as marketers continue to unveil their innovations.




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