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PostHeaderIcon Online Advertising- the Way it is Done

With the sudden but inevitable emergence of Internet marketing process, we have witnessed a prominent change in Global marketing scenario. Online marketing or the Internet marketing has highly dominated the marketing strategy and has become people’s favorite day-by-day.

Like any other business process involves some kind of advertisement to make people know about your presence and business process, online marketing also needs effective advertising strategy to make Web traffic aware of ones online presence.

When you enter the Web world to look out for any information, you might have noticed the number of small images, texts, video and audio clips that appear in the Web page. Not only this, you receive list of emails not from your intimate friends but from various companies who send such mails to advertise their products and services.

According to description given in Wikipedia, which is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet, online advertising has dual face – former is legitimate and latter is illegitimate. Legitimate online advertising involves search engine advertising, advertising networks and opt-in e-mail, whereas, illegitimate online advertisement is done through spamming.

Let us discuss in brief both legitimate and illegitimate face of online advertising-

Search Engine Advertising – Advertising your business process through search engine is the most effective way of advertising, because various Internet research have revealed that more than 80% of Web search is generated through search engines. People consider the search results gathered from search engines is pure and highly relevant. So, if you are serious about search engine marketing, you should concentrate on ethical way of website optimization and submission of your website to major search engines and directories to receive online visibility.

Advertising Networks- This process involves banner advertising and rich media advertising like audio, video, text, electronic mail etc.

Banner Advertising – Banner is the graphic representation of a company that represents a website. Banner is a tool any website can prepare to impart a prominent impression on people’s mind so that they may like your way of business promotion and remember your name as soon as they enter to the net to search the kind of products or services you sale.

There are two types of banner- static and dynamic. Static banner remains same each time a Web page is loaded but dynamic website keeps on changing and rotating for each visitors. Advertising through dynamic banner is highly advisable since, more than one banner for the same product can be shown to the visitors and that help to increase people’s confidence over the products.

Rich Media – Online advertisement through rich media involves the use of interactive digital media such as videos, audios and animations which is done with implementation of advanced technological effects that catches the eyes of majority of Web searchers.

Opt-in e-mail Advertising – This is a process of email marketing where businesses are advertised through email. In this case, there is consent of willingness of mail acceptance between customers and advertiser. The advantage of such practice is the direct contact with the customers in low cost and the major disadvantage is the possibility of deleting the advertisements without being viewed. Although, such process helps website owners keep updating their customers regularly regarding new products/services or any new added features.

Illegitimate online advertising involves spamming, which refers to sending unsolicited email, instant messages, mobile messages to people who are not the willing recipient of such mail and messages. Spammers often harvest users address from Usenet postings, DNS listings, Web pages and by a unique way of guessing common names under each domain which is known as dictionary attack. Spammers also use Web spiders to find e-mail address on Web pages.

But, to achieve a long lasting advertising effect, one should never follow illegitimate methods, rather should always follow fair way of advertising. People often feel irritated if they are provided spam advertisements, but they obviously paid fair amount of attention to view and understand the advertisements presented in a graceful manner.

By: Sharon Lepcha

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Sharon Lepcha is a content writer and an emerging author in the field of technology. She is associated with Midas Web Technologies http://www.midassoft.biz which is a website design and development, e-commerce application development and ethical search engine optimization company in New Delhi, India.

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PostHeaderIcon Advertising Online – Look Before You Leap Into Online Advertising

There are many things that should be taken into consideration and performed before you start online advertising. You definitely do not want to simply jump in, not knowing what you are doing, and start advertising, or you could find that the entire scheme blows up in your face. The whole point of advertising online is to get your product, services, or company out to the internet world. However, before you can do that, you need to consider the following things.

Set Up Your Online Advertising Plan

You may be thinking; why on earth I would need an online advertising plan. A plan is crucial when it comes to any aspect of your business. Without a plan, you would simply jump in blind, not having any goals, objectives, or basically any idea what you intend to do, how long it will take you, and how much you have to spend with your advertising budget.

Your plan should consist of:

1. Your Advertising Budget – How much do you have or are you willing to spend on advertising online. This is crucial, because while some methods of advertisements are free, many are going to cost you, per click, per impression, or per advertisement. So before, you do anything else, create a budget, and understand how much you have to work with.

2. Identify your objectives of advertising online – What do you hope to gain through your advertisements? Do you need sales? Do you need traffic? Do you need referrals? After creating the budget, knowing your objectives is the second most important aspect of advertising online. If you do not know what you want to gain from the advertisements, how do you know when it is working?

3. Identify your targeted audience – Yet another crucial point in online advertising. You have to know whom you want to attract to your website. For example, are you looking to grab the attention of teenagers, middle-aged women, middle-aged men, young women, young men, the older generation, hobbyist, corporate minded folks, or those looking for business opportunities? Knowing whom you are targeting will help you in designing the right advertising campaign all the way around.

Online advertising may seem like it is a simple, easy to do, method of getting the word out about your products, services, or company. However, it is not as easy as it seems. There are many things that must come together before you can create an online advertising campaign that works. Look before you leap!

Summary:

Advertising online may seem like it is a simple, easy to do, method of getting the word out about your products, services, or company. However, it is not as easy as it seems. There are many things that must come together before you can create an online advertising campaign that works.

By: Brooke Hayles

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PostHeaderIcon Mobile Advertising For Companies With Small Budgets

When companies are trying to advertise on the cheap one approach that might come to mind is mobile advertising. This type of marketing is great for cross country advertising as well as local advertising. When you compare other forms of media to mobile advertising it is clear that the cost is much less expensive and the retention rate is higher. It also is the form of marketing that has shown the most recent growth. The benefits for mobile marketing are great and offer fantastic visibility and impact along with very high exposure. Mobile advertising, especially when compared to that of other types of advertising includes greater benefits such as the fact that they offer high exposure, they send messages to the consumer that are consistently reinforced, it can be as targeted as you want it to be. This could be narrowed down to an area as small as a zip code. Think about it, mobile advertising covers a much bigger territory than stationary billboards.

When you think about the potential exposure that mobile marketing brings, it truly is amazing however you have to use this form of marketing in various channels. Mobile advertising is used in the form of vinyl magnetic signs to giant billboards that busses are wrapped in. Semi trucks that travel cross country are also used for mobile marketing, especially for big companies that want nationwide exposure. Consider the auto racing industry and how much advertisement they offer, that too is a form of mobile advertising. Statistics have proven that most people do read the advertisements that are on any type of vehicle, consumers also find these types of advertisements to be favorable, and many also say that they would strongly consider a purchase based on these advertisements.

Other types of advertising which include newspaper print advertisements, spot TV, magazine, radio, billboards, and mobile advertisements all have very different price tags on them in regards to cost per thousand with a half page newspaper advertisement running about $20 cost per thousand and mobile advertising is under $1 cost per thousand. That is quite a difference in price and can be just as effective. Mobile advertising is relatively newer but is also become very sophisticated and will continue to grow as an effective vehicle for advertising on the cheap. And as you have discovered, this type of advertising has its advantages. For one, mobile advertising can not be ignored, it is an in your face approach to marketing. You can not throw this away and there is no way that you can not notice it which is what makes it so effective and what makes it so appealing is the cost and the ROI. This is marketing and advertising that generate results. Perhaps this is why it is really creating a marketing buzz and more and more people are using this as part of their marketing and advertising campaigns. The options are endless when it comes to mobile advertising and new ideas are pouring in each and every day that are off the hook but the key is that these ideas are working, and that is what counts.



By: Hal Lewis

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PostHeaderIcon Big Growing Even Bigger: Mobile Advertising and Internet Advertising

Advertisers these days have many options for advertising, but Mobile Advertising and Internet Advertising are the two most thrilling, as advertisements look very attractive when displayed on phone screens and on computer/laptop screens. Since much potential and scope lies in mobile and Internet advertising and it tends to deeply appeal to the viewers. Mobile Advertisement and Internet Advertisements have come in focus.

Mobile Advertising is closely related to online or Internet Advertising, though its reach is far greater – mobile advertising’s estimated targets say that by end 2008, there would be global total 4 billion. Global estimates of computers, including desktops and laptops, is at 800 million. Therefore exclusive advertising on web pages meant for access by mobile phones is a great idea.

It would be easier for an advertiser to convince people to buy their product when people would receive and view ads while there are already out for shopping. Giving them the relevant information needed can do this and supplying them with added details could also influence them to the extent that they straightaway proceed to buy product after seeing its ads.

As essential needs of all humans are very similar, a person who has received an advertisement through Mobile or Internet may not be in need of the service or product advertised but might know someone who is in need of it and so can pass on the advertiser’s message through word of mouth, forwarding the link or the advertisement. A major benefit of Internet Advertising is that the information and content can be accessed in any country even at late odd hours. Internet Advertisements are often interactive advertising so if the Internet Advertiser opts for a response, the viewer may like to visit the brand’s website, or try to contact them through email, phone, etc.

Mobile Advertising and Internet Advertising in future are predicted to become the major sources of advertising.



By: Tdiindia

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Sanjay Sharma, Global Head – brings with him TWENTY LONG YEARS of a multi faceted rich experience of Technology, Operations, Commercial, Sales, Business Development (Domestic & International), Customer Relationship Management & Strategic Alliances. During these years, he has worked in organizations like BPL Telecom Limited, Reliance Communications Limited, Bharti Telesoft Limited.

A graduate in Electronics & Industrial Electronics from University of Pune, Sanjay Sharma is endowed with excellent academic record from a young age being the recipient of National Merit Scholarship School Certificate. Sanjay Sharma also underwent the Residential Management Programme for Business Managers from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) and was honoured with the Best Project Award presented in the partial fulfillment of this Programme.

Within a short span of time with TDI International India Limited, Sanjay Sharma has been single handedly responsible for recruiting a Highly Professional Team of experts that is fully equipped with state-of-art electronics and successfully commissioned the Internet and Mobile Advertising Division which is already producing excellent results.



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PostHeaderIcon Online Advertising and Google Adsense

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Soon after the advent of internet, it was realized that the website real estate (or the space on websites) had commercial value in the advertising world. The simple reason behind this was the soaring popularity of internet and the increasing number of eyeballs received by various websites. Thus, internet advertising (or online advertising) came into being. Today, internet advertising is treated as one of the most effective and most economical means of advertising. In fact, a lot of businesses, especially small businesses, use only this (affordable) medium for advertising their products and services. As technology progressed, so did the online advertising methodologies. Graphics based banner Ads and text Ads got their due recognition and were used quite extensively for online advertising. Even now banner advertising is one of the most popular forms of online advertising.

However, the real breakthrough in online advertising came with Google adsense advertising program. This program helped in connecting advertisers to several website owners who were ready to offer advertising space on their websites. Through Google AdSense program, the advertisements were floated on the websites that had some relevance to the products or services offered by the advertiser. This type of advertising is also called targeted advertising since the Ads are served only to the interested audience and not just anyone or everyone. Soon, Google AdSense became a very effective form of targeted advertising. On Google AdSense program, webmasters are paid on per-click and per-thousand-Ads-displayed basis. And the advertisers can control the amount of money they wish to spend on advertising through Google Adwords program that works in conjunction with the AdSense program.

Google adsense program has caught the fancy of a lot of advertisers and webmasters and its popularity continues to soar everyday. Until another, better advertising program comes into being; Google will continue to hold its place at the core of online advertising.



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