Chapter 12 - Done Flashcards
What is digital marketing?
Refers to all of the activities involved in planning and implementing marketing in the electronic environment, including the internet on computers, tablets and smartphones, and other information and telecommunications technologies
What are some advantages of digital marketing?
One of the main advantages to you might be convenience, as you can access websites 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from just about anywhere, to obtain information that will assist in making the final purchase decision — and in many cases you can make the purchase
What are some disadvantages of digital marketing?
Of course, among the disadvantages for the consumer are the inability to physically examine the product before making the purchase and the risk of credit card fraud
What are the key characteristics of digital marketing?
Profiling, Interactivity and Community, Control and Accessibility and Comparability and Digitalisation
What is profiling?
Refers to the process of getting to know about potential customers before they make a purchase and to find out more about existing customers
What are the methods through which an organisation can gather information about they customers?
Requiring registration
The use of cookies on websites
Competitions
What does digital marketing allow to do with Interactivity and Community?
Other than direct communication, digital marketing offers the most opportunity for interaction between the marketer and the customer
What are the different ways in which interactivity can occur?
A virtual customer service officer A real customer service officer Email newsletters and RSS feeds Survey participation Online communities
What is control?
Control, formally defined, is the ability of the customer to determine how they interact with the marketing message and to influence the presentation and content of the marketing message
What is push advertising?
Refers to advertising sent from the marketer to the customer (it is pushed to them)
What is pull advertising?
Refers to advertising that the customer actively seeks out (they pull it from the marketing organisation)
What is accessibility and comparability?
The web provides individuals with more ability than ever before to research products, compare products and seek the opinions of others about products
What is digitalisation?
Is the ability to deliver a product as information or to present information about a product digitally
* For example, an MP3 or MPEG4 file downloaded from the iTunes store is a product delivered as information
What are digital marketing methods?
Paid Media
Owned Media
Earned Media
What is Paid Media?
Paid media refers to any digital advertising that a business pays for
What can online advertising be classified into?
Display advertising
Search advertising
Classifieds advertising
What is display advertising?
Is the largest category within online advertising, with the growth being fuelled by mobile, video and social media advertising
- Text advertisements have a limited amount of words and always contain a heading, two lines of text, and a web address.
- Image advertisements contain a static image and customised layout compared with text advertising
- Rich media advertisements are similar to image advertising, but include interactive elements, animations or other aspects designed to provide an experience when interacted with by the viewer
- Video advertisements embed a video that displays automatically
What is search advertising?
Is a technique used to bring visitors to your website based on their search engine query
What is the advantage and disadvantage of search advertising?
- An advantage of search advertising is that a business only pays for the advertising if the user clicks on the advertisement
- Search advertising is usually platformbased and linked to a particular provider
What is classifieds advertising?
Started as newspaper and magazine advertising in the traditional print media space, and was later adopted by the website Craigslist, which was created in the mid‐nineties as a place to buy, rent and sell almost anything
What are brochure sites?
- Brochure sites are websites that are essentially an online advertisement for the organisation
- They are particularly useful for service businesses who seek to present a portfolio of work that shows the customisation of their offering
- However, brochure websites have evolved over the past decade, moving from a static website to a more engaging site intended to capture leads and eventually convert them to sales
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a brochure website?
- The advantage of a brochure website is that it often suits the limited budget of a small business, or one that offers a highly customised service or bespoke products
- It also works for those who intend to make minimal changes to the content of their site
- The disadvantages of brochure websites are that they often fail to engage the visitor, and ongoing search engine optimisation can be difficult to achieve when minimal changes are made to content