Internet Advertising Options Media buys (advertisements) Ad content Banners •Static •Animated •Interactive Advertising site •Corporate site •Brand site •Distributor site Co-branded c[r]
Trang 1Web Site Promotion
Week 9
Trang 2• Online promotion techniques
• Online advertising
• Offline promotion techniques
• Measuring advertising effectiveness
Trang 3Some Definitions
• Online promotion – uses communication
via the internet itself to raise awareness
about a site and drive traffic to it
• Offline promotion – uses traditional media such as television or newspaper advertising and word of mouth to promote a company’s web site
Trang 4Online Promotion Techniques
• Online promotion
– Banner advertisements
– Other methods of linking to sites
• Techniques are combined in what is known
as a traffic-building campaign
• This is a method of increasing the audience
of a site using different online and possibly offline techniques
Trang 5Online Advertising – A Basic
Audience of web site page Containing Advertisement
Page or ad impressions
Proportion Who click
On banner Advertisement
Clickthrough 2-10 per cent
Proportion Who take Action
Marketing outcome
Trang 6Key Concepts of Advertising
Old media New media
Space Expensive commodity Cheap, unlimited
Time Expensive commodity
For marketers
Expensive commodity for users
Image creation Image is everything
Information secondary
Information is everything Image is secondary
Communication Push, one-way Pull, interactive
Call to action Incentives Information (incentives)
Trang 7Main Differences
• The cost of advertising in the new medium reduces as
more space becomes available
• It is the customer who initiates the dialogue who will
expect his or her specific needs to be addressed Web
marketers need to promote their web sites effectively in order that customers find the information they are looking for
• The user’s time is valuable and the time interacting with the user will be limited so this time must be maximized
• Information is the main currency Supplying information is arguably more important than appealing to emotions
Trang 8Purpose of Banner Advertising
Trang 9How Well Does Banner
Advertising Work
• Online advertising is more likely to be
noticed than television ads
• Lower advertisement to editorial ratio on web pages 90% text to 10% ads)
• Web users use the medium actively rather than passively
Trang 10Locations of Banners
• Portals
• Generalized news services
• Specialized interest sites
Trang 11Internet Advertising Options
Trang 12Payment Models
• Per exposure – through ad impressions or possibly through the length of time the user views an advertisement
• Per response – payment only occurs
according to the number of clickthroughs that occur
• Per action – payment according to a
marketing outcome
Trang 13Making Banner Advertising
Work
• Appropriate incentives are needed to achieve
clickthrough
• Creative design needs to be tested extensively
• Appropriate keywords are needed
• Placement of advertisement and timing need to be considered carefully
• Consider the clickthrough quality, not just the
quantity
• Build the infrastructure to deal with the response
Trang 14Forms of Advertising
• Advertising networks – collections of independent web sites from different companies and media
networks, each of which has an arrangement with
an advertising broker to place banner ads
• Affiliate networks – collection of web sites that link to an online retailer in exchange for
commission on purchases made from the retailer
Trang 15The Future of Online Advertising
• The size of audience is likely to be constrained by the cost of buying devices to access the internet
• Message is delivered using limited space on
screen, and with limited use of sound and motion
• Efficacy of advertising may decline as users
become familiar with advertisements
• Advertising inventory is always increasing as new sites go online and size of existing sites increase increasing the costs to place an ad
Trang 16Other Online Promotion Methods
• Promotion in search engines and directories
• Links from other sites: co-branding and
sponsorship
• Using email for advertising
– Liszt www.liszt.com
– Kim Bayne’s personal site www.wolfBayne.com/lists
– Online advertising www.o-a.com
– Clickz www.clickz.com/list
– Internet advertising organization www.internet
Trang 17Loyalty Techniques and Online
Trang 18Site Announcements
• What’s New web page
• Directories and search engines
• Newsgroups
• Newsletters
• Books and magazines thal list web sites
Trang 19On-site Promotion Techniques
• Sponsoring of an event, team or sports personality
• A treasure hunt on different pages of the site, with
a prize
• A screensaver
• A site-related quiz
• Monthly product discount on an e-commerce site
• Regularly updated information indicated by
current date or date new content is added
Trang 20Offline Promotion Techniques
• Put your URL everywhere
• Using traditional media advertise the URL address
• People can be directed to the web address for information rather than calling a phone number
• Include URL on stationery
Trang 21Integrating Online and Offline
Trang 22Measuring Advertising
effectiveness
• Create a measurement process
• Identify the measures to use
• Specify the online measurement methods to use
• Measure individual behavior
• Customer satisfaction, loyalty and brand
impact