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Direct Marketing Consists of Direct Communications with Carefully Targeted Individual Consumers to Obtain an
Immediate Response
FORMS OF COMMUNICATION IN DIRECT MARKETING
Internet marketing
Face-to-face selling
Direct mail
Brochures
Catalogs
Flyers
Telemarketing
Direct-response advertising
Television
Radio
TRENDS LEADING TO THE GROWTH OF DIRECT MARKETING
For buyers , direct and digital marketing are convenient ,easy and private. They give buyers anywhere , anytime access to an
almost unlimited assortment of goods and a wealth of product and buying information.
For sellers, direct marketing often provides a low cost ,efficient speedy alternative for reaching their markets. Today’s direct
marketers can target small groups or individual customers
BENEFITS OF DIRECT AND DIGITAL MARKETING TO BUYERS AND SELLERS:
Because companies can interact with customers by phone or online, learn more about their needs and personalize
products and services to specific customer tastes. In turn customer can ask questions and volunteer feedback .
FORMS OF DIRECT AND DIGITAL MARKETING:
The major forms of direct and digital marketing are face to face selling , direct mail marketing , telemarketing, direct response
television marketing .In recent years , marketing tools has burst onto the marketing scene, including online marketing, social media
and mobile marketing.
MARKETING AND INTERNET
Much of the world’s business today is carried out over digital networks that connect people and companies
These days, people connect digitally with information, brands, and each
other at almost any time and from almost anywhere
The digital age has fundamentally changed customers’ idea of speed, price, product information, service, and brand interactions.
As a result, it has given marketers a whole new way to create customer value, engage customers, and build customer relationships
ONLINE MARKETING
Online Marketing is the marketing of products or services over the Internet & it ties together creative and technical aspects of the
Internet, including design, development, advertising and sale
Marketing via the Internet using company websites, online ads and promotions, e-mail, online video and blogs for selling goods
and services directly to customers
METHODS OF ONLINE MARKETING
The fast growing social media and mobile marketing approaches in separate sections are as following
Marketing Website
Branded Community Website
Online Advertising
E-mail Marketing
Spam
Viral Marketing
Blogs
MARKETING WEBSITE
A Web site that engages consumers to move them closer to a direct purchase or other marketing outcome
Website marketing means promoting a business website in order to bring in more visitors. These visitors should be people who
are likely to purchase the business’s services or products. More visitors means more opportunities to try to convince potential
customers to buy
Website marketing usually means getting on the first page of search results.
MARKETING WEBSITE
A Web site that presents brand content that engages consumers and creates customer community around a brand
Group of people interacting with one another based on their love of a brand
Formed on the basis of attachment to a product or brand
It focuses on the connections between consumers
ONLINE ADVERTISING
Advertising that appears while consumers are browsing online, including display ads, search-related ads, online classifieds, and
other forms
Online advertising is a form of promotion that uses the Internet and World Wide Web for the expressed purpose of delivering
marketing messages to attract customers
It is the advertising which uses Internet as media to communicate.
Examples
Better information
Advertiser has the capability of conveying more details with regards to the product he is selling, at a very low cost so it provides
better information
Faster than Other mediums
Start sending out your ads the moment you sign up for the campaign, unlike other sources of advertising
E-MAIL MARKETING
Sending highly targeted, highly personalized, relationship-building marketing messages via e-mail
Email marketing is promoting products through the use of email
Email marketing can include newsletters with updates on the company, or promotions of sales and exclusive deals for
subscribers. Marketing emails may also seek to share a general message on the company's behalf
Email marketing allows businesses to keep their customers informed and their marketing messages to their audience
SPAM
Marketing techniques that use social networks to produce an increase in brand awareness or achieve other marketing objectives
(such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes
It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.
Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, images, or even text messages. Here, you make a useful product like e-book
or software, build some humorous video or funny email and allow people to pass it on freely..
BLOGS