Chapter 4. Marketing On The Web
Chapter 4. Marketing On The Web
ELEC4: Electronic
Commerce
Objectives
In this chapter, you will learn about:
• When to use product-based and customer-
based marketing strategies
• Communicating with different market
segments
• Customer relationship intensity and the
customer relationship life cycle
• Using advertising on the Web
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Objectives (continued)
• E-mail marketing
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Web Marketing Strategies
• Four Ps of marketing
– Product
• Physical item or service that the company is selling
– Price
• Amount a customer pays for the product
– Promotion
• Any means of spreading the word about the product
– Place
• Need to have products or services available in different
locations
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Product-Based Marketing
Strategies
• When creating a marketing strategy,
managers must consider both the nature of
their products and the nature of their
potential customers
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Customer-Based Marketing
Strategies
• Good first step in building a customer-based
marketing strategy
– Identify groups of customers who share common
characteristics
• B2B sellers are more aware of the need to
customize product and service offerings to
match their customers’ needs
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Communicating with Different
Market Segments
• Identify groups of potential customers
– The first step in selling to those customers
• Media selection
– Can be critical for an online firm
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Trust and Media Choice
• The Web is an intermediate step between
mass media and personal contact
• Cost of mass media advertising can be
spread over its audience
• Companies can use the Web to capture some
of the benefits of personal contact, yet avoid
some of the costs inherent in that approach
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Market Segmentation
• Market segmentation is dividing the pool of
potential customers into segments and
targeting specific portions of the market with
advertising messages
• Segments
– Usually defined in terms of demographic
characteristics
• Micromarketing
– Targeting very small market segments
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Market Segmentation (continued)
• Geographic segmentation
– Creating different combinations of marketing
efforts for each geographical group of customers
• Demographic segmentation
– Uses age, gender, family size, income, education,
religion, or ethnicity to group customers
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Market Segmentation (continued)
• Psychographic segmentation
– Groups customers by variables such as social
class, personality, or their approach to life
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Beyond Market Segmentation:
Customer Behavior and Relationship
Intensity
• Behavioral segmentation
– Creation of separate experiences for customers
based on their behavior
• Occasion segmentation
– When behavioral segmentation is based on things
that happen at a specific time
• Usage-based market segmentation
– Customizing visitor experiences to match the site
usage behavior patterns of each visitor
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Beyond Market Segmentation: Customer
Behavior and Relationship Intensity
(continued)
• Behavior-based categories include:
– Simplifiers
• Like convenience
– Surfers
• Use the Web to find information and explore new ideas
– Bargainers
• Are in search of a good deal
– Connectors
• Use the Web to stay in touch with other people
– Routiners
• Return to the same sites over and over again
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Customer Relationship Intensity and
Life-Cycle Segmentation
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Acquisition, Conversion, and
Retention of Customers
• Acquisition cost
– Money a site spends to draw one visitor to the site
• Conversion
– Converting a first-time visitor into a customer
• Conversion cost
– Cost of inducing one visitor to make a purchase, sign
up for a subscription, or register
• Retained customers
– Customers who return to the site one or more times
after making their first purchases
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Customer Acquisition,
Conversion, and Retention: The
Funnel Model
• Marketing managers need to have a good
sense of how their companies acquire and
retain customers
• Funnel model
– Used as a conceptual tool to understand the
overall nature of a marketing strategy
– Very similar to the customer life-cycle model
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Advertising on the Web
• Banner ad
– Small rectangular object on a Web page
• Interactive marketing unit (IMU) ad formats
– Standard banner sizes that most Web sites have
voluntarily agreed to use
• Banner exchange network
– Coordinates ad sharing
• Banner advertising network
– Acts as a broker between advertisers and Web
sites that carry ads
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Advertising on the Web
(continued)
• Cost per thousand (CPM)
– Pricing metric used when a company purchases
mass media advertising
• Trial visit
– First time a visitor loads a Web site page
• Page view
– Each page loaded by a visitor
• Impression
– Each time the banner ad loads
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Other Web Ad Formats
• Pop-up ad
– Appears in its own window when the user opens
or closes a Web page
• Ad-blocking software
– Prevents banner ads and pop-up ads from loading
• Interstitial ad
– When a user clicks a link to load a page, the
interstitial ad opens in its own browser window
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Site Sponsorships
• Give advertisers a chance to promote
products, services, or brands in a more subtle
way
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E-Mail Marketing
• Sending one e-mail message to a customer
can cost less than one cent if the company
already has the customer’s e-mail address
• Conversion rate
– The percentage of recipients who respond to an
ad or promotion
• Opt-in e-mail
– Practice of sending e-mail messages to people
who request information on a particular topic
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Technology-Enabled Customer
Relationship Management
• Clickstream
– Information that a Web site can gather about its
visitors
• Technology-enabled relationship
management
– Firm obtains detailed information about a
customer’s behavior, buying patterns, etc., and
uses it to set prices and negotiate terms
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Clickstream
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Creating and Maintaining Brands
on the Web
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Emotional Branding vs. Rational
Branding
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Emotional Branding vs. Rational
Branding
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Affiliate Marketing Strategies
• Affiliate marketing
– One firm’s Web site includes descriptions, reviews,
ratings, or other information about a product that is
linked to another firm’s site
• Affiliate site
– Obtains the benefit of the selling site’s brand in
exchange for the referral
• Cause marketing
– Affiliate marketing program that benefits a charitable
organization
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Viral Marketing Strategies
• Relies on existing customers to tell other
people about products or services they have
enjoyed using
• Example:
– Blue Mountain Arts
• Electronic greeting card company
• Purchases very little advertising, but grew rapidly
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Blue Mountain Arts
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Search Engine Positioning and
Domain Names
• Search engine is a Web site that helps
people find things on the Web
• It has 3 major parts:
– Spider, crawler, or robot
• Program that automatically searches the Web
– Index or database
• Storage element of a search engine
– Search utility
• Uses terms provided to find Web pages that match
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Spider, crawler, or robot
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Index or database
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Search utility
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Search Engine Positioning and
Domain Names (continued)
• Nielsen//NetRatings
– Frequently issues press releases that list the most
frequently visited Web sites
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Nielsen//NetRatings
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Search Engine Positioning and
Domain Names (continued)
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Paid Search Engine Inclusion and
Placement
• Paid placement
– Option of purchasing a top listing on results pages
for a particular set of search terms
– Rates vary
• Search engine placement brokers
– Companies that aggregate inclusion and
placement rights on multiple search engines
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Web Site Naming Issues
• Domain names
– Companies often buy more than one
– Reason for additional domain names is to ensure
that potential site visitors who misspell the URL
will still be redirected to the intended site
• Example: Yahoo! owns the name Yahow.com
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Summary
• Four Ps of marketing
– Product, price, promotion, and place
• Market segmentation
– Using geographic, demographic, and
psychographic information can work well on the
Web
• Types of online ads
– Pop-ups, pop-behinds, and interstitials
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Summary (continued)
• Technology-enabled customer relationship
management can provide better returns for
Web businesses
• Firms on the Web can use rational branding
instead of emotional branding techniques
• Critical for many businesses is successful
search engine positioning and domain name
selection
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