Internet marketing is marketing of products and services through internet. It is also referred to as i-marketing or e marketing or online marketing or web marketing. Internet has helped media by bringing it to the global audience. The interactive nature of internet marketing by providing us with the instant responses is the unique quality of this medium. This medium sometimes is considered to have a border scope, the reason is that, it not only refers to internet, email and wireless connection but also it includes management of digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems. Internet marketing is a tie up of creative and technical aspects of internet which includes design, development, sales and advertising. It also places media along different stages of customer engagement cycle through search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO),email marketing, banner ads on websites and web 2.0 strategies. Internet marketing is associated with several business models like e-commerce, publishing, lead-based websites, affiliate marketing and local online marketing. It has many other models depending on the requirements of each person or the business that launches i-marketing campaign. E-commerce is where goods are sold directly to the customers or the businesses. Publishing is sale of advertising. Lead-based websites is an organization; it generates value by acquiring sales leads from its websites. Affiliate marketing is a process where a product is developed by one person and sold by some other for a share of profits. The owner of the product will provide the seller with some marketing materials like tracking facility, affiliate link and sales letters. Internet marketing has lot of advantages. Internet marketing is inexpensive when compared to the ratio of cost against the reach of the targeted customers. Marketers can reach wide audience in small fraction of advertising budgets. The consumers also have a chance of researching and purchase products to their convenience. Hence, businesses have an advantage of attracting customers in a medium where results come quickly. It has few limitations on the other side. Internet marketing needs customers to use new technologies and not the traditional ones. Also another barrier is low speed internet connections.
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