Chapter 12 e-marketing communication tools

E-MARKETING, 6TH
EDITION
JUDY STRAUSS AND RAYMOND FROST

Chapter 12: E-Marketing Communication Tools

Will it Blend?
 Blendtec supplies commercial blenders to Starbucks
and others.
 Blendtec produced a video in which the CEO blended
unusual products such as a garden rake, a golf club,
and light bulbs.
 The video, uploaded to YouTube, received 3.9 million views
in an 8-month period.
 The Will It Blend? Campaign illustrates the potential value of
connecting with consumers online versus traditional
advertising.
 Do you think that this type of campaign can build
awareness for new products? Can you think of other

Integrated Marketing Communication
(IMC)
 IMC is a cross-functional process for planning,
executing, and monitoring brand communications.
 The goal is to profitably acquire, retain, and grow
customers.
 IMC strategy requires a thorough understanding of
target markets, the brand, its competition, and other
factors.

Marketing Communication Tools
 MarCom consists of both planned and unplanned
messages between firms and customers and among
customers.
 E-marketers can enhance MarCom by using
innovative technologies, such as e-mail, web pages,
blogs, digital receiving devices, etc.
 Internet MarCom may include advertising, sales
promotion, marketing public relations, direct
marketing, and personal selling.

IMC Goals and Strategies
 Goal  Objectives  Strategies
 The AIDA and “think, feel, do” (hierarchy of effects) models help
guide selection of online and offline MarCom tools.
 The models recognize that consumers first become aware of
a product before they develop feelings and purchase it.
 Application depends on whether the product purchasing
decision is high- or low- involvement.
 The models can help marketers select appropriate
communication objectives and strategies, such as:
 Build brand equity.
 Elicit a direct response.

E-Marketing Tactics for Hierarchy of
Effects Goals

 Exhibit 12.1

Internet Advertising
 All paid space on a Web site or in an e-mail is
considered advertising.
 Advertising is nonpersonal, usually persuasive,

communication about products or ideas paid for
by an identified sponsor.
 Online advertising expenditure amount

 1998 – USD 1 Billion
 2000 – USD 8.2 Billion

 2008 – USD 23.45 Billion

Internet Advertising Formats
 Keyword search is the fastest growing and most
important technique.
 Classified ads are the second largest expenditure
category.
 Display ads are the third largest.
 Display ads include traditional banners and many
additional sizes.
 Formats include rectangles, pop-ups, banners, buttons,
and skyscraper display ads.

Rich Media Ads
 Rich media ads are interactive, at least offering click-
through.
 Rich media ads often use Flash animation to attract
attention.
 Many formats can be rich media:
 Banner ads
 Interstitial ads

 Floating ads

 Pop-up and Pop-under ads

Facebook ads – Sponsored
story

Other formats
 Email advertising
 Pop-up
 Pop-under
 Video ad
 Indian panga league
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly4sRTCes0Y

 SMS
 Paid search

Transition and Floater Ads
 Transition ads appear while other content is loading.
 Interstitials are Java-based ads that appear while
content is loading.
 Represent 2% of all Web advertising expenditures.
 Superstitials are video-like ads that appear when a user
moves their mouse.
 Shoshkeles are 5-8 second Flash animations that run
through a Web page.
 Capture user attention and can be entertaining.

E-Mail Advertising
 E-mail advertising is the least expensive
type of online advertising.
 Advertisers (such as Hotmail) can
purchase space in another firm’s e-mail
content.
 E-mail newsletters are another type of e-

mail advertising.

Sponsorships

 Sponsorships integrate editorial
content and advertising.
 Many firms want to build partnerships
that provide useful content.
 Sponsor disclosure is an important issue
for e-marketers.

Mobile Advertising
 Promising marketing communication techniques for
mobile devices include:
 Free mobile content delivery (marketing public relations).
 Content-sponsored advertising.

 Location marketing.

 Short message services (SMS).

Marketing Public Relations
(MPR)
 Public relations includes activities that influence
public opinion and create goodwill.
 MPR includes brand-related activities, such as online
events, and nonpaid, third-party media coverage.
 A Web site can serve as an electronic brochure.
 Online events can draw traffic to a site.
 Users can download video podcasts on many types of
receiving appliances.
 Viral marketing and other techniques can help companies
create buzz online.

Sales Promotion Offers
 Sales promotions are short-term incentives that
facilitate the movement of products to the end user.
 Coupons (e.g. deal of the day, retailmont.com,
hotcoupons.com)
 Rebates (e.g. cash back)
 Samples (e.g. one month free subscription)
 Contests (e.g. Online quiz, give away for providing
information)
 Sweepstakes (e. g. lucky draw)
 Games (e.g. downloadable games,
 Premiums (free or low cost gifts)

 Marketers report 3-5 times higher response rates

Direct Marketing
 Direct marketing includes techniques such
as:
 Telemarketing.
 Outgoing e-mail.
 Postal mail, including catalog marketing.
 Targeted online ads that solicit a direct
response.
 Text messages or Short message services
(SMS).

E-Mail
 E-mail, used by 92% of internet users, is the
internet’s killer application.
 94% of marketers invest in e-mail campaigns.
 E-mail has advantages over postal direct mail
marketing.
 Average cost is less than $0.01.
 Immediacy and convenience.
 E-mails can be automatically individualized.

 E-mail also has disadvantages.
 Consumer distaste for unsolicited e-mail or spam.
 Effective lists are hard to obtain and maintain.

 ROI: Exhibit 12.16

Permission Marketing: Opt-in, Opt-
out
 When consumers opt-in, they are giving permission
to receive commercial e-mail about topics of interest
to them.
 Opt-in techniques are part of a bigger marketing
strategy called permission marketing, “turning
strangers into customers.”
 Lists with opt-in members get much higher response
than other lists.

Viral Marketing
 Viral marketing is the online equivalent of word of
mouth marketing.
 Word of mouse
 Hotmail is a viral marketing success story.

 Movies such as Blair Witch Project and American
Psycho were promoted using viral marketing techniques.
 Burger King’s Subservient Chicken campaign drew 14
million visitors in the first year.
 “Indian Panga League” youtube ad series

Text Messaging
 Short message services (SMS) are text messages
sent over the internet with a cell phone or PDA.
 Instant messages are sent among users who are
online at the same time.
 Marketers can build relationships by sending
permission-based information where consumers
want to receive it.
 Flight delays
 Music and movie schedules

Direct Marketing Metrics
 E-mail receives a 3-10% click-through to the
sponsor’s Web site and an average 5%
conversion rate.
 Catalog companies and retailers have more

than 9% click-throughs on e-mail campaigns.
 In a study of SMS campaigns, 94% of
messages were read by recipients and 23%
showed or forwarded messages to a friend.

Spam
 Spam is unsolicited e-mail.
 Spammers routinely harvest e-mail addresses from
newsgroup postings.
 Many moderated groups filter spam and most e-mail
programs can filter spam.
 The CAN-SPAM Act appears to have little ability to
stop spam.

Personal Selling
 Personal selling involves real time conversation
between a salesperson and customer, face-to-face,
by telephone, or by computer.
 Some companies provide real time sales assistance
online.
 Land’s End has a live chat feature.
 The internet can also generate leads for
salespeople.

IMC Metrics
 Display ads are ineffective. Only 0.15% of all users
click on them.
 Online ads that were bigger, placed as interstitials, or
contained rich media delivered greater impact.
 There is increasing evidence that online and offline
advertising work well together.
 Exhibit 12.20
 Exhibit 12.21
 Exhibit 12.22

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