Online advertising, also called Internet advertising, is a form of advertising which uses the Internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to consumers. It is in itself an extensive type of advertising that can includes search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), local online advertising, banner advertising, email marketing, online video marketing, social media optimization (SMO) strategies and other forms of online outreach.
The best thing about online advertising is that unlike the traditional advertising, you can measure it at its every part and can make alterations in it at any point of time while it’s running. So, you can have true value for your money by investing only on the part that’s boosting your business and keeping a check on the part that wasn’t giving any positive result or in simple words was going waste. Besides, online adverting is more targeted, measurable and cost efficient, even small businesses can successfully advertise online.
Whether you are a small business or well-established one, two factors that need your consideration primarily are:
1. Your main purpose(s) for advertising
2. The size of your advertising budget
And! If you have not determined these two factors in your marketing plan, do it before you advertise.
Because! It will help pick your online advertising mix based on those objectives and make trade-offs between advertising prospects according to your budget.
Now, comes the billing methods in online advertising that you must be aware with before you make a decision.
Billing Methods for Online Advertising
CPI: Cost Per Impression/Insertion
CPM: Cost Per 1000 Impression
CPC: Cost Per Click
CPA: Cost Per Action/Acquisition
CPT: Cost Per Time
Most important forms of online adverting and how they are billed
Search advertising:
These are always text-based advertising billed at CPC or optimized for CPA.
Display or banner advertising:
This type of advertising that includes static or animated graphic’s ads appearing on various website pages are traditionally billed at CPM but increasingly billed at CPC. But then sometimes they may also be delivered as CPT when it comes to sponsorship ads.
Link advertising:
These ads that contain text links to your website provided within webpage content are billed at CPC.
Paid listings (e.g., yellow pages)
Email or newsletter-delivered advertising:
This type of advertising includes graphic or text ads delivered to subscriber lists and are billed according to CPI.
Affiliate advertising:
These are again text or graphic ads but then paid on a CPA. Here the action could be anything a lead generation, a sale or even a sign up.
Paid blog postings:
In this type of advertising onetime fee is paid to bloggers who are willing to recommend your products or services, and possibly provide a link back to your website.
Besides!
There are a few more creative ways to advertise online but they may come with high production costs. For instance, product placements can be done in games & videos, advertorials or engaging rich media versions of display advertising such as video, special flash effects, interactive ads, etc.
Three most basic categories of Online Advertising
Search advertising
Examples: PPC Advertising, local online advertising, etc.
Graphical and rich media display advertising
Examples: Online video marketing, Social media advertising, etc.
Affiliate advertising
Example: Affiliate Marketing
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Note:
You can always implement two or all three online advertising categories depending on your purpose and budget as the lines blur between them in actual fact.
How DSIM helps you get started with Online Advertising
At DSIM , you not only learn what is online advertising and what are its types in detail but you also get to know other very important requisites of online advertising with a comprehensive practical training. There are a few very important things in online advertising and that you must be completely acquainted with them and their technicalities such as the payment modules, tracking & measuring ROI of online advertising and allocation of funds to various online advertising platforms and so on. At DSIM , you not only acquire their know-how but you also do a lot of hands -on practice as the trainers gives you various assignments and help you hone your skills. We also tell you about companies that provide online advertising solutions if in case you need it. Besides, your concept on online advertising are already made clear here making it easier for you to take any decision about online marketing.
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