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Product endorsements are enormously visible through internet, television and other communication facilities. Though millions of cash are spent in the conceptualization, production, publication and/or airtime on a particular product, large amount on return of investment is expected.

More so, if the product endorser (individual, a group of people or a company) is of great influence to the public, the expectation is surely higher. Marketing should, however, be very careful in presenting the true facts about products or services offered. The avoidance of exaggerated claims and a clearer objective of what can reasonably be expected in return for a price are important steps towards the right direction.

There are companies that encountered complaints from customer/s about the effect on using certain products. Customers are motivated to use the products due to the influence brought by the well known personalities (movies, sports enthusiast, etc) without due consideration on the effect of such product. Inefficient information on product features, benefits and proper usage may result to the company being held liable, hence, drop in sales and sometimes end up in court litigations due to customers’ complaints.

Why do a certain products sell more than the competition? It is obviously because of the company’s tract record plus the products are made through modern manufacturing technology acceptable in international standard that they claim through promotions and advertisements.

These companies must always maintain their performance standard at the highest degree. To be more meticulous about the product’s specifications including the smallest details to ensure continuous increase in number of satisfied customers.

The factors we generally consider in marketing are the product, price, the place or location, and promotion or the most common jargon used-advertisement (market mix). Marketing is very basic yet, so complex. Every transaction in this world, (even during the medieval era) is accomplished through “excellent marketing strategy” may the product be tangible or intangible, service and the like.

With the invention and modernization of communication technology, people can now easily access to target prospective clients to promote and sell products on a larger scale. The same also is true to people who do not have the luxury of time to canvass for and buy what they need. All they have to do is check through the internet for possible supplier/s. Thus, accessibility is no longer a hindrance in transacting business.

However, we have to be conscious, observant and alert as to how the modern communication technology in marketing through advertising is influencing people specially the young and the young adults, in particular. An advertisement is conceptualized either by a person or a group who differs in attitude or state of mind, family background, culture and beliefs.

Let’s face it, advertisements (good or bad) influences people’s way of life. This can be observed among the young and the young adults who imitate the behavior of product endorsers (actions, language used and lifestyle). Therefore, the human factor has to be given bigger consideration- in marketing through advertising using modern technology, not just to achieve the desired return of investment and profit but promoting “good moral values” (character enhancement) as well.

Email marketing is an internet marketing service, in which considered as second to the most popular in the industry. It is a form of direct marketing through electronic mail. They are using this marketing service to acquire new customers by sending full information about the company and to introduce merchant’s products or services, to asked for a repeat business and to enhance and maintain good relationship to the old and current customers.

Here are the four suggestion tips to a successful Email marketing:

1. Quality database
2. Timely and relevant messages
3. Advance technology and strong ISP relations
4. Segment your database.

Email marketing has a record of consistent growth since 2002. There is undeniable continuous support in the industry from online community.

Here are the several reasons for the popularity of Email marketing:

1. Powerful method for boosting online business

2. Effective in generating sales

3. Effective in Lead generation

4. Branding and awareness

5. Low cost way of sending information

6. Return of investment or ROI can be tracked using email marketing

7. Less expensive than direct marketing or newsletters

8. Many users, check their email everyday

9. Easy tracking of email messages, there are many tools than can track email messages, some of them are: bounce messages, auto responders and web bugs.

10. Advertisers can reach substantial number of potential clients.

11. You can send information in a short delivery time.

There are many advantages mentioned above, but still in all things, you also need to look for the disadvantage and that is your email is useless if it will be tag as spam or unsolicited mail by the user. Spam also called, as junk email is the abuse of electronic messaging systems by sending unsolicited bulk messages without any operating expense.

Email marketing is well accepted in online community, that is why many email marketing software are available in the net. See the short lists below:

1. Lyris – http://www.lyris.com/
2. Interspire – http://www.interspire.com/
3. Isoft – http://www.lsoft.com/
4. Mailing list manager pro – http://www.mailing-manager.com/
5. Desktop mailer - http://www.desktopemailer.net/index.html

Paid per click (PPC) advertising is usually used by search engine, content sites and advertising networks to do internet marketing. It is a marketing model, wherein small ads placed in to websites in which advertisers pay only when their ads are visited. There are some ways of measuring the PPC campaign, one of them is the CTR or click- through rate. It was designed to measure the success of your online advertising. It was generated by dividing the number of clicks to the number of impressions. An impression was defined as the number of times the ads delivered.

There are many search engines available in the net. Those are Yahoo search marketing, Google AdWords, MSN adcenter, ABC search and MIVA, they are the most popular among others and according to some articles the biggest is Google AdWords.

The pay per click campaign components consists of keyword strategy, ad copy, bid prices, cost per acquisition, cost per click, etc. The cost per click is classified by different models most used are bid based and the flat rate. Big search engine usually used the bid based model.

Pay per click is getting popular in advertising or internet marketing that is why it is also abused through click fraud and because of the website developer came up with some tools in which can track or monitor those click fraud.

Here are the lists of some tools to be used in ad watcher (monitoring click fraud & ad tracking solution):

1. Google AdWords report

2. KeywordMax

3. AdWatcher

4. Atlas one point

5. Pay Per Click Galaxy

6. Dynamic Bid Maximizer Advance / Overture

7. ClickTracks

8. BidRank

9. Keyword Discovery

10. Conversion Ruler

Those will help you to track and analyze your pay per click campaign. It will help you to avoid click fraud and monitor ROI or return of investment.

Many company or agencies are offering services to handle PPC campaign. There are so called the experts. They are good and well trained with this kind of advertisement. Oh I wish I am also an expert that is my frustration. Guys see the list of top agencies below.

Some of them requires minimum budget others don’t.

1. Vizion Interactive

2. Webrageous Studios

3. Enhanced Concepts

4. WPromote None

5. Dexterity Media International

6 Silver Scope Promotion

Pay per click advertising is a very good source of income to these agencies, because of many search engines that are doing this kind of advertising. Pay per click advertising is getting popular each day.

What is internet marketing? It is also known as online marketing, it is a way of marketing services or products to the internet. For me it is the cheapest way of marketing one product/service. The process is tested cost effective with good ROI or Return of Investment. It does not require you to expend to some usual marketing expense like printing or transportation expense.

Internet marketing is associated with some business models such as e-commerce. It was defined as e-commerce because the product is sold directly to the costumers. There are many types of internet marketing; some of them are as follows:

1. SEO or search engine optimization – This is a way of optimizing your site to increased page rank and make it on top to those search engine sites.

2. PPC or paid per click advertising – This is a type of online marketing, wherein advertisers pay only base on how many times their site was clicked or opened.

3. Banners advertising – It is a way of embedding advertisement into some interesting web pages. When someone clicked that embedded advertisement, users will automatically direct to the site of that advertisement.

4. Online article submission – It is a way of writing all about your product/service and submitting those to some article submission site. It is like trying to reach your client by informing or giving details about your company.

5. Email marketing – It is a way sending emails via electronic mail. That email contains promotion letters about the company. Trying to reach out a possible market.

What makes Internet or online marketing popular? There are many aspects to be considered, why internet marketing is popular especially in United States. The main reason I think is number one, internet is all over. We can even communicate in our time using internet alone, by means of VOIP or voice over internet protocol, There are many companies who offered this kind of service like Skype, yahoo messenger and a lot more, there is no need for mobile phone. Secondly it was proven cost effective; in fact there are much low priced software available to be used in online marketing. Aside from that online marketing tip is just a clicked away to your net. It is available for free; all you need to have is patience, whoa. That’s the key to a success right? Patience.

Here we go. I hope this short article in any way helps you to know a little about online marketing.