Online Consumer Behavior, Market Research, and Advertisement
Online Consumer Behavior, Market Research, and Advertisement
Online Consumer Behavior, Market Research, and Advertisement
Learning Objectives
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Understand the decision-making process of consumer purchasing online. Describe how companies are building one-to-one relationships with customers. Explain how personalization is accomplished online. Discuss the issues of e-loyalty and e-trust in EC. Describe consumer market research in EC.
Learning Objectives
6. Describe Internet marketing in B2B, including organizational buyer behavior. 7. Describe the objectives of Web advertising and its characteristics. 8. Describe the major advertising methods used on the Web. 9. Describe various online advertising strategies and types of promotions. 10. Describe permission marketing, ad management, localization, and other advertising-related issues.
Personalization, Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Trust in EC personalization The matching of services, products, and advertising content with individual consumers and their preferences. user profile The requirements, preferences, behaviors, and demographic traits of a particular customer.
Personalization, Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Trust in EC Major strategies used to compile user profiles:
Solicit information directly from the user Observe what people are doing online
cookie A data file that is placed on a users hard drive by a remote Web server, frequently without disclosure or the users consent, that collects information about the users activities at a site.
Trust In Ec
trust The psychological status of willingness to depend on another person or organization.
Web Advertising
Overview Of Web Advertising
interactive marketing Online marketing, facilitated by the Internet, by which marketers and advertisers can interact directly with customers and consumers can interact with advertisers/vendors.
Web Advertising
Web Advertising
Some Internet Advertising Terminology
ad views The number of times users call up a page that has a banner on it during a specific period; known as impressions or page views. button A button is a small banner that is linked to a Web site. It can contain downloadable software. page A page is an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document that may contain text, images, and other online elements, such as Java applets and multimedia files. It can be generated statically or dynamically.
Web Advertising
click (click-through or ad click) A count made each time a visitor clicks on an advertising banner to access the advertisers Web site. CPM (cost per thousand impressions) The fee an advertiser pays for each 1,000 times a page with a banner ad is shown. conversion rate The percentage of clickers who actually make a purchase.
Web Advertising
click-through rate The percentage of visitors who are exposed to a banner ad and click on it. click-through ratio The ratio between the number of clicks on a banner ad and the number of times it is seen by viewers; measures the success of a banner in attracting visitors to click on the ad. hit A request for data from a Web page or file.
Web Advertising
visit A series of requests during one navigation of a Web site; a pause of a certain length of time ends a visit. unique visits A count of the number of visitors entering a site, regardless of how many pages are viewed per visit. stickiness Characteristic that influences the average length of time a visitor stays in a site.
Web Advertising
advertising networks Specialized firms that offer customized Web advertising, such as brokering ads and targeting ads to select groups of consumers.
Managerial Issues
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Do we understand our customers? Who will conduct the market research? Are customers satisfied with our Web site? How can we use social networks for advertising? How do we decide where to advertise? What is our commitment to Web advertising, and how will we coordinate Web and traditional advertising? Should we integrate our Internet and non-Internet marketing campaigns? What ethical issues should we consider? Are any metrics available to guide advertisers? Which Internet marketing/advertising channel to use?
Summary
1. The online consumer decision-making process. 2. Building one-to-one relationships with customers. 3. Online personalization. 4. Increasing loyalty and trust. 5. EC customer market research. 6. B2B Internet marketing methods and organizational buyers. 7. Objectives and characteristics of Web advertising. 8. Major online advertising methods. 9. Various advertising strategies and types of promotions. 10. Permission marketing, ad management, and localization.