Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Online Advertising & Its Competitive Advantages!


Online Advertising can be used to gain significant competitive advantage in the market. Most businesses can utilize online advertising as a valuable means to display their corporate profile and to create buzz among potential target groups.  Internet is a targeted medium. Therefore using internet as a medium for communicating the brand message means reaching out to customers in a targeted manner. It may be well noted that the number of internet users in the last few years has dramatically increased which provides advertisers exclusive opportunities to make the most of internet advertising.

Internet Advertising is not limited to a few practices. With the changing trends of time, internet advertising practices have also been redefined. Advertising through internet media is mainly carried out with one purpose i.e. to pursue potential buyers to get interested at a specific product or service. Internet Advertising is not restricted to a geographical boundary which is why it is advantageous to use this medium to target customers across the globe. A local brand may also be advertised to a global audience through this medium of communication.

Advertisers can also sort out a data of customers to whom the brand message can be targeted at. Data based targeting is one of the major assets of launching an online advertising campaign. Demographic surveys render a great help while sorting out target group to convey the brand message. Online advertising also enables advertisers to have a complete control on the brand message. The advertiser also has a choice to stop or continue the running ad according to the response it generates from the audiences. For example, if the response is good, he can prolong the campaign and if it’s not satisfactory he can discontinue the campaign and devise another promotion plan of the brand or business. No other advertising medium provides such exclusive advantage as online advertising does.

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