The Internet is an important source for data and knowledge; hence, it currently plays a significant role in our daily lives. Internet applications have contributed tremendously in facilitating our work in terms of cost and effort cutting, expanding markets, changing the methods used to carry out activities, different applications, changing the quality required by customers, and consumer desires and behavior. Examples of these applications are online marketing, e-mail marketing, home business, and mobile marketing. E-research can also be considered as an Internet application. In fact, there are many terminologies related to this concept such as Internet research, online research, and Web research. This chapter provides an illustration of some of the new marketing applications of the Internet.
TopIntroduction
Internet is considered as one of the 21st century miracles, opened new domains, and new marketing opportunities. Accordingly, this chapter focuses on some of its new marketing applications. Internet provides the possibility to use e-marketing methods in traditional areas, which led to the emergence of so-called: E-broker, home marketing, e-mail exporting, direct marketing using e-mail, and others. Some would wonder and ask what's new in using these applications, especially that international marketing or home business, etc., are not new activities. So what can the Internet contribute for these activates? In fact, Internet applications have done a lot in terms of facilitating work, cost and effort cutting, expanding markets, changing the methods used to carry out these activities, and changing the quality required by customers, consumer's desires and behavior. Examples of these applications are online marketing, e-mail marketing, home business, and mobile marketing.
With regards to e-research, there are many terminologies related to this concept such as: Internet research, online research and Web research. Via buying e-research services, a researcher can achieve both performance speed and reduce overall costs for research (Kirkpatrick, 1990). 40% of the research cost can be reduced through finish the research in half of the time that it may be taken to complete it when the researcher depends on traditional research methods. Many research ideas that were previously more difficult to be done by using traditional methods are becoming easier via Internet such as:
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Measuring the demographic variables for the actual market.
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Study of competitors.
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Accurate assessment of research strategy.
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Study the decisions to complete the purchase.
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Measuring the efficiency of online advertising.
TopContemporary E-Marketing Techniques
Without defending the capabilities that have been added to the marketing power as a result of technological developments, it might be fruitful to see what has been achieved in this area, and how business organizations can deal with these developments.