The selection of an effective advertising campaign is remarkably essential for organizations to get consumers' attention where diverse conventional mediums were already operational over the past decades (i.e., outdoor media advertising). However, the trend has been transformed toward revolutionary means of marketing communications owing to widespread penetration of the technology. Therefore, electronic marketing is a challenging and growing trend to attain consumers' attention using internet in the present era. The core aim of this chapter is to investigate the significance of e-marketing (eM) and outdoor media advertising on consumer buying behavior within the electronic products of Pakistan. It is empirically revealed that e-marketing and outdoor advertising are factors of exploratory consumer buying behavior. In comparison, electronic marketing may have a higher positive influence than outdoor media advertising in the current digital age to reach a particular market. This chapter proposes several managerial implications and future studies for academics and practitioners.
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The Internet has become an influential and innovative tool for all kinds of businesses (Doolin, Burgess, & Cooper, 2002; Sigala, 2002). For example, in marketing practices, various emerging tools and techniques are operational to attain customer’s attention, including email marketing, interactive marketing, database marketing, and e-marketing. To promote marketing practices, several types of advanced means have been studied by researchers over the past decades (e.g., Neill & Richard, 2012; Rautanen, 2012; Chittenden & Rettie, 2003; Sigala, 2002; Angehrn, 1997). In addition, many experts have examined the relationship in diverse dimensions and contexts, i.e., Gilmore, Gallagher, and Henry (2007) on email marketing, Angehrn (1997) on Internet marketing, Bauer (2005) on mobile marketing, Neill and Richard (2012) on intranet marketing, El-Gohary (2012) on mobile marketing, Intranet marketing, and extranet marketing. Furthermore, a well-studied framework of the marketing practices has been presented by Coviello, Milley, and Marcolin (2001) based on four marketing practices, i.e., transaction marketing (TM), interaction marketing (IM), database marketing (DM), and network marketing (NM) known as contemporary marketing practices.
With the passage of time and owing to growing technologies, Coviello, Milley, and Marcolin (2001) introduced a new practice of marketing practices called as e-marketing. According to Coviello, Milley, and Marcolin (2001), e-marketing is a marketing mechanism that facilitates organizations to create dialogues with customers by means of the Internet. Nowadays, e-marketing is receiving significant attention of academic researchers and practitioners who endeavor to establish and validate empirical relationships in different dimensions and contexts (El-Gohary, 2012; Strauss, 2016; Waheed, Yang, & Rafique, 2017; Kleindl, 2003).
In comparison, outdoor media advertising is a traditional tool which is acknowledged as a long-term advertising tactic (Gulmez, Karaca, & Kitapci, 2010). Advertising using outdoor media has a high effect on customers’ behavior (Woodside, 1990). According to Belch and Belch (1990), outdoor advertising creates a brand image. Outdoor advertising helps increase market share and brand loyalty (Gulmez, Karaca, & Kitapci, 2010). Past literature has revealed various aspects of outdoor advertising that might be considered while targeting consumers with multiple techniques, i.e., transportation advertising, lamppost advertising, ComPark advertising, street advertising, walls capes advertising, premier panel/square advertising, sheet postures advertising, billboards advertising, street furniture advertising, bus/car/train/plane painting advertising, store display advertising, and Kiosks advertising.