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Midterm!

I don’t have my blog!

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Email Marketing

Advantages of email marketing include:

Quick development
Flexible content ( html, rich media, and videos)
Controlled distribution by the marketer
Can be tested and revised for effectiveness
Measurable
Inexpensive

Online events include free concerts, movies and internships.
Affiliated programs links customer to point of sale. In CLV perspective the next time customer makes a purchase, it is through Amazon.com instead of the link.

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9.15.09 – Functions of Business Model

Articulate value proposition
Identify target market segments
Define structure of value chain
Define cost structure and profit potential
Explain position in value network
Set forth competitive strategy by using complimentary product and accessory.

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9.17.09 – Understanding The Internet Consumer

Internet business models like Amazon is a source of e-commerce and traffic aggregator. Amazon makes money based on sales, commissions and advertisements. Their direct response media includes interactive media that is immediate and provokes a call to action.
Wall Street Journal is a content provider offering news and information. WSJ makes revenue through subscriptions and advertisements.
Customer [...]

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9.22.09 – Direct Response/Database Foundations

Testing tells marketers what works. Marketing research explains why it works. Testing allows you to narrow down on your marketing research and allows you to see which aspect of the marketing research is applicable to your situation. Testing is a standard practice and it answers strategic and tactical questions. Testing requires market variables like price [...]

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9.19.09 – Social Networks As A Business Model

In the new media age, social networking sites offer massive opportunities for profit generation. They provide advertisers with a large condense market to select their segmented market. Advertisers can easily find and target their consumers in a single venue. Social networks like MySpace and Facebook provide marketers and advertisers an extremely large audience nationally and [...]

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9.8.09 – Zara & Customer satisfaction

Zara’s differentiates itself from other department stores by offering their global customers relevant information easily. Methods of payment and gift card denominations are explicitly stated on their website. Their extensive customer service offers new products twice a week to keep up with the constant change in trends and they also make simple alterations in store [...]

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Customer Interface

7 C’s:

Context – site’s layout and design
Content – Text, pictures, sound and video that webpages contain
Community – The ways sites enable user-to-user communication
Customization – Site’s ability to self-tailor to different users or to allow users to personalize the site
Communication – The ways sites enable site-to-user communication or two-way communication
Connection – Degree site is linked to [...]

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Customer Acquisition

Customer acquisition techniques include search engine marketing, online advertising, email promotion, offline advertising and promotion, events (offline like auto deals, cosmetic shops and online like contests, concerts) and public relations/ publicity (offline like press releases, placements of content and feature and the web as added press releases optimized for search), affiliated programs (other sellers connect [...]

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