Online marketing known by different names some called it internet marketing, web marketing or i-marketing but all these terms are for same function, which is marketing product or services over the internet.

When it comes to searching for products and services, the internet becomes the number one choice for users. Internet is fast changing the way people used to do things. Internet brings the global audience closer and introduced a new medium of advertising which is quite unique compare to other advertising medium. Naturally, this impacts the advertisers, as they accepted internet the most powerful media for advertising. Due to the absence of geographical barriers the internet acceptance has challenged the traditional forms of advertising. The four P’s product, price, place and promotion have long been associated with marketing, but due to internet it has changed. Along with these four P’s there are new three P’s which are relevant to internet marketing. These three P’s are place, process, and physical evidence.

In internet marketing the website is the place where all transactions will happen. Consider few things about your website, like how much interactive your website is? Is it user-friendly? How much easy are the navigations? These things will attract and retain customers. Go into the details like color schemes, buttons sizes, images, photos, layouts. Keep changing and improving the contents as well as design, and above mention things. The look of the web site should be based on corporate logos and standards. Also, simple but powerful navigational aids on all web pages like search engines make it easy for customer to find their way around.

Process is very important for internet marketing as you need to know if your site have the ability to handle large number of customers, the proper support at all times, and a system to answer frequently ask questions. Customer supports needs to be integrated into the website. This service should be able to answer the customer’s questions in fast and reliable manner. To further enhance after sales service, customers must be able to find out about their order status after the sale has been made.

Online, it is difficult for the customer to know how the product is going to benefit them. So it will be necessary to communicate in a way that the customer will be able to feel confident in purchasing a product or service. You can do reports and articles that will excite the customers about the product and the service. Video and images also help the customer feel comfortable.

Using the latest software it is possible to customize the entire web site for every single user, without any additional costs. The mass customization allows the company to create web pages products and services that suit the requirement of the user. A customized web page does not only include the preferred layout of the customer but also a pre selection of goods the customer may be interested in. Now to be able to use the seven P’s effectively in order to achieve the predefined goals of any organization it is imperative to understand the customers. Customization will only be truly effective if we understand our customers and their true needs.