It Is Effective for Advertisers to Promote Products on the Internet?

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ELC291 English for University studies Student name: HUNG MAN YIU Student ID number: 13036884D Date: 14/11/2013 It is effective for advertisers to promote products on the Internet and it should also be further integrated into marketing strategy. To what extent do you agree with this view? In the past few years, advertisers have been encouraging the use of Internet to promote products and have raised a great deal of attention on integrating it into the marketing strategies. The effectiveness of internet advertising has been thoroughly debated. Many people support advertisers using the Internet to promote products because it is effortless to reach the target segmentation and achieve cost effectiveness. Many people, however, are opposed to this idea because it is tough to attract users on the Internet and difficult to measure the effectiveness of internet advertising. This essay investigates both the arguments for and against advertisers using the internet to promote products and provides possible suggestions based on these arguments. The main point in favour of advertisers use the Internet to promote products seems to be it is effortless to reach the target segmentation. Zeff (1999, P.13) points out that the “targeting capabilities” can be enlarged by the use of internet advertising. Advertisers can base on a variety of characteristics of users such as “geographical regions and nations” to specify the target segment. According to Evans (2009), it is effective for advertisers to use the internet to promote products because of the targeting strategies. The promotional messages can be delivered to the target customers validly based on posting those messages on the appropriate websites. Different types of websites can provide opportunities to advertisers to expose commercials to the target audiences that share “specify interest” and have the
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