1. Principles of Marketing17
Principles of Marketing
Direct and Online Marketing: Building Direct Customer Relationships

2. Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
Define direct marketing and discuss its benefits to customers and companies
Identify and discuss the major forms of direct marketing
Explain how companies have responded to the Internet and other powerful new technologies with online marketing strategies
Discuss how companies go about conducting online marketing to profitably deliver more value to customers
Overview the public policy and ethical issues presented by direct marketing
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3. Chapter Outline The New Direct-Marketing Model
Growth and Benefits of Direct Marketing
Customer Databases and Direct Marketing
Forms of Direct Marketing
Online Marketing
Integrated Direct Marketing
Public Policy Issues in Direct Marketing
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4. The New Direct-Marketing Model
Direct marketing consists of direct connections with carefully targeted individual consumers to both obtain an immediate response and cultivate lasting customer relationships
No intermediaries
An element of the promotion mix
Fastest-growing form of marketing
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5. Growth and Benefits of Direct Marketing
Benefits to Buyers
Convenience
Ready access to many products
Access to comparative information about companies, products, and competitors
Interactive and immediate
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6. Growth and Benefits of Direct Marketing
Benefits to Sellers
Tool to build customer relationships
Low-cost, efficient, fast alternative to reach markets
Flexible
Access to buyers not reachable through other channels
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7. Customer Databases and Direct Marketing
Customer database is an organized collection of comprehensive data about individual customers or prospects, including geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral data
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8. Customer Databases and Direct Marketing
Uses:
Locate good and potential customers
Generate sales leads
Learn about customers
Develop strong long-term relationships
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9. Forms of Direct Marketing
Personal selling direct marketing
Direct-mail direct marketing
Catalog direct marketing
Telephone marketing
Direct-response television marketing
Kiosk marketing
Digital direct marketing
Online marketing
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10. Forms of Direct Marketing
Direct-mail marketing involves an offer, announcement, reminder, or other item to a person at a particular address
Personalized
Easy-to-measure results
Costs more than mass media
Provides better results than mass media
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11. Forms of Direct Marketing
Catalog direct marketing involves printed and Web-based catalogs
Benefits of Web-based catalogs
Lower cost than printed catalogs
Unlimited amount of merchandise
Real-time merchandising
Interactive content
Promotional features
Challenges of Web-based catalogs
Require marketing
Difficulties in attracting new customers
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12. Forms of Direct Marketing
Telephone direct marketing involves using the telephone to sell directly to consumers and business customers
Outbound telephone marketing sells directly to consumers and businesses
Inbound telephone marketing uses toll-free numbers to receive orders from television and print ads, direct mail, and catalogs
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13. Forms of Direct Marketing
Challenges of Web-based catalogs
Unsolicited outbound telephone marketing
Do-Not-Call Registry
Benefits of telephone direct marketing
Purchasing convenience
Increased product service and information
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14. Forms of Direct Marketing
Direct-response television (DRTV) marketing involves 60- to 120-second advertisements that describe products or give customers a toll-free number or Web site to purchase and 30-minute infomercials such as home shopping channels
Less expensive than other forms of promotion
Easier to track results
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15. Forms of Direct Marketing
Kiosk marketing involves placing information and ordering machines in stores, airports, trade shows, and other locations
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16. Forms of Direct Marketing
Digital direct marketing technologies
Mobile phone marketing
Podcasts
Vodcasts
Interactive TV
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17. Forms of Direct Marketing
Mobile phone marketing includes:
Ring-tone giveaways
Mobile games
Ad-supported content
Contests and sweepstakes
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18. Forms of Direct Marketing
Podcasts and Vodcasts involve the downloading of audio and video files via the Internet to a handheld device such as a PDA or iPod and listening to them at the consumer’s convenience
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19. Forms of Direct Marketing
Interactive TV (ITV) lets viewers interact with television programming and advertising using their remote controls and provides marketers with an interactive and involving means to reach targeted audiences
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20. Marketing and the Internet
Online Marketing
Marketing and the Internet
Internet is a vast public web of computer networks that connects users of all types around the world to each other and to a large information repository
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21. Online Marketing Domains
Business to consumer (B2C)
Business to business (B2B)
Consumer to consumer (C2C)
Consumer to business (C2B)
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22. Online Marketing Domains
Business to consumer (B2C) involves selling goods and services online to final consumers
Business to business (B2B) involves selling goods and services, providing information online to businesses, and building customer relationships
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23. Online Marketing Domains
Consumer to consumer (C2C) occurs on the Web between interested parties over a wide range of products and subjects
Blogs
Offer a fresh, original, and inexpensive way to reach fragmented audiences
Difficult to control
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24. Online Marketing Domains
Consumer to business (C2B) involves consumers communicating with companies to send suggestions and questions via company Web sites
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25. Types of Online Marketers
Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Click-only marketers
Click-and-mortar marketers
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26. Types of Online Marketers
Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Click-only marketers operate only online without any brick and mortar presence
E-tailers
Search engines and portals
Shopping or price comparison sites
Internet service providers (ISP)
Transaction sites
Content sites
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27. Types of Online Marketers
Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
E-tailers are dot coms that sell products and services directly to final buyers via the Internet
Amazon
Expedia
Search engines and portals are ports of entry to the Internet
Yahoo!
Google
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28. Types of Online Marketers
Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Internet service providers (ISP) provide Internet connections for a fee
AOL
Earthlink
Shopping or price comparison sites provide product and price comparison information
Yahoo! shopping
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29. Types of Online Marketers
Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Transaction sites take commissions for transactions on their sites
eBay
Content sites provide financial, news, research, and other information
New York Times.com
ESPN.com
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30. Types of Online Marketers
Online Marketing
Types of Online Marketers
Click-and-mortar companies are brick-and-mortar companies with an online presence
Advantages of click and mortar companies include:
Known and trusted brand names
Strong financial resources
Large customer bases
Industry knowledge
Reputation
Strong supplier relationships
More options for customers
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31. Setting Up an Online Presence
Online Marketing
Setting Up an Online Presence
Creating a Web site requires designing an attractive site and developing ways to get consumers to visit the site, remain on the site, and return to the site
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32. Setting Up an Online Presence
Online Marketing
Setting Up an Online Presence
Types of sites
Corporate Web site
Marketing Web site
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33. Setting up an Online Presence
Online Marketing
Setting up an Online Presence
Corporate Web site is designed to build customer goodwill and to supplement other channels, rather than to sell the company’s products directly to:
Provide information
Create excitement
Build relationships
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34. Setting Up an Online Presence
Online Marketing
Setting Up an Online Presence
Marketing Web site is designed to engage consumers in interaction that will move them closer to a direct purchase or other marketing outcome
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35. Designing Effective Web Sites
Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
To attract visitors, companies must:
Promote in offline promotion and online links
Create value and excitement
Constantly update the site
Make the site useful
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36. Designing Effective Web Sites
Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
The seven Cs of effective Web site design
Context
Content
Community
Customization
Communication
Connection
Commerce
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37. Designing Effective Web Sites
Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
Context is the site’s layout
Content is the site’s pictures, sound, and video
Community is the site’s means to enable user-to-user communication
Customization is the site’s ability to tailor itself to different users or to allow users to personalize the site
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38. Designing Effective Web Sites
Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
Communication is the way the site enables user-to-user, user-to-site, or two-way communication
Connection is the degree that the site is lined to other sites
Commerce is the site’s capabilities to enable commercial transactions
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39. Designing Effective Web Sites
Online Marketing
Designing Effective Web Sites
The eighth C
To keep customers coming back, the site needs to constantly change
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40. Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Forms of online advertising
Display ads
Search-related ads
Online classifieds
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41. Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Display ads
Banners are banner-shaped ads found on a Web site
Interstitials are ads that appear between screen changes
Pop-ups are ads that suddenly appear in a new window in front of the window being viewed
Rich media ads incorporate animation, video, sound, and interactivity
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42. Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Search-related ads are ads in which text-based ads and links appear alongside search engine results on sites such as Google and Yahoo! and are effective in linking consumers to other forms of online promotion
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43. Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Other forms of online promotion include:
Content sponsorships
Alliances
Affiliate programs
Viral advertising
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44. Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Online Marketing
Placing Ads and Promotions Online
Content sponsorships provide companies with name exposure through the sponsorship of special content such as news or financial information
Alliances and affiliate programs are relationships where online companies promote each other
Viral marketing is the Internet version of word-of-mouth marketing and involves the creation of a Web site, an message, or another marketing event that customers pass along to friends
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45. The Future of Online Advertising
Online Marketing
The Future of Online Advertising
Online advertising provides a useful purpose as a supplement to other marketing efforts and is playing an increasingly important role in the marketing mix
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46. Creating or Participating in Web Communities
Online Marketing
Creating or Participating in Web Communities
Web communities allow members to congregate online and exchange views on issues of common interest
iVillage.com
MyFamily.com
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47. Online Marketing Using E-mail
Marketers are developing enriched messages that include animation, interactivity, and personal messages with streaming audio and video to compete with the cluttered environment
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48. Integrated Direct Marketing
Integrated direct marketing involves the use of carefully coordinated multiple-media, multiple-stage campaigns
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49. Public Policy Issues in Direct Marketing
Customer irritation, unfairness, deception, and fraud
Privacy
Security
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50. Public Policy Issues in Direct Marketing
Irritation, Unfairness, Deception, and Fraud
Irritation includes annoying and offending customers
Unfairness includes taking unfair advantage of impulsive or less-sophisticated buyers
Deception includes “heat merchants” who design mailers and write copy designed to mislead consumers
Internet fraud includes identity theft and financial scams
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51. Public Policy Issues in Direct Marketing
Invasion of Privacy
The concern is that markers may know too much about consumers and use this information to take unfair advantage
Sale of databases
Microsoft
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52. Public Policy Issues in Direct Marketing
A Need for Action
California Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA)
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
TRUSTe
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53. The End