Transcript Chapter 7b
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CHAPTER 7
E-commerce Marketing
Concepts
Created by, David Zolzer, Northwestern State University—Louisiana
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Internet Marketing Technologies
Web transactions logs
Cookies
Web bugs
Databases, data warehouses, data mining,
and profiling
Advertising networks
Internet Marketing Technologies
Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) systems
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Impact of Unique Features of Ecommerce Technology on Marketing
Page 361, Table 7.6
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Web Transaction Logs
Records user activity at a Web site
Registration forms gather personal data
on name, address, phone, zip code, e-mail
address, and other optional selfconfessed information on interests and
tastes
Shopping cart database captures all the
item selection, purchase, and payment
data
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A Web Transaction Log From
Azimuth-Interactive.com
Page 362,
Figure 7.12
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Marketing Uses of Data From Web
Transaction Logs
Page 363, Table 7.7
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Questions That Can Be Answered by Web
Transactions Logs
What are the major patterns of interest
and purchase for groups and individuals?
After the home page, where do most users
go first, and then second and third?
What are the interests of specific
individuals (those we can identify)?
How can we make it easier for people to
use our site so the can find what they
want?
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Questions That Can Be Answered by Web
Transactions Logs
How can we change the design of the site
to encourage visitors to purchase our high
margin products?
Where are visitors coming from (and how
can we optimize our presence on these
referral sites)?
How can we personalize our messages,
offerings, and products to individual
users?
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Cookies
Cookie is a small text file that Web sites
place on visitor’s client computers every
time they visit, and during the visit, as
specific pages are visited.
Cookies provide Web marketers with a
very quick means of identifying the
customer and understanding his or her
prior behavior
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Cookies Placed by Amazon.com
Page 365,
Figure 7.13
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Web Bugs
Web bugs are tiny (1 pixel) graphic files
hidden in e-mail messages and on Web
sites
Web bugs are used to automatically
transmit information about the user and
the page being viewed to a monitoring
server
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Databases, Data Warehouses, and Data
Mining
Database is a software application that
store records and attributes
Database management system (DBMS) is
a software application used by
organizations to create, maintain, and
access databases
SQL is an industry standard database
query and manipulation language used in
relational databases
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Databases, Data Warehouses, and Data
Mining
Relational databases represent data as
two-dimensional tables with records
organized in rows and attributes in
columns; data within different tables can
be flexibly related so long as the tables
share a common data element
Data warehouse is a database that
collects a firm’s transactional and
customer data in a single location for
offline analysis
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A Relational Database View of Ecommerce Customers
Page 369, Figure 7.14
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Databases, Data Warehouses, and Data
Mining
Data mining is a ser of analytical
techniques that look for patterns in the
data of a database or data warehouse, or
seek to model the behavior of customers
Customer profile is simply a description of
the typical behavior of a customer or a
group of customers at a Web site
Query-driven data mining is data mining
based on specific queries
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Databases, Data Warehouses, and Data
Mining
Model-drive data mining involves the use of a
model that analyzes the key variables of interest
to decision makers
Role-based data mining examines demographic
and transactional data of groups and individuals
at a Web site and attempts to derive general rules
of behavior for visitors
Collaborative filtering is where site visitors
classify themselves into affinity groups
characterized by common interests; products are
then recommended based on what other people
in the group have recently purchased
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Advertising Networks
Present users with banner advertisements
based on a database of user behavioral
data
Ad server selects an appropriate banner
ad based on the user’s previous
purchases, interests, demographics, or
other data in the profile
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How an Advertising Network
such as DoubleClick Works
Page 374, Figure 7.15
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Customer Relationship
Management Systems
A repository of customer information that
records all of the contacts that a customer
has with a firm and generates a customer
profile available to everyone in the firm
with a need to “know the customer”
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Customer Relationship
Management Systems
Customer profiles can contain
map of customer’s relationship with the
institution
Product and usage summary data
Demographic and psychographic data
Profitability measures
Contact history summarizing the customers
contacts with the institution across most
delivery channels
Marketing and sales information containing
programs received by the customer and the
customer’s responses
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A Customer Relationship
Management System
Page 376, Figure 7.16
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E-commerce Marketing &
Branding Strategies
Internet marketing strategies for market
entry
for new firms include:
pure clicks/first mover
mixed “clicks and bricks”/alliances
for existing firms
pure clicks/fast follower
mixed “clicks and bricks”/brand
extender
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Generic Market Entry Strategies
Page 378, Figure 7.17
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Establishing the Customer
Relationship
Permission marketing is a marketing
strategy in which companies obtain
permission from consumers before
sending them information or promotional
messages
Affiliate marketing is where one Web site
agrees to pay another Web site a
commission for new business
opportunities it refers to the site
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Establishing the Customer
Relationship
Viral marketing is the process of getting
customers to pass along a company’s
marketing message to friends, family, and
colleagues
Leveraging brands refers to the process of
using the power of an existing brand to
acquire new customers for a new product
or service
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Customer Retention
One-to-one marketing means segmenting
the market based on a precise and timely
understanding of an individual’s needs,
targeting specific marketing messages to
these individuals, and then positioning the
product vis-à-vis competitors to be truly
unique
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The Mass Market Personalization
Continuum
Page 384, Figure 7.18
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Customer Retention
Customization means changing the
product, not just the marketing message,
according to user preferences
Customer co-production in the Web
environment, takes customization one
step further by allowing the customer
interactively create the product
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Customer Retention
Transactive content results from the
combination of traditional content, such
as articles and product descriptions, with
dynamic information culled from product
databases, tailored to each user’s profile
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Customer Service tools:
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) is a
text-based listing of common questions
and answers, provide an inexpensive way
to anticipate and address customer
concerns
Real-time customer service chat systems,
in which a company’s customer service
representatives interactively exchange
text-based messages with one or more
customers on a real-time basis
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Customer Service Tools
Automated response systems send e-mail
order confirmations and
acknowledgements of e-mail inquiries
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Net Pricing Strategies
Pricing, putting a value on goods and
services, is an integral part of marketing
strategy
Demand curve is the quantity of goods
that can be sold at various prices
Fixed costs are the costs of building the
production facility
Variable costs are the costs involved in
running the production facility
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Net Pricing Strategies
Price discrimination is selling products to
different people and groups based on their
willingness to pay
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A Demand Curve
Page 390, Figure 7.19
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Net Pricing Strategies
It’s Free! -- can be used to build market
awareness
Versioning is creating multiple versions of
the good and selling essentially the same
product to different market segments at
different prices
Bundling offers consumers two or more
goods for one price
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The Demand for Bundles of 1 - 20
Goods
Page 392, Figure 7.20
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Net Pricing Strategies
Dynamic pricing
Auctions establish the instant market
price for goods
Yield management -- managers set
prices in different markets, appealing to
different segments, in order to sell
excess capacity
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Channel Strategies
Channel refers to different method by
which goods can be distributed and sold
Channel conflict occurs when a new
venue for selling products or services
threatens to destroy existing venues for
selling goods
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Online Market Research
Market research involves gathering
information that will help a firm identify
potential products and customers
Primary research involves gathering firsthand information using techniques such
as surveys, personal interviews, and focus
groups
Secondary research relies on existing,
published information as the basis for
analyzing the market
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Types of Survey Questions
Page 396, Table 7.8
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Some Popular Secondary
Research Tools
Page 399, Table 7.9
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