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Marketing as an Impact of the Internet Essay

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Marketing as an Impact of the Internet The Internet is an open interconnection of computer networks that enables the computers and the programs they run to communicate directly. There are many small-scale, controlled-access "enterprise internets", but the term is usually applied to the global, publicly accessible network, called simply the Internet or Net. By early 2000, more than 100,000 networks and around 100 million users were connected via the Internet. I am a member of a small group, employed by a marketing consultancy, which has been assigned to research how marketing has to respond to the challenges of the new millennium. My tasks focus on where and how marketing will need to apply …show more content…

So when targeting certain groups gaining access to these groups can be a lot faster compared to traditional means of research such as statistical studies or surveys would have probably been carried out face to face with a clip board and a list of questions. But now with the internet marketing researchers can gain access to their chosen target area a lot easier, an example of this is; if you are a member of Hotamil.com (E-mail database) you are required to fill a registration form in including certain personal information about your self such as age, gender and location etc. Once this information has been subjected you become part of an immense data-base that only authorised parties can gain access. So marketing researchers can gain information through this example I have given, but this is just one and there are literally millions of other forms to gain information on 'The Information Highway'. The life cycles of products require careful study. Virtually all product ideas lose in time the attraction that initially drew people to buy them. Manufacturers may also accelerate the obsolescence of a product by introducing new, more desirable products or versions of the existing product. Consumers today expect product innovations

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