ABSTRACT
As of 31 December 2011, there were 2.2 billion people or 32.7% of total worldpopulation using the internet. Growth since year 2000 reached 528.1% or fivefolds the users twelve years earlier. Major factors that draw people to turn onlineare the interactivity and connected environment enabled by the Web 2.0technology and the control over information access on the internet thanks tointernet search tools, such as directories and search engines. With more peopleshift from physical place to internet space, ready or not, marketers also need toevolve in the way they communicate with customers.Online advertising differs from traditional advertising in terms of interactivity,capability of one-to-one marketing, targeted marketing, and push and pull naturethat are enabled by sophisticated software advances and extensive database. Amajor break-out in online advertising was introduced by Google with its keywordtargetedadvertising programs called AdWords?Google's text-based system foradvertising on search engine result pages, and AdSense?appears on Google'scontent network of millions of web sites. By this means, two categories for textbasedweb advertising are enabled: Search Engine Advertising?ads that aretriggered by user?s search keyword and displayed on the result page of the searchengine, and Contextual Advertising?ads that are placed on third-party Webpages based on its relevancies with the content of the currently viewed page.The blog internationalsnack.com is a website about snack and snack-related piecefrom around the globe. It seeks opportunity to monetize the site by adoptingcontextual advertising business model. A number of objectives are set, includingto reach critical mass and to break even within 2 years after the blog launch inJuly 2012. This marketing plan will mainly focus on the strategy to promote andbuild traffic to the site through Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Web PublicRelation (Web PR) and Viral marketing tactics. |
