Push and Pull Marketing
Internet Marketing has many aspects - web design, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), email campaigns, reporting and feedback. The thing that distinguishes internet marketing from normal push marketing techniques is the ability to track the data and analyse the effectiveness (or not) of your marketing campaign.
An example of a push marketing technique are flyers. Say a client wants to promote an event, they print 2000 flyers and place them everywhere they can. But how many people looked at them, took them home and acted upon them? There is no way of knowing... On the other hand, with web analytics, all the elements of your internet marketing strategy can be tracked and tweaked.
Push Marketing Strategy?
The internet can be considered as a Push/Pull media system. Users pull down what they are looking for through searches and their browsing. A good website has a pull due to the content that it keeps pushing out.
This is where and why a CMS web system fits into the internet marekting strategy. It enables the website owner to keep pushing out fresh content.
Pull Marketing Strategy?
If you went past a shop and the goods never changed you would probably never go in. The key to pulling people in is creating fresh content. The key to push marketing is anticipating trends and targeting those growth areas.
If you have a shop a pull marketing strategy might be regular sales signs offering to pull in the bargain hunters. For a website it may be the RSS feed on your homepage that catches the eye with fresh news. Equally it may be the catchy headlines and lists, the key to creating pull is in understanding your target market. Similarly the key to fishing is using the right bait and rod.