Value‐added marketing in the digital domain: enhancing the utility of the Internet

The Internet marketers today must provide increasingly sophisticated users with an experience not easily replicated by conventional media, and techniques utilized within the homepage of a company must accomplish specific marketing objectives.

Abstract

The Internet marketing techniques detailed in this article provide tactics to maximize the utility of the Internet as a vehicle for marketing communications. We found that Internet marketers today must provide increasingly sophisticated users with an experience not easily replicated by conventional media. Furthermore, techniques utilized within the homepage of a company must accomplish specific marketing objectives. Over 50 homepages across various industries were visited and evaluated for this study. Quantitative analysis identified current industry utilization of Internet marketing techniques, as well as those techniques best suited to reach Internet user types and to meet marketing objectives. General guidance is given to determine which techniques are best suited to accomplish these ends.