E---MARKETING
(From:E--Marketing by Judy Strauss,Adel El--Ansary,Raymond Frost---3rd ed.1999 by Pearson Education pp .G4-G25.)
As the growth of Googel. shows, some marketing principles never change.Markets always welcome an innovative new product, even in a crowded field of competitors ,as long as it provides customer value.Also,Google`s success shows that customers trust good brands and that well-crafted marketing mix strategies can be effective in helping newcomers enter crowded markets. Nevertheless, organizations are scrambling to determine how they can use information technology profitably and to understand what technology means for their business strategies. Marketers want to know which of their time-ested concepts will be enhanced by the Internet, databases,wireless mobile devices, and other technologies. The rapid growth of the Internet and subsequent bursting of the dot- bubble has marketers wondering,"What next?" This article attempts to answer these questions through careful and systematic examination of successful e-mar-keting strategies in light of proven traditional marketing practices.
（Sales Promotion;E--Marketing；Internet；Strategic Planning ）
1.What is E--Marketing
E--Marketing is the application of a broad range of information technologies for:
Transforming marketing strategies to create more customer value through more effective segmentation ,and positioning strategies；More efficiently planning and executing the conception, distribution promotion,and pricing of goods,services,and ideas;andCreating exchanges that satisfy individual consumer and organizational customers` objectives.
This definition sounds a lot like the definition of traditional marketing. Another way to view it is that e-marketing is the result of information technology applied to traditional marketing. E-marketing affects traditional marketing in two ways. First,it increases efficiency in traditional marketing strategies.The transformation results in new business models that add customer value and/or increase company profitability.
2.Environment,Strategy,and Performance (ESP)
E-Marketing flows form the organization `s overall e-business strategies and selected business environment,where legal,technological,competitive,marketrelated,
and other environmental, factors external to the firm create both opportunities and threats. Organizations perform SWOT analyses to discover what strengths and weaknesses they have to deploy against threats and opportunities. This SWOT analysis leads into e-business and e-marketing strategy. Firms, select e-business strategies and e-business models, and then marketers formulate strategy and create e-marketing plans that will help the firm accomplish its overall goals. The final step is to determine the success of the strategies and plans by measuring results. Performance metrics are specific measures designed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the e-business and e-marketing operations. this is so important in today` s e-business climate that media reports seem to be full of references to ROI and other measures of success for e-business strategies and tactics featured in the model.
The esp model might just as easily depict a brick-and-mortar business process -by removing a few "e `s" this underscores the idea that e-businesses are built on sound practices and proven processes but with important e-transformations and emarketing practices, as discussed in this book.
This chapter examines the environmental factors in the ESP model, whereas Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 explore these important factors in more depth. Chapter 2 delves into the strategy area, and Chapter 3 discusses the e-marketing planning process.
The marketing environment is ever change, providing plenty of opportunities to develop new products, new markets, and new media to communicate whit customers, plus new channels to reach business partners. At the same time, the environment poses! Competitive, economic , and other threats. This section introduces three key environmental factors that affect e-marketing : legal, technological, and marketrelated factors.
Current and pending legislation can greatly influence e-marketing strategies.
