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Online Advertising and PPC Marketing

Online advertising is a form of marketing in which online platforms are used to deliver promotional messages to your target market.

Online advertising is a form of marketing using the internet to deliver promotional marketing messages to targeted consumers. Although online advertising is a broad type of advertising, it has one main goal: target the right audience and motivate them to take a pre-specified action. Online advertising allows for more superior targeting than traditional offline advertising in quite a few ways:

  1. You can show ads to only your specified market by defining attributes such as age, gender, location, interests, behaviors, influencers, estimated income, etc.
  2. Online advertisers can track how many users the ads have reached, how many viewers performed the action of the ads, and the overall effectiveness of the ads.
    • Customization is possible whenever needed: targeting, time, budget, and content can be changed at any stage.
    • You can also choose which page, product, or event you want to promote, whether it be your website or a specific landing page.
  3. Advertisements can be managed, started, tweaked, and modified at any time, 24/7, 365 days of the year.
  4. Online advertising can be significantly less costly than offline advertising; budget is easy to control and adjust as necessary.

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What Is Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing?

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) marketing is a common type of online advertising in which an advertiser only pays a fee each time one of their ads is clicked. In addition to earning website visits organically, PPC is a way of buying website clicks or desired actions based on your advertisement. Traditional advertising typically is paying for distribution to an estimated audience (known as Pay Per Impression). For instance, think of a newspaper ad or fliers that have a pre-defined circulation or print number. With these formats, you do not know how many of those individuals actually interact with your advertisement. PPC is the method where you only pay when a trackable action is performed.

Note that Pay Per Impression, also known as PPM which is an acronym for Pay Per Mille (1,000 views), can be utilized for online advertising as well, but can be less effective and certainly makes it harder to track the results.

Recommended Targeted Online Advertising Platforms

Select any of the online advertising platforms or formats below to learn more about how the various online advertising systems work and how we can help.

Affordably Reach Your Ideal Customers

If you are interested in learning more about harnessing the power of targeted online marketing, please contact us. One of our small business marketing experts will reach out to you and help determine which platform will work best for your goals and budget.

Don't Have the Budget to Hire an Online Advertising Expert?

We understand that hiring a professional marketing agency to help you get started with online advertising might be outside of your budget. If you're a bit of a do-it-yourselfer (DIY), feel free to check out our recommended tools page or our Blog for various marketing tips and tricks.