Permission marketing
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Permission marketing is a term used in marketing in general and e-marketing specifically. Marketers obtain permission before advancing to the next step in the purchasing process. For example, they ask permission to send email newsletters to prospective customers. It is mostly used by online marketers, notably email marketers and search marketers, as well as certain direct marketers who send catalogs in response to requests for them.
This form of marketing requires that the prospective customer have either gotten explicit permission to send their promotional message (e.g. an email or catalog request) or implicit permission (e.g. querying a search engine). This can be either via an online email opt-in form or by using search engines, which implies a request for information which can include that of a commercial nature. To illustrate, consider someone who searches for "buy shoes." Online shoe stores have the searcher's permission to market to them.
Marketers feel that this is a more efficient use of their resources because advertisements are only sent to people that are actually interested in the product. This is one technique used by marketers that have a personal marketing orientation. They feel that marketing should be done on a one-to-one basis rather than using broad aggregated concepts like market segment or target market.
In the United Kingdom, opt-in is required for email marketing, under The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. This came into force on the 11 December 2003.
Permission based marketing is believed to have been developed by Seth Godin, a well-established international marketing guru at the turn of the 21st century. A key element of "permission" based marketing is that you are in essence, purchasing someone's time and getting their "attention" which has become increasingly valuable in what may be termed the 90-Second Economy.
[edit] References
- Godin, Seth (1999). Permission Marketing: turning strangers into friends, and friends into customers. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-85636-0.
[edit] External links
- A Comprehensive Analysis of Permission Marketing
- Seth Godin Official Site
- Reference to Attention Economy
- Search Engine Watch (SEW) was the first voice of the search marketing industry.
- Search Engine Land is a newer voice of the search marketing industry, with roughly equal popularity to SEW
- SEO Book's blog, a popular search marketing blog
- SEOmoz's blog, another popular search marketing blog
- SEO ROI Services' blog, a newer search marketing blog focused on intermediate-advanced techniques
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