Harmen Mander | An Insight Into The World Of Digital Marketing
Harmen Mander | The growth of digital technologies in the last decades has been remarkable. The number of people around the world with some form of access to the Internet is growing rapidly and, in the developed world in particular, consumers have high-speed access through multiple devices. The amount of time spent 'online' is also growing exponentially. The digital environment allows many options for communications between a business and its customers. It can accommodate B2C, B2B, C2B and C2C communications. This shift from one-way communication between organizations and customers was a major trigger for the development of digital marketing as we know it now. Although the majority of consumers currently interact with brands online, the commercialization of the Internet didn't start until the late 1990s. Since then we have observed a lot of changes and the rapid growth of the digital world. This growth is often linked to the term Web 2.0, but what does it actually mean?...