The Future Of Online Internet Marketing: A Solution To Behavioral Marketing Using Biometrics
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Internet marketing is still an experimental area that continues to grow, evolve and adapt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the virtual limitlessness space of the WWW, the strategic placement of internet advertisements is much more complex and goes beyond the traditional marketing approach of researching demographics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several attempts have been made through the fields of technology and marketing to overcome the anonymousness of the computer user’s interests and preferences to move toward a direct behavioral approach to online marketing; more specifically, identifying the users on the internet, collecting profiles of their interests and delivering advertisements that appeal to their specific preferences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This paper reviews the current approaches to Internet behavioral marketing and its shortcomings as well as biometrics and its potential for more effective Internet marketing.</span></span></span></p>