Integrated Internet Marketing Communication (IIMC)
The main goal of this book is to improve the reader’s knowledge of Internet advertising and to explore novel marketing channels of communication. The information herein applies to a medium that has been playing a role in business for less than 20 years and yet has made incredible changes in this domain. Integrated Internet Marketing Communication (IIMC) is addressed in the first chapter of this book because, on one hand, it discusses the specific marketing issues related to Internet marketing, and on the other hand, it investigates the ways through which the concept of Internet communication can be expanded. IIMC is introduced as a theoretical comprehensive framework and a vanguard for Internet advertising approach. Explaining new marketing issues using core marketing concepts not only demonstrates the important role played by these concepts, but also illustrates the innovative tasks as applied to these concepts in a modern marketing arena. Hence, this chapter first examines the core marketing concepts and then explains the novel roles played by such concepts in Internet advertising. In this way, the reader is introduced to the IIMC model. Further in this chapter, some creative concepts of marketing, integrated communication and Internet advertising methods such as Self-Pulling and Need for Check, are explained.