Internet Marketing in Africa and the Offensive Strategy
Internet marketing in Africa is fairly at early growth when considering its life cycle. Marketing academics approve of using offensive strategy for products at this stage of growth. Nevertheless, this does not suggest that it is an easy road to go.
I have learnt that the internet marketing industry is very lucrative yet very competitive and extensively global. This in effect imply that there are multitudes of players and the competitive position for any play is determined by certain quality standards. Several forerunners in the industry have emphasized the need to treat your internet marketing business as a fully fledged business. This imply committing some cash, time and other resources to make it work.
Surely resources are limited and to make the most from them, you must strategize your marketing efforts. Offensive strategy for internet marketing is no different; it must focus on the following:
- Invest to grow
Growth can be defined in terms of an increase in sales in existing products. A marketer should grow their market share by putting efforts into relevant initiatives. To grow in this field, marketers should invest a lot of time on creating viral, top niche, unique and relevant information. This is primary to any other growth initiatives. For example, when you invest in paid traffic, you must make sure when they are referred to your website, they get glued to the tasty content.
The ingredients to growth initiative include product awareness, products preference, purchase intensions, product availability and the rate of sales.
- Improve position
You’ll have done yourself a good deal of promotion if you keep your website unique from the rest. What makes your website unique should be your central point of action. Capitalizing on differentiation makes long strides into effective promotion.
- Attempt new markets
At some point, every business will need to examine growth opportunities outside its existing markets. This calls for an open mind into attractive opportunities, desire to diversify sources of profitability and commitment to growth. Marketers can expand by switching to both related and unrelated markets. For example, a marketer may produce their own products and sell them through their website as opposed to only focusing on affiliate marketing.

