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E-Marketing the Lifeline of NetGeneration: An Empirical Study

Published on March 2012 by Arasu Raman, Viswanathan Annamalai
Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System (WINBIS 2012)
Foundation of Computer Science USA
WINBIS2012 - Number 2
March 2012
Authors: Arasu Raman, Viswanathan Annamalai
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Arasu Raman, Viswanathan Annamalai . E-Marketing the Lifeline of NetGeneration: An Empirical Study. Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System (WINBIS 2012). WINBIS2012, 2 (March 2012), 8-13.

@article{
author = { Arasu Raman, Viswanathan Annamalai },
title = { E-Marketing the Lifeline of NetGeneration: An Empirical Study },
journal = { Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System (WINBIS 2012) },
issue_date = { March 2012 },
volume = { WINBIS2012 },
number = { 2 },
month = { March },
year = { 2012 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 8-13 },
numpages = 6,
url = { /proceedings/winbis2012/number2/5497-1011/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Arasu Raman
%A Viswanathan Annamalai
%T E-Marketing the Lifeline of NetGeneration: An Empirical Study
%J Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System (WINBIS 2012)
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%P 8-13
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%I International Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract

E-marketing drives a number of opportunities for most businesses around the world. Just as the opportunities are great, too are the risks involved if firms fail to take into account the pitfalls and hazards that are associated with e-business practices today. The aim of this study is to propose a comprehensive outline of the perspective of NetGeneration towards e-marketing, and the ways internet be used as a platform to improve the emarketing efforts amongst the NetGeneration. In this study, a comprehensive survey data gathering were used to collect and analyze the Net Generations perspective of the e-marketing and results indicate that internet is a behavioral and attitudinal aspect. 246 valid feedbacks were obtained from the students coinciding as being the Net Generation, with the research indicating that emarketing being the key to most of the marketers success having Net generation as the focus making the internet a powerful entity for promoting the products of today and emarketing of tomorrow.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

e-marketing NetGeneration internet internet opportunities