Economics: Today and Tomorrow © 2012

Chapter 11: Marketing and Distribution

Web Activity Lesson Plans


"Just Google It"

Introduction
Students have read about marketing and its importance in the promotion and sale of a product. In this lesson, students will examine the use of the Internet in direct marketing, and how it can be a useful and powerful tool for businesses—big and small—worldwide.

Lesson Description
Students will use information from the Google AdWords Web site to learn about Internet marketing. They will study the process, compare it to other forms of advertising, and read success stories. Students will answer four questions and then use what they have learned to write a short proposal advocating an online approach like Google’s AdWords.

Previous Knowledge Expected
e-commerce: business transactions conducted over the Internet

Applied Content Standards (from the Council for Economic Education) Standard 9: Competition among sellers lowers costs and prices, and encourages producers to produce more of what consumers are willing and able to buy. Competition among buyers increases prices and allocates goods and services to those people who are willing and able to pay the most for them.

Instructional Objectives
  1. Students will understand the forms of promotion available on the Internet.
  2. Students will understand why Web marketing has become an important marketing tool for commerce.
  3. Students will use this information to write a short proposal advocating an online approach like Google’s AdWords.
Student Web Activity Answers
  1. There is no minimum time or spending commitment; instead of paying for the ad, you pay when people click on your link to learn about your business or product; you can set a daily budget.
  2. 50 percent
  3. It incorporates keywords into advertisements. When people use those keywords in an Internet search, your advertisement will appear.
  4. Answers will vary, but answers should be reasonable.
  5. Answers will vary.
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