Digital marketing is the marketing, endorsement or advertisement done on digital devices. It not only includes online but also offline marketing strategies. Digital marketing is very important for a company as it has the widest reach among any form of marketing. The more the people are present on the internet, the more reach the marketing will have.
As of June 2018, 55.1% of the world’s population is present on the internet!!! Thus making digital marketing the platform with the most reach among all marketing platforms. So we compiled a list of some digital and seo marketing strategies that will help you get your product out there in 2019.
Email Marketing
Email marketing can be termed as sending a group of people an email with a commercial message. Emails are sent to potential customers to create a firm customer base. Email marketing started out in the 1980s, with companies gaining profits, more and more companies started using this method which resulted in email users using automatic “spam” filters.
Nowadays advertisers have to think of some way to push their mail through these filters and reach out to a potential consumer base.
While email marketing has the advantage of being cheaper and faster it also has the disadvantage of no assurance that the receiver received the information.
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing refers to promoting a good or service by using social media platforms. As most social media platforms use in built-in analytical tools to provide analysis of the marketing and with a wide reach among people, social media is one of the best platforms for digital marketing. It also allows the company to get “user-generated content” also called “earned media” which basically comprises of user reviews, comments etc.
Companies get a personal touch with users using social media and the users start to trust the company. The customer service is also improved, thus more and more companies are now starting to be on social media platforms.
The only disadvantage to social media is that the bad press also spread as fast if not more. There have been incidents where companies lost millions because of a wrong tweet or a Facebook post.
Content Marketing
Content marketing is the art of storytelling and sharing and creating online content like videos, blogs etc. which may or may not be used to promote a product directly but is used to create interest among the public for its uses and services.
It is done mainly to expand business and gain leads. Content marketing is done by sharing and creating online free content which in turn helps the company get brand loyalty for the company and creates a potential consumer base.
Viral Marketing
This marketing strategy is closely linked with the previously discussed social media marketing. In this strategy, marketing is done by creating a viral trend and asking the consumers to share information on the goods and services through various means.
Some examples of viral marketing are the famous ice-bucket challenge which helped grow awareness about ALS. In viral marketing, the company does NOT pay for marketing.
Pay Per Click (PPC)
In pay per click advertising, a company posts it’s advertisements on another website with similar content which is used to target certain audience and the website hosting the ads get paid per click on that advertisement. Big names like Facebook and Twitter also host pay per click ads.
The main purpose of PPC is to generate traffic for the advertiser. Though the main problem in PPC is the “click fraud” in which a website uses bots or low wage workers to click on every Google ad-sense on the web page to generate money.
Search Engine Optimization(SEO)
The SEO is a tool used by organizations to generate traffic by promoting their companies in the famous search engine’s result. The website is optimized in such a way that it appears on the top in search engine results by using tags and keywords that are predominantly used to search for the product or service that is provided by the company.
The SEO takes a deep understanding of how the algorithm of searching for a search engine works.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is the type of marketing in which every affiliate to the company is rewarded for bringing in consumers to the organization by the marketing efforts of the affiliates. Famous companies like Amway use affiliate marketing to grow.
Conclusion
However which strategy to use for marketing depends solely on the advertiser but one should be acquainted with some of these (at least!!) to get a good grasp on the consumer base. After that, you can choose the ones which are best suited according to your demands.
Article contributed by Hari babu from TechAriz