Digital Marketing Q5
5.Survey
of a range of e-tools to include social media marketing, blogs, rich media,
email marketing, search engine optimization, online advertising and their
application to digital marketing campaigns
Search
Engine Optimization
Search
Engine Optimization or SEO refers to the
process of growing your online visibility in non-paid (organic) search engine
results. SEO isn't just about building search engine-friendly
websites. It's about making your site better for people too. The majority of
web traffic is driven by major search engines such as Google and Yahoo.
Search Engine Marketing
“Search Engine Marketing or
SEM covers the ground SEO ignores, paid traffic from search engines. With SEM
you purchase advertisement space that appears on a user’s SERP”. The most
common paid search platform is Google AdWords. Next, is Bing Ads. These are
major effective tools that all have platform in search engine marketing.
Social Media Marketing
Social media is one of the
best ways to market your business. “Social media provides exposure to your
brand, allows you to connect with your consumers and post anything that your
business is doing. From this interaction, you can gain valuable customer
feedback that allows you to improve your customer service, product, or service”.
Business that use social
media marketing have the advantage of connecting to their customers and reach
new audiences, give updates and special offers on any social media platform
they are using.
Content Marketing
Content marketing refers to
the practice of delivering a quality piece of content to your users to generate
sales and leads. Content Marketing works because it melds together exceptional
content with other types of digital marketing like SEO and Social Media
Marketing.
“One of the biggest
examples of this type of marketing is L’OrĂ©al. One of its biggest
digital initiatives has been the ‘Beauty Squad’ campaign, which involves a
number of influencers creating YouTube videos and articles on the latest beauty
trends”. (www.sparklogix.com)
Email Marketing
Email marketing is defined as the process of building
and maintaining costumer relationships through online activities to facilitate
the exchange of ideas, products and services to satisfy the goals of both
parties. Vodafone is a good example of a company using email marketing to reach
its customers through the use of email and text.
Email marketing allows you
to update your email subscribers on a regular basis about your company. This
fosters a relationship unlike any of the other types of digital marketing. Your
email updates provide value to your consumer. As a result, you build brand
trust and brand loyalty.
Viral Marketing
Viral marketing refers to a
post of some sort that is trendy, funny, or strange enough to garner a massive
amount of shares online. Viral marketing causes an enormous spike in website
traffic over a short period of time. This is hard to do but the benefits alone
make the effort worth your time.
“A good example of viral
marketing is the old spice ad campaign “Your man could smell
like me.” The video went viral because it was seemingly shot in one take while
the man listed all of the reasons why he is more desirable than any of the
viewers’ partners”. (www.sparklogix.com)
Mobile Phone Advertising
Each of the types of
digital advertising can happen on a mobile device. Some types of marketing
using a mobile phone do not fit the above types of digital marketing.
These include SMS
advertising which could prove an asset to local marketing efforts. You can
prompt your consumers to use SMS to receive special offers, coupons, and
updates from your company.
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