Digital Marketing is
the marketing done through online medium through internet with the
objective to promote brands or website to increase sales through
various digital marketing techniques. In other words we can say that
in digital marketing we use digital channels to promote services to
consumer and business. Digital marketing includes various categories
– SearchEngine Optimization(SEO), e-commerce marketing, Social Media
Optimization and any other form of social media.
The term digitalmarketing was first use in 1990s in the form of advertising
campaigns..Earlier Digital marketing was not so popular and marketing
are done through the banner ads in the year 1993.But the banner ads
are not so interactive that the could reach over maximum number of
people. This was the first step to a new digital age.
In 1998 Google was
founded and a major drastic changes begun to happen. This was the
time when several blogging sites makes their place over the internet
and soon first social networking sites like MySpace came and here was
the beginning of new era in digital marketing. In 2003 facebook was
founded and it did not take too long for companies to realize that
they are provided with new opportunities new way of business to
directly communicate with the consumers. That time Google started
expanding and become the most popular search engine. It has become
the boon for the marketing platform. Google also added options like
Ad Words and Ad Sense to marketing potential.
Latest
Development And Strategies:
In Digital Marketing Strategy works just we need food to live. It
provides a frame work for development and implementation of key
activities
1.Setting a Goal:
First we need to set a goal
which will increase your success of business.
We cant go blind in this
field. A
lots of Strategy and precision is required to focus on.
2.Creating a
Marketing Funnel: In this
strategy we target the customer from the time when he was a stranger
to the time when they becomes a lead for us.
Marketing Funnel divided
into four sections – Awareness, Interest, Desire and Action
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Awareness: Potential customer always need for a thin they wants. At this stage we should attract the customer using a lead magnet or call to action
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Interest: At this stage we gives some information to customers and they are interested in what we said about the services. We should provide some additional information too showing them we are not giving them just a formal information but giving something specific to their needs that shows how we care our customer wants and needs.
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Desire: Here we give some more additional information and consultation and will show that we have something that they need by using e-mail and call to action
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Action: This is the time where we convert the consumers to lead generation All that’s left is discussing things like price, payment and other aspects of your product or service that are relevant to a buyer.
3.Developing a
Call to Action: Call to
Action(CTA) is a process in which visitor takes action by subscribing
a newsletter or can request a product demo
4.Creating an
effective Lead Magnet: A lead
magnet can be used alone or along with a CTA. This will also be used
either within your marketing funnel or as a way to drive potential
customers into your funnel. Supply them with something relevant to
your product or service that they want. Use your offers as a way to
gather more information about a potential buyer while driving them
further into your funnel at the same time.
5. Driving
Traffic: Getting more and more
customers to give traffic to our website by making quality content,
keyword strategy,
Website optimization and
social media. Use
content through blog posts and articles, give link to various places
on website. Inserting
related keywords into content will help website to show in more
search results.
Digital Marketing has changed to a larger extent in last 2 decades.
There are few search engines that are no loner to exist. So we need
to keep an eye over the latest trends and keep our self up to date
that continue to shape our digital future.