Is digital Marketing Next Big thing?
Hitendra Bavadiya
Founder and CEO at Valdho (Saas for Aspiring entrepreneurs and Creators to Monetize their Expertise) Growth Consultant and Expert Marketer and Mentor for Brands, Saas and Startups.
Marketing of products and services through the use of digital technologies, mainly through the internet, including mobile phones and another digital medium, falls under the umbrella of digital marketing. This tutorial explains how you can use popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ to promote your business and create greater awareness about the products and services you offer.
Digital marketing has been around for quite some time but it hasn’t been very well defined. We tend to think that digital marketing encompasses banner advertising, search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click. Yet, this is too narrow a definition, because digital marketing also includes e-mail, RSS, voice broadcast, fax broadcast, blogging, podcasting, video streams, wireless text messaging, and instant messaging. Yes! digital marketing has a very wide scope.
What Digital Marketing Not?
To clearly define what digital marketing is, it’s sometimes easier to start with what it’s not. For instance, it does not include more traditional forms of marketing such as radio, TV, billboard and print as they do not offer instant feedback and report.
Why Now?
12 Reasons
- Digital Marketing is online playing field
- Digital marketing is Cost-effective than Traditional Marketing
- Digital Marketing Delivers Conversion
- Digital Marketing help generate better revenue
- Digital Marketing Provides Interaction with a wide audience.
- Digital Marketing Caters to the Mobile Users
- Digital Marketing Build Brand Reputation
- Digital Marketing Provides better ROI For you marketing investments.
- Digital Marketing earns people's trust
- Digital Marketing Provides Choices and it's open.
- Digital Marketing Makes you ready for the internet things.
- Digital Marketing Ensure online Business Survival.
In digital marketing, a reporting and analytics engine can be layered within a campaign which allows the organization or brand to monitor in real-time how a campaign is performing, such as what is being viewed, how often, how long, as well as other actions such as response rates and purchases made.
· The use of digital marketing in the digital era not only allows for brands to market their products and services but also offers online customer support through 24x7 services to make the customer feel supported and valued.
· The use of social media in digital marketing interaction allows brands to receive both positive and negative feedback from their customers as well as determine what media platforms work well for them.
· Digital marketing provides increased advantage for brands and businesses. It is now common for consumers to post feedback online through social media sources, blogs, and websites about their experience with a product or brand.
Not surprisingly, billions of marketing dollars spent on traditional channels is already starting to shift to digital marketing campaigns and this will continue to increase as the Web matures.