INTRODUCTION
What is Digital Marketing?
Digital Marketing is also referred to as 'online marketing', 'internet marketing', or 'web marketing'.
"Digital marketing is the marketing of products or services using digital technologies, mainly on the internet, but also including mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital medium".
FEW MODULES OF DIGITAL MARKETING
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Social Media Marketing (SMM)
- Content Marketing
- Affiliate Marketing
- Marketing Automation
- Pay-Per-Click(PPC)

Digital marketing now extends to non-Internet channels that provide digital media, such as mobile phones(SMS and MMS), callback and on-hold mobile ring tones.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO) : This is process of optimizing website to "rank" higher in search engine result pages, thereby increasing the amount of organic (or free) traffic your website receives. The channels that benefit from SEO include Websites, Blogs, and Info graphics.
SEARCH MEDIA MARKETING (SMM) : This practice promotes your brand and your content on social media channels to increase brand awareness, drive traffic, and generate leads for your business. The channels you can use in social media marketing include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snap chat, Pinterest, and Google+.
CONTENT MARKETING: It denotes the creation and promotion of content assets for the purpose of generating brand awareness, traffic growth, lead generation and customers. The channels that can play a part in your content marketing strategy include Blog posts, eBooks and Whitepapers, Info graphics, Online brochures and Look books.
AFFILIATE MARKETING: This is a type of Performance-based advertising where you receive commission for promoting someone else's products, services on your website. Affiliate marketing channels include Hosting video ads through the YouTube Partner Program and Posting affiliate links from your social media accounts.
MARKETING AUTOMATION: Marketing automation refers to the software that serves to automate your basic marketing operations. Many marketing departments can automate repetitive tasks they would otherwise do manually, such as Email newsletters, Social media post scheduling, Contact list updating, Lead-nurturing workflows, Campaign tracking and reporting.
PAY-PER-CLICK(PPC): PPC is a method of driving traffic to your website by paying a publisher every time your ad is clicked. One of the most common types of PPC is Google Ad Words, which allows you to pay for top slots on Google's search engine results pages at a price 'per click" of the links you place. Other channels where you can use PPC mainly include Paid ads on Face book, Promoted Tweets on Twitter, Sponsored Messages on LinkedIn.
TRADITIONAL MARKETING VS DIGITAL MARKETING
PROS AND CONS OF DIGITAL MARKETING: Digital marketing allows marketers to see accurate results in real time. If an advert is put in newspaper, it is difficult to estimate how many people actually flipped to that page and paid attention to ad. There's no surefire way to know if that ad was responsible for any sales at all. Yet digital marketing would help you to know reach for your product/service, to get engaged with prospective customers, to have global reach, to promote in personalized manner.
CONCLUSION: To summarize, digital marketing has a bright future for long term sustainability of the product or services in the current technological market with all its pros and cons.
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