Foundation of Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Flashcards
What is digital marketing?
The practice of reaching consumers online through digital channels with the aim of turning them into customers.
What is a digital channel?
Any communication, method or platform a business can use to reach their target audience online.
What are the advantages of digital marketing?
Cost-effective
Reach more people
Faster results
Build relationships with customers
Name 2 Job Titles
Digital marketing coordinator
E-Commerce analyst
What do digital marketing and e-commerce specialists do?
Audience research
Planning
Creating or publishing content
Updating product descriptions
Analyzing data
What digital channels do both digital marketers and e-commerce specialists use?
Digital marketers and e-commerce specialists both use the same digital channels: social media, email, and ads.
Which transferable skills will set a learner up for success in digital marketing and e-commerce?
Curiosity
Analytical mindset
Storytelling
A learner can shape their public persona as a digital marketing or e-commerce specialist by building their _____.
Personal brand
What are In-House benefits?
Get to know one company and its products
Deep knowledge and expertise in a specific industry. Clear path to promotion.
What are the agency benefits?
Collaborate on a variety of initiatives in multiple industries
Develop broad and flexible expertise
Get to know, certain skill sets very well
Roles - Digital marketing coordinator
Associate-level roles in digital marketing
Coordinate marketing activities and initiatives
Identify target audiences through research
Run campaigns
Monitor metrics to evaluate trends
Roles - Marketing associate
Associate-level roles in digital marketing
Prepare reports on marketing and sales metrics
Collect and analyze customer behavior metrics, such as web traffic and search rankings
Coordinate with marketing teams to generate digital advertising materials
Assist with ongoing marketing campaigns
Roles - Search Optimization (SEO) Specialist
Associate-level roles in digital marketing
Develop optimization strategies to improve search rankings
Implement keywords for SEO
Monitor metrics to understand SEO performance
Update links for optimization of search rankings
Roles - search engine marketing (SEM) specialist
Associate-level roles in digital marketing
Identify customer personas to enable marketing to identified audiences
Perform research on keywords for SEO and Pay Per Click (PPC) ads
Monitor metrics to optimize paid search performance
Identify and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for SEM
Roles - social media specialist
Associate-level roles in digital marketing
Develop, implement, and manage a social media marketing strategy
Collaborate with sales and marketing teams on social media campaigns
Create content to build customer connections and increase brand awareness
Monitor metrics in social media campaigns for customer engagement and content optimization insights
Roles - E-Commerce Analyst
Associate-level roles in e-commerce
Implement e-commerce strategies to support business goals
Set e-commerce goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) for key attributes like audience, acquisition, behavior, and conversions
Monitor and analyze e-commerce metrics
Leverage e-commerce data for operational insights
Roles - E-Commerce Specialist
Associate-level roles in e-commerce
Develop and run campaigns to increase digital sales as part of an overall digital marketing strategy
Optimize paid advertising campaigns using SEO and other tools
Manage an online marketing presence, including social media platforms
Monitor metrics for spikes in website traffic or sales
Roles - Digital Marketing Manager
Advanced Roles
Plan and execute digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, email, social media, and display advertising campaigns
Measure and report performance and return on investment (ROI) for digital marketing
Plan, execute, and evaluate A/B tests and experiments
Evaluate and improve the end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touchpoints
Roles - Social Media Strategist
Advanced Roles
Manage and oversee social media content
Measure the success of social media campaigns
Monitor and analyze metrics to recommend effective content optimization solutions
Network with industry professionals and influencers using social media
Roles - Account Manager
Advanced Roles
Build and maintain client relationships
Ensure the timely and successful delivery of advertising solutions based on customer needs and objectives
Clearly communicate the progress of initiatives to internal and external stakeholders
Forecast and monitor key account metrics
Roles - E-Commerce Product Manager
Advanced Roles
Conduct market research
Develop a product strategy for an e-commerce business based on analytics
Define website and mobile app functionality, and deliver an optimal user experience for both
Understand business objectives and coordinate efforts to increase sales
Key takeaways in Career progression
You consistently meet or exceed job-related performance goals.
You’re assigned tasks associated with a higher-level role.
You recently asked for more work while performing your job.
What are the four distinct models within e-commerce?
Business-to-consumer (B2C)
Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)
Business-to-business (B2B)
Consumer-to-business (C2B)
Describe Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce
Business-to-consumer (B2C) is the most common form of e-commerce. This is the online process of businesses selling products or services directly to consumers.
What are the three main areas of Business-to-consumer (B2C)?
Experiential marketing
Social media marketing
Influencer marketing
Describe experientia, marketing
also known as engagement marketing, encourages consumers to not only purchase a brand or product but to experience it. Experiential marketing campaigns draw out emotional responses from their audiences.
Describe media marketing
creates content for different social media platforms to drive engagement and promote a business or product.
Describe influencer marketing
enlists influential people to endorse or mention a brand or product to their followers on social media.
Describe Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce
With consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce, individuals sell products or services to other individuals. In other words, consumers buy items from each other.
Describe Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce enables businesses to sell products and services to other businesses. The rise of services, particularly software services, accelerated B2B e-commerce. This type of service is known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Describe Consumer-to-business (C2B) e-commerce
The popularity of small business ownership helped establish another model for e-commerce, C2B. With C2B e-commerce, consumers sell their products or services to businesses. Specialized platforms also fill a need for these online transactions.
Fill in the blank: By the end of this program, learners will have _____ that can help them demonstrate their experience to potential employers.
concrete examples of work
How can someone in this program put what they have learned into action?
By building a personal brand
Fill in the blank: Some marketing roles are _____ positions, meaning a marketer works for a single company to market and sell their products.
in-house
Describe digital channel
Any communication method or platform a business can use to reach their target audience online
Describe digital marketing
The practice of reaching consumers online through digital channels with the aim of turning them into customers
Fill in the blank: A successful digital marketing effort guides all of a company’s customer _____.
interactions
What are the advantages of digital marketing?
Reduces wasteful spending
Adapts to new technologies
Reaches target audiences with more precision
Digital marketing challenges - SPENDING
1. Advantage
2. Challenges
- Digital content is easier to create.
- ## Organizations engage in omnichannel marketing—the integration or synchronization of content on multiple channels—so customers can have a consistent brand experience.
- Digital marketing is more cost-effective than traditional marketing
- If an organization is working towards an omnichannel presence, the cost for marketing on all channels adds up quickly. Getting support or buy-in for extra or additional budget to cover the cost can be difficult.
Digital marketing challenges - TECHNOLOGY
1. Advantage
2. Challenges
- Digital marketing, adapts to new technologies.
- As a marketer, learning and keeping up with new technologies and tools is a constant requirement. Marketers must also stay up-to-date with and follow all user privacy and data sharing regulations worldwide. Omnichannel marketing also makes it more difficult to track where sales come from. Marketers must rely more heavily on analytics tools to help them do that.
Digital marketing challenges - TARGET AUDIENCES
1. Advantage
2. Challenges
- Digital marketing tools expand customer reach using specific audiences.
- The digital space is a crowded field that’s getting even more crowded. It’s harder for marketers to stand out with their advertising, even when they are targeting the right audiences.
Beyond an online presence, how can a company stand out from its competitors and reach potential customers?
With digital marketing
Fill in the blank: A successful digital marketing effort guides all of a company’s cunstomer ________?
Interactions
Successful digital marketing allows companies to think strategically about how to reach customers at what points in the purchasing process?
Before, during, and after a purchase
When beginning a digital marketing effort, what does a company need to research in order to set meaningful goals and measure success?
Target audience
Describe Pain Points
Specific problems customers and potential customers want to solve
Describe Customer Journey
The path you take from learning about a product to getting your questions answered to making a purchase
What is the customer journey?
The path a customer takes from learning about a product to getting their questions answered to making a purchase
Describe Touchpoint
Each interaction with a brand during a purchase journey
Describe Customer Journey Map
A visualization of the touch points a typical customer encounters along their purchase journey
What is a Marketing Funnel?
A visual representation of the process through which people go from first learning about a brand to becoming loyal customers 
What is the top of the Marketing Funnel?
Awareness
What is Target Audience?
The group of people most likely to purchase a company’s products
What is the second level of the marketing funnel?
Consideration
In the marketing funnel what is the third level called?
Conversion
What is the last stage of the marketing funnel?
Loyalty
What is the difference between a journey map and the marketing funnel?
A journey map adopts the customers, perspective, but a funnel considers that same process from the position of the business.
Name the Awareness Tactics
- Optimize website content around specific search items
- Paying to place digital ads on websites, social media, email, or video platforms.
- Forming promotional partnerships with other brands of influencers.
What is a lead?
A potential customer who has interacted with a brand and shared personal information, like an email address. 
What is consideration tactics?
- Serve ads based on products and pages visited.
- Blog post, newsletters, webinars
- Samples, tools, trial memberships
What is a metric?
A quantifiable measurement used to track and assess progress toward an objective. 
What are the three measuring awareness?
- impressions
- reach
-Frequency
What is impressions?
The total number of times, and ad appears on peoples screens
What is reach?
The total number of unique individuals who encounter an ad across their different devices
What is frequency?
How many times each individual encounters an ad in a given time frame
What is measuring consideration?
- How often customers search for your business online
-number of first time visitors
-number of pages per visitor
-How long visitors spend on a page
-Email or newsletter sign-up
What are the Conversion Tactics?
- Accurate Product Description
- Smooth checkout Process
- Clear returns policy
- Product-focused ads
-Clearly organized website
What are the Loyalty tactics?
- Great experience during and after purchase
- Follow-up emails
- Rewards programs
- Social media engagement
What are the conversion tactics?
- accurate product descripti
- Smooth, checkout process
- Clear return policy
- Product focused ads
- Clearly organized website
What are loyalty tactics?
- Great experience during and after purchase
- Follow up emails
- Rewards programs
- Social media engagement