Week 10 Flashcards
Digital marketing
Digital marketing refers to the company’s efforts to market products and services and build customer relationships over the internet and cellular networks.
Digital marketing includes
All of the activities involved in planning and implementing marketing in the electronic environment (internet on computers and devices -tablets and smartphones, and any other telecommunications technologies).
Interacting in digital marketing
When companies interact online with consumers and other companies, they do so in any or all of the following five ways
When companies interact online with consumers and other companies, they do so in any or all of the following five ways
Creating a search-engine optimized website
Setting up or participating in social media marketing
Using email
Engaging in search engine marketing (SEM)
Using online advertising
3 Digital marketing methods
Paid
Owned
Earned
Paid
Paid refers to any digital advertising that a business pays for.
Some examples include: • Online advertising • Mobile marketing • Influencer marketing • Public relations
Online advertising
Advertising that appears while consumers are browsing the web, including display ads, search related ads, online classifieds, video advertising and other forms. As consumers spend more time on the internet, companies are shifting more of their marketing dollars to online advertising to build their brands or to attract visitors to their websites
The main forms of online advertising are:
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search-related ads / contextualised advertising (ad placed through online search engines)
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display ads (banners or other ad formats made of text, images, flash, video, or audio)
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online classifieds(buy and sell goods or services –cheaper than display ads)
Search engine marketing
Search marketing entails promoting a company’s brands through search engines as part of its integrated marketing communication strategy. It aims to increase website traffic by attracting visitors who search for keywords via their favourite search engine, portal or directory. It uses both organic and paid activities.
Paid and organic search engine marketing
Paid: keywords paid for search engine results -pay per click and cost per thousand (CPM)
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Organic: keywords found on your website
4 types of search engine marketing
Paid listings
Contextual search
Paid inclusion
Site optimisation
Paid listings
Text links that appear at the top or side of search results for specific keywords. The more a marketer pays, the higher the position the linked text gets. Marketers pay only when a user clicks on the text link.
Contextual search
Text links appear in an article based on the context of the content, instead of a user -submitted keyword.
Payment occurs only when the link is clicked
Paid inclusion
Guarantees that a marketer’s URL is indexed by a search engine.
The listing is determined by the engine’s search algorithms.
Site optimisation
Website modifications made to ensure indexing by bots and spiders, and which help a site to be found in a keyword search and lift its rankings in search engine output.
Google is the pre-eminent search engine throughout the world
Mobile marketing
The art of marketing to mobile device users
In FY18, mobile made up 54% of total general display advertising (iabaustralia)
Benefits of mobile marketing
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personalised
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time and location sensitive
Challenges if mobile marketing
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many social media platforms, websites, and mobile apps offer their own unique and tailored mobile ad options
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ad formats, customization, and styles can vary
Influencer marketing
The focus on influential people rather than the target market as a whole. It identifies the individuals that have influence over potential customers, and orients marketing activities around these influencers.
Benefits of influencer marketing
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Helps build a relationship between a brand and the influencer
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The influencerpromotesthebrand’sproductsorservices–often through socialmedia (Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn)
Influencers must be:
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Be trusted figures within a niche community
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retain a loyal following
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possess knowledge or experience about what they are advertising