Week 11 - Digital Marketing and Marketing Analytics Flashcards
What is digital marketing
all the activities that are involved in planning and implementing marketing in the electronic environment, it allows consumers to interact deeply with the marketing organisations without the need for dealing with an actual person
includes the internet and web on computers,tablets, smartphones and other information telecommunication technologies
The characteristics of digital marketing
Profiling
Interactivity and community
Control
Accessibility and comparability
Digitalisation
Profiling
The process of gettng to know about potential customers before they make a purchase and to find out more about existing customers
Information can be gathered in the digital environment through
- requiring registration
-use of cookies on websites
-competitions
Interaction and community
Other than in0person interaction digital marketing offers the most opportunity for interaction between the marker and the customer
can occur in various ways:
- A virtual customer service officer
- a real customer service officer
- email, newsletters and RSS feeds
- survey participation
- online communities
Control
Individuals exercises varying degrees of control over their interaction with marketing.
- push advertising: advertising sent from the marker to the customer
- pull advertising: advertising that the customer actively seeks out
Control is the ability of the consumer to determine how they interact with the marketing message and to influence the presentation and content of the marketing message.
Accessibility and comparability
The web provides individuals with more ability than ever before to research products, compare products and seek the opinions of others
Their research is conducted outside the influence of a salesperson
Customers are far more informed about products and competing products than ever before
Digitalisation
the ability to deliver the product as information or to present information about a product digitally
Some products can be completely digitised, e.g. music
While not all products can be completely digitised, many retailers are finding that their services can be, e.g. online grocery shopping
Digital marketing methods
- paid, owned, and earned media, brochure sites
- social media, viral marketing, portals
- Search engine optimisation; search engine marketing
-Email, SMS and MMS marketing - Apps, VR, E-commerce
Paid, Owned and earned media
Paid: any digital advertising that a business pays for
Owned media: Any digital channel owned by a business in which content is controlled and governed by the organisation
Earned: Content that is generated via people outside the business
brochure sites
websites that are essentially an online advertisement for the organisation
Usually present product and contact details on highly visual and eye-catching way but offer little other functionality
Useful for businesses that seek to present portfolio if work that shows the customisation of their offering
They often suit the limited budget of a small business, or one that offers a highly customised service or bespoke products
Social media
The various websites that use technologies and experiences involve online communities where members contribute to and build the community and content.
Users can control their experience through customisation and interactivity.
encourage interactive information sharing and user-generated content
Viral marketing
use of social networks to spread a marketing message via earned
media
These marketing messages are spread by friends and colleagues, they have a much greater chance of being considered than traditional advertising
it is controlled by the online community, and some businesses pay a heavy price to try and manipulate the online word-of-mouth
Portals
A website that is design to act as a gateway to other related sites
Popularity has declined as search engines have become more powerful, and users can find better content themselves
Still widely used by the government where the intention is to provide citizens with a starting point from which to access all government services
Search engine optimisation
Tailoring certain features of a website to try to achieve the best possible ranking in search results returned by a search engine
An enormous industry has developed around SEO, and numerous businesses exist that specialise in providing SEO services to other businesses.
The effectiveness of SEO has also declined as users have become knowledgeable and cynical about how businesses work to appear among the top hits on search engines
Search engine marketing
Many search engines now seek paid advertising to place on search results pages.
The advertisements at the top of search results are sponsored links or ‘ads’.
Sponsored links are appealing to businesses because they are only returned for searches that are relevant to the advertised product, effectively ensuring the link is placed more prominently than links that are returned purely due to SEO efforts
Email, SMS and MMS Marketing
While spam is an unwelcome way of marketing, legitimate email and SMS marketing can be an effective way to build customer relationships.
When a business makes a sale, a well-timed follow-up email can help reduce purchase dissonance and can prompt a further purchase.
The chances are that an SMS will be read (and perhaps responded to) within minutes of being received.
Apps
A phenomenon that has coincided with the increased availability, affordability and consumer uptake of smartphones.
The development of application software (or ‘apps’) to run on these mobile devices.
Australian consumers are becoming increasingly mobile-active, with an estimated 17.9 million smartphone users in Australia and 15 million of us having access to a tablet device.
Apps (e.g. Ticketmaster) have the capability to:
o Find events you like
o Access setlists for shows you have attended
o Turn on auto-location to find nearby events
o Access your account and see past or upcoming orders
o Integrate with social media
o Access artist and venue info
VR
When Facebook launched their virtual reality system Oculus Rift, it was difficult to predict the roll-on effect, but the business community knew this needed to be taken seriously.
Virtual reality (VR) is not new; it has been experimented with since the 50s and 60s.
VR has now expanded into retailing.
E-Commerce
When the marketing exchange occurs via the internet, mobile phone or other telecommunications technology, it is known as e-commerce.
E-commerce is particularly attractive to small, niche businesses.
The web enables them to reach consumers across the globe, potentially making viable a business that could not generate adequate turnover just through local customers.
Ethical and legal issues
Ethical and legal issues mar arise from:
o Pervasive nature of modern information technologies
o Personalised nature of digital marketing
o International nature of modern information technologies
o Failure of laws and international agreements to keep pace with technological change and innovative use of new technologies
Privacy
One of the main focuses of digital marketing is to gather information about customer and potential customers to use in formulating market strategy
For many people, collection of the information itself is not a problem (although privacy advocates oppose it). What most people are concerned with is how the information is used.
There are few laws or rules aimed directly at regulating privacy protection online.
Misleading or deceptive conduct
Companies must be honest and truthful in all their business dealings, and if they are not, they are liable to be punished by the law
Unfortunately the internet is used by some to fraudulently obtain money from others
Spam
The most prevalent type of spam is advertising-related email (36%). The second most common is adult related in subject (31.7%). The third most common is unwanted emails related to financial markets (26.5%).
In Australia, the relevant legislation is the Spam Act 2003. In New Zealand, it is the Unsolicited Electronic Message Act 2007
Evaluating Digital Marketing Effectiveness
Practitioners actively engaged in digital marketing know that it is notoriously difficult to measure the effectiveness of digital marketing campaigns.
Online advertising is one area that offers further potential for marketers to assess the effectiveness
Deciding on a particular metric that quantifies an aspect of marketing performance can be invaluable information for the online marketer to know how successful a marketing activity is