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Digital marketing is marketing that leverages information technology. This can include digital business models, promotion, advertising, distribution, pricing and sales. The following are illustrative examples of digital marketing.EcommerceEcommerce is any business model that is mostly digital such that products and services are sold and/or distributed with digital channels such as websites, apps and software platforms. For example, a digital two-sided market for wholesale goods.
Digital ProductsA business model based on digital products and services such as a streaming media service that offers films, television shows and music. It is increasingly common for businesses to have no physical product such that all value created is intangible and digital.Digital AdvertisingPaying to reach customers with a message in digital environments such as websites, apps and games. Digital advertising can also extend into the physical world with elements such as digital posters.
Targeted AdvertisingSome forms of digital advertising allow individual customers to be targeted with a message based on elements such as behavior. For example, a search advertising platform that allows you to target customers who are searching for a mortgage.The practice of continuing to target a customer with regular messages based on some element of their behavior. For example, advertising to customers who have recently visited your website.
Reaching customers with a message when they are in close proximity to you. For example, displaying ads for a restaurant to a customer who is searching for restaurants a block from your location.Omnichannel MarketingIntegration of your marketing efforts across digital and real world channels such as remarketing to a customer via digital advertising based on in-store behavior. For example, showing a customer ads for socks after they buy socks from your retail store. This is often based on data from apps and loyalty cards. Customers may perceive this as aggressive and informed consent is generally required to do this type of tracking.
Social Media MarketingUsing social media to promote brands, products and services. This can also include other elements of marketing such as public relations, customer service, brand culture and market research. For example, using social media to connect with lead users as part of product development.
Influencer MarketingA form of social media marketing that involves paying celebrities and other influencers to get a message to your target audience.Content MarketingCreating useful content such as videos, podcasts, blogs and whitepapers that attracts an audience for the purposes of brand recognition or generating demand. This can also be extended to the development of useful apps for your target audience. For example, an ecommerce seller of secondhand university textbooks that publishes popular apps for students that creates brand recognition.
Market ResearchDigital market research such as a survey or study that examines data from social media.Database MarketingThe basic process of maintaining a database of your customers to support promotion and other marketing and operational processes.Salesforce AutomationA class of platforms for managing sales teams and sales processes.Marketing AutomationA class of platforms for handling a broad range of marketing and sales processes.|
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