What Is Digital Marketing?
At a high level, digital marketing refers to advertising delivered through digital channels such as search engines, websites, social media, email, and mobile apps. While this term covers a wide range of marketing activities, all of which are not universally agreed upon, we’ll focus on the most common types below.
The Definitive Guide to Digital Advertising
Paid search, or pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, typically refers to the “sponsored result” on the top or side of a search engine results page (SERP). You only pay when your ad is clicked. You can tailor your PPC ads to appear when specific search terms are entered, creating ads that are targeted to a particular audience.
PPC ads are flexible, visible, and most importantly, effective for many different types of organizations. They are also contextual advertisements—ads that appear when a person is searching for a particular keyword or term.
Advertising has evolved. No longer is it restricted to print publications, static billboards, radio, and television. Modern technologies have opened the door to a whole new era of advertising–digital advertising. Digital advertising allows marketers and advertisers to reach and appeal to their core audiences in new ways and with more precision.
The challenge of meeting the modern buyer's expectation of a continuous, cross-channel, and personal experience is met with new ad technology and innovations that continue to advance at break-neck speeds. New ad technology platforms, types of ads, methods of tracking, dynamic ad content, and advances such as the Internet of Things now provide endless opportunities for marketers and advertisers to engage their customers personally and across channels.
In this comprehensive, 110+ page guide, we cover topics from the evolution of digital advertising, to how to structure your digital marketing team, to testing and optimization. Loaded with checklists, charts, and thought leadership from digital advertising experts, The Definitive Guide to Digital Advertising will teach you how to create strategic and dynamic digital advertising.
Download The Definitive Guide To Digital Advertising to learn:
- What makes up digital advertising
- How to create your digital ad strategy
- The different types of ads you have at your disposal
- The pricing structures you can expect
- How to target your digital ads
- How to design your digital ads
- The types of ad technology that are available
- How to test and measure your ads
- Insights from industry experts
Search Engine Optimization
Simply put, search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing the content, technical set-up, and reach of your website so that your pages appear at the top of a search engine result for a specific set of keyword terms. Ultimately, the goal is to attract visitors to your website when they search for products, services, or information related to your business.
SEO can almost be viewed as a set of best practices for good digital marketing. It enforces the need for a well-constructed and easy-to-use website, valuable and engaging content, and the credibility for other websites and individuals to recommend you by linking to your site or mentioning it in social media posts.
Achieving higher placement within search engines requires a hybrid of math, art, science, and creativity. If search engine optimization (SEO) were simple, everyone would rank at the top of the search results, which obviously isn’t realistic. However, SEO and Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns are key to acquiring inbound traffic to your website.
Download this ebook and learn how to optimize your PPC and SEO efforts for inbound marketing. You will learn:
- What SEO has to do with inbound marketing
- Where inbound marketing lives
- The math involved in SEO and PPC
- The art and science of inbound marketing
- The anatomy of a paid search campaign
- And much more!
Content Marketing
Have you heard the expression, “Content is king?” If not, you have now. Great content is the fuel that drives your digital marketing activities:
- It is a key pillar of modern SEO
- It helps you get noticed on social media
- It gives you something of value to offer customers in emails and paid search ads
Creating clever content that is not promotional in nature, but instead educates and inspires, is tough but well worth the effort. Offering content that is relevant to your audience helps them see you as a valuable source of information. On top of that, resourceful content makes it less likely that they will tune you out.
Content Marketing has become an increasingly important part of a successful and strategic marketing mix. Today, marketers can become their own content publishers and develop audiences to attract attention. This benefits them in three key ways: it builds brand awareness, creates brand preference, and expands the brand’s reach to more buyers and potential customers at a much lower cost.
In this comprehensive, 110+ page guide, we cover topics from getting your content marketing program started to writing, publishing and promoting. Loaded with checklists, charts, and thought leadership from content marketing experts, The Definitive Guide to Engaging Content Marketing will teach you how to execute an amazing content marketing program.
You'll learn how to:
- Identify and map your buyer personas and journeys
- Develop your brand voice and style guide
- Optimize your content mix and create an editorial calendar
- Resource your team and extend the shelf life of your content
- Measure and optimize your content
Social Media Marketing
People aren’t just watching cat videos and posting selfies on social media these days. Many rely on social networks to discover, research, and educate themselves about a brand before engaging with that organization. For marketers, it’s not enough to just post on your Facebook and Twitter accounts. You must also weave social elements into every aspect of your marketing and create more peer-to-peer sharing opportunities. The more your audience wants to engage with your content, the more likely it is that they will want to share it. This ultimately leads to them becoming a customer. And as an added bonus, they will hopefully influence their friends to become customers, too.
he impact of social media transcends almost every aspect of our daily lives—work, politics, breaking news, and more. Today, it’s almost universally used—by consumers and brands—and is one of the most effective channels to connect with your audience.
Social media marketing offers marketers a vast opportunity to engage with their buyers, across the entire customer lifecycle, on the platforms they actively tune into for information. It's critical that, as a marketer, you know how to leverage social media marketing to build your brand, drive demand, and engage your buyers. This comprehensive, 90+ page guide is full of checklists, worksheets, advice from over 15 industry thought leaders, and examples to help marketers at any level, from beginner to expert, create and implement an effective social media marketing strategy.
Download The Definitive Guide to Social Media Marketing to learn:
- How to create a social media marketing strategy
- How to choose what social media platforms are right for your brand
- What content you need to support your social media marketing
- How often to post on social media (and how to create an editorial calendar)
- How to measure the effectiveness of your social media campaigns
- What team and tools you need to support your social media strategy
Email Marketing
Email has been around for more than two decades, and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. It’s still the quickest and most direct way to reach customers with critical information. The reason is simple: Consumers are very attached to their emails. Just ask yourself how many times you have checked your email in the past hour...See what we mean?
But great marketers know that not just any email will do. Successful email campaigns must be engaging, relevant, informative, and entertaining. To succeed, your marketing emails should satisfy these five core attributes:
- Trustworthy
- Relevant
- Conversational
- Be coordinated across channels
- Strategic
Not all email is created equal. Customers and prospects have learned to filter out noise, so your email needs to be more trusted, more relevant, and more conversational. Download our new Definitive Guide to Engaging Email, a jam packed 150+ guide, to move beyond basic batch and blast email to a whole new level of engagement.
With all of the guides out there on email, why read this one? You'll learn:
- How to keep email relevant in a multi-channel world
- 5 key ways to make your emails engaging
- How to create conversations and not campaigns
- The latest research and tips on subject lines, mobile optimization, avoiding spam filters, and more
- The new metrics of email marketing
Mobile Marketing
As mobile devices become an increasingly integral part of our lives, it’s vital that marketers understand how to effectively communicate on this unique and extremely personal channel. Mobile devices are kept in our pockets, sit next to our beds, and are checked constantly throughout the day. This makes marketing on mobile incredibly important but also very nuanced.
From SMS and MMS to in-app marketing, there are many ways to market on mobile devices, so finding the right method for your particular business is key. Beyond the mechanisms to deliver your message, you also need to think about coordination of your marketing across digital channels and make sure mobile is a part of that mix.
Mobile devices have become an integral part of our lives. In fact, 44% of cellphone owners sleep with their phones next to their beds so they won’t miss a thing. As a marketing channel that commands plenty of dedicated attention, it’s vital that marketers understand how to effectively market on mobile. Mobile is quite possibly the most personal channel that exists—it rests in someone’s pocket, sits next to their bed, and gets checked consistently throughout the day. This makes marketing on mobile incredibly important but also nuanced.
In this comprehensive, 150+ page guide, we cover topics from creating a cross-channel mobile marketing strategy, to marketing via SMS and MMS, to creating a mobile app. Loaded with checklists, charts, and thought leadership from mobile marketing experts, The Definitive Guide to Mobile Marketing will teach you how to create a strategic mobile marketing plan and engage your audience effectively via mobile devices.
Download The Definitive Guide To Mobile Marketing to learn:
- How to create a cross-channel mobile marketing strategy
- Your mobile marketing options, including: responsive design, SMS/MMS, and mobile apps
- How to test, measure and optimize your mobile marketing
- Insights from industry experts
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