What Is Digital Marketing About and the [Best Strategies]

By | June 2, 2019

Online marketing is changing from what was done just one year ago. To stay current in the ever-changing marketing trends, knowing what is digital marketing and the best strategies for increasing conversions is crucial for the best performance.

What Is Digital Marketing Definition

Wikipedia defines what is digital marketing as Digital Marketing is the marketing of products or services using digital technology, mainly on the Internet, but also including mobile phones, videos, and various online social media sources.

This means that any and every platform on the Internet to market products or services can be considered digital marketing.

 

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The difference from last year is the capabilities of smartphones and their uses as a viable means of marketing. Smartphones are capable of not only taking great pictures but also recording video and uploading to the Internet in “Live mode” and receiving immediate engagement from audiences.

This is huge! The application of this technology for anyone with a smartphone can incorporate this in their marketing techniques which can have immediate results for individuals or businesses. Advertising and marketing with an AdWords campaign or Social Media channels, like Facebook advertisements won’t have any results until after the campaign is finished.

For some businesses, especially the ones operating on a shoe-string budget, waiting two weeks to one month for an advertising campaign to see the results can be devastating. Especially if the wrong keywords are used and either no one clicks on the advertisement or worse, it attracts traffic that doesn’t convert. Either way, the individual or business loses money on the cost plus the time to reap the results.

Using video to capture an audience is proven to be more effective than just using the printed word.

wealthy affiliate hostingHow To Learn About Digital Marketing

There are different directions that someone can go on how to learn digital marketing. This depends on how deep your pockets are to decide on the best option to learn how to do digital marketing in 2019. The Internet is progressing at a pace that makes things obsolete in a matter of months so staying abreast with the ever-changing marketplace will ensure continued conversions and success.

To learn digital marketing from online courses then Udemy is a great source of knowledge based curriculum for a modest price. They have several different digital marketing courses that anyone can afford. As of this writing, some of these courses were charging only $10.99 for the whole course, which is a bargain.

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I was on Quora the other day and read a very good explanation of the changing landscape of digital marketing. To give credit where credit is due, Mark Mehling gave an answer that is both true and in perspective of the actual term of digital marketing. To see his post of learning digital marketing you can click on his name here, Mark Mehling.

Another contributor to Quora is Wanda Patterson which writes “Several marketing teams struggle to understand data or measure campaigns accurately. Everything you do in digital marketing is underpinned by analytics. Whether you’re a social media specialist, search marketer or PPC specialist, analytics is crucial to understanding success, why it happened, and how to replicate it. Knowing how to collect and analyze data as well as draw insights and recommendations from that data are paramount.

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Another good source on Quora in answering the question, “what is a good source to learn digital marketing”, is from Rajiv Pandey which added his interpretation of “How do I learn digital marketing”. You can view his answer by clicking on his name here, Rajiv Pandey.

My interpretation of digital marketing is any marketing that is done via the Internet can be considered digital marketing. This means if you write content for a website, whether the website is yours or belongs to someone else your content can be considered digital marketing because it is done via the Internet.

So my opinion is the same as Rajiv Pandey. The best place or the best way to learn digital marketing, however, we differ considerably. The days of trial and error are over. You can’t afford to blindly attempt to market yourself or a website without first knowing On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO.

I suggest getting a handle on the best way to learn digital marketing is to first learn about On-Page SEO techniques here: How To SEO Your Website and Improve Rankings and then Off-Page SEO techniques here: These Off-Site SEO Techniques Makes Ranking 10X Better, in that order, from my previous posts. You will have the knowledge to take the next appropriate steps.

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What Is Digital Marketing Strategy

The best strategy in digital marketing is knowing the different channels of online marketing, the various platforms, and creating a plan that is implemented every day. Joining a forum in your niche, for example, and then never commenting on any threads, or offering your opinion, is NOT following through with good digital marketing.

If you join a forum, then you must follow through with engaging with the members of the forum. There may be many days that nothing new has anything to do with your expertise or experience, but the day that there is a problem that you can solve you had better be there to take your shot in developing a relationship with the community of that forum.

Sometimes you only get one shot at becoming a true inspiration to the community so I suggest you go for it with your full focus and concentration.

As in what was said earlier about using your smartphone for live video is one of the best responses that you can do that can have an immediate result in your marketing efforts.

The strategy to use is to create a schedule and stay on it, no matter what. For example,

  • Monday – research keywords and subject for a new post
  • Tuesday –  finish a post and publish, submit to search engines.
  • Wednesday – Marketing day on Social Media, like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.
  • Thursday – Research new keywords and subject for next post.
  • Friday – Finish new post and publish, submit to search engines
  • Saturday – Housecleaning, like linking posts to each other, update the sitemap, do a/b testing of capture page.
  • Sunday – Brainstorm post ideas for the upcoming week, check site rank of the previously published post

The schedule above is an example only but having a schedule is necessary to keep you moving forward every day.

 

Types Of Digital Marketing

Social Media comes to mind as far as marketing for immediate results. This includes

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Quora
  • YouTube
  • WhatsApp
  • Messenger
  • Tumblr
  • Redditt
  • LinkedIn
  • Viber
  • Snapchat

The above is just a sample of the many different social media platforms available to start marketing your brand. I wouldn’t suggest doing all of them all at once, but I personally picked out two SM platforms and tried to learn everything I could about their particular platform. I suggest you do the same and become an expert of just two social media platforms. Market the heck out of them for six to nine months. By this time you will see if a new strategy needs to be implemented and learn two more platforms.

Check your Google Analytics to see which channel is bringing in the most targeted audiences and what your conversion rate is from each channel. Make a decision on whether to keep both channels as a good market source or move to the next SM channel to learn how to market there.

YouTube channel is a game changer and so it should be, YouTube is the second biggest search engine to Google. Did you know that over

  • one billion hours of video are watched every day?
  • over 400 hours of video are uploaded every hour?
  • That YouTube has over 1.9 billion monthly active logged in users?

YouTube is a huge platform to use as a perfect marketing complement to your website. Google+ is history now, but YouTube Discussion board has replaced it and using your smartphone to record video has never been easier. There are more younger people watch videos today than ever, which only makes more sense to make a video, put on YouTube, share it on your website and get the benefits of both.

Social media isn’t the only game in town. There are several other media channels ripe to pick from. My favorite and old school is a Forum that is in your niche. If you look at the niche description you will see how many members but also the last time new material was published. Go with the larger groups and also the most recent published post.

Find a thread that matches best to your expertise or experience and follow it and leave comments on. If you can offer suggestions to the people asking for solutions you have just scored big. You do this a couple of times and you will see a rise in your traffic to your home site.

Conclusion

Marketing in 2019 will be different than marketing done in 2018 and years past. The Internet is evolving and so too is the marketing channels and abilities of technology to connect people to what they want and search for. It is up to us learn how to help solve the problems people are searching for so that our conversions are better and our bottom line is better also.

 

I hope that you liked the information presented and I encourage you to share it with people you know can use this information. I also encourage you to leave a comment on whether you agree, disagree, or have any questions about this post. I wish you much success and have a great day!

 

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4 thoughts on “What Is Digital Marketing About and the [Best Strategies]

  1. Norman

    With the invention of the internet, things have changed with the way that we do business. we can now make a good living without leaving the comforts of our home which is pretty amazing. Many people are enjoying this kind of benefits and living the dream that they always wanted. The power of the internet is truly amazing. 

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    1. Kenneth Merrick Post author

      Norman, marketing is marketing regardless of the tagline that is presented. You’re right about the Internet, it has opened a new way to market products or services and anyone can earn an income from starting their own online business. The trick is to please the search engines with their prerequisite of following proper SEO techniques but also pleasing the end user – your website visitor. If you can do both, then you will be very successful with online, or digital marketing.

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  2. John Rico

    Hey there! This is a very informative article about digital marketing. Actually, I am looking for a new way that I can earn online. I am quite hesitant to start with this online platform because I don’t have prior experience in this kind of marketing. Do you think if I can understand this online platform even if I don’t know that much about it?

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    1. Kenneth Merrick Post author

      John, the simplest way to earn online is to become an affiliate of an already established company. You are promoting their products or services. Word of mouth advertising is still the best advertising and if it cost the company commissions to sell their products they still come out ahead. I think if you learn on-page SEO and off-page SEO you will be successful in whatever your online business you start.

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