Digital marketing refers to marketing through digital technologies including websites, social media, email, and mobile apps. It involves using online activities like SEO, PPC, social media, and content marketing to build customer relationships and facilitate the exchange of goods and services. Digital marketing has evolved significantly since the 1990s as the internet and digital technologies have advanced, allowing for more sophisticated and targeted marketing approaches. Key components of digital marketing include website design, SEO, PPC, social media marketing, email marketing, display advertising, affiliate marketing, and content marketing.

1. DIGITAL MARKETING
By: Akshay sethi (4548/12)
Birla Institute of technology,Mesra

2. What is digital marketing
• “Digital marketing” is the process of building
and maintaining customer relationships
through online activities to facilitate the
exchange of ideas, products, and services that
satisfy the goals of both parties.
• In simple words: Getting found online

3. History of digital marketing
 The term 'digital marketing' was first used in the 1990s.
 In the 2000s and the 2010s, digital marketing became more sophisticated
as an effective way to create a relationship with the consumer that has
depth and relevance.
 The rapid evolution of digital media has created new opportunities and
avenues for advertising and marketing.
 In 2012 and 2013 statistics showed digital marketing remained a growing
field.
 Digital media growth is estimated at 4.5 trillion online ads served annually
with digital media spend at 48% growth in 2010.

4. Digital marketing consist of ?
• Key components:
 Website design (user experience)
 Search engine optimization (SEO) *
 Pay per click (PPC) *
 Social media marketing (SMM) *
 Email marketing
 Display advertising (banner ads)
 Affiliate marketing
 Content marketing
 Online reputation management (ORM)

5. NEED FOR DIGITALISATION
 Innovative companies are taking the elements of each
channel that their customers value most, and combining them
to deliver a more valuable experience overall. For example,
fashion retailer All Saints has integrated the convenience of
web browsing in their physical stores by adding internet
enabled kiosks on-site, so customers can browse and check
availability on-line, and then try the item on in-store and get
the best of both worlds. Apple stores use mobile Point of Sale
terminals to add the convenience of ‘click to pay’ to their
physical shopping experience and provide customers with an
email receipt from the POS terminal.

6. NEED FOR DIGITALISATION
 Loss of control over the customer relationship
 The proliferation of digital channels and devices gives
consumers greater access to information, and the means
for communication and collaboration. The physical world
is being replicated in the digital world through digital
communities, businesses and assets, fundamentally
changing the way consumers engage with businesses and
each other.

7. NEED FOR DIGITALISATION
 Brands are facing a loss in the information monopoly and a
shift towards two-way communication and conversation. It is
vital that brands embrace the shift in consumer power and
find ways to make it work for mutual advantage. This is
because as customers gain more power to choose where and
how they interact, they will begin to choose a smaller number
of organisations with which to maintain primary relationships.

8. Benefits of digital marketing
Over traditional marketing *
 Puts the consumer in control
 Provides convenience
 Increases satisfaction
 Drives brand loyalty
 Reduces the selling cycle
 Reduces the cost of sales
 Builds your brand
 Provides targeted results
 It is measurable *
 Cost effective *

9. COMPETITION AND RISK OF
DIGITALISATION
 Digital channels lower barriers to entry and increase globalisation,
leading to a spiral of intensifying competition and commoditisation
 Innovative organisations are taking the opportunity to diversify,
bringing cross-industry convergence and blurring of the boundaries
between industries.
 Previously physically distinct products and sectors now compete
with one another, over less clearly defined customer bases. In this
way, there is an extension of ‘superbrands’, such as Tesco, Google or
Virgin.
 Google, is today in direct competition with social networking sites,
they have also moved into the mobile handset market, and even
the online fashion market

10. RISK
 As more and more information becomes available to customers and
competitors, and non-traditional players enter the market, prices,
values and product characteristics all tend to converge
 Price comparison, and unbundling of products, means that the
margin play is becoming more and more transparent, and less and
less acceptable to consumers.
 To reduce the impact, many organisations are successfully shifting
their focus from products to services as a way of differentiating
themselves and also increasing margins
 Nike allow customers to personalise large aspects of their product
range through NikeID; Apple and Amazon have successfully
integrated their products with service propositions; and publishing
houses such as Random House and BBC Books are partnering to
create a set of re-bundled ebook and television series products

11. How digital marketing evolved
over the years?
 Back in the day, it was all about search engine optimization – (organic search)
 Build a website
 Apply the art of on and off page SEO to your website, you build links, you build more links, and
you build even more backlinks, focus on the meta-tags, content, etc.
 You hope it shows up in Google someday
 You hope it displays on the results with the right keywords (what people are typing in when they
search)
 It was like fishing and hoping you will get a catch.
 With SEO, PPC was born – (paid search)
 Google’s Adwords (3 line ads that show up
on the right/top of search engine results)
 Microsoft’s Adcenter
 Yahoo’s search marketing (Overture)
 Build ads around keywords and pay for
everyone that clicks the ad and visits your site

13. Latest Developments and Strategies
• As digital marketing is dependent on technology which is
ever-evolving and fast-changing, the same features should be
expected from digital marketing developments and strategies.
This portion is an attempt to qualify or segregate the notable
highlights existing and being used as of press time.
 Segmentation
 Influencer Marketing
 Online Behavioural Advertising
 Collaborative Environment

14. Latest Developments and Strategies
• Segmentation: more focus has been placed on segmentation
within digital marketing, in order to target specific markets in
both business to business and business to consumer sectors.
• Influencer Marketing: Important nodes are identified within
related communities, known as influencers. This is becoming
an important concept in digital targeting. It is possible to
reach influencers via paid advertising, such as Facebook
Advertising or Google Adwords campaigns, or through
sophisticated sCRM (social customer relationship
management) software, such as SAP C4C, Microsoft Dynamics,
Sage CRM and Salesforce CRM. Many universities now focus,
at Masters level, on engagement strategies for influencers.

15. Latest Developments and Strategies
• Online Behavioural Advertising: Online Behavioural
Advertos refers to the practice of collecting information
about a user’s online activity over time, “on a particular
device and across different, unrelated websites, in order
to deliver advertisements tailored to that user’s interests
and preferences.
• Collaborative Environment: A collaborative environment
can be set up between the organization, the technology
service provider,and the digital agencies to optimize
effort, resource sharing, reusability and communications.

16. REFERENCES
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_marketing
• http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/The_digitisation_of_e
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