Digital Marketing Vs Internet Marketing
What is difference between digital marketing & internet marketing, what are the latest trends in industry and how do big companies assign their digital marketing budgets?
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Digital Marketing Vs Internet Marketing
Digital marketing is broad term that describes the set of marketing processes that utilize all obtainable digital channels to promote the product or service or to build a digital brand. Digital marketing has come to succeed with traditional marketing and transition from paper & newspaper ads to Facebook and PPC campaigns.
The channels that build up digital marketing include: Web sites, email marketing, mobile marketing, Social media platforms, Banner placement, SEO, pay per click campaigns, SMS, billboards, Web TV, and anything else with the digital foundation.
Internet Marketing channels are Website, Search Engine marketing, Mobile marketing, Banner Advertising, Content marketing, Email marketing.
Internet marketing is subset of digital marketing. It is in fact that the most important constituent because the majority of digital marketing activities fall within the boundaries of an Internet marketing. We can see below how the digital marketing budgets are spent and their relationship with an Internet marketing.
The most important channels of Internet Marketing are:
Web site : Either the personal website or corporate website or even personal blog hosted on the shared platform like WordPress or Tumblr. For many campaigns the website is starting point and destination i.e. run digital marketing campaign to promote the website i.e., starting point with the purpose of getting more visitors i.e., destination.
Search Marketing (SEM) – Search Marketing is a basis of an Internet Marketing and consists of 2 important activities, SEO and PSA. There is lot of confusion about these terms.
SEO has to do with an optimization of techniques for the purpose of accomplishing higher rankings in the Search engines. It has two major components such as On page SEO and Off Page SEO.
Paid Search Advertising or PSA is about getting the visitors by placing ads on the search engines. The one of the most popular approach is that ‘Pay Per Click’ or PPC and most well known tool is the Google Adwords which lets to advertise on Google and partner network.
So search marketing has to do with the promotion methods related to Search Engine.
Social Media Marketing : Social media marketing is another popular component of Internet marketing and that is gaining a lot of attention since the last two years. Millions of users spend the considerable amount of their online time on the Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, and on other SM platforms and this fact attentive digital marketers to take social media seriously and make it part of digital marketing campaigns.
Content Marketing : In the past when we talked about SEO we fundamentally meant link building but this trend has changed since from 2011 and content marketing has become new SEO. This simply means that good content has become an again the foundation of SEO and it is through content that will build better Internet presence and not through cheap link building techniques.
Email Marketing : Email is not dead but on an opposing it is one of the most important tools in an every digital marketing campaign. Even though the influence of social media, email is still a most efficient way to convert the visitors or readers into the customers.
In terms of marketing, email marketing is process of gathering an email addresses from people interested in the products or services for a purpose of sending them newsletters or offers.
Mobile Marketing : More and more users use their mobile phones to search the web, engage on social media, or find the products or services to buy. In fact it is estimated that 30 percent of traffic coming to website is from mobile – this holds true for many of the websites as well, check the Google analytics reports and can be surprised).
Mobile marketing is about a creating content or ads that is viewable and suitable for the mobile device. For example: websites should have a mobile friendly versions and an advertisement shown on the mobile device may take into an account the location of device and show the nearest shops that sell the particular product.
Banner Advertising : One can find a banners in almost all web properties i.e. mobile apps, search engines, websites, mobile websites, newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. Digital marketers try to promote their products or services through the different types of banners in different platforms.
Conclusion
It is important to understand that the Internet Marketing is subset of digital marketing and not something different. When we talk about the digital marketing in an essence we mean a Internet marketing plus SMS, WebTV and digital advertising.
It is clear that the companies are starting to appreciate the importance of social media as marketing tool and there is also clear turn to content & mobile marketing.
