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DIGITAL MARKETING
What is digital
marketing? Essentially digital
marketing is the practice of promoting products and services
using database-driven online distribution channels to reach consumers in a
cost-effective manner. Recent statistics
show that global Web usage increased 10% in the past year. Billions of
marketing dollars spent on hitherto traditional advertising is shifting to digital marketing.
Digital
marketing centers around the Internet, which has become a method of
communication and a very powerful marketing medium. It is not the more traditional forms of
marketing such as radio, TV, billboard and print because they do not offer
instant feedback. It does include television, radio, internet, mobile phones
and social media marketing. There are two different forms of digital marketing, i.e. Pull and push.
Push digital
marketing technologies requires the effort of both the marketer and the
customer. The marketer has to push or send the content to the customer and the
customer has to make the effort of receiving it. Email, SMS, RSS are examples
of push digital marketing. In each
of these examples, the marketer has to send (push) the messages to the users
for the message to be received. The beauty of this medium is that it is
provides faster and consistent delivery, better targeting and data. However it
serves a smaller audience and there is a need for client software before
content can be created.
Pull digital
marketing technologies involve the user having to seek out and directly
select (or pull) the content – as is the case via a web search which requires
considerable marketing effort to find the message. The customer has to make the
effort of seeking for the content – it involves only one message which is being
viewed by all – and it cannot be personalized.




