Digital Marketing is basically promotion of brands using all forms of digital advertising mediums to reach the target segment. This now includes Radio, mobile, Internet, Television, social media marketing and other less popular forms of digital media.
While the talk of the day is internet marketing, the latter is only a subset of digital marketing. While digital marketing does involve many of the strategies involved in Internet Marketing, it extends beyond this by including other channels with which to reach people that do not require the use of the Internet. As a result of this decreased reliance on the web based media, the field of digital marketing expands to include media such as cellular media(sms/mms/phone calls), digital signage (digital banner ads and digital outdoor signboards), and other media like television and radio, it is thus a much more comprehensive methodology to reach out and engage your target audience, and with a higher conversion rate for most product categories.
Previously seen as a stand-alone marketing strategy because of its extension on mediums which it covers, it is currently visualized more as a marketing effort that covers most, if not all, of the more traditional marketing areas such as direct marketing by providing the same method of communicating with an audience but in a manner using the development of science and technology and thus optimizing resources. The spectrum of digital marketing is now being expanded to support the “servicing” and “engagement” of customers, and thus cover not only customer acquisition but also customer retention.
So how should firms go about planning their marketing strategies for a successful digital marketing program? While there is no such common strategy which fits the requirement of all firms like a glove, there are few generic strategic and economic issues that firms need to keep in mind while designing their marketing program.
The first grid has three elements of your proposed strategy. Does your strategy match with the vision and mission of your firm? Does the strategy assembling platform match with the knowledge that is within your marketing team? Is that knowledge formally managed using any platform? Then comes the question of how you are delivering the value transfer from the production of value, to the assembly of value to the end value consumption in a value chain. Is your firm geared to take charge of such a business model?
As in the second half of the architecture, the business model dimensions need to be evaluated based on the digital marketing capabilities. Most important dimension for serious consideration is whether your organization structure is geared to handle the marketing methodologies you are planning to implement. The dynamics of knowledge distribution also needs to be looked into based on this framework.
Hope this helps your company to chalk out a successful digital marketing program. Do let us know what you think of the article, with your valuable comments.
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