Digital Marketing also popularly known as Internet Marketing or On-line Marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing  which is  also the most effective & economical.  Compared to the conventional marketing the internet marketing is quite inexpensive & also has  the best ROI; hence this should be must use marketing stream for SME/SMBs. 

Digital Marketing consists of the following : 

* Website Design & Development

Website is a digital face of the organization on the net which is accessible to everyone globally.  In this Internet marketing age a website design & development plays a very important role in the brand building and business development.  Every organization should have a good website which generates some decent business for the organization.

A basic website should have pages like Home, About us, Products/services offered and Contact us, this type of websites are also called brochureware.  Gone are the days when website just provided the info on your products & services. In today’s competitive environment website is a low cost business generating tool. In order to achieve this your website should contain pages  like online demo, videos, blog, downloads, case studies, news,….etc.  One also need to do SEM/SEO/PPC/SMM  to generate traffic to your website in order to convert this traffic into leads & eventually into business.  
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* SEM – Search Engine Marketing

According to Wikipedia Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through optimization and advertising. SEM may use search engine optimization (SEO) or use pay per click (PPC) methods. Some people use the term SEM  exclusively for pay per click advertising (PPC). Let us look at both these techniques in detail.

* SEO – Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization, is the process by which you can bring your website or page appear   higher in the first page or closer to the first page for the search results in various search engines.  SEO is the natural or organic way of optimizing the Website/pages. The techniques involved are on page & off page optimization which involves Keyword analysis, rewriting the website content & code, back link generation to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results pages. There are two types of techniques for the optimization White hat & black hat techniques.  One should make sure   that black hat techniques are not used (especially when SEO work is outsourced to a vendor) else your website can be blacklisted in some of the search engines.

* PPC – Pay Per Click

Pay Per Click is an one form of Online advertizing where the advertisers would pay the publisher or website owner or Search Engine Companies for inclusion of their ad which will drive traffic to their website/Landing pages. The good part of PPC is you only pay when someone clicks your ad. In order to have a successful PPC campaign one need to have a detailed strategy which includes the budget, proper keyword selection, managing the bidding process, competitive analysis & careful monitoring & continuously modifying several parameters. Well panned & executed PPC campaign is one of the quickest ways of getting the results (leads) with a minimum budget.  

* SMM - Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing is a process of marketing your product/service or brand using social media sites.   There are hundreds of Social Media sites where individuals can interact with each other and share info, news, photo, video, comment on all these media  or your products or services whether they like it or not & why? These comments on your products or services can be very valuable to the organization.

Considering the popularity & benefits (also the low costs) of the Social Media the corporate world also has joined the bandwagon and have started marketing their Products & Services  on Social Media  sites. Most popular Social Media sites are Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter & Youtube to name a few.  Social Media Marketing is one of the fastest growing & low cost marketing tool.

* Blog

A blog is a short form of web log. It is a information site on the net which includes all kind of information or updates (called Post/s) from mostly one individual in the reverse chronological order, where the most recent post appears first. The Blog originally started as Personal Online diaries, but with its success SMEs & Corporates have started  using  it for marketing their products & services, brand building, publishing whitepapers and more recently all kind of media like images, photos, infographics, podcasts  & videos along with the written contents. Blogs gained the moment because of its simplicity & low cost. Effective use of blog can get lot of traffic to your website & can also serve as a excellent tool to communicate & interact with your target audience.

* Youtube

YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing website, on which users can upload, view and share videos.  After Google, Youtube has become second largest search engine. Youtube started as home made video sharing, talent showcasing site, however over period of time it has become one of the most powerful Internet marketing tool. Statistic shows that it will not only increase  your website’s chances of Google first page appearance but also increases some of the marketing results like  clicking rate & purchasing rate. Youtube marketing is embraced by MSMB/SME as well as MNCs because of its global reach at zero cost.