This presentation has prepared for students of DAIICT by Blow Horn Media, LLP in the association with Google Business Group - Ahmedabad. Purpose of this presentation is to educate students about digital marketing, future of it and career scope in digital marketing.
1. November 05th , 2014
DAIICT Campus, Gandhinagar
By Ankit Brahmbhatt
2. Topics to be covered
1. Importance of Online Presence
2. Branding your Business through Social Media
3. Social Media Marketing
4. SEO
5. Pay Per Click
6. Remarketing
7. Content Marketing
8. E-mail Marketing
9. Future in Digital Marketing
3. Introduction
What is Digital Marketing?
Digital marketing is the process of building and
maintaining customer relationship through online
activities to facilitate the exchange of ideas, products
and services that satisfy the goals of both parties
In plain English “ Getting found Online”
7. What exactly is online presence?
Online presence is the sum of the identities you’ve
created (personal and business-drive) + interactions
those identities have established, and participated in,
online
Your online presence has a very broad reach
If built successfully, can spread brand awareness and
gain you fans, followers, leads, customers and business
from an online relationship
8. Importance of Online Presence
Don’t just build an online presence because you’re
“supposed to”, build it strategically so that it can help
your overall goals
Strategize: What are your goals?
Understand your both short-term and long-term goals
How your online channels will help you for your goals
Set up a solid platform
First platform is your website
Use keywords to help get you near the top of search
returns
Use the tools such as Google Keyword
9. Importance of Online Presence
Make yours the best site anyone has ever visited
You can do a lot to make a visitor STAY and learn more
about your business
Use easy-to-use navigation, attractive design elements
and intriguing copy to attract them
Continued value by a blog or free giveaway
Give people a reason to visit your site
Blogging can very easily be a part of your goal
Set a free giveaway for people when they sign up for your
email list
10. Importance of Online Presence
Be social: “Being Seen” is the main need
Test and choose several social channels
Social media is a GREAT marketing tool to gain fans and
followers
Start building relationships with them
Track
Track your online presence at regular intervals
Recognize the current trends
Identify why you had a large spike in traffic
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12.
13. Build your Brand through Social Media
It has become necessary to create potential of social media
engagement for generating business or personal value
With each click, comment, like or post, people leave vital
pieces of information
Virtual footprints can be aggregated to generate new
insights for brand management and engagement
Without a framework, the brand value of social media stays
hidden in plain sight
Prepare a strategy for your whole plan
14. What to add to your strategy?
Identify Brand Goals
Closely look at your needs and decide how you want to use
social media to contribute to reach them
Set Marketing Objectives
Your objectives must be specific, measurable, achievable,
relevant and time-bound
Identify Ideal Prospects
Know your target audience’s age, occupation, income,
interests, pains, likes, dislikes, motivations & objections
15. What to add to your strategy?
Research
Compile a list of your main competitors. Find out which
social networks they’re using and analyze their content
strategy
Choose Channels and Tactics
Know which primary and secondary social networks you
should focus on
Your tactics for each social channel rely on your goals and
objectives
Create a Content Strategy
Type of content, time of posting and frequency of posting are
3 main elements to consider
18. Facebook
Capitalize on Major Events and Holidays
Crowd source for New Feature or Product Ideas
Engage your audience with Fun post
Post visuals
Post Consistently
Respond To Everyone
Deliver Content That Interests Your Fans
Tell your story through Video
Always respond & reply to your audience
20. Facebook Remarketing
Creation of your Ad means Marketing
Marketing of that Ad means Remarketing
While surfing on Facebook, not users but that Ad will
follow your users
That Advertisement will automatically come on their
page
21. Twitter
Make clear how Twitter fits into your priorities
Supercharge your email notifications from Twitter
Schedule regular visits to your Twitter stream
Create your own Twitter homepage
Find your most valuable followers
Clean up the list of who you follow
Clean up your app connections
Expand your audience by using hash tags
Get familiar with Twitter’s Advanced Search
Keep the tweets short
Find your perfect ratio of sharing
22. LinkedIN
Set up a detailed profile with the projects you have
done
Encourage people to recommend you for your work
Expand your skills and add as much as skills in your
profile
Follow the companies and apply the job via linked in
Create a poll within groups
Content ads (Paid)
Social ads (Paid)
Event sponsorships (Paid)
Post jobs (Paid)
23. Google+
G+ isn’t just a social network–it’s part of a powerful
social platform that integrates with key capabilities
like Google Docs, chat, hangouts, email and more
Effective strategies for G+:
Make Your Google+ Page Findable
Network Strategically With Circles
Include Compelling Content
Be Proactive With Engagement
Join Communities and Hangouts
Foster Relationships Before You Broadcast
Team Up With Influencers
Spread the Word
24. Important Tools
For Facebook
HyperAlerts: For email alert
ShortStack: Creates free campaign & promotes it
Tagboard: Uses hashtag & get public social media in fb &
twitter
LikeAlyzer: Analyzes your Facebook page
For Twitter
Bit.ly: For short link for twit & analyzes click
Buffer: For tweet scheduling
Tweetdeck: For real time tracking, organizing & engagement
Tweetreach: For analyzing your tweet reach to people
25. )
Primary goal of PPC
advertising is to drive as
many targeted visitors as
possible to your company’s
website
26. What is SEO ?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of
affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a
search engine’s “natural” or un-paid (“organic”) search
results.
Including all the major search engines such as google,
bing and yahoo have primary search results.
Finally SEO is a technique which helps search engines
find and rank your site higher than the millions of
other sites in response to a search query.
29. Types of SEO
On page SEO – Refers to factors that have an effect on
your website or webpage listing in natural search
results.
Off page SEO – Refers to factors that have an effect on
your website or webpage listing in natural search
results. Its not controlled by you or coding on your
page.
30. On Page SEO Factors
Title and Meta tag Creation
HTML Optimization
H1, H2, H3 tag and importance
Canonical Issues & 301 redirection
Sitemap.xml & robots.txt
Sizing of site of content
Linking Consideration
Freshness of Pages
31. Off Page SEO Factors
Directory Submission
Social Bookmarking
Article Submission
Web 2.0 Submission
Classified Submission
Search Engine Submission
Press Release
Forum Posting
32. Google Algorithms
Penguin Algorithm
Panda Algorithm
EMD Algorithm
Hamming Bird Algorithm
Page Layout Algorithm
Many other Updates
33. )
Primary goal of PPC
advertising is to drive as
many targeted visitors as
possible to your company’s
website
34. Pay Per Click (PPC)
It can be classified into:
Fundamentals
Ad formats
Budget & Bidding
Campaign management
Search Advanced
Ad & site quality
Optimizing performance
Display Advanced (Banner Ads, Rich Media Ads)
Display Ads on Google Display Network & Youtube
Display Ads on Mobile devices
Video Advertising
35. How Search Ad works?
A Search ad consists of a heading, a short summary
and the company URL
Major search engine displays these paid ads of their
“organic” or “natural” website search rankings
When someone clicks on the advertiser’s paid listing,
they arrive at the advertiser’s website and are charged
an amount up to the amount of their keyword bid
36. Benefit from Search Ad!
Immediate Visibility
It will only take a few days for your campaign to be set up
and launched
Your website becomes immediately visible
Spend some time before your online visibility improves
For businesses without a strong online presence, it
doesn’t take long for PPC marketing to work its magic
Target More Keywords
No need to worry about number of keywords you want
to target with your campaign
With PPC marketing, you can select as many keywords
giving you the chance to attract more customers
37. Benefit from Search Ad!
Higher Organic CTR
Click-Through Rate of your site will increase organically
on combining PPC with SEO
More people will click on your ads and be directed to
your website or landing page
You can convert the visitors into customers using best
lead conversion tactics
39. Banner Ads
Small rectangular advertisements that appear on all types
of web pages
Banner ads are usually simple pieces of HTML code
If you click on them, your Internet browser will take you to
the advertiser's website
It has ability to bring a potential customer directly to the
advertiser's website
By several ways advertisers measure banner ad success:
Clicks/Click-throughs
Page views
Click-through rate (CTR)
Cost Per Sale
40. Rich Media Ad
A form of advertising that utilizes an array of interactive
digital media, including streaming, video and audio
Initial load of a Rich Media ad is 40K or more
While display ads sell with pictures, Rich Media ads offer
more ways to involve an audience with an Ad
The Ad can expand, float, peel down, etc.
Some Benefits:
High interaction rate
More calls to action
Larger Space to Provide Visuals and Messaging
More efficient to increase brand awareness
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42. YouTube Ads
YouTube has become highly effective venue for accessing
massive audience through online advertising
A variety of ways in which companies can use YouTube
Advertising:
Promoted Videos: Your Ad video is displayed against
relevant search results and related video content on YouTube
TrueView Video Ads: Similar concept to AdWords in that
you only pay when viewers have chosen to watch your Ad, not
when an impression is served
A Brand Channel: Create a bespoke channel, customising
the look and feel of your brand with banners and branding
box features available
45. Remarketing
It lets you show ads to users who've previously visited
your site when they browse the Web
While using it, you'll tag pages of your site that
correspond to certain categories you want to promote
For example, only 1 to 3% traffic converts to our
objective but to drive those 97% we need remarketing
46. Remarketing
There are different ways to target these audiences:
Based on the product page they visited
Based on visiting a certain page of your checkout process
Even based on not visiting a certain page
Advantages:
Brand exposure
Higher conversion rates
Better ROI
Audience targeting
49. Content Strategy
Create a perfect Planning Document & manage your
content marketing efforts
Set up the objectives: Decide the strategy how you’ll
build your brand and break it into small fractions to
easily meet your specific goal
Target audience: Select & refine the niche you want to
target. Locate your ideal customers.
Strategy: Craft your core message into a benefit
statement. Decide which kind of content you want to
present before your audience.
50. Content Marketing
Technology: Choose the publishing platform for each
type of content you’ll create & decide social media channels
you’ll be active on
Content Management: Set specific objective for each
channel such as
Drive traffic to another channel
Engagement
Community Building
Lead Generation
Inform& educate
Thought leadership building
51. Content Marketing
Type of Content Marketing
Text Content:
Its usual a blog where you share the content in text format,
people read the entire blog and leave you feedback
Ideal content should not more then 350 words
Pictorial content
You share the content with photos, design the creative and add
content in it
Ideal pictorial should clean and eye catchy
Video Content
Audio video content sharing which attract people to watch it and
share it
Ideal video content should not be more then 3 mins
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53. Email Marketing
Build an acquisition strategy
Make Sure Your Email Has Obvious Links
Optimizing for mobile is particularly important
Personalize email whenever possible
Automate your post-purchase messages
Make It Easy to Unsubscribe
Keep Your Text Short and Easy to Scan
Properly Use Alt Text, Title and Linking with Images
Always Ask Users to Add You to Their Contact List
54. Benefits of Email Marketing
Maximizes your Marketing ROI
Cost effective: Inexpensive compare to other marketing ways
Increases customer loyalty : Deeper relationships will
automatically drive the loyalty & ultimately, profitability
Drives more sales conversions: Gently leads a prospect through
the sales process, provide important data and drives the prospect
to your Website
It allows you to communicate at Internet speed
Improves Tracking & Feedback: Unlike most types of marketing,
it can be easily measured and everything can be tracked with e-mail
55. E-mail Marketing
Growing the value of your customer relationships
while also converting new prospects can be a tough
challenge
E-mail marketing is the best choice
For E-mail marketing, use tools such as:
MailChimp
VREmail
Zoho
58. Future in Digital Marketing
Market is growing 200% year by year
Around 40% of world population has internet
connection with yearly growth of 8%
In 2006 there were 21 million active internet users
which rose to 243 million users by June 2014 in India
Next big thing is smartphones, which are killing the
static and unresponsive websites
Recently Softbank from Japan has invested $627M in
snap deal
Flipkart has acquired Myntra by INR 2000 Cr
61. Career in Digital Marketing
Social Media Expert:
Where need to manage client’s social media profile, day to
day status post, Run advertising campaign on Social media
Content Writer
Write a blog and article on behalf of customer, Technical writing
will give you additional advantage, editorial skill and research
expertise required
PPC Expert
Run set of campaigns on search platform, display platform,
coordinate with affiliate networks for CPT, CPC, CPA, CPL deals
62. Career in Digital Marketing
Designer
Graphic and web designing expertise which add value
Manager – Client Services
Manage all campaigns of the customer, Design strategy and
Media Planning for the customer
Manager – Creative
Manage all designing project and lead the creative team with
joint coordination of Client Servicing
Sales and Business Development
Having a Technical back ground you may pursue your career in
sales and BD, lucrative incentive and client communication will
shine your future brightly