What are the benefits of Digital Marketing?
Digital marketing services provides most effective ways to advertise your products and services through the digital media. The digital media here would include internet, mobile phones, and digital displays and so on. It is different from the traditional media of advertisement that are TV, radio, newspaper, pamphlets and so on.
The sudden growth in demand of such services has been due to the increased use of internet by customers for carrying out various day to day activities. Whether it is payment of bills or shopping for groceries, internet has brought the world to the consumer’s doors. Smartphones have further facilitated doing transactions online.
Let’s look into some of the benefits provided by digital marketing services.
Inexpensive and fit for all business
Placing ads in newspapers and televisions have always been expensive. Newspapers ads are further constrained by space. By using digital marketing strategies like social media marketing & Search Engine Marketing the cost of advertisement becomes negligible.
Using social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on helps to announce big promotions and sales in a cost-effective manner.
Through digital marketing services, all types of business big or small can easily afford to market their products and services in an optimum way.
Makes targeting specific customer base easier
By using the digital media, data analysis becomes quite easy. You can effectively use the social media marketing tools for specific audiences.
You can use Web Analytics & create Buyer’s Persona to get to know which social medium is used more by which age group and gender and then you can target your customers easily.
Depending on your content also you can choose the right social medium.
If it’s a video, YouTube would be the best place to promote it. And, if it’s a small call to action statement, then Twitter will best suit your needs.
Brand Awareness:
Getting people aware of your product or service is the first and the most important thing & selling them is the other. Visibility plays a major role in making the brand popular.
With the help of Digital Marketing, we can increase our brand awareness by targeting the specific audience & can get the results instantly.
We can target them using social media advertisement, PPC Search Engine Marketing & SEO.
Wider Reach
Newspapers reach is local or regional. Television might have a national level reach. But with digital marketing, you can reach the whole wide world.
Any person sitting in any corner of the world is able to view your products and services. The digital medium exposes your business to a whole new customer base that you never imagined before.
Easy to Measure:
With the help of Google Analytics, you can track the traffic coming to your website, can keep an eye if your specific goals are being met, what sources are getting you more traffic & can see if your advertising campaigns are performing well.
You can see how many users are visiting your website in real time.
Apart from this, you can find other useful information such as:
- Your audience Demographics
- Their Geographical Location
- What time they visit your website
- What pages they visit the most
- Bounce rate
- Time they have spent on your website
Making customer specific ads easier
By conducting some research, you will know that people check their social medium accounts during office breaks. They would read articles and share them on weekends most.
Hence you can make customer specific promotional content and publish it during specific times.
This way you can be sure that your content is not getting ignored because it is reaching the customer at the wrong time of the day.
Brings prospective customers closer
No more window shoppers or casual visitors here. People who are actually interested in your products and services will click on your ads. This way even if you are spending on PPC marketing (pay per click) you can be sure that prospective customers will only click on your link.
This is better than investing a huge amount of money on traditional channels of advertising and never knowing whether the customer is actually looking at it or not.
Conclusion:
In the end, I would like to say that Digital Marketing helps you increase brand awareness, put your content in front of your audience and then present you the results of your web traffic and advertisement campaigns.
It is much cost effective than traditional marketing and gives you the ability to optimize your site and related advertising campaigns by providing you the all the data you need with Google Analytics, resulting in the success of your business.