A Project Report OF HIMANSHU
A Project Report OF HIMANSHU
A Project Report OF HIMANSHU
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CERTIFICATE
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DECLARATION
Himanshu Mishra
S.S Jain Subodh PG (Autonomous) College, Jaipur
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
It is not often in life that you get a chance of appreciating and expressing your
feelings in black and white to thank the people who have been a crucial part of
your successes, your accomplishments, and your being what you are today. I
take this opportunity to first of all thank the Faculty at S.S. Jain Subodh P.G.
(Autonomous)College, especially Prof. K.B.Sharma, Principal, and Dr.Priti
Gupta, Head, Department of BBA for inculcating and instilling me the
knowledge, learning, willpower, values and the competitiveness and
professionalism required by me as a management student.
I would like to give special thanks to Dr. Shailesh Mathur (Faculty Guide) for
educating me silver lining in every dark cloud. Her enduring efforts, guidance,
patience and enthusiasm have given a sense of direction and purposefulness to
this project and ultimately made it a success. I express my sincere and
heartiest thanks to everyone who has contributed towards the successful
completion of the Project. Last but not the least; I would like to thank my
family: my parents for supporting me spiritually throughout my life. The errors
and inconsistencies remain my own.
Himanshu Mishra
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CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
Digital Marketing teaches you how to build, scale up, and
sustain your Brand’s online reputation across all relevant Digital
platforms (which is known as Online Reputation Management).
Nowadays, businesses thrive on online presence, reviews, and
customer testimonials. This is so popular that even the oldest
businesses are taking online reviews very seriously. A lot of
businesses and Brands, invest heavily into the maintenance of
good reviews and converting bad reviews into good ones by
dedicatedly addressing customer queries across various online
platforms. Hence, an essential part of Digital Marketing
knowledge is also maintaining your brand reputation online,
apart from marketing and creating a hype about your name.
Irrespective of the industry, product type, or service type that
your business is into, Online Reputation Management is an
extremely important exercise which a Digital Marketer must
perform to maintain a good reputation in the Online space.
Meaning of Digital Marketing :-
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Importance of Digital Marketing for Business Owner:
Whether you are a proprietor of a small setup, or a mid-sized
company, you can customize your Digital requirements and use
Digital Marketing as per your criteria. Let’s say you have a
business of short-time consulting, or any non-mainstream and
non-B2C industrial services. Further let us consider that you
are completely into B2B, you could be more focused on
building your network and contact base through LinkedIn, then
you should focus on your Online Reputation by being actively
involved in discussions on Quora, target your client companies
through a portfolio of Google Ads, marketing through
promotional E-mailers, and so on. The consumer businesses
these days do well because of social media platforms like
Facebook and Instagram, but not many B2B business have
those options. Still, Digital Marketing has many options for you
as well.
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Importance of Digital Marketing for Working
Professionals:
Let’s talk with respect to each profile or individual type, about its
suitability to everyone. A lot of working professionals have doubts
regarding the importance of Digital Marketing and how can it add
value to their current skillsets. Talking about working
professionals in non-marketing streams, it is evident that a lot of
companies today will choose to hire Digital Marketers with prior
experience or a Marketing degree. An exhaustive Digital
Marketing Advanced course from EduPristine can give you the
necessary knowledge, experiential learning, and skillsets required
for ‘on the job’ skills, than the theoretical skills which are good to
know. This will surely help you change your work profile to
Digital Marketing, widen your career scope, and open a lot of
Marketing profile opportunities for you.
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Importance of Digital Marketing for Students:
A lot of students have various doubts regarding how Digital
Marketing can help them find better jobs, or give them the
desired push in their chosen career. Well let’s talk from the
point of a student from any stream and not necessarily
marketing—it is always a first mover’s advantage to learn what
is trending in the market. As previously explained, the
importance of Digital Marketing for students is scaling up, with
a lot of activities to keep students interested in Digital
Marketing.
Students get the required ammunition to be prepared for quality
jobs and further studies by making their online presence felt
through platforms like LinkedIn, Blogs, Website, or Reviews. A
strong online presence boosts a student’s profile and ability to
crack interviews. Also, an early knowledge will always add to
their skills, since every company would be keen to employ
students with multiple skills than those with job specific ones. At
present every business is about promotion and marketing, and
they would not invest in you, unless you promote yourself
online.
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Creating trends and hashtags and rolling your business
online with a good initial push on Social Media platforms are
the added advantage of learning Digital Marketing.
4. Web PR
7. Mobile Marketing
8. Web Analytics
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Online advertising:
One of your first steps should be to spend more of your marketing budget on
online ads.
If you’re new to digital advertising, it can be confusing getting a grasp on the
variety of online ads available
Display Ads: Image based advertising that often appears on the side, top or bottom
section of a website. Below is an example of a top and side display ad.
Small and medium companies can do quite well in search engine listings, and
receive a considerable return on investment on their SEO efforts.
For example, the figure below shows a search engine results page for the query
‘boat manufacturers’.
The top organic result is evidence of the companies search’s
status.“Hardymarine”, Warriorboats and Fairline are the top three businesses
found in our search query.
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1. Online Content and Blogging:
Blogging, along with other forms of content distribution has moved into the
mainstream. The lines between blogging and traditional media have blurred.
Establish a blog on your company website to help project personal and corporate
messaging.
Brown, Broderick, and Lee (2007) found that blogs are the most trusted
information source, secondary only to newspapers. Use your blog as a tool to
facilitate your relationship with customers.
Fordway Solutions, an IT Infrastructure, Consultancy and Cloud company with 60
employees, use their blog to share information and educate customers around
new IT solutions and services.
Web PR:
Online press release distribution improves online visibility and will help you
connect with your target audience. Press releases can be used effectively as part
of an integrated link building strategy. However, utilise your press releases only
when the content is truly worth sharing.
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Connect Catering has both a LinkedIn company page and Facebook business page
which they use to publish updates regarding their business and interact with
their customers.
Email is one of the best forms of digital marketing as its cheap, direct,
instantaneous, and easy to track, and it pushes your message to your
audience. Be sure to customise your messaging and segment your email list.
Read our 13 powerful email marketing tips to transform your mailing list into a
money-making machine for your business.
Mobile Marketing:
SMEs can access a wider audience through their mobile devices.
The use of mobile phones as a marketing medium is quickly gaining popularity.
More businesses are gaining access to mobile phone numbers and using SMS to
advertise their products and services.
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Another factor is the growth of mobile web usage. Locally-based advertising also
involves mobile devices and GPS. It exploits the knowledge about where a mobile
device user is located. Users searching online for a product or service will get a list
of options within their location.
For example, if you were in Oxfordshire and searching for a car dealerships using
your phone, a below list would have popped up on your search screen.
Web Analytics:
Use web analytics, like Google Analytics, to measure your digital marketing
effectiveness and record online customer behaviour.
By using analytics you’ll gain a better understanding of your target audience.
This deeper analysis allows managers to better understand variations in message
performance based on time of day, day of week, audience, and engagement
metrics.
Website traffic and activity is also traceable and measurable.
In today’s world of internet, Digital Marketing is the only one and most
guaranteed way of marketing, which is popularly being the most preferred
space for marketing communications and related interactions.
The future of marketing is way beyond the traditional marketing and now,
marketing is majorly based on the Digital Sphere. The scope of Digital
Marketing provides some of the most powerful techniques of marketing where
traditional modes of marketing fail.
The great panjandrum on Digital Marketing over industrialists is to empower
them and to optimize their start-ups in the quickest possible and most cost-
effective fashion. Future of digital marketing is going to be more encompassing
in 2018. Undoubtedly, it is an undeniable fact that there is a great scope in
digital marketing.
The things that are considered for Digital marketing are like –
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Future Trends in Digital Marketing in India:
The most powerful and result-oriented way of marketing in 2018 is Digital Marketing,
and some of the observations on current and future of 5 key channels which plays
role in deciding future of digital marketing in India are–
1. Mobile Marketing
2. Video Marketing
3. Email Marketing
4. Social Media Marketing
5. Search & SEO Marketing
Mobile Marketing
Mobile marketing is going to play one of the most significant roles in
2018, where marketers plan in a result-oriented fashion to
understand customers, to devise result-oriented marketing plans and
campaigns, changing needs and characteristics.
Video Marketing:
Email Marketing:
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CHAPTER-2
Digital marketing strategies may include the use of one or more online
channels and techniques (omnichannel) to increase brand awareness
among consumers.
Building brand awareness may involve such methods/tools as:
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as one of the most-used social media platforms by business leaders for
its professional networking capabilities.[50]
Content marketing
56% of marketers believe personalized content – brand-
centered blogs, articles, social updates, videos, landing pages
– improves brand recall and engagement.
Developments and strategies:
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To summarize, Pull digital marketing is characterized by
consumers actively seeking marketing content while Push
digital marketing occurs when marketers send messages
without that content being actively sought by the recipients.
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Data-driven advertising: Users generate a lot of data in
every step they take on the path of customer journey and
brands can now use that data to activate their known
audience with data-driven programmatic media buying.
Without exposing customers' privacy, users' data can be
collected from digital channels (e.g.: when the customer visits a
website, reads an e-mail, or launches and interact with a brand's
mobile app), brands can also collect data from real-world customer
interactions, such as brick and mortar stores visits and from CRM and
sales engines datasets. Also known as people-based marketing or
addressable media, data-driven advertising is empowering brands to
find their loyal customers in their audience and deliver in real time
a much more personal communication, highly relevant to
each customers' moment and actions.[56]
An important consideration today while deciding on a
strategy is that the digital tools have democratized the
promotional landscape.
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Six principles for building online brand content
The new digital era has enabled brands to selectively target their
customers that may potentially be interested in their brand or based on
previous browsing interests. Businesses can now use social media to
select the age range, location, gender, and interests of whom they would
like their targeted post to be seen. Furthermore, based on a customer's
recent search history they can be ‘followed’ on the internet so they see
advertisements from similar brands, products, and services, [58] This
allows businesses to target the specific customers that they know and
feel will most benefit from their product or service, something that had
limited capabilities up until the digital era.
Tourism marketing:
Advanced tourism, responsible and sustainable tourism,
social media and online tourism marketing, and geographic
information systems. As a broader research field matures
and attracts more diverse and in-depth academic research.
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viewability, brand safety and invalid traffic, and cross-platform
measurement.[62] Why these practices are ineffective and some
ways around making these aspects effective are discussed
surrounding the following points.
Prioritizing clicks:
Prioritizing clicks refers to display click ads, although
advantageous by being ‘simple, fast and inexpensive’ rates
for display ads in 2016 is only 0.10 percent in the United
States. This means one in a thousand click ads is relevant
therefore having little effect. This displays that marketing
companies should not just use click ads to evaluate the
effectiveness of display advertisements.
Balancing search and display:
Balancing search and display for digital display ads is important.
marketers tend to look at the last search and attribute all of the
effectiveness of this. This, in turn, disregards other marketing efforts,
which establish brand value within the consumer's
mind. ComScore determined through drawing on data online,
produced by over one hundred multichannel retailers that digital
display marketing poses strengths when compared with or positioned
alongside, paid search.[62] This is why it is advised that when someone
clicks on a display ad the company opens a landing page, not its
home page. A landing page typically has something to draw the
customer in to search beyond this page. Commonly marketers see
increased sales among people exposed to a search ad. But the fact
of how many people you can reach with a display campaign
compared to a search campaign should be considered. Multichannel
retailers have an increased reach if the display is considered in
synergy with search campaigns. Overall both search and display
aspects are valued as display campaigns build awareness for the
brand so that more people are likely to click on these digital ads when
running a search campaign.
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Understanding Mobiles:
Cross-platform measurement:
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and radio continue to persuade and affect the audience, across multiple
platforms.
[64]
Targeting, viewability, brand safety, and invalid traffic all are aspects
used by marketers to help advocate digital advertising.Cookies are a
form of digital advertising, which are tracking tools within desktop
devices, causing difficulty, with shortcomings including deletion by web
browsers, the inability to sort between multiple users of a device,
inaccurate estimates for unique visitors, overstating reach,
understanding frequency, problems with ad servers, which cannot
distinguish between when cookies have been deleted and when
consumers have not previously been exposed to an ad. Due to the
inaccuracies influenced by cookies, demographics in the target market
are low and vary.[62] Another element, which is affected by digital
marketing, is ‘viewability’ or whether the ad was actually seen by the
consumer. Many ads are not seen by a consumer and may never reach
the right demographic segment. Brand safety is another issue of whether
or not the ad was produced in the context of being unethical or having
offensive content. Recognizing fraud when an ad is exposed is another
challenge marketers face. This relates to invalid traffic as premium sites
are more effective at detecting fraudulent traffic, although non-premium
sites are more so the problem.
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CHAPTER-3
CHANNELS
Digital Marketing Channels are systems based on the Internet that can
create, accelerate, and transmit product value from producer to a
consumer terminal, through digital networks. [65][66] Digital marketing is
facilitated by multiple Digital Marketing channels, As an advertiser one's
core objective is to find channels which result in maximum two-way
communication and a better overall ROI for the brand. There are multiple
digital marketing channels available namely.
Affiliate marketing –
1. Display advertising –
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6.Social networking service –
A social networking service is an online platform which people
use to build social networks or social relations with other people
who share similar personal or career interests, activities,
backgrounds or real-life connections.
7.In-game advertising –
In-Game advertising is defined as the "inclusion of products or
brands within a digital game."[69]The game allows brands or
products to place ads within their game, either in a subtle
manner or in the form of an advertisement banner. There are
many factors that exist in whether brands are successful in the
advertising of their brand/product, these being: Type of game,
technical platform, 3-D and 4-D technology, game genre,
congruity of brand and game, prominence of advertising within
the game. Individual factors consist of attitudes towards
placement advertisements, game involvement, product
involvement, flow, or entertainment. The attitude towards the
advertising also takes into account not only the message
shown but also the attitude towards the game. Dependent on
how enjoyable the game is will determine how the brand is
perceived, meaning if the game isn't very enjoyable the
consumer may subconsciously have a negative attitude
towards the brand/product being advertised. In terms of
Integrated Marketing Communication "integration of advertising
in digital games into the general advertising, communication,
and marketing strategy of the firm" [69] is important as it results in
a more clarity about the brand/product and creates a larger
overall effect.
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8.Online public relations –
The use of the internet to communicate with both potential and
current customers in the public realm.
9. Video advertising –
This type of advertising in terms of digital/online means are
advertisements that play on online videos e.g. YouTube videos.
This type of marketing has seen an increase in popularity over
time.[70] Online Video Advertising usually consists of three types:
Pre-Roll advertisements which play before the video is
watched, Mid-Roll advertisements which play during the video,
or Post-Roll advertisements which play after the video is
watched.[71]Post-roll advertisements were shown to have better
brand recognition in relation to the other types, where-as "ad-
context congruity/incongruity plays an important role in
reinforcing ad memorability".[70] Due to selective attention from
viewers, there is the likelihood that the message may not be
received.[72] The main advantage of video advertising is that it
disrupts the viewing experience of the video and therefore there
is a difficulty in attempting to avoid them. How a consumer
interacts with online video advertising can come down to three
stages: Pre attention, attention, and behavioral decision.
[73]
These online advertisements give the brand/business options
and choices. These consist of length, position, adjacent video
content which all directly affect the effectiveness of the
produced advertisement time,[70] therefore manipulating these
variables will yield different results. The length of the
advertisement has shown to affect memorability where-as a
longer duration resulted in increased brand recognition. [70] This
type of advertising, due to its nature of interruption of the
viewer, it is likely that the consumer may feel as if their
experience is being interrupted or invaded, creating negative
perception of the brand.[70] These advertisements are also
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available to be shared by the viewers, adding to the
attractiveness of this platform. Sharing these videos can be
equated to the online version of word by mouth marketing,
extending number of people reached.[74] Sharing videos creates
six different outcomes: these being "pleasure, affection,
inclusion, escape, relaxation, and control".[70] As well, videos
that have entertainment value are more likely to be shared, yet
pleasure is the strongest motivator to pass videos on. Creating
a ‘viral’ trend from a mass amount of a brand advertisement
can maximize the outcome of an online video advert whether it
be positive or a negative outcome.
10.Native Advertising –
This involves the placement of paid content that
replicates the look, feel, and oftentimes, the voice of a
platform's existing content. It is most effective when
used on digital platforms like websites, newsletters, and
social media. Can be somewhat controversial as some
critics feel it intentionally deceives consumers.[75]
11.Content Marketing –
This is an approach to marketing that focuses on gaining and
retaining customers by offering helpful content to customers
that improves the buying experience and creates brand
awareness. A brand may use this approach to hold a
customer’s attention with the goal of influencing potential
purchase decisions.[76]
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A market strategy that involves using content as a means to
attract customers to a brand or product. Requires extensive
research into the behaviors, interests, and habits of the brand's
target market.[78]
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Chapter-3
Scope Of Digital Marketing
More than half of consumers discover companies through social
media news feeds. Companies can reach almost 1 million customers
via Instagram alone, and more than 9 million businesses use Facebook
to connect with consumers.
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Organic (or natural) search: This method takes more finesse
than PPC since marketers are using keyword analysis and other
search engine optimization (SEO) methods to naturally push
their content to the top of the list of natural search results on
Google and other search engines.
Analytics:-
Digital marketing analysis is typically done after the fact. Marketers will
publish a piece of content, for instance, and then check to see how effective it
was after a few weeks. This is certainly helpful, but real-time analytics is
beginning to shake up the world of digital marketing. Conducting real-time
analysis allows marketers to both individualize content for smaller subsets of
consumers and respond much more quickly to their performance.
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Social Media Influencers:-
Advertisers in all sectors are connecting with social media influencers
to help enhance their brands. This is proving to be an effective digital
marketing strategy, largely because consumers tend to trust other
consumers more than companies advertising products. Expect more
companies in 2022 and beyond to use these influencers to drive sales.
One trend to watch out for is SEO for images and video. Typically,
people type in keywords relating to a particular image or video, but
this can be tedious. More and more users are discovering that they can
use existing or new images to search for other, closely related images
online. This profoundly increases the scope of digital marketing. By
adding relevant keywords to the titles of their images and videos,
including alt text in image descriptions, and using other such
methods, advertisers will make it easier for potential customers to find
them.
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Artificial Intelligence:
Artificial intelligence (AI) enables digital marketers to better analyze
user data so they can further customize the customer journey. AI
helps companies understand a great deal about customers and how to
best target audiences.
The point is, consumers may use a variety of media to learn about and
engage with your product (or service) before and after they buy. If
there isn’t a smooth handoff among these different platforms, then it
may hurt the experience and result in a lost sale.
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CHAPTER-4
CAREER IN DIGITAL MARKETING
Digital marketers should follow the latest developments and
incorporate them into their strategies. As more companies turn to
online advertising to reach a wider audience, digital marketing jobs
continue to grow.
There are many digital marketing careers available, but you’ll need a
solid understanding of all techniques in the scope of digital marketing
to succeed in 2022, especially considering the new challenges the
pandemic has created. Simplilearn’s free Digital Marketing
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1. Digital Marketing Executive:-
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6. Conversion Rate Optimizer:-
A conversion rate optimizer is responsible for conversion rate
optimization of a company’s conversion strategy and lead generation.
It’s the most crucial digital marketing job role. They are responsible
for managing, testing, and implementing conversion points in the
digital marketing funnel. Here are the digital marketing roles and
responsibilities of a conversion rate optimizer:
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8. Inbound Marketing Manager:-
An Inbound Marketing Manager is responsible for attracting traffic,
and qualified prospects and converting them into customers and leads.
Here is the brief description of the digital marketing roles and
responsibilities of an Inbound marketing manager:
Create, edit and improve the content that audience is looking for
and optimize the path to conversion.
Deliver effective editorial plan and content marketing strategy to
meet the business objectives. Editorial requirements include
basic SEO understanding, content development,
categorization and structure, distribution and management.
Measure and optimize on a regular basis to drive traffic,
engagement, and leads.
Integrate content programs with brand campaigns to drive the
demand for the brand.
Develop editorial calendar.
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10. Analytics Manager:-
Analytics manager is responsible for the implementation of tools and
strategies to translate raw data into the valuable business insights.
Here are the digital marketing roles and responsibilities of an
Analytics Manager:
Conclusion:-
The above digital marketing roles and responsibilities provide a range
of practical descriptions of digital marketing jobs. Digital marketing
field is growing day by day and is coming up with immense more job
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THE TOP DIGITAL MARKETING TRENDS FOR 2022
ARE:
1. The Metaverse
2. Non-fungible tokens
3. Cryptocurrency
4. Zero and first-party data
5. Supply chain buffering
6. Social and live stream commerce
7. Simple content
8. Sustainability and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
9. Gender neutrality
10. Accessibility
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:-
Reference Book, Journal, Newspaper, Website, Reports, etc are
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Website:- www.digitalmarketing.com/project
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