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1. Digital marketing refers to the creation and distribution of content through digital media channels (website, landing pages, social media, email and mobile apps) and promoting content using a variety of strategies across paid, word-of-mouth and owned digital channels, including SEO, SEM, pay-per-click (dmt) advertising, content syndication, social, email, text, and more. Importance of digital marketing Digital marketing strategy helps marketers define goals, pinpoint their target audience, and create a digital marketing plan that effectively reaches their audience. These strategies provide direction for a specific marketing campaign or marketing plan and provide a framework for evaluating marketing results. Today, everything is digital and digital marketing has been integrated into every aspect of a business, fundamentally changing the way companies communicate with and create value for customers. .mailto:Info@digitalmarketingtrust.com Without the ability to implement and execute a digital marketing strategy in an increasingly large global online marketplace, your business will surely fall behind the competition. Digital marketing strategy Cross-channel marketing, multi-channel marketing and Omni-channel marketing all mean engaging with customers/prospects across various digital channels and devices. Today's consumers can seamlessly switch between these channels, from their inboxes, social networks, laptops, tablets, and smartphones, and naturally expect businesses to provide quality services and experiences anytime, anywhere.

2. Check out the following widely used digital marketing channels to ensure a successful cross-channel marketing strategy. email marketing Email marketing is one of the oldest and best-known forms of digital marketing, widely used by both B2B and B2C marketers. With email marketing, you can collect customer data across various customer journey touch points, categorize the data to understand your prospects’ preferences, and ultimately gain permission to add prospects to your email list. Email content typically includes information about products and services, company and event updates, personalized products/services, customer success stories, links to case studies, and technical or business briefings. In email marketing, it’s important to ensure emails are opened and read rather than deleted immediately, and personalized content and highly relevant products/services can drastically improve engagement. Email marketing is both an art and a science, and your emails and digital assets should be compelling enough. However, be careful about the number of emails you send—not too many and not too few. Video marketing Video is one of the most powerful digital marketing channels. Everyone likes to watch videos, find fun and learn knowledge in videos, and also likes to share videos. According to YouTube, there are more

3. than 2 billion logged-in users every month. Both B2B customers and B2C consumers make purchasing decisions through video. Video marketing can increase brand awareness, increase digital traffic, and increase conversion rates. In- blog video has been an important part of B2B and B2C content marketing strategies for years. Sharing videos is key to getting your content more attention. Therefore, you need to take advantage of third-party sites such as YouTube, promote your videos on your website and social media channels, and encourage others to share your videos. Finally, make sure your video is short and to the point. Since audiences generally have a short attention span, be sure to deliver quality content in an engaging manner. Social media marketing Social media is a great way to reach specific audiences, helping you connect directly with customers, prospects, and partners. In reality, which social media platform to choose depends on your target audience? Currently, Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world, Twitter is popular with B2B buyers, and Instagram and tiktok are popular among Millennial and Gen Z consumers, and LinkedIn is established with B2B buyers in the early stages of the buying cycle. A great platform for relationships. Each social media platform has different types of content, but they all rely on videos/images. So when creating content, always keep in mind how you want it to be distributed via social media, and then adjust accordingly. Additionally, as various other platforms continue to emerge, marketers need to constantly adapt their digital marketing strategies to make the most of every available platform. Tiktok, for example, was not even a thing before September 2016, but now has more user activity than LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest and Snap chat.

4. Text messaging (SMS and MMS) Next to email marketing, text messaging is the most direct way to connect with your customers. As with social media marketing, marketing only works if your message is concise and to the point. Text messages can generally be divided into two types, short message service (SMS) which contains only text and multimedia message (MMS) which contains videos and gifs. Content marketing Content marketing allows you to reach different potential customers and customers in a personalized way. The higher the level of personalization of the content, the more it can stimulate the interest and attention of the audience. Your content should be aligned with the intent and interests of your target audience and should help customer engagement and conversions. In content marketing, content types include emails, landing pages, info graphics, e-books, business newsletters, banner ads, videos, commercials, newsletters, press releases, articles, blogs, and digital postcards. The same content can (and should) be used across multiple channels, but all should have a consistent voice and message. SEO and PPC (or SEM) A good search engine optimization (SEO) strategy can optimize website content (landing pages, blogs, etc.) to ensure that the website content is displayed at the top of the search results list more frequently and brings more traffic. Achieving great SEO results depends crucially on keyword and on-page optimization. You can improve SEO by using thoughtful keywords and long-tail keywords (3+ phrases) throughout your web content, maximizing traffic and conversions, and building organic links to high- authority third-party pages to increase your search results. Rank your page and drive potential customers to your content. Pay-per-click (PPC) refers to paying each time a specific link is clicked. Today’s search engines and most social media sites support PPC. PPC ads will appear in the feeds of your target customers and potential customers. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a type of high-impact PPC advertising in which you pay search engines to display your marketing messages and links prominently when visitors search for specific keywords. Website design and marketing A website is often the first point of contact for potential customers to connect with your business and brand. Good web design not only establishes a consistent brand image across all of your digital assets, it also makes your site more index able by search engines, provides a great user experience, and increases

5. conversion rates (more clicks, sign-ups, etc.).