Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is any form of marketing that exists online. This encompasses all marketing efforts that use an electronic device or the Internet. Businesses leverage digital channels such as search engines, social media, email, and websites to connect with current and prospective customers.
A few other common digital marketing tactics include marketing automation and search engine optimization, often abbreviated as SEO.
Digital marketers
Digital marketers are in charge of driving brand awareness and lead generation. Through all of these digital channels, the digital marketer usually focuses on different key performance indicators, or KP, for each channel.
So they can properly measure the company's performance across each one.
A digital marketer who's in charge of SCO, for example:
- Measures their website's organic traffic. That's traffic coming from visitors who discovered your website from a Google search.
Digital marketing is carried out across many different roles today.
- In small companies. One marketing generalist might own many of the tactics described above.
- In larger companies, these tactics have multiple specialists who each focus on just one or two of the brand's digital channels.