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Digital marketing, also called online marketing, is the promotion of brands to connect
with potential customers using the internet and other forms of digital communication.
In the year 1990 when the web 1.0 platform was first developed, that time the term digital
marketing was invented for the first time.
The Web 1.0 platform allowed users to find the information they wanted but did not allow
them to share this information over the web. Up until then, marketers worldwide were still
unsure of the digital platform. They were not sure if their strategies would work since the
internet had not yet seen widespread deployment.
In 1993, the first clickable banner went live, after which Hot Wired purchased a few banner
ads for their advertising. This marked the beginning of the transition to the digital era of
marketing. Because of this gradual shift, the year 1994 saw new technologies enter the
digital marketplace. The very same year, Yahoo was launched.
3. What is Marketing?
The activity of showing and advertising a company’s products in the best possible way
Product - A product you want your business to sell. What's next? You probably won't be
successful if you just start selling it.
You need your marketing team to do market research and answer some critical questions:
Marketers use the answers to these questions to help businesses understand the demand for
the product and increase product quality by mentioning concerns stemming from focus
group or survey participants.
Price - Your marketing team will check out competitors' product prices, or use focus
groups and surveys, to estimate how much your ideal customer is willing to pay. Price it too
high, and you'll lose out on a solid customer base. Price it too low, and you might lose more
money than you gain. Fortunately, marketers can use industry research and consumer
analysis to gauge a good price range.
Place - It's critical that your marketing department uses their understanding and analysis of
your business's consumers to offer suggestions for how and where to sell your product.
Perhaps they believe an ecommerce site works better than a retail location, or vice versa.
Or, maybe they can offer insights into which locations would be most viable to sell your
product, either nationally and internationally.
Promotion - promotion entails any online or print advertisement, event, or discount your
marketing team creates to increase awareness and interest in your product, and, ultimately,
lead to more sales. During this stage, you'll likely see methods like public relations
campaigns, advertisements, or social media promotions.
Research – Learn what customers want and how they behave/interact with your brand. To a
large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success
Planning – Align research with business goals and capabilities (often limited by resources)
to attract leads into a paying customer or donor.
Implement – Identify and create content offers and promotion strategies that will get your
message out to a qualified audience.
Measure – Prove to leadership that the investments made are yielding incremental results
toward your goals.
Optimize – Report on goals and refine your strategies that increase the productivity of
input > output. Then double down on investment in areas that show promising results.
Traditional Marketing - Traditional marketing is any form of marketing that uses offline
media to reach an audience.
Digital Marketing - The promotion of brands to connect with potential customers using the
internet and other forms of digital
• Affordable -
• Mass Audience Reach -
• Global Reach - digital marketing happens on the Internet, which means that the
reach you can achieve with it is immense. Even a very small local business owner has
the ability to reach an international audience with an online store.
• Trackable, Measurable Results -
• Free Resources - Social Media – Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram Etc.
• Promote Your Brand And Help It Grow -
• Earnings Are Higher Than Average -
• Targeting the Audience –
8. Competitor analysis
• Determine who your competitors are.
• Determine what products your competitors offer.
• Research your competitors' sales tricks and results.
• Analyse how your competitors market their products.
• Take note of your competition's content strategy.
• Learn what technology your competitors' use.
• Analyse the level of engagement on your competitors' content.
• Observe how they promote marketing content.
It looks for the results in its own database, sorts them and makes an ordered list of these
results using unique search algorithms. This list is called a search engine results page
(SERP)
Search engines such as Google and Bing use bots to crawl pages on the web, going from
site to site, collecting information about those pages and putting them in an index.
10.What are Keywords?
A keyword is a string of characters (a word, phrase, number, or acronym) Keyword is a
group of characters.
11.Different types of Keywords
o Moz Keyword Explorer for the best all-around free SEO keyword research
tool
o Google Keyword Planner for researching paid keywords
o Semrush for advanced SEO professionals
o QuestionDB for finding question-based keywords
o Jaaxy for affiliate marketers
o Keyword Surfer for a free SEO keyword research browser extension
• Hosting - hosting is where the website files are stored. In order to have a functioning
website
Ex – Video file
Ex – Image file
Ex – Text content
19.What is CMS?
CMS is a content management system that allows us to manage our content in a structured
format on websites like images, videos, and text.
In WordPress, a plugin is a small software application that extends the features and
functions of a WordPress website.
Plugins play a major role in building great websites using WordPress. They make it easier
for users to add features to their website without knowing a single line of code.
WordPress plugins are apps that allow you to add new features and functionality to your
WordPress website, similar to the way mobile apps do for your smartphone.
You will find your plugins on the Plugins » Add New page in the admin sidebar. Here
you can activate and deactivate your existing plugins and install new ones.
As a site administrator, you can also configure plugin settings, deactivate them, or remove
the plugin from your WordPress website by deleting them.
Good developers will update their plugins frequently, and when they do you’ll see a
notification in your admin toolbar and admin sidebar.
When you receive an update notification, you need to click on the icon and this will take
you to the ‘Updates’ page. You’ll also see other updates like WordPress core or themes will
also appear on this page.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the activity of optimizing web pages or whole sites in
order to make them search engine friendly, those getting higher positions in search results.
SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” In simple terms, it means the process of
improving your site to increase its visibility when people search for products or services
related to your business in Google, Bing, and other search engines. The better visibility
your pages have in search results, the more likely you are to garner attention and attract
prospective and existing customers to your business.
• Ethical SEO
• Organic SEO
White hat SEO includes optimising your website following restrictions imposed by search
engines
Black hat SEO includes Unethical techniques which are disapproved by search engines
• Unethical SEO
On-page SEO (also known as on-site SEO) refers to the practice of optimizing webpages to
improve a website's search engine rankings and earn organic traffic.
28.What is Backlinks?
Getting a link from one website to another is called Backlinks.
If our website gets a link from any website, there are backlinks for us and it will be an
external link for that website.
When a customer feels they had a good experience with your business, product, or
service, and they share that good experience in a review, other potential customers
gain confidence in doing business with you.
The more positive reviews you have, the more Google will notice and, in turn, boost
your ranking.
You can help by devising a strategy to increase the number of reviews for your
business. Start by encouraging your current customers to add reviews.
• Content that provides valuable and unique insights –
High-quality content that provides valuable and unique insights can also benefit your
ranking in local search results.
Google values quality content. When that content also includes valuable and unique
insights missing from most other websites, you can increase your position in rankings
because more people will be engaging with your content.
To help you achieve this, create content relatable to your local community, including
sponsored events, workshops, and more.
This content can be in the form of blog posts, news articles, infographics, interactive
quizzes, or videos.
Also, conduct keyword research and use what you find along with location-based
phrases to alert search engines and improve your business visibility online.
Include these keywords in your headlines, especially the H1. This headline indicates
the content’s purpose and can attract more viewers as well as alert search engines.
• Organic click-through rates –
Organic click-through rates are another important local SEO ranking factor you must
know to succeed.
This rate helps search engines determine whether viewers like your content or not.
When more viewers click on your post on the search engine results page, Google
believes your content is more relevant and will eventually boost your rankings.
To help you achieve these higher click-through rates, you’ll need to include
compelling meta titles and meta descriptions as part of your content marketing
strategy.
As a local business, seek backlinks with businesses that are authoritative and relevant
to your particular offerings. Build relationships with other local businesses and link
to each other.
Search engines look at the site linking back to you. The higher quality that site is, the
better it serves your ranking.
• A localized website –
There needs to be no doubt to visitors and search engines that your website is for a
local business.
Include your business name, address, city, region, and any other identifying
information on your homepage, easily found by viewers.
Create location-specific pages if you have more than one location and add unique
content for each.
Optimize your relevant keywords with location keywords, including city name,
neighbourhood, local landmarks, major intersections or anything else unique to your
service area.
• Presence on Google Maps –
our presence on Google Maps is another crucial local SEO marketing tool you can
use to your advantage.
With it, you have a higher chance of being discovered by new customers and moving
ahead of your competitors, all at no cost to you.
Thanks to the internet, each person with marginal views can see that he’s not alone. And
when these people find one another via social media, they can do things — create memes,
publications, and entire online worlds that bolster their worldview, and then break into the
mainstream.
Without social media, social, ethical, environmental, and political ills would have minimal
visibility. Increased visibility of issues has shifted the balance of power from the hands of a
few to the masses.
Businesses have realized they can use social media to generate insights, stimulate demand,
and create targeted product offerings. These functions are important in traditional brick-
and-motor businesses and, obviously, in the world of e-commerce.
One minute on a video is worth 1.8 million words, you can hit an SEO goldmine.
Video Marketing is using video as a medium to market to your product, engage with users,
and promote it on your social media channels.
It can be used for every aspect of your marketing campaign, and videos are a guaranteed
way to maximize your potential reach.
The power card of video marketing is it combines the two most impactful forms of media –
Sound and Images. If a user remembers your video, he will have an imprint of your brand in
his memory.
For additional information, videos can attract 300% more traffic and generate leads. So if
you want leads, you have to hit the right SEO chords with your video.
Boost Conversion - There are no chances of a video not working well. It is predicted that if
your landing page has a video, it can boost your conversion rate by 80%.
Effective engagement - A single word “Video” in your email subject can increase the open
rate by 19%. The highest organic engagement on Facebook is driven by posts which has a
video in them. The modern customer seeks proof behind the product, and there is no better
proof than a video.
According to Statista, 96% of users operate Facebook through mobiles. People also tend to
share, like, or comment while watching something on the phone.
Video Marketing can be useful for marketing at different levels of engagement. If you have
relatable, informational, or just entertaining content, a potential audience people would
definitely engage with it.
And most importantly, what goals are you trying to reach with a particular video marketing
campaign? Are you trying to drive awareness, sales, traffic, or all of the above? To
capitalize on video’s ability to connect with your shopper, make sure you’re using the right
tone of voice and message to reach them. It’s important to spend time gathering consumer
insights before launching your video because these are the insights that’ll inform the type of
videos you produce and how much money you’ll spend on making them
When it comes to actually making the video content, keep your campaign goals in mind and
make sure you’re spending your budget well.
• Optimize your videos and target for each channel –
Depending on the channels you choose to launch your campaigns, you’ll need to make sure
your videos are optimized to get as much engagement as possible. For Facebook, this
means keeping it short, uploading videos directly to the channel, and adding captions. For
YouTube, this means waiting two weeks after your video launches to make any tweaks and
refining your target audience.
And optimizing videos for Twitter means finding the balance between fine-tuned targeting
– from interest to keywords to device – and not over targeting to make sure you can easily
track which campaign is performing best. To learn more, read our blog post here on How to
Optimize Your Video Ads for Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
✓ Welcome emails
✓ Newsletter emails
✓ Lead nurturing emails
✓ Confirmation emails
✓ Dedicated emails
✓ Invite emails
✓ Promotional emails
✓ Survey email
✓ Seasonal marketing emails
• Customize your signup form - To access customize your signup form, follow these
steps.
1. Click Audience.
3. If you have more than one audience, click the Current audience drop-down and
choose the one you want to work with.
4. Click the Manage Audience drop-down and choose Signup forms.
5. Select Form builder.
6. Click the Forms and response emails drop-down menu, and choose which form
you want to edit.
8. Click the Page, Body, Forms, or Referral tabs to review the customization
options. Use the fields and drop-down menus to make any changes you want to
the styles, colours, and fields. We'll save your changes automatically.
9. When you're done, click Save & Close.
• Create a campaign - A campaign is a message that you share through email, ads, or
other channels. In Mailchimp, most users start with a regular email campaign.
3. Click Regular.
Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate earns a commission for marketing
another person's or company's products.
42. Different platforms for affiliate marketing
➢ Amazon Associates
It is the best affiliate marketing platform for beginners as you need not worry about
reaching a certain amount of sales volume for earning a higher commission. It has a
flat-rate commission structure.
Signing Amount: None
Cookie Duration: 24 hours
Minimum Payment Threshold: INR 2500
➢ Awin - was formerly known as Affiliate Window. It boasts of over 13,000 advertisers
and is the best platform for affiliate marketing. An affiliate marketer will have to
apply to advertising merchants within the network to generate links.
➢ Flipkart Affiliate - It is amongst the largest and the best platform for affiliate
marketing in India. The platform provides insights into the performance of referral
links with real-time reports. This free affiliate program offers several affiliate tools
such as widgets, banners, and APIs for displaying Flipkart products on your site/app.
➢ Reseller Club - Reseller Club is ideal for those who are looking for quick passive
income in India as they can easily make a minimum of Rs. 2,000 per referral. It is an
easy-to-use and one of the top paying affiliate programs.
Signing Amount: None
Cookie Duration: It is on a last-click basis and has a validity of 60 days.
Minimum Payment Threshold: INR 50
➢ BigRock Affiliate - BigRock is India's best platform for affiliate marketing. Besides
being a popular domain registration and web hosting company, it offers email hosting
and digital certificates services. The Bluehost affiliate program is a part of the
BigRock Affiliate group.
Signing Amount: None
Cookie Duration: 60 days
Minimum Payout: INR 3200
➢ ClickBank - The platform offers multiple digital and physical products to link to
your content. It is more inclined towards digital products and has several smaller
niche offers that aren't available on other platforms.
➢ Hostgator Affiliate
➢ Sendinblue (Email marketing tool)
➢ ConvertKit (Email marketing tool)
➢ Build trust
➢ Talk to a product expert
➢ Create a product tutorial
➢ Find relevant search terms
➢ Consider your angle
➢ Set your distribution strategy
➢ Try offering a bonus
➢ Keep things legal and above board
➢ Display your affiliate links/codes prominently
44. What is Freelancing Projects?
A freelancer is an independent contractor who earns wages on a per-job or per-task basis,
typically for short-term work.
➢ Article Writer – Write articles for online magazines, news publishers, business
journals, etc.
➢ Blog Writer - Write for company blogs or be a blogger for hire. Keep in mind,
writing for blogs requires different skills than writing for magazines and eBooks.
➢ eBook Writer - Write tutorials, guides, and strategies that get published as eBooks.
➢ Web Content Writer - Write content for websites (eg: about pages, Privacy, and
terms of service pages, etc).
➢ Resume & Cover Letter Writer - Not everyone knows how to write a winning resume
or a cover letter. Help those people land a job.
➢ Logo Designer - If you’ve got creative skills and knowledge in using Adobe
Illustrator or CorelDraw, this is a job that can make you easy money.
➢ Graphic/Poster Designer - Design digital and print posters, Facebook covers, and
other types of graphics.
➢ Web Development – Give your service to other (company or client) for designing
website.
➢ WordPress Expert - Help people setup their WordPress websites and blogs.
➢ Game Developer - Team up with game developers to create great Android and iOS
games.
45. Various Online Platforms to get Freelancing Projects
Five Steps to Follow to Get Your First Freelancing Project there are five steps you need to
follow that'll help you get your first client
5. Capture the results/gaps, analyze the output at each step, and attune your approach to
keep growing.
Facebook ads can help businesses grow their audience base. Using Facebook ads allows
customers to find the product they want much easier and in a very short time. The ads
attract potential customers so that business growth is ensured every day by using Facebook
ads for marketing purposes. Social media is a great source of finding potential clients
because it has been proven that social networks lead to higher numbers of visitors. With
Facebook advertising, businesses can encourage their customers to visit or attend events as
well as buy the products they portray on social platforms such as Facebook.
Facebook ads are the best way to extend your brand reach quickly. The strategy allows
brands and business owners to create ads that reach more than 200 million Facebook users
every month.
➢ Choose your objective -
To choose the right ad objective, answer the question "what's the most important
outcome I want from this ad?" It could be sales on your website, downloads of your
app or increased brand awareness
Core audiences, which you target based on demographics, behaviours, and location.
Custom audiences, which allow you to reconnect with people who have already interacted
with your business.
Lookalike audiences, which allow you to target people similar to your best customers but
who may not know about your business yet.
These 9 Facebook targeting tips will help you boost ad conversions and lower the cost per
conversion — the ultimate measure of an ad’s value.
1. Target your competitors’ fans using Audience Insights
2. Use Custom Audiences for remarketing
3. Find people similar to your best customers with value-based lookalike audiences
4. Improve targeting with Facebook ad relevance diagnostics
5. Target people who have recently shopped from Facebook ads
6. Find your unicorn content
7. Get ultra-precise with layered targeting
8. Combine two unique audiences together
9. Use broad targeting to find your target audience