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What is the primary goal of social media marketing?
What is the primary goal of social media marketing?
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of social media marketing?
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of social media marketing?
Which key element of social media marketing involves selecting where to focus efforts?
Which key element of social media marketing involves selecting where to focus efforts?
What type of content should be created for social media marketing?
What type of content should be created for social media marketing?
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Which platform is typically considered best for B2B social media marketing?
Which platform is typically considered best for B2B social media marketing?
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What is an effective way to enhance engagement on social media?
What is an effective way to enhance engagement on social media?
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How can analytics and optimization benefit social media marketing efforts?
How can analytics and optimization benefit social media marketing efforts?
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Which of the following statements about social media advertising is false?
Which of the following statements about social media advertising is false?
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What is the primary purpose of e-commerce websites?
What is the primary purpose of e-commerce websites?
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Which component of email is used to access emails?
Which component of email is used to access emails?
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What is the main benefit of email marketing?
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Which type of website is likely to feature streaming video content?
Which type of website is likely to feature streaming video content?
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What format does an email address usually follow?
What format does an email address usually follow?
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Which of the following types of websites would most likely provide educational resources?
Which of the following types of websites would most likely provide educational resources?
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What part of an email usually summarizes the main topic of the message?
What part of an email usually summarizes the main topic of the message?
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Which of the following is NOT a type of website mentioned?
Which of the following is NOT a type of website mentioned?
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What is the primary purpose of affiliate blogs?
What is the primary purpose of affiliate blogs?
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Which type of blog is primarily focused on a company's interactions with customers and enhancing SEO?
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Which of the following is NOT a benefit of Online Reputation Management?
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of Online Reputation Management?
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What is a key function of Online Reputation Management?
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Which tool is specifically designed for managing online business listings and reviews?
Which tool is specifically designed for managing online business listings and reviews?
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How does ORM help in protecting against crises?
How does ORM help in protecting against crises?
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Which type of blog is most likely to cover specialized topics such as technology or fitness?
Which type of blog is most likely to cover specialized topics such as technology or fitness?
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What role does a positive reputation play in business growth?
What role does a positive reputation play in business growth?
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What is the main advantage of influencer marketing compared to traditional advertising?
What is the main advantage of influencer marketing compared to traditional advertising?
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Which category of influencers has the smallest follower count?
Which category of influencers has the smallest follower count?
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Which type of blog is primarily used by businesses to engage customers and improve SEO?
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What is a primary characteristic that differentiates micro-influencers from macro-influencers?
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What term is used to describe a blog that shares personal experiences and thoughts?
What term is used to describe a blog that shares personal experiences and thoughts?
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Which influencer type is known for having a strong following but is not a global celebrity?
Which influencer type is known for having a strong following but is not a global celebrity?
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What platforms are commonly used to manage influencer marketing campaigns?
What platforms are commonly used to manage influencer marketing campaigns?
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What type of blog provides updates on current events or specific industries?
What type of blog provides updates on current events or specific industries?
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What should companies in rapidly changing industries consider for their SEO process?
What should companies in rapidly changing industries consider for their SEO process?
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What is the primary purpose of crawling in SEO?
What is the primary purpose of crawling in SEO?
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How does indexing differ from crawling in SEO?
How does indexing differ from crawling in SEO?
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Which of the following is NOT a major ranking factor in SEO?
Which of the following is NOT a major ranking factor in SEO?
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What is a critical task during an in-depth website audit in SEO?
What is a critical task during an in-depth website audit in SEO?
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What does Search Engine Marketing (SEM) primarily focus on?
What does Search Engine Marketing (SEM) primarily focus on?
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What is the primary goal of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
What is the primary goal of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
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Which of the following best describes the conversion rate?
Which of the following best describes the conversion rate?
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Which of the following is a misconception about technical SEO?
Which of the following is a misconception about technical SEO?
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What action is essential for turning a website idea into reality?
What action is essential for turning a website idea into reality?
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What does customer sentiment analysis primarily involve?
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What is a significant benefit of SEO compared to paid advertising?
What is a significant benefit of SEO compared to paid advertising?
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Which tool can be used to analyze competitors' social media activity?
Which tool can be used to analyze competitors' social media activity?
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What should be done if the outcomes of a marketing campaign do not align with original goals?
What should be done if the outcomes of a marketing campaign do not align with original goals?
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What does A/B testing help marketers evaluate?
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What is one reason why SEO is considered cost-effective?
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Flashcards
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
The percentage of users who click on a link or call-to-action.
Conversion Rate
Conversion Rate
The percentage of users who complete a desired action on your website, such as making a purchase, signing up for an account, or filling out a form.
Cost per Conversion (CPC)
Cost per Conversion (CPC)
The amount of money spent to acquire a single conversion.
Customer Sentiment Analysis
Customer Sentiment Analysis
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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Increased Organic Traffic
Increased Organic Traffic
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Credibility and Trust
Credibility and Trust
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Cost-Effective
Cost-Effective
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What is Social Media Marketing?
What is Social Media Marketing?
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What are social media marketing platforms?
What are social media marketing platforms?
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Why is brand awareness important in SMM?
Why is brand awareness important in SMM?
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How can SMM generate leads?
How can SMM generate leads?
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Why is engagement crucial in SMM?
Why is engagement crucial in SMM?
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What is platform selection in SMM?
What is platform selection in SMM?
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Why is content creation important in SMM?
Why is content creation important in SMM?
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How can SMM use paid advertising?
How can SMM use paid advertising?
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Crawling
Crawling
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Indexing
Indexing
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Technical SEO
Technical SEO
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Content
Content
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Links
Links
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Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
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Mobile SEO
Mobile SEO
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Site Speed
Site Speed
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What is email?
What is email?
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What is an email address?
What is an email address?
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What is an email client?
What is an email client?
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What is the email inbox?
What is the email inbox?
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What is the subject line in email?
What is the subject line in email?
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What is the body of an email?
What is the body of an email?
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What are email attachments?
What are email attachments?
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What is email marketing?
What is email marketing?
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What are Influencers?
What are Influencers?
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What are Macro-Influencers?
What are Macro-Influencers?
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What are Micro-Influencers?
What are Micro-Influencers?
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What are Nano-Influencers?
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What is Influencer Marketing?
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What is a Blog?
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What are Personal Blogs?
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What are News Blogs?
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What are affiliate blogs?
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What are business blogs?
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What are niche blogs?
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What is Online Reputation Management (ORM)?
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Why is ORM important?
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Study Notes
Unit 2: Popular Components of Digital Marketing
- This unit focuses on popular components of digital marketing
- Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a digital marketing form facilitating brand building, sales increase, traffic generation, audience targeting, and influence on consumer behavior.
Social Media Marketing
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SMM is the use of social media platforms to promote brands, sell products/services, and build communities.
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Key functions enabling businesses: Brand building, increased sales, drive website traffic, meet target audience, and influence consumer behavior.
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SMM involves creating content for social media platforms, promoting products/services, building community with target audience, and driving traffic to business
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New features and emerging platforms make SMM constantly evolve.
Social Media Marketing Platforms
- Popular platforms include: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, and X (Twitter)
Benefits of Social Media Marketing
- Increased brand awareness.
- Generate leads and boost conversations.
- Foster relationship with customers.
- Learn from competitors.
Key Elements of SMM
- Platform selection: Choosing platforms where the target audience is most active (e.g., LinkedIn for B2B, Instagram for lifestyle brands). Utilizing platform-specific features.
- Content creation: Creating diverse, high-quality content (images, videos, infographics, articles). Adapting content to specific platform formats (TikTok shorts, Instagram posts).
- Engagement: Respond promptly to comments, messages, and mentions. Host interactive sessions (polls, Q&As, live streams) to engage followers.
- Paid advertising: Use social ads to reach broader or highly specific audiences. Experiment with formats (sponsored posts, video ads).
- Analytics & Optimization: Use platform analytics tools to monitor metrics (reach, engagement, conversions). Adjust strategies based on insights and performance data.
- Influencer collaboration: Collaborate with influencers to amplify reach and credibility, ensure influencer partnerships align with brand values and target audience.
- Trends & innovations: Monitor conversations about brand, industry, and competitors to adapt to emerging trends.
Important aspects of SMM
- Content Strategy: Crafting valuable, engaging, and relevant content for social media. Includes text posts, images, videos, infographics, etc.
- Content Curation: Selecting and sharing content that aligns with brand or business goals.
- Storytelling: Using compelling narratives to connect with audiences and build emotional engagement.
- User-Generated Content (UGC): Leveraging user-created content to boost authenticity and build community.
- Platform-Specific Strategies: Utilizing platform-specific features like Instagram Stories, Twitter threads, or LinkedIn posts. Focus on platform-specific strategies for effective marketing. (e.g., Instagram Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube)
- Paid Social Ads: Creating profitable campaigns across platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.), targeting specific audience segments through various ad strategies.
- Ad Targeting Strategies: Understanding user demographics, interests, behaviors, and retargeting to optimize ad effectiveness.
- A/B Testing Strategies: Testing different ad formats, visuals, and copy to determine the best-performing version. Method of comparing two campaign versions to establish higher-performing options.
- Influencer Marketing: Collaborating with influencers to promote products and services; leveraging their authority. Types of influencers include Mega, Macro, Micro, and Nano-influencers.
- Social Media Analytics & Metrics: Monitoring likes, comments, shares, clicks and interactions for content evaluation. Understanding metrics such as reach/impressions, conversions and social listening
- Community Management: Interacting with followers/customers via comments, messages, social media posts. Creating spaces for audience interaction e.g., Facebook Groups, Twitter chats. Addressing customer complaints and maintaining a positive brand image.
- Social Media Trends: Employing live streaming for real-time interactions with audiences (Q&As, product launches, behind the scenes). Using Augmented Reality (AR) filters for engaging interactive experiences (Especially on Instagram, and Snapchat). Leveraging temporary content. Direct selling through social media platforms.
- SEO for Social Media: Using effective and trending hashtags to improve post discoverability. Optimizing social media profiles and posts to be searchable by engines/platforms. Optimizing social media bios, descriptions, captions with relevant keywords.
- Branding on Social Media: Maintaining a consistent brand voice, visual identity, and messaging across all social platforms, defining and communicating brand value proposition. Building a personal brand.
- Social Media Crisis Management: Preparing for PR issues with a contingency plan. Responding professionally to negative feedback/controversy, and addressing crises with transparency and honesty.
- Social Media Automation & Tools: Utilizing scheduling tools to automate and manage social media posts on multiple platforms.
- Social Media & Customer Service: Providing round-the-clock support to respond to customer inquiries. Guiding customers through purchasing decisions.
- Ethics and Social Media: Maintaining transparency and honesty, respecting user privacy, promoting inclusive marketing practices.
How to Analyze SMM Impact & Results
- Define KPIs (Key Performance Indicators): Determining metrics to evaluate campaign effectiveness (brand awareness, engagement, conversions, retention).
- Use Analytics Tools: Leverage native (Facebook Insights, Instagram Analytics) and third-party tools (Google Analytics, Hootsuite, SEMrush) for performance tracking.
- Track & Evaluate Metrics (reach, impressions, follower growth, engagement rate, cost-per-conversion, sentiment analysis).
- Compare Performance Across Platforms: Identify top-performing platforms to optimize strategies.
- Monitor Competitor Benchmarks: Analyzing competitors' social activity to understand industry trends and standards using tools like BuzzSumo or Social Blade.
- Create Regular Reports: Visualizing data using dashboards and summarizing key insights. Offer actionable recommendations for future campaigns.
- A/B Testing & Iteration: Running split tests on content, timing, or ads to refine campaigns.
- Review Qualitative Feedback: Examining comments & messages to draw insights and improve user experience.
- Align Results with Goals: Ensuring that campaign outcomes match original objectives. Modify strategies if needed.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- SEO enhances a website's prominence in search engine results (SERPs), such as Google, Bing, Yahoo to attract non-paid organic (natural) traffic, improving site appeal for relevant keywords.
- SEO is an ongoing process requiring consistent monitoring, strategy updates, and adjustments to maintain a competitive edge and high search rankings.
Why SEO Matters
- Increased Organic Traffic: Well-optimized websites attract greater visibility from search engines without paid ads.
- Credibility and Trust: High rankings boost brand credibility and trustworthiness.
- Cost-Effective: Organic search results are economical, unlike paid ads.
- Long-Term Results: SEO provides long-term benefits, improving brand presence over time; paid ads stop generating traffic once the budget is exhausted.
SEO Strategies
- On-Page SEO: Actions taken on your own website to improve rankings. Include keyword research. Content optimization to produce high-quality, relevant, informative content answering user questions. Using relevant keywords in title tags, meta-descriptions, and headers. Internal linking structure to guide user navigation. Image optimization using proper filenames and compression to enhance search friendliness.
- Off-Page SEO: Actions occurring outside your website influencing rankings. Include acquiring high-quality backlinks from reputable websites. Engagement on social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) signaling trust to search engines. Brand mentions across the web improving trustworthiness/authority.
- Technical SEO: Optimizing the website for search engine crawlers and users. Factors include site speed to improve pages' loading time, mobile-friendliness with responsive website designs, optimized site architecture (sitemap, easy navigation), and crawlability so search engines easily index content (e.g., Googlebot, Slurp, Bingbot).
- User Experience (UX): Providing positive user experiences on the website. Key factors include dwell time (the time visitors spend on the site). Reduced bounce rates (users leaving quickly without interacting). Enhanced site navigation for ease of use. Search engines prioritize UX.
- Local SEO: Optimizing location-based searches for businesses with physical locations or local services via tools including the Google My Business optimization tool, citations across local directories, positive reviews and ratings.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
- SEM is a digital marketing strategy focusing on website promotion by boosting visibility primarily through paid online advertising on search engine results pages. (SERPs).
- SEM uses search engines (e.g., Google, Bing, Yahoo) to target potential customers actively searching for specific products, services, or information through pay-per-click (PPC) models.
Key Components of SEM
- Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising: Advertisers bid for keywords to display ads on search engine result pages (SERPs). Payment only for user clicks on the ad. Search terms, and Microsoft advertising are examples.
- Search Ads: Text-based ads that are displayed on SERPs including a headline, description, and clickable link.
- Display Ads: Visual advertisements appearing on websites within the search engine's network.
- Product Listing Ads (PLAs): Ads showcased in e-commerce, displaying products with pictures, prices, and links.
- Ad Targeting: Ads displayed to relevant audiences using targeting based on keywords, geographic location, device type or time of day.
- Keyword Research: Identifying high-traffic, relevant keywords to obtain a high return on investment (ROI).
- Ad Auction: Search engines assess ads based on bids, relevance, quality (quality score) which impacts ad rankings and costs.
Benefits & Challenges of SEM
- Benefits: Immediate results, targeted audiences, measurable ROI, increased brand awareness, and scalability (adjusting campaigns based on budget.)
- Challenges: Cost associated with bidding on competitive keywords, complexity of campaign management demanding expertise, potential ad fatigue from overexposure of ads.
Website, Email, Influencer, Blogs
- Websites: Collections of interlinked pages hosted on the internet.
- Email: Method for sending/receiving digital messages, a form of communication.
- Influencers: Individuals who impact purchasing decisions.
- Blogs: Regularly updated sections of a website or standalone websites featuring informational or conversational content.
Types of Email Marketing
- Newsletters (regular updates, company news).
- Promotional (offers, discounts)
- Transactional (order confirmations)
- Drip Campaigns (automated series of emails based on user interaction)
- Re-Engagement (win back inactive subscribers)
Email Marketing Key Components
- Email List: A collection of email addresses for sending communications.
- Email Campaigns: Planned series of emails to achieve objectives.
- Content: The message within the intended email consisting of text, images, videos, and links with personalization.
- Call to Action (CTA): Encouraging specific actions (e.g., "Buy Now," "Sign Up").
Types of Influencers
- Mega-Influencers: Over one million followers, often celebrities.
- Macro-Influencers: Between 100,000 and one million followers.
- Micro-Influencers: Between 10,000 and 100,000 followers (focus on niches, highly engaged audiences).
- Nano-Influencers: Less than 10,000 followers (highly engaging, personal interactions).
Influencer Marketing: A method of collaborating with influencers with strong following to promote goods/services, often more authentic and engaging.
- Benefits of Influencer Marketing: Genuine authenticity, targeted reach, increased trust, higher engagement
- Platforms: Upfluence, AspireIQ, HypeAuditor, GRIN.
Types of Blogs
- Personal Blogs
- Business Blogs (Information sharing, customer engagement, SEO boost)
- Niche Blogs (Focused on specialized topics)
- News Blogs
- Affiliate Blogs (promotion through affiliate links)
Online Reputation Management (ORM)
- ORM is the practice of monitoring, influencing, and maintaining the public perception of a person, brand, or business online (review sites, social media, search engines).
Importance of ORM
- Builds trust: Positive reputation builds customer trust.
- Business growth: Good reputation attracts customers, investors, and partners.
- Damage control: Mitigates impacts of negative reviews, comments.
- Brand image: Maintains favorable brand identity.
Tools for ORM
- Google Alerts (tracking mentions).
- Hootsuite/other social media management.
- Yext (managing business listings).
- Reputation.com
Benefits of ORM
- Improves customer perception.
- Enhances search engine results.
- Boosts customer retention.
- Protects against crises.
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Explore the essential components of Digital Marketing in this quiz focused on Social Media Marketing (SMM). Learn about the key functions of SMM, popular platforms, and the benefits that come with using social media to promote brands and engage audiences. Test your knowledge on how businesses leverage these tools for growth and consumer influence.