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Date of submission: 20 Feb 2019

Branch: MBA

Traditional marketing VS Digital marketing : Analysis

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:

Mr. Vishal Tandon Jyoti

Rupinder kaur

Jagmohan singh
 Traditional marketing VS Digital marketing : Analysis

Abstract
Digital marketing is a term that refers to different promotional techniques deployed to reach customers via
digital technologies. It is the promotion of products, services or brands via one or more forms of digital
media. Digital media is so pervasive that customer has access to information any time and any place they
want it. Digital media is an ever-growing source of entertainment, news, shopping and social interaction,
and now customers are exposed not just to what your company says about your brand, but what the media,
friends etc., are saying as well.
The world has transitioned into a digital environment. For today’s businesses, it is imperative to have a
website and use the web as a means to interact with their customers. There are some successful traditional
marketing strategies, particularly if you are reaching a largely local audience, but it is important to take
advantage of digital marketing so as to keep up in today’s world. Digital marketing is also known as Internet
marketing, but their actual processes differ, as digital marketing is considered more targeted, measurable
and interactive. It includes Internet marketing techniques, such as search engine optimization (SEO), search
engine marketing (SEM) and link building. It also extends to non-Internet channels that provide digital media,
such as short messaging service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), call-back and on-hold mobile
ring tones, e-books, optical disks and games.
Digital marketing is a new end 21st century tool of marketing. This research paper describes the different
types of digital marketing techniques like SEO, SEM, SMM, PPC etc. This paper addresses importance and risk
factors associated with digital marketing. It also gives digital marketing tips for businesses.

Keywords: Traditional Marketing, Digital Marketing, SEO, SEM, SMM, PPC

 Introduction

Peoples think that marketing is advertising for sale. However,

marketing is nothing but everything a company does to attract
customers and also maintain a relationship with them. Writing
thank-you letters and meeting with a past customer for coffee
can be thought of as marketing. The ultimate aim of marketing
is to find match for company's products and services to the
people who need them, which should ensure profitability.
The oldest, simplest and most natural form of
marketing is ‘word of mouth’ marketing, in which
customer convey their experiences about a product,
service or brand in their day to day communications
with others. These communications can be of
course either positive or negative.
Simply stated, marketing is everything you do to place your
product or service in the hands of customers. It includes sales,
public relations, pricing, packaging, and distribution. It is a
management process that identifies and supplies customer
requirements efficiently and profitably. It includes the
coordination of identification, selection and development of a
Product, determination of its price, selection of a
distribution channel to reach the customer's place, and Through traditional marketing companies directly target find
development and implementation of a promotional strategy. customers, while through digital marketing their objective is to
Marketing is about meeting the requirements of customers; have people find them. Success of digital-marketing highly
Marketing is a business-wide function it is not something depends on the customers having access to the Internet
that operates alone from other business activities. It and being familiar with the channels used to target them,
includes advertising, selling and delivering products to those social networks or websites. On the other hand,
people. People who work in marketing departments of traditional methods like newspapers, magazines, TV or radio
companies attention of target audiences by using slogans, or street marketing are accessible for the large majority of
packaging design, celebrity endorsements and general media people. Some traditional methods, like events and street
exposure marketing in general, allow companies to have a personal
 Traditional Marketing Vs Digital Marketing  Advantages of Digital Marketing
1. Digital marketing is an interactive means of
reaching to local audience as well as to global
Traditional Marketing uses strategies like direct sales, TV, audience when appropriate.
radio, mail, print ads in newspapers or magazines and 2. Data is available immediately and results are much
printed materials like billboards, posters, catalogs or easier to measure.
brochures. 3. Social media enables to communicate directly with
Digital Marketing is the promotion of products through one groups and even individual consumers like word of
or more forms of electronic media. For example, advertising mouth marketing.
via the Internet, social networking sites, mobile phones etc. 4. Build direct relationships with your customers
Digital marketing is similar to traditional marketing, but using through social media.
digital devices. 5. It is 24X 7 marketing and capture the most
energetic crowd.
 Advantages of Traditional Marketing
 Disadvantages of Digital Marketing
1. Traditional methods may be only way to reach your target 1. The company relies on those customers which are
audience such as old generation. highly interactive on the internet.
2. Person-to-person is a strategy of traditional marketing. 2. Content must continuously create, edited,
3. Traditional marketing offers hard copy material. approved and published. Comments must be
responded to and sites and pages must be
maintained.
 Disadvantages of Traditional Marketing 3. Though it is most vital in nature but the
1. To purchase advertising for TV, radio or print can be very question of reliability still appears in the mind of
costly prohibitive to most small businesses. people.
2. Printing materials, buying media and creating radio
advertisements require hiring outside that add to costs.
3. Results are not easily measured, and in many cases
 Traditional vs. Digital Marketing
There are countless ways of marketing products
and services. Traditional marketing methods include Customer engagement: Traditional marketing tends to be
print advertisements, such as newspaper ads, unidirectional. On the internet, however, communication goes
billboards and flyers, as well as television both ways and digital marketing can be very interactive.
commercials and radio spots. Digital or online Consumers can ‘like’, ‘share’, ‘follow’ ‘retweet’ and comment
marketing methods, which are becoming increasing on social media, as well as review your products and servies.
popular, include websites, ads on social Digital marketing thus enables potential customers to easily
media,YouTube videos and search engine optimization engage with your business, while simultaneously giving you
(SEO), among many others. more publicity. Moreover, digital marketing is less intrusive
The world has transitioned into a very digital than traditional marketing. Individuals can choose to opt in or
environment. Not only are magazines going digital, out of newsletters and they can hide the Facebook posts, if
many of our daily tasks such as banking online and these do not interest them.
much of our reading is done on e-readers. With rise of Level playing field: Finally, the internet has made it so
the digital age it is good to invest in a digital campaign. much easier for small businesses to compete with larger
Even though traditional marketing still has a place, it is organizations. Traditionally, smaller businesses generally did
diminishing in the digitally based world. For today’s not have the resources to organize marketing campaigners
businesses, it is imperative to have a website and use with as a great a reach as those of larger businesses. Through
the web as a means to interact with their consumer digital marketing, however, while large businesses still tend
base. to have some advantages, particularly in terms of human
: resources, as long as people have a well-thought out,
comprehensive marketing strategy and a good-looking,
properly working website, all business have a chance. The
now enables business to reach people all over the world, internet does not discriminate.
24 hours a day. Using traditional marketing techniques,
reaching a worldwide audience would cost a fortune.
Moreover, on social media there is always the possibility
for content to go viral, which gives one’s business
amazing exposure without
 Working of Digital Marketing
Marketing is defined as a process of communicating Now a day’s for most of the people, the first place they go
with the customers in order to inform them about to find new information or products is the Internet. If you’re
various products or services which would be of benefit a marketer, you’ve got to understand how people are finding
to them. Marketing also incorporates the use of a broad this information online to spread the word about products
range of strategies to increase customer’s knowledge of and services for your customers.
products or services. Digital marketing is the type of marketing done through
online or the digital technology world. Like print media or
electronic

Digital marketing works by using a number of iii) Search Engine Marketing: (SEM):
different strategies Search Engine Marketing is a type of Internet
marketing. SEM uses the search engines to
i) E-mail marketing: Email marketing is one of the advertise your website or business to Internet
earliest customers and send a more targeted traffic to your
forms of digital marketing. It is used to directly marketing a Web site via advertising or paid links. It includes
commercial message to a group of people using email as well things such as search engine optimization, paid
as segmenting your customer data and delivering listings and other search-engine
personalized, targeted messages at the right time. With related services and functions that will increase
effective email marketing software, you can maintain traffic to your Web site.
email lists that are isolated based on several factors,
including customers’ likes and dislikes. iv) Social Media Marketing: (SMM): Now a
day’s Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of
ii) Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Search Internet marketing that utilizes social networking
Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential strategy in digital websites as a marketing tool. The goal of SMM is
marketing. to produce content that users will share with their
It is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web social network. Customers expect to find brands on
page in a search engine's unpaid results - often referred to social media sites, so it’s a big deal to have a social
as "natural" results. This can be done by increasing the media strategy. SMM became more common with
ranking of a particular keyword, or increasing the volume of the increased popularity of websites such as
keywords that a site ranks for. SEO will help you position Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and
your website properly to be found at the most critical points YouTube. Posting content that gets shared is a
in the buying process or when people need your site. It may great way to
target different kinds of search, including image search, video
search etc. This strategy also considers how search engines v) Blogs: Platforms like LinkedIn create an
work, what people search for, the actual search terms or environment for companies and clients to
keywords typed into search engines and which connect online. Companies that recognize the
searchengines are preferred by their targeted customers. need for information, originality, and
accessibility employ blogs to make their products
popular and unique, and ultimately reach out to
consumers who are privy to social media.
Compensation Methods for Digital Marketing
6) PPC (Pay per click): Pay per click (PPC), also called cost
The industry has understood the power of digital marketing
per click, is an internet advertising model used to direct
and companies use a variety of ways of compensations for
traffic to websites, in which advertisers pay the website
them. Each compensation method pays in a different way
owner or a host of website when the ad is clicked.
and has a different earning potential. Publishers and
advertisers use a wide range of compensation calculation
methods.
Importance of Digital Marketing
1) Connects with Internet consumer: Days are gone when
1) CPM (cost per mile): CPM is the most common method
people scan through phone directories to look for
for pricing web ads. In this method advertisers pays for
information about a product or service. Now a day at
every thousand displays of their message to potential
least 80% of customers use the Internet to make their search
customers.
for information convenient. A website allows you to find
new markets and trade globally for only a small investment
2) CPE (cost per engagement): In this method advertising
which causes global reach.
impressions are free and advertisers pay only when a user
interacting with an ad in any number of ways, including 2) Connects with the mobile consumer: We’re living in an
viewing, sharing, voting, commenting, reviewing, playing a era where cell phones are powerful enough to please the
game. Thus advertisers pay only when a user engages with average consumer. Today, maximum people are using their
their brand content. mobiles to research and shop online. This makes it essential
for your business to adapt to the
3) Fixed cost: Fixed cost compensation means advertisers 3) Enables real-time customer service: Digital marketing
pays a fixed amount of money to the publisher for delivery offers real-time response mechanism which gives a big
of ads online, usually over a specified time period, impact on the success of business according to a report or
irrespective of whether the client has viewed the ad or not. feedback from customer.

4) Cost per Action or Pay per Action: Advertiser pays 4) Delivers higher ROI from your campaigns: Digital
publisher a commission for the number of users who marketing can help businesses to generate better Cost-Per-
perform a desired activity, such as completing a purchase or Lead (CPL) compared to traditional marketing or even
filling out a registration form, creating an account. This telemarketing.
compensation model is very popular with online services
from internet service providers, cell phone providers. 5) Keeps you at par with competitors: Many brands and
businesses are ramping up on their digital marketing
5) Sharing of revenue: In revenue sharing method the campaigns, using various channels available.
advertiser gives the publisher some percentage of the sale
created by a customer.
Risk Factors of Digital Marketing For Essential Digital Marketing tips for Businesses
Business One great advantage of digital marketing for businesses is
that this type of marketing can be very cost effective. Return
1. Higher transparency of pricing and increased price
on investment is often much higher than with more
competition, worldwide competition through
traditional forms of marketing. Business can begin a
globalization.
successful digital marketing campaign using the tips below.
2. Dependability on technology, security, privacy issues,
maintenance costs due to a constantly evolving
1. You can create great content no matter what size your
environment.
company is. Great content mean weekly blog posts that
are roundups of important news and information within
For Customer your industry; tweeting interesting links; or videos,
photos and text that you generate. These contents
1. There is no actual face to face contact involved in the
should focus on quality information rather than product.
Internet communication. For the types of products that
2. Pick one to three social media sites that your customers
depend a lot on building personal relationship between
frequently using and start talking to them. Twitter,
buyers and sellers such as the selling of life insurance, and
Facebook and Google Plus are some of the good places
the type of products that requires physical examination,
to start. You can also take suggestions from customers
Digital marketing maybe less appropriate.
and implement them immediately.
2. Digital marketing cannot allow prospective buyers to
3. Find out what types of posts and promotions do people
touch, or smell or taste or 'try on' the products.
responds to? What brings people to your website? If
3. Slow internet connections can cause difficulties. If the
something isn’t working, you can drop it and try a new
companies build too complex or too large websites, it
approach immediately.
will
4. Identifying where your customers are socially and what
take too long for users to check them or download them.
digital devices and media they use to communicate, can
have a deep impact on your success in achieving your
business goals. With a carefully managed strategy even
small businesses can see huge returns on their efforts.