Why Social Media Marketing is the heart of Digital Marketing? Why SEO is Heart of digital Marketing | Page 2

Social Media Marketing for Digital Marketing The digital marketing industry has grown to exceed the users that view Television or Newspapers. Because of increase in use of smart phones and 4G network evolution in India, companies are now need to create marketing strategies outside of Media (Televisions and Newspapers ), Conventional local marketing that is hoardings, rickshaws, flyers to promote their products and/ or brand their name in the market. Henceforth there is a need for Digital marketing. We will be discussing how social media – Facebook, twitter, Linkedin, YouTube, Instagram are the most powerful mechanisms for promoting company’s products and creating visibility of your brand amongst the viewers. Let’s discuss first the importance of Facebook marketing and why it can work and create viral videos and visibility across its user communities. Digital ROI MEASUREMENT Online marketing ROI measurement can be both easy and hard. It is easy to measure because of services like analytics. Paid Campaigns can measure brand audience reach (Impressions), no of visitors to website, engagement of consumers and lastly the sales from the campaign. Whereas campaigns like SEO can be measured in keyword rankings, overall growth in organic traffic and sales through organic traffic. It is quite easy to measure social media advertising returns, through likes, comments, shares and retweets or replies. We can find out what kind of people liked the message, where they are from and which social media handle gained the most response. But it is not always necessary that if a person like the post, he will definitely go and visit our website and buy our products. This is why it is difficult to measure social media investment returns.