Marketing Terms

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The plan to promote your business online is called web marketing. This includes utilizing different online channels to reach business goals - Social Media, Search Engines, Email, Forums, Visual Platforms and more. Web marketing also means collecting data, analyzing and repurposing it. You’ll read about all these concepts in the chapters of this guide.

Below are just a few web marketing terms for you to get started
Display Ads: Visual ads on third-party websites leading viewers to your site.
Native Ads: Unlike display ads or banner ads, native ads don't look like ads. They blend with the media platform.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM): Promoting your website via paid ads on search engines.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Improving the visibility of your website by improving the organic search results.
Organic: Content that hasn’t been promoted through paid ads.
Social Media Marketing: Getting traffic by using different social media channels (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, IG, etc.)
Affiliate Marketing: Rewards affiliate members for visitors or customers they have redirected to you.
Inbound Marketing: Creating and sharing content to drive traffic to your website.
Crowd Marketing: Marketing your business by engaging a large number of people to facilitate discussion.
Video Marketing: Using platforms such as Youtube or Vimeo for sharing your videos for promotional purposes.
ROI: Return on investment is a measure used to estimate the efficiency of marketing campaigns. ROI % = Net Profit / Total Investment X 100.
CTR: Click Through Rate is the proportion of users who click a desired link, to the total number of users who viewed the page.
Conversion: The proportion of viewers that convert to buyers or viewers through your ads, depending on your CTA.
CTA: Call to action is the immediate response you want your target audience to take.
Email Marketing: Promotional activity through email.

How much does web marketing cost
Social channels offer ads at different costs.
These costs are based on your bids; it's like entering a worldwide auction.