What is Scope of Digital Marketing in India ?

byVissicomp Technology

in digital marketing, good traffic, Google AdWords specialist, Online reputation manager, SEO analyst, Web Analyst

November 22, 2017

What is Scope of Digital Marketing in India ?

Before we understand the scope of digital marketing in India let us first understand about this industry. Digital marketing is a marketing method to promote products in online. So in simple terms, we can say that we are promoting our products to customers who are using the internet. Many concepts of traditional marketing are applicable to digital marketing.

In every era, marketing has evolved based on what the customer is using. If you go back in history, you can see that at times when customers used Radio, it gave birth to radio advertising and marketing. Next, we got the boom of televisions, it is one of the widely used device globally, which allowed the companies to reach a mass audience with TV ads. Even today TV advertising is one of the most used advertising strategies for companies. Since the boom of Internet, more customers started using the Internet, which gave birth to a new era of marketing originally called as Internet marketing, which is now called as Digital Marketing.

To understand the scope of Digital Marketing in Future we must understand its advantages and how it can sustain over the period of time until we get a new generation of communication.

Why companies use digital marketing?

Internet Users:

As per the internet usage stats, as of July 2016, 40% of the world population is using the internet. (i.e) 3.42 Billion Users. The total number of users in 1995 was less than 1% of world population.

As we can clearly understand from the above stats that in next few years more users will be connected to the internet, which gives more scope for digital marketers to reach target audience globally.

Mobile Phones:

Most of the users globally today use mobile phones for communication. As per a report 4.77 billion mobiles phone users globally, which will increase to 5.07 billion by 2019. Today’s majority of mobile phones are smartphones with internet access, which allows to customers to connect with businesses anytime & anywhere.

Targeting Audience:

In traditional marketing strategies, it is very difficult to advertise to the target audience with specific demographics & details. Most of the marketing methods were aimed @ mass marketing of the product. Today with digital marketing we have so many customized & personalized methods to target the audience exclusively.

Ex:Today we can reach an audience by Location, age, gender, education, interests, personal information etc. In fact, we have many advanced strategies to target very specific audience.

Low Cost and High ROI:

Most of the small and medium scale companies rely mostly on digital marketing strategies due to its low cost and high return on investment.

What is its scope of digital marketing in India for Professionals:

As we know that digital marketing industry is growing, which brings more opportunities to professionals in this industry? Following are opportunities available for professionals.

Get a Job in Industry:

The simple and best way to start your career in digital marketing is to find a job. In digital marketing, we have many different specializations so you will have different options to start your career.

a.    Digital marketing strategist

b.    Digital marketing executive

c.    SEO analyst

d.    Social media specialist

e.    Google AdWords specialist

f.     Email marketing specialist

g.    Web Analyst

h.    Online reputation manager

And there will more specialized job roles to choose in digital marketing. Learn more about Careers in Digital Marketing.

Become a Professional Blogger:

Many digital marketing professionals choose full time blogging as their career choice. With dedication and hard work, many professionals are not successful bloggers in their chosen niche. Bloggers can generate income with advertising & affiliate marketing strategies.

Earn with Affiliate Marketing & AdSense:

You can start your blog/website/app in a specific niche of your interest and initially work hard to build traffic & viewers. After generating good traffic, you can make a good income with Ad Sense & affiliate marketing techniques.

Start Freelancing Services:

Freelancing is the concept of offering your services to clients on a part-time basis from your home.Sitting at your home you can build your clients globally. Thanks to online websites like fiverr.com, freelancer.com etc. you can start offering your freelancing services.

Start your own agency:

If you have experience in managing a business & have resources, contacts. You can start your own full-time digital marketing agency. With your agency, you can able to build marketing strategies for clients and implement them with digital marketing.

Become a YouTube :

You can choose to become a full-time YouTuber in a selected niche. You need to focus on the quality of content and building your audience base in YouTube. Once you start getting subscribers and views, you can make a money with YouTube monetization.