In this competitive market where everything is gradually turning to digitization, with every consumer, every organization is shifting to the online sector too. Nowadays, almost everyone has access to the Internet and its potential has grown to fulfill almost every need. The pacing of development in technology has given rise to the growth spurt of […]

In this competitive market where everything is gradually turning to digitization, with every consumer, every organization is shifting to the online sector too. Nowadays, almost everyone has access to the Internet and its potential has grown to fulfill almost every need. The pacing of development in technology has given rise to the growth spurt of the e-commerce industry, and this progressive gush fueled the emergence of e-commerce websites and online industries. When all the organizations turned to the online sector, this development called for all the organizations to enhance their marketing strategies as the traditional ways weren’t capable enough to promote any product or service to the audience. If we draw an analogy considering the olden techniques of marketing like sample marketing and door-to-door marketing, we can conclude that with the shift of a dominant portion of the global market to the online sector these techniques weren’t receptive enough to operate.

Marketing and advertising techniques needed to enhance in order to amp up the popularity of the firms. Such a development is digital marketing. Digital Marketing allowed all organizations were now able to use social media platforms to reach out to consumers on a global level. So what is digital marketing exactly? And why is it so important to embrace this strategy?

Digital marketing is a component of marketing that uses tools like social media marketing, system engine optimization, social media optimization, and direct mail marketing to promote all organizations. It’s a modern-day approach to marketing practices and allows organizations to promote their products and services using creative visual data. Visual Branding and the Authenticity of a particular product or an organization go hand in hand in every way. Suppose there’s an individual wanting to buy a cell phone. Now, he has two options to approach fulfilling his need, he can either walk the entire stretch of the market or a shopping mall, looking for the cell phone that satisfies his need or he can look up the internet and search for the same from a number of shopping websites and cell phone brands. Considering the current scenario and technological development, we can conclude that he might have chosen the latter. The question here is, ‘Why is it so? Why does consensus go with a visual representation of the same data that it can find using offline way?

Let’s take a look at the reason why digital marketing emphasizes authenticity by using visual branding:

• If we focus on advertisement campaigns, every organization be it in any industry, has now embraced digital marketing for promoting their services and products. Social media marketing, for example, has turned out to be one of the most efficient ways as it connects with individuals more intimately. There are many ways to use digital marketing for advertisement, like portraying a story about a particular product or service in the form of a short video in between paragraphs on a webpage. This story helps the consumer to better connect with the product and the organization.
• Not only via short ads, but a firm can promote it by using Digital Marketing Strategies to graphically represent how its services and products are better than the ones in the market. This graphical representation strikes the analytical approach of the crowd and helps them compare the organization with all its competitors. And when people see the impressive background of the organization with respect to its competitors, they tend to believe what they see. This gradually adds to the authenticity of the firm and its product and services.
• In today’s world, all individuals do their part of the research before engaging in any business transaction. Digital Marketing Tools like search engine optimization turn out to be of great help. In SEO the content of a website plays an integral part. The content of a website also acts as a medium of visual branding it’s just that its approach is a bit different. If we consider the research a potential buyer does, we should consider the fact that he relies on the content he finds on a particular website. This content is backed by other components like pictures, short ads, and graphs. This assures the consumer that the website and/or the product are authentic.

But let’s not be skeptical about this approach. There are many players in the market who misrepresent their products which in turn makes most individuals drift apart from this practice. Misrepresentation of a product’s specifications and features not only makes the audience drift away from that particular but it also makes them critical towards many other organizations who are approaching the market with a genuine proposition. Thus, we can conclude that digital marketing uses its tools to successfully perform visual branding of a particular firm and it might help the firm garner a large amount of audience but its misuse lad them to turn their heads from it too.