The 5 Best Fields of Online Marketing

1. SEO

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a key skill to master for online marketing success. There are a number of ways to do SEO, but the methods we recommend include: blogging on internal blog, commenting on external blogs and linking back to your website, and of course social media. Search engine optimization is key for allowing customers looking for your type of products and services to be able to find you.

2. SEM

Similar to SEO, Search Engine Marketing or SEM, is another skill that yields great financial results and marketing success. The difference between SEO and SEM is that SEO is free, whereas SEM is paid. SEM is a sponsored advertisement that is able to reach first page of Google. SEM is excellent for maximizing exposure for products and services. SEM can be a pay-per-click, so online marketers and businesses only pay when users click on their ad.

3. Affiliate Marketing

There are two ways to utilize affiliate marketing; as an affiliate marketer or as a business looking to sell products. Businesses sign up to affiliate programs and the affiliate marketers market and sell their products in return for a commission. There are a number of affiliate programs including: Share-A-Sale, Commission Junction, and Rakuten for example. From a business perspective, allowing affiliates to handle their online marketing is very beneficial. Especially because affiliates only get paid when they find a lead or a sale.

4. E-commerce

E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is selling products online. Affiliate marketing and E-commerce go hand-in-hand, and affiliates direct traffic to your E-commerce channels. E-commerce can be done on a company's website, or on external websites such as Amazon, EBay, or any other website that sells products. E-commerce is a field of online marketing that yields great financial results for businesses. This is partly because online shops do not have opening or closing hours so commerce can be done at all hours and businesses do not pay rent for a physical store; so the costs for operating online is much cheaper.

5. Email marketing

Many people underestimate the power of email marketing. Email marketing can be done from lists of previous customers and/or people who sign up for mailing lists, or they can be acquired by buying or renting emails lists. Email marketing is a whole industry of its own, and those who utilize it properly find it to be very rewarding. Typically, emails can include promotions, sales, or even holiday greetings. The key in email marketing is the frequency and how often emails are sent. Overall, incorporating email into your overall online marketing strategy can be very rewarding.