{"id":3134,"date":"2017-04-07T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/eccles.utah.edu\/programs\/executive-education\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:40:50","slug":"new-rules-digital-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eccles.utah.edu\/programs\/executive-education\/new-rules-digital-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Rules of Digital Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firetoss Founder and Eccles Professor Tony Passey discusses the strategic use of digital marketing channels to ensure messaging reaches your target customer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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By Tony Passey<\/strong>
\n(As told to Sara Langen)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine a business right now that doesn\u2019t have a big web presence. It\u2019s hard to imagine any company that\u2019s not going to focus on digital marketing as a huge part of their strategy.<\/p>\n

In the last 15 years, we\u2019ve taken computers and shrunk them down to pocket size. They\u2019re always in your hand. Almost everyone has high-processing information-gathering power within arm\u2019s reach. Because of this, we\u2019ve stopped responding to \u201cpush\u201d style advertising. Most of us can find whatever information we need on our own. It gives consumers a lot more confidence than they had 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

In digital channels, you have an opportunity to influence people in a much more personal way. Not only are you hitting them through their personal device, but you have the power of data and segmentation to be much more precise in your marketing and put your messaging in place for your specific target user group, as opposed to a broader market.<\/p>\n

Founding Firetoss<\/h2>\n

Unlike a lot of agency founders, I didn\u2019t come from an agency background. I serve as CEO of Firetoss, an online marketing and advertising agency, but my experience is really in entrepreneurial ventures and startups. I worked in building materials and manufacturing ventures\u2014very non-digital industries. Around 2001, the Internet was this new frontier that nobody really knew how to utilize. So I decided to start experimenting, testing and evaluating and found a lot of success in companies early on by being able to do marketing online. The fact that I was taking a personal risk made me more aggressive and thorough with how I approached digital marketing.<\/p>\n

When I founded Firetoss, my goal was to help other businesses that weren\u2019t as savvy in these new channels. I got a lot of experience early on by running my own businesses and I\u2019ve been able to refer back to that experience as we\u2019ve crafted strategies for hundreds of companies.<\/p>\n

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When I joined the Eccles faculty, I was charged with creating courses on digital marketing that were more about practical application and less about theory. Internet marketing changes rapidly, so I take what we learn on a daily basis in the agency and turn those lessons into actual teaching moments for my students.<\/p>\n

A lot of my students work in marketing and are looking to answer real questions and solve challenges in their careers. Many people in high-level marketing positions didn\u2019t start with the Internet being a large part of their jobs and tell me they feel they lack specific knowledge in digital advertising. The focus of the new online Executive Education course in Digital Marketing is to answer some of those feelings.<\/p>\n

Learning How To Harness The Five Major Digital Marketing Channels<\/h2>\n

The course introduces students to the five major digital marketing channels that are common and accessible to businesses of all sizes: organic traffic, referral or content marketing (which also includes social media), paid search advertising, email marketing and display advertising. There are many ways to drive exposure and traffic online, but these five channels cover a broad set of needs. Developing a plan for how and when to use all or some of these channels is a complicated formula that marketers continually analyze and debate.<\/p>\n

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One of the advantages the Internet provides is you don\u2019t have to \u201cbuy in\u201d to get exposure. A small mom-and-pop shop can go up against a large corporation in the same geographic area, which isn\u2019t something you can do with traditional advertising, like billboards, TV or radio. If you\u2019re trying to get exposure, a small company isn\u2019t going to have the buying power to compete. Often there\u2019s no path to success with traditional channels, but in digital channels you have the ability to refine and tightly segment who you want to see your advertising and how you want to position your product.<\/p>\n

With search engines, all your advertising is based on demand for particular keywords. If you\u2019re selling products related to those keyword searches, you have the ability to advertise just to the small segment of the population that would essentially self-select into your market by typing in those keywords. You\u2019re not dealing with broad strokes; you\u2019re dealing with a very refined, filtered subset of the population.<\/p>\n

We also discuss media buying and advertising, including how to create and run a campaign with Google Ad Words and using Google Analytics for tracking and evaluation. Google\u2019s platforms by far have the most market share. We also discuss advertising on social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest offer up a lot of very personal data, so advertisers can segment by age, relative income or number of children. You can make a surgical strike and only spend advertising dollars on the people you want to reach.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Make This Mistake<\/h2>\n

One of the biggest mistakes I see with digital marketing is that there\u2019s not enough commitment to tracking and analysis. You have to set up tracking for campaign performance before you launch anything. A key difference between digital marketing and traditional advertising is your ability to track at a very granular level. If you run a billboard campaign, you don\u2019t know the exact number of people who reacted to those billboards, but in a digital marketing campaign you know how many people saw it and how many converted as a result.<\/p>\n

As marketers, we\u2019re losing the ability to \u201cpush\u201d consumers and users toward what we want them to do. With the power and accessibility of information, people choose to research whatever they\u2019re going to purchase on their own time, so you\u2019ll take a more authoritative and effective position if you create content and strategically place it so they find out about you, your company, your product or service. A lot of companies haven\u2019t figured that out yet.<\/p>\n

My primary goal in the Executive Education course is that afterward, students feel very comfortable with these five channels, which encompass 90-95 percent of the digital marketing space. I want to help them fill in any knowledge gaps and develop proficiency so they can craft an online marketing plan, know which channels to utilize and how to utilize them. That\u2019s what fuels my teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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