Traditional marketing – involves traditional platforms like Print media, electronic media, and so on for marketing communication.

Digital marketing – is using the platforms like website and social Medias for marketing communication.

Since last 2 decades, Internet is growing at a rapid rate of approximately 5.2% annually. Apart from this the use of newspaper and television is not able to catch up with this growth.

Basic marketing strategies

Either it be traditional marketing or digital/network marketing, objectives should be

Smart

Specific

As in which product/service, do we want to market and who will be our target audience.

Measureable

Our area to serve and versions should be measurable.

Attainable

We should be able to give best service/product, apart from area and other factors we are looking into; accordingly we have to plan.

Relevant

Our marketing targets should be relevant to current trends and services already available in the market and there should be some unique from that.

Time bound

What – so – ever marketing strategy we are taking, we should keep updating on it, from time to time and give service on time too.

Sources to reach out to consumers

Traditional marketing sources to reach out to people is limited including newspaper, magazines, television advertisements, posters, hoarding, banners and more while at the same time the sources of digital marketing is uncountable like social medias, blogs, websites and many more, can be said as innumerable.

Out of both these forms of marketing, neither is new or old fashioned. Both plays their part in various classes of society.

Competitive results as per sources

Through traditional marketing, targets which are achieved will not be certain. While through digital marketing targets achieved will be certain to some extent.

Still people of 50+ age are not prone to use smartphones/sources where digital marketing is being done. Since then product/services which are designed for them needs to be marketed by traditional marketing to reach out to them directly or else, indirectly we will be able to reach out to them.

How digital marketing and traditional marketing reaches out to people?

Traditional marketing strategy works like one – to – many, while digital marketing on many – to – many.

In Traditional marketing, service providers market as per trend and consumers have to watch that. While in digital marketing, lot of content has already been present on sites, and it shown to people as per their interests.

Benefits for both marketing strategies

Digital marketing

Results can be measured as it is directly connect with demographics.
Instant reactivity.
Automation and targeting the audience can be done.
Costing will be less to reach out to consumers.

In Traditional marketing, service providers market as per trend and consumers have to watch that. While in digital marketing, lot of content has already been present on sites, and it shown to people as per their interests.

Traditional marketing

Success rate is more as it reaches more consumers in a day.
Local advantage is more for local business as consumers will reach to them directly.
Hard copy marketing is easy to remember.

Conclusion which marketing shall we use?

Both marketing strategies plays their specific role.
Both types of marketing have its own marketing benefits and drawbacks.
Integrated marketing strategy should be applied. As it helps us to reduce cost and maximum gains

Following are some factors on the basis of what we can finalize which strategy we shall opt for:

• Target audience
• Budget
• Product/service