What is online marketing?

Online marketing, also known as digital marketing, is the practice of leveraging web-based channels to spread a message about a company’s brand, products, or services to its potential customers. The methods and techniques used for online marketing include email campaigns, social media, advertising, search engine optimization (SEO) and more. The objective of marketing is to reach potential customers through the channels where they already spend their time reading, searching, shopping and socializing online. In short, go where the customers is.

There are also many benefits and challenges inherent to online marketing, which uses primarily digital mediums to attract, engage and convert virtual visitors into actual customers.