Digital Marketing

PR Smith's SOSTAC® model, it's worth getting to know if you're involved with planning marketing strategies or campaigns. SOSTAC® was voted the third most popular model in the CIM poll on marketing models because it's easy to remember and it makes it easy to structure plans for different planning activities.

RACE is a practical framework developed by Smart Insights (2010) to help marketers manage and improve the commercial value that their organisations gain from digital marketing. It is intended to help create a simplified approach to reviewing the performance of online marketing and taking actions to improve its effectiveness.

The 5S of digital marketing are a simple framework to review and define the top-level goals of digital marketing in an organisation. They were defined by PR Smith in Chaffey, D. and Smith, P.R. (2017) Digital Marketing Excellence, Planning, Optimising and integrating digital marketing, 5th edn, Taylor & Francis. They were included in the first edition in 2001.

Simply put digital marketing, also called online marketing, is the application of digital media, data and technology integrated with traditional marketing communications to achieve marketing objectives. To understand how best to manage digital marketing in a business, it’s useful to scope out what digital marketing involves; which activities are required and how they relate to other marketing activities.

A focus on each of these is important regardless of the size of business. The pillars help show that success in digital marketing isn't just about digital media and platforms, important as they are. Creating an effective digital experience, messaging and quality content to fuel your digital strategy are all vital too.