Digital Marketing Strategy: An Integrated Approach to Online Marketing

by Simon Kingsnorth

Overview

Create a successful, highly efficient digital marketing plan using this top-rated manual, covering a wide range of topics from seamless AI integration to the utilization of digital analytical tools.

Digital Marketing Strategy is an international bestseller, providing practical information on structuring and implementing a more strategic approach to digital marketing. In this fully updated fourth edition, Simon Kingsnorth explores AI in marketing, e-commerce, marketing automation and the utilization of digital analytical tools. This new edition also includes fresh real-world examples and platform recommendations around AI.

With new cutting-edge insights on AI in advertising, NFTs, the metaverse and Web3, Digital Marketing Strategy serves as an ideal roadmap for navigating digital channels and operations. This book includes checklists, key terminology, and insights from leading industry experts to aid in the development of your own digital marketing strategy.

Supplemented by online resources consisting of practical implementation guides, presentation slides and activity sheets. This is an essential guide for marketers and students seeking to build an effective digital strategy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398622074
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/25/2025
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Simon Kingsnorth is a marketing expert with over 25 years' industry experience. Based in Reading, UK, he has held senior marketing roles at leading brands, is CEO of the global marketing agency SK and is a regular keynote speaker and contributor to industry publications. He is the author of The Digital Marketing Handbook and Marketing in Web 3.0 also published by Kogan Page.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction: How will this book transform your digital marketing strategy?; ** Chapter - 01: Foundations * Section - ONE: Knowing your business objectives and your customer; ** Chapter - 02: Understanding the digital ecosystem; ** Chapter - 03: Integrating digital into wider organization strategy; ** Chapter - 04: Understanding the evolving digital consumer; ** Chapter - 05: Barriers, considerations and data protection in digital marketing strategy; * Section - TWO: Integrating digital change into your wider organization; ** Chapter - 06: Enabling technologies for online marketing and digital transformation; ** Chapter - 07: Planning your digital marketing strategy – Objectives, teams and budgeting; * Section - THREE: Using channel strategy to reach your customers; ** Chapter - 08: SEO strategy and organic techniques; ** Chapter - 09: Building and optimizing a winning paid search strategy; ** Chapter - 10: Display ** Chapter - 11: Tailoring your social media strategy; ** Chapter - 12: Marketing automation, messaging and email marketing ** Chapter - 13: Affiliate schemes and partnerships ** Chapter - 14: Lead generation ** Chapter - 15: eCommerce ** Chapter - 16: Content strategy ** Chapter - 17: Personalizing the customer journey and digital experience * Section - FOUR: Conversion, retention and measurement; ** Chapter - 18: Effective experience design ** Chapter - 19: Managing loyalty, CRM and data; ** Chapter - 20: Providing a smooth online service and customer experience ** Chapter - 21: Data analytics and reporting * Section - FIVE: Tailoring your final digital marketing strategy; ** Chapter - 22: Putting together your digital marketing strategy;

Editorial Reviews

"A well-structured and insightful guide to building an effective and practical digital strategy."

Daniel Rowles

"A thorough and highly readable summary of everything marketers and business leaders need to know as they navigate our complex digital world. Kingsnorth pulls off the difficult task of balancing theoretical summary with both actionable steps and clarity in a vital book for marketers."

Jon Mowat

"The first edition of Simon Kingsnorth's Digital Marketing Strategy was a great resource for digital marketing students, and the update in terms of content, structure and case examples makes the second edition an essential read and key companion as they start their marketing careers."

Dr Emma Louise Slade

"A strong resource that covers all of the key digital marketing disciplines and how to build them into a winning strategy. Essential reading for beginner and expert alike."

Matt Owen

"An excellent all-in-one text for today's digital entrepreneur."

Jonathan Gabay

"It's all here. An invaluable one-stop guide to navigating the discipline of digital marketing – great for newcomers and an excellent reference for the more experienced."

Co-founder, Pancentric Digital - Simon Fenn

"This is everything that you need and want to know about digital marketing. Simon Kingsnorth expertly combines the logic and magic of the discipline and brings it together in an engaging and comprehensive way. A master class wrapped up in a book that you should read and use to develop your marketing strategy and grow as a marketer."

Suki Thompson

"It is very rare to find such applicable, accurate and up to date advice in a single resource, which is exactly what Digital Marketing Strategy offers. Simon's in-depth understanding of such a broad range of digital marketing channels and topics makes this book undoubtedly an essential read for both budding and experienced digital marketing professionals alike."

Carl Hewitt

"Rather than presenting a "one size fits all" model, Kingsnorth brings various strategies to life through case studies, charts, illustrations, and checklists. "Digital Marketing Strategy" covers what digital marketing is, how to budget and forecast, acquisition, personalization, customer service, user experience, content strategy, how to analyze and perform social measurements, and how to structure and present a digital marketing plan in order to win support and funding. ...[V]ery highly recommended as a core addition to community and library Business Marketing instructional reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists."

Wisconsin Bookwatch, The Business Shelf - Midwest Book Review

"One of the issues with marketing and marketing books today is pre-pandemic thinking. With this third edition of Digital Marketing Strategy, Simon has really taken the time to bring the book up-to-date with modern case studies and chapters. This really is a marketing book for the post-pandemic world."

Tim Hughes

"Simon Kingsnorth has produced a book of compelling quality. So many marketers are inclined to run headlong at digital marketing with a limited amount of knowledge. Fingers get burnt and reputations can be lost forever. Here Simon and his contributors have set out some brilliant guidelines for marketers of all levels which will empower them to succeed."

author of Understanding Digital Marketing and Understanding Social Media - Damian Ryan

"Combines a detailed knowledge of digital channel management with classic marketing theory. The result is essential reading for digital marketing practitioners at all levels."

CEO, Harvest Digital - Emma Wilson

"Impressive depth and rigor, with excellent insights and practical tips. A must-have resource for every marketer and business leader. This is a book you will keep coming back to over and over again."

Arek Dvornechuck

"I have used and recommended Digital Marketing Strategy for a number of years to digital marketing students. This latest edition has made sure that it has kept up to date and is supported by some detailed case studies. The publication continues to be a valuable resource for both students and practitioners."

Lecturer and CIM Examiner Bradley Lansdale

"Combines a detailed knowledge of digital channel management with classic marketing theory. The result is essential reading for digital marketing practitioners at all levels."

CEO at Harvest Digital Emma Wilson

"An invaluable one-stop guide to navigating the discipline of digital marketing."

Co-founder at Pancentric Digital Simon Fenn

"An excellent all-in-one primer for today's digital entrepreneur."

Brand Psychologist Jonathan Gabay