Answers these to see if you need a digital marketing strategy
Posted by Patrick Murphy on Mon, Oct 04, 2010
Question One on Digital Marketing Strategy: do you have a digital strategy or any type of a strategy. Do you know what you want to achieve online in terms of gaining new customers or building deeper relationships with existing ones. And as it goes if you don’t have any digital marketing goals you likely don’t put enough resources to reach these goals and you don’t evaluate through analytics whether you’re achieving those goals.
Question Two on Digital Marketing Strategy: Are you competitors as bad as you, I guess not. If you’re not devoting enough time and resources to your digital marketing strategy or if you have no clearly defined strategies, then your competitors will take the advantage and get ahead.
Question Three on Digital Marketing Strategy: Do you know where you are online. The online digital marketing channel is totally different from any other marketing channel. The dynamics will be different, with different types of customer profile and behaviour, competitors, propositions and options for marketing communications. So if you are unsure as to where you stand how will your target market know where you are online?
Question Four on Digital Marketing Strategy: Profit is generated thorough adding value and making that clear to your market, but are you aware of what your online value proposition is? A clearly defined online customer value proposition will help you differentiate your online service encouraging existing and new customers to engage initially and stay loyal.
Question Five on Digital Marketing Strategy: Are you using technology to understand your customers? Digital marketing is the most measureable marketing medium ever. While Google Analytics and similar tools will only tell you volumes not sentiment, look to other forms of website user feedback tools to identify the weak points in your digital marketing strategy.
Last Question on Digital Marketing Strategy: Are you making the most of the resources you have already. By now you should have a website but are you making the most of your website? With a digital marketing strategy, this enables you to get the basics right, then you can progress to continuous improvement of the key aspects like search marketing, site user experience, email and social media marketing.