10 Things You Need to Know About Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing is one of the most crucial things to include in your business. You need it in order for people to see and recognize your brand. Digital Marketing though isn’t just about putting out ads or billboards with your logo. There are multiple aspects to the advertising game that any existing business or startup can utilize. For digital and social marketing beginners, here are 10 tips to help out.

  1. Valuable Content

The content you include in your marketing scheme should be useful and effective. When people read what you post, they should come away with valuable information and that they learned something positive about your company. Then, hopefully, they’ll invest in what you offer. First impressions are always key.

2. Great Design

One way to easily turn away potential customers is an ugly or bland design. Make your brand look cool. Keep it fresh and trendy with today’s atmosphere. With your website, but also in each individual post, use design tools to your advantage and make the most of each thing you post.

3. Create an Email List

Having people sign up to receive newsletters or special announcements is great for a business. It keeps them engaged and they’ll think about your business when they see that email reach their inbox.

4. Social Media Prescence

Maybe the most important tip and that’s having a great prescence on your social media platforms. Social media has become king for spreading information and getting the owrd about out there about businesses. Use it often, and more importantly, effectiveley.

5. Mobile Friendly

Make sure your business can be accessed from people’s phones. Everyone has a phone and everyone is probably on it too much during the day. Something as easy as a daily notification can spark something.

6. Ads

It doesn’t hurt to spend a little money on digital advertising. Ads can be annoying but if they weren’t affective, businesses wouldn’t continue to spend money on them. Sites that get a lot of traffic may end up seeing your business name or logo.

7. Track Analytics

Analytics can be your new best friend. Keeping track of how much and what kind of engagement your getting can only help your future decisions for your business. Your goal is to gain as much traffic as possible and having an analytics-type database to keep tabs on will be beneficiary.

8. Create a Marketing Strategy

After coming up with what works best for your business, make a habit of updating or tweaking your marketing strategy to make sure your maximizing your performance online. Don’t lose track on what is successful for your company.

9. Understand Trends

Don’t always fall back to ideas and posts that did well months or years ago, unless of course those posts and ideas are still relevent in the present day. Be knowledgeable of what’s trending and adapt.

10. Listen to All Ideas

Create a team of great minds that can share ideas and put everything imagenable on the table. More people thinking about the same issue is better than just a few.

Published by Jarett Lewis

Senior at Ball State University, majoring in Public Relations with a minor in Marketing

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