Boost Your Revenue by Incorporating These 5 Tips Into Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Omar Kandil, MBA
Co-Founder & CEO at OBCIDO Inc. & Talentdu | Author of Top-Ranked Business Book "Winning the Slow Race" | Digital Marketing Expert, Advisor, Coach
The quick spread of technology has a great impact on all of our life aspects, especially when it comes to business and marketing. This leads to new marketing strategies that can improve the speed and amount of sales, and incrementally increase your revenue.
What is a Digital Marketing Strategy?
A digital marketing strategy is a clear and comprehensive plan performed online to reach specific business goals. One of the basic aspects of this plan is knowing your audience’s needs and favorite trends in order to build direct relationships with them via the “adequate digital channel.”
When asked about strategy, Martin Petrov, head of Marketing at Odense Denmark-based Morningscore, shared that a deep knowledge of your audience is a must for a successful digital marketing strategy. “Every product we bring to market serves a specific purpose for a particular target audience. Understanding the audience's needs and correctly positioning the product directly informs what tasks your whole team should engage with on a more tactical level,” he said.?
Thus, a digital marketing strategy is a framework that is designed to attract prospective customers, convert these customers into leads, and those leads into sales. It is essential because it defines the tactics of when and how to use each social media outlet, and helps you measure what best works for your industry.
Now, take some time to read the following tips thoroughly, implement them in your strategy, and watch the increase in your revenue!
Social media has altered how customers communicate and what they react to. Therefore, keep a keen eye on what your population likes or dislikes, or what triggers their interests. This can help you elicit the proper content that is relevant to your customers’ needs. In order to do this, you can use short surveys to measure what your audience really wants.
After knowing more about your audience, you ought to design your campaigns and posts by using compelling images and videos that include captions because most users watch on mute amidst the hustle of life. Keep in mind that a successful digital marketing campaign is not about spending a huge amount of money: You can shoot a simple inspirational and compelling video with your handheld device and make it as effective as a video shot with an extensive budget.
2. Be wise in spending money on ads
After collecting data about your customers, designing your posts, and uploading them on social media; you should optimize your publicity. Spend your budget on ROAs (return on spend) rather than on CPA (cost per acquisition), CPC (cost per click), or other metrics. ROAS and all of its variations are simply the amount of revenue you generate in relations to your advertising costs. The most straightforward is revenue divided by cost, this metric explains how much you are receiving in revenue for each dollar spent on advertising. Consequently, focusing on ROAS makes it much easier to evaluate your account alongside the variable purchase totals commonly found in e-commerce. Rather than calculate a CPA goal, you simply focus on achieving a certain ratio. This makes the metric more flexible and allows you to ignore the cost per conversion, which will heavily vary between products.
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3. Select the most suitable candidate to help you in your strategy.?
There are excellent marketing firms that perform an excellent job and provide flexible pricing, but new enterprises must be cautious when they have limited budget.
?If you want to outsource or get another company to do the job of marketing for you, you ought not to go with someone who isn’t familiar with your product and your audience. For example, if you are promoting an aesthetic product, you can’t hire a person who is experienced in marketing pure medics since they won’t be able to deepen your understanding of your population’s behavior or preferred trends.
Take all the time you need to meet with all the candidates and choose the best one; the one who can best add a value to your industry. You also need to talk with past clients and try to learn from their experience with your brand in order to avoid some slips such as overdue or extra charges. In some cases, like the spread of any pandemic, you might find that hiring a freelancer is much more profitable than hiring site workers; but under no circumstances should you try to hold all the work of marketing on your own shoulders. You should always search for expertise and professionals that can cut the edge and grow your business by setting up an efficient digital marketing campaign. Thus, the rule is to invest in skilled people and not to do all the job by yourself.
4. Don’t Hand the Reins Completely!
Outsourcing doesn’t mean that you should completely delegate the work to someone else without keeping your vision, standards, and mission involved in every sector of the work. There should always be a kind of balance between what you have for your brand or product and what the expertise suggests should be altered. Keep an open mind for innovative ideas that keep your products under the light; but don’t completely let go of your own views by passing the baton to whoever you work with. ?
In this realm, the social media manager Misty lam mentioned: “Founders of companies we work with are involved in the revision processes necessary to achieve the right vision and visual aesthetic for their brand.?With that comes a lot of cooperation between my team and the founder. While creative chemistry between us is an important factor, I believe an exchange of ideas is key to creating a concrete marketing strategy.”
5. Have an Optimized Website
People who start a new business tend to save money at the expense of skipping some important features and aspects that contribute to traffic and conversions; but having an effective website is not a step to skip. To begin with, hiring an expert in Google optimization is a must. Furthermore, your website should be well designed so that users can smoothly navigate through it. Next, images of your product or service should be presented on your website in a neat and charming manner to attract the eye and stimulate trust. Your website should be fully optimized for desktops and mobile devices, and involve call-to-action buttons that are captivating to users.
In conclusion, if you are currently selling or planning to introduce a product or service, digital marketing is the most effective instrument for increasing online sales. Examine the advertising and material provided by your competitors or companies in your field in order to evaluate what is and isn't engaging with their audience. Furthermore, read the consumers’ comments thoroughly because they provide the most valuable insights on your service or product, and do the adequate editing upon these comments. Track your ROI: if it is positive, gradually increase your ad spend on the top performing ad.
For a further deepening of your marketing strategy, contact me directly on my email [email protected] or visit our website on www.obcido.com. We offer competent services and ensure a constant communication with our clients for the best results.?
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