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Cure Digital Marketing Overwhelm. Focus on These 5 Essentials When Starting Out

Digital marketing has changed rapidly since the beginning of the 21st century, and even in the last ten years. At one time, a website was a handy marketing tool to have, but far from essential. Now, not only do businesses need a website in order for their marketing campaign to thrive but an active presence on social media, a strong email list, a Google business listing, and an app doesn’t hurt.

Every resource about digital marketing uses acronyms like SEO, SMM, and CMS that can make an entrepreneur’s head spin as they make their first foray into digital marketing.

There’s no denying the importance of digital marketing. When we live in a world with more mobile devices than people and nearly 2 billion people currently on social media, digital marketing is the most effective way for businesses to reach their target demographic and turn those leads into new customers.

But the internet is vast, and so, of course, is digital marketing. Every business has a different strategy, and it can be overwhelming to know where to start. The solution is much like anything else: start with the essentials and then branch out as you feel more comfortable. Here are the 5 things to focus on when you’re just starting your digital marketing campaign.

Let’s face the truth: there is something common between a corporate giant’s brand and a startup’s brand: if it’s unable to differentiate itself, it will be lost soon. But there are higher chances that a new brand will be the first one to lose the game.

Here’s the proof: 59% of people over the globe prefer purchasing from a brand they’re familiar with, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen.

So, if you’re a startup launching a product for the first time, you should make sure your brand stands out from the crowd. That’s when you need a brand identity.

Not sure how to bring out the unique personality of your brand when there are millions of other brands combating for the same market share?

Here’s a simple formula: the stronger the brand identity is, the higher are the chances of success.

In this post, we’ll guide you through the five basic steps of developing brand identity.

A growing number of small business owners and entrepreneurs are beginning to fully appreciate the importance of dedicating time and resources to Local SEO optimization. After all, who doesn’t want to get found by new customers for keywords they specialize in?

AdWords and other forms of paid advertising can help, but they can also be extremely costly, and if you don’t continuously pay, the results disappear instantly. This is not the case with SEO, and this is just one of the many reasons local businesses are relying on SEO optimization tips and strategies to succeed.

If you’re new and still not sure what local SEO is and why it’s important, read this article by Moz.com. Before you launch your business website, here are some useful local SEO optimization tips and strategies.

If you are serious about running any kind of business these days, social media is where you and your company need to be. It is the place where most of your target audience hang around, and the perfect setting for you to interact with them and engage them, and take your relationship with them to the next level.

If you don’t believe in this, take a look at the numbers. Around 70% of all businesses in the US include social media in their marketing strategy because they realize how valuable it can be. Facebook is by far the biggest social media platform out there since it gathers over 1 billion users. Other popular options include Twitter and Instagram, which allow you to reach your target audience even more easily by using hashtags.

According to Timothy Lewis, who is the head of digital marketing at Bestessays, social media enables you to establish credibility and make your company look more personable and human, as opposed to being a generic corporate entity:

“People appreciate personal interaction with their favorite brands, and social media provides you with all the tools to facilitate that interaction.”

The most important tool of the bunch is Facebook Messenger which, according to Lewis, is the key to developing a more personal relationship with your customers. He has also decided to share 5 effective Facebook Messenger tips that will help you transform your marketing strategy. Keep on reading to find out more.

A CNBC study conducted in January revealed that brands increased advertising spending by 65 percent on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram in 2016 over 2015. This pattern has only continued in 2017, where social media advertising is suspected to hit record levels.

Use Instagram Effectively

Across the wide variety of platforms, Instagram has been the place of the most significant spending growth for advertisers. The reason is that Instagram is growing! And fast! Consumers appreciate its streamlined, simple feel.

It is the perfect hybrid between Twitter and Facebook because you get images and videos while keeping written content small. The following steps will help you optimize your Instagram ad campaign to take advantage of this rapidly expanding platform.

You might think that with Facebook and Twitter absolutely dominating the B2B advertising, LinkedIn has a snowball’s chance in hell of even making a dent in the overall digital marketing space. Well, you would be wrong. LinkedIn boasts a built-in network of business professionals, a dedicated targeting service and its own publishing platform.

This makes it the ideal solution for every B2B marketer looking to re-emerge as a thought leader. In fact, some of the biggest names in the advertising industry have used LinkedIn to fuel their campaigns of reaching new audiences, strengthening their brand visibility and increase their revenues.

Social media live videos are the most effective way to add a sense of urgency and exclusiveness to your marketing.

Live videos create a unique, demanding, and exclusive real-time experience that compels your audience to comment and interact with you. It will, in turn, merge individual audience members into a large community.

In this article, you will learn how you can use live videos on various social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/Periscope, and YouTube to grow your brand and build a better relationship with your audience.

The internet is a crowded space. Competitors are everywhere. The market is densely occupied by myriad brilliant products.

How can you sell your way to success?

How can you win your customer’s faith when you have to cut through tough competition?

Is that question bugging you too?

Don’t fret. You are not alone!

You need an edge to stand out and a unique voice to give a persona to your business.

Social media engagement has become a necessary part of the search engine optimization process. People who utilize the internet for their business need to focus on how their social media presence could enhance their ranking in search results. By optimizing their social media profiles, they can more effectively reach potential customers.

A customer can be seen in a different manner by various people. Some will be bloggers who view customers as site visitors reading their blog content. Businesses will view customers as the classic concept of a paying consumer. However, one thing to note is that both will see better results by focusing on their social media presence.

Major search engines such as Google are reported to now include various social media signals in their search algorithms. They try to interpret the most high-quality content to put before the searcher. By ranking on the first page of search engine result pages, online businesses can have a greater chance of getting a person to click on their link.

Automating certain aspects of your business can save your company a whole lot of time and money. At the same time, sacrificing customer service can be highly detrimental to your brand. If you want to take advantage of today’s AI technology, it’s critical that you find that balance. A live chat software will help you do just that.

Today’s consumers still want that personal touch that only a human can provide. Yes, people are shopping online much more frequently, and that’s not going to change. However, the vast online market has made shoppers realize that they have plenty of options out there. That means you need to go above and beyond to stand out from the herd if you want to stay competitive.

Combining today’s automation options such as analytical and live chat software with person-to-person customer support lets you provide the best of both worlds, for your company and for your customers.

Let’s take an in-depth look on how you can balance personalized customer service and automation successfully.

First, we’ll start with ways to implement automation without driving customers away. Then, we’ll discuss ways to improve your overall person-to-person customer service so you can preserve (and even enhance) your company’s reputation, in spite of the automation.