Eight Essentials for Your Online Marketing Strategy
Crafting an effective online marketing strategy always starts and ends with your customers. Your job is to create or find solutions for their problems. When you put emphasis on developing your online marketing strategy, you’ll be a lot more successful. You’ll get more leads and more buyers than if you don’t develop a strategy.
1. Put Your Customer First
Everything starts with your customer. When you understand your customer, you’ll automatically craft better content ideas and better product ideas. You’ll even be able to target your audience better at every single level – whether it’s writing content or writing an advertisement.
2. Adopt a Mobile-First Strategy
More people are buying mobile devices than are buying desktop computers today. And more people are reading your content, email messages, blog posts, and buying your products using their mobile device over their PCs. Because of this, adopting a mobile-first strategy is the best choice. If you design your site, emails, and everything to work on mobile, it will work and perform great on the PC too.
3. Pay More Attention to SEO
Search engine optimization encompasses both on-page and off-page SEO, and its intricacies are covered in dozens if not hundreds of books and websites. If you want to do better with online marketing, you need to educate yourself on SEO or hire an expert to help you.
4. Put Blogging or Add Content to Your Site First
Part of SEO is content. Therefore, make blogging or adding articles to your website one of the first things you do to get more visitors based on SEO. Before you add content to some other site, including social media platforms and guest post, focus on the content on your own site and sharing it from there.
5. Host Webinars and Live Events Online
Going live on Facebook, YouTube or having a webinar is a great way to get more eyes on your business. When people can hear you speak as well as see your mouth and eyes when you talk, they tend to develop more trust for you faster. Plus, if you host with other people who serve the same audience but promote complementary products or services, you can gain access to their audience too.
6. Optimize and Improve Your Email Marketing Efforts
Just like a blog post can be optimized, so can emails. Work on your subject lines, work on the personalization inside the email, and work on your calls to action. You can always improve an email, even if it has gone out to people before. If it’s in your autoresponder, you can always edit and make it better.
7. Give Social Media Its Due
Don’t forget to use social media to share content you’ve created, promote your products and services, and to engage with your followers. Social media is important for marketing today, but it should not be put before what’s on your site. Consider social media a tool to use to market what you put on your website.
8. Create Systems to Make It More Effective
To truly succeed with online marketing, you’ll need to create systems and processes. For example, each time you publish a blog post, you’ll want to do some things automatically such as ensure you’re using the right keywords, perfect your title, and use headers and other tools at your disposal to make the content work better for your needs and goals.
The main thing to remember when you are marketing online (or anywhere) is that you need to understand your brand’s values and what it does for your ideal customer. When you start from there, you’ll be able to create much more success in your online marketing efforts.
