Social Media: Be not afraid.
Repeat this message to yourself aloud: Connecting with customers online and creating meaningful digital experiences is no longer optional. For some businesses the Internet is a dark and far away world, ruled by a mysterious Google god and controlled by the social media mafia. Truth is, the Internet is the land of opportunity. If and how your brand listens to, educates, entertains and engages with its audience can make it rain revenue. Every business can profit online even if sales do not take place online. In the same way it has turned YouTube no-names into international pop stars, digital marketing can enable your brand to box out of its weight class. It turns out this whole Internet thing is here to stay – and that’s great for business. Your brand can be a digital heavyweight; we’ll light the way.
Consistent brand presentation across all platforms increases revenue by up to 23%.
(Forbes)
Customers who have an emotional connection with a brand have a 3x higher lifetime value (LTV).
(Motista)
Building a Marketing Strategy in Four Steps
Step 1: Get to know your target audience.
The first step in building your marketing strategy is to know who it is you’re marketing to. Doing so ensures that your marketing efforts are focused, and as a result, you’ll be getting the return on investment that you’re after.
One common way to go about this is to create a buyer persona. By creating a buyer persona, you can be sure that you’re marketing to people who are actually interested in what you have to offer. Otherwise your marketing strategy is pretty much the equivalent of a man on a box yelling through a megaphone at random people on the street.
Think about what you’d like your ideal customer to look like. Start getting granular and create a list of demographics that your customer falls into. Responsive Inbound Marketing recommends these major questions you should ask yourself about your target customer when outlining a buyer persona: