03/02/2023
How to create your online business II
Here, we going to be focusing on how you can not only find and target your ideal customers online, but also convert them into buyers using a variety of digital marketing strategies.
Here is an outline of the steps to take when creating a digital marketing strategy and what to do and not do when building the right digital marketing strategy for your business.
As a quick reminder, digital marketing refers to the process of using digital channels like your website, search engines, email, and social media to market your business's product or services to consumers.
Within digital marketing, you have a variety of tools and methods you can use to strategically target your ideal buyer.
There is …
• Pay-Per-Click Advertising, which involves paying a search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo to display your advertisement whenever users search for specific keywords.
Whenever someone clicks on your ad, you'll pay the search engine a set cost depending on how much competition there is for the keywords you choose.
• Social Media Marketing involves creating free content and paid ads to promote your business on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter.
• Content Marketing involves creating educational and entertaining content like blogs, videos, e-books, photo galleries, and other online resources that help customers learn about topics related to your business and come to view your business as an authority within your niche.
• Email Marketing involves sending information, content, and offers directly to subscribers of your business' email list.
• Influencer Marketing involves hiring influencers, people or businesses that have a large online following to promote your products or services to their followers.
• Mobile Advertising involves creating ads that will show up on your target customers' mobile devices as SMS text messages, banners, social ads, chatbot ads, and WhatsApp-status, broadcast messages, group chats, direct messages (DM)
• Search Engine Optimization, which as we discussed yesterday, involves optimizing your website to appear on search engine results pages for keywords related to your business.
Depending on your target consumer, you may find it more valuable to focus on one or more of these strategies than others.
For example, at FreeFia Global, one of the strategies we prioritize is Social Media and Email Marketing because, our target audience is young and tends to spend a lot of their time on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
So, how do you build the right digital marketing strategy for your business?
Let's look at what Christopher says are some DOs and DON'Ts.
When creating a digital marketing strategy for your business, you want to do the following:
• Create buyer personas. Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers. You want to think about basic demographic information like their age, geographic location, and income level. You'll also want to consider some of the core questions this type of customer might have about topics related to your business.
• Map out the customer journey. There are likely many steps a customer will need to take from their initial contact with your brand to making a purchase. And it's important to know what that journey looks like so that your marketing is relevant to customers at every unique stage.
• Develop SMART goals. SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely.
By creating marketing goals that include each of those characteristics, you make it easier to develop steps toward achieving the goals of your digital marketing strategy.
• Set a budget. You want to at least have an estimated budget of how much you can spend on digital marketing. Not only will this help you choose the appropriate digital channels, but it's also important to help you calculate the return on investment in the future.
• Choose your digital marketing strategies. After creating your buyer personas, customer journey, SMART goals, and budget, you'll have enough information to know which digital marketing strategies have the highest potential for success.
If you're just starting out, choose a few strategies to master first and then add in others as your company grows.
• Analyze results and make improvements. After a set time, it's important to step back and see what is and isn't working.
Then, you can make more informed decisions when setting new goals and developing future digital marketing campaigns.
Now, let's look at what to avoid.
When creating your digital marketing strategy, you'll want to make sure you don't:
• Dismiss customer feedback. Customer feedback, good or bad, should be seen as an opportunity to improve the customer experience and all of your marketing efforts.
• Rely exclusively on paid advertising. The growth you get from paid ads is temporary and is not suitable for a long-term strategy. So, you need to also invest in other forms of marketing, such as content marketing.
• Try to market to everyone. You can't sell to everyone. And if you don't target your marketing to fit your ideal buyer persona, you risk wasting money and effort on people who may never buy from your business.
Tomorrow, we'll look at how, once you've created your digital marketing strategy, you can put it into action and maximize your efforts.
Did you get value tonight?
Any questions?
Here, we going to be focusing on how you can not only find and target your ideal customers online, but also convert them into buyers using a variety of digital marketing strategies.
Here is an outline of the steps to take when creating a digital marketing strategy and what to do and not do when building the right digital marketing strategy for your business.
As a quick reminder, digital marketing refers to the process of using digital channels like your website, search engines, email, and social media to market your business's product or services to consumers.
Within digital marketing, you have a variety of tools and methods you can use to strategically target your ideal buyer.
There is …
• Pay-Per-Click Advertising, which involves paying a search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo to display your advertisement whenever users search for specific keywords.
Whenever someone clicks on your ad, you'll pay the search engine a set cost depending on how much competition there is for the keywords you choose.
• Social Media Marketing involves creating free content and paid ads to promote your business on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter.
• Content Marketing involves creating educational and entertaining content like blogs, videos, e-books, photo galleries, and other online resources that help customers learn about topics related to your business and come to view your business as an authority within your niche.
• Email Marketing involves sending information, content, and offers directly to subscribers of your business' email list.
• Influencer Marketing involves hiring influencers, people or businesses that have a large online following to promote your products or services to their followers.
• Mobile Advertising involves creating ads that will show up on your target customers' mobile devices as SMS text messages, banners, social ads, chatbot ads, and WhatsApp-status, broadcast messages, group chats, direct messages (DM)
• Search Engine Optimization, which as we discussed yesterday, involves optimizing your website to appear on search engine results pages for keywords related to your business.
Depending on your target consumer, you may find it more valuable to focus on one or more of these strategies than others.
For example, at FreeFia Global, one of the strategies we prioritize is Social Media and Email Marketing because, our target audience is young and tends to spend a lot of their time on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
So, how do you build the right digital marketing strategy for your business?
Let's look at what Christopher says are some DOs and DON'Ts.
When creating a digital marketing strategy for your business, you want to do the following:
• Create buyer personas. Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers. You want to think about basic demographic information like their age, geographic location, and income level. You'll also want to consider some of the core questions this type of customer might have about topics related to your business.
• Map out the customer journey. There are likely many steps a customer will need to take from their initial contact with your brand to making a purchase. And it's important to know what that journey looks like so that your marketing is relevant to customers at every unique stage.
• Develop SMART goals. SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely.
By creating marketing goals that include each of those characteristics, you make it easier to develop steps toward achieving the goals of your digital marketing strategy.
• Set a budget. You want to at least have an estimated budget of how much you can spend on digital marketing. Not only will this help you choose the appropriate digital channels, but it's also important to help you calculate the return on investment in the future.
• Choose your digital marketing strategies. After creating your buyer personas, customer journey, SMART goals, and budget, you'll have enough information to know which digital marketing strategies have the highest potential for success.
If you're just starting out, choose a few strategies to master first and then add in others as your company grows.
• Analyze results and make improvements. After a set time, it's important to step back and see what is and isn't working.
Then, you can make more informed decisions when setting new goals and developing future digital marketing campaigns.
Now, let's look at what to avoid.
When creating your digital marketing strategy, you'll want to make sure you don't:
• Dismiss customer feedback. Customer feedback, good or bad, should be seen as an opportunity to improve the customer experience and all of your marketing efforts.
• Rely exclusively on paid advertising. The growth you get from paid ads is temporary and is not suitable for a long-term strategy. So, you need to also invest in other forms of marketing, such as content marketing.
• Try to market to everyone. You can't sell to everyone. And if you don't target your marketing to fit your ideal buyer persona, you risk wasting money and effort on people who may never buy from your business.
Tomorrow, we'll look at how, once you've created your digital marketing strategy, you can put it into action and maximize your efforts.
Did you get value tonight?
Any questions?
Here, we going to be focusing on how you can not only find and target your ideal customers online, but also convert them into buyers using a variety of digital marketing strategies.
Here is an outline of the steps to take when creating a digital marketing strategy and what to do and not do when building the right digital marketing strategy for your business.
As a quick reminder, digital marketing refers to the process of using digital channels like your website, search engines, email, and social media to market your business's product or services to consumers.
Within digital marketing, you have a variety of tools and methods you can use to strategically target your ideal buyer.
There is …
• Pay-Per-Click Advertising, which involves paying a search engine like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo to display your advertisement whenever users search for specific keywords.
Whenever someone clicks on your ad, you'll pay the search engine a set cost depending on how much competition there is for the keywords you choose.
• Social Media Marketing involves creating free content and paid ads to promote your business on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter.
• Content Marketing involves creating educational and entertaining content like blogs, videos, e-books, photo galleries, and other online resources that help customers learn about topics related to your business and come to view your business as an authority within your niche.
• Email Marketing involves sending information, content, and offers directly to subscribers of your business' email list.
• Influencer Marketing involves hiring influencers, people or businesses that have a large online following to promote your products or services to their followers.
• Mobile Advertising involves creating ads that will show up on your target customers' mobile devices as SMS text messages, banners, social ads, chatbot ads, and WhatsApp-status, broadcast messages, group chats, direct messages (DM)
• Search Engine Optimization, which as we discussed yesterday, involves optimizing your website to appear on search engine results pages for keywords related to your business.
Depending on your target consumer, you may find it more valuable to focus on one or more of these strategies than others.
For example, at FreeFia Global, one of the strategies we prioritize is Social Media and Email Marketing because, our target audience is young and tends to spend a lot of their time on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, twitter, YouTube and TikTok.
So, how do you build the right digital marketing strategy for your business?
Let's look at what Christopher says are some DOs and DON'Ts.
When creating a digital marketing strategy for your business, you want to do the following:
• Create buyer personas. Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers. You want to think about basic demographic information like their age, geographic location, and income level. You'll also want to consider some of the core questions this type of customer might have about topics related to your business.
• Map out the customer journey. There are likely many steps a customer will need to take from their initial contact with your brand to making a purchase. And it's important to know what that journey looks like so that your marketing is relevant to customers at every unique stage.
• Develop SMART goals. SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely.
By creating marketing goals that include each of those characteristics, you make it easier to develop steps toward achieving the goals of your digital marketing strategy.
• Set a budget. You want to at least have an estimated budget of how much you can spend on digital marketing. Not only will this help you choose the appropriate digital channels, but it's also important to help you calculate the return on investment in the future.
• Choose your digital marketing strategies. After creating your buyer personas, customer journey, SMART goals, and budget, you'll have enough information to know which digital marketing strategies have the highest potential for success.
If you're just starting out, choose a few strategies to master first and then add in others as your company grows.
• Analyze results and make improvements. After a set time, it's important to step back and see what is and isn't working.
Then, you can make more informed decisions when setting new goals and developing future digital marketing campaigns.
Now, let's look at what to avoid.
When creating your digital marketing strategy, you'll want to make sure you don't:
• Dismiss customer feedback. Customer feedback, good or bad, should be seen as an opportunity to improve the customer experience and all of your marketing efforts.
• Rely exclusively on paid advertising. The growth you get from paid ads is temporary and is not suitable for a long-term strategy. So, you need to also invest in other forms of marketing, such as content marketing.
• Try to market to everyone. You can't sell to everyone. And if you don't target your marketing to fit your ideal buyer persona, you risk wasting money and effort on people who may never buy from your business.
Tomorrow, we'll look at how, once you've created your digital marketing strategy, you can put it into action and maximize your efforts.
Did you get value tonight?
Any questions?