Digital Marketing Strategy
Digital Marketing Strategy
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In this topic, you’ll learn how to approach the design and execution of a successful digital
marketing strategy.
A digital marketing strategy is a detailed plan on how you can utilize the different digital
marketing channels to achieve your business goals.
When you design a digital marketing strategy you need to consider which channels to use,
the resources (people, time, and money) to assign to each channel and what to expect in
terms of results.
A common mistake made by many digital marketing managers or small business owners is
that they try to execute everything at once and at the end of the day they get no results.
This is because they don’t have the necessary expertise to run digital marketing campaigns
or because they end up spending their budgets on channels that are not suitable for their
business.
Although each and every digital marketing strategy is unique and based on the specific
needs and goals of a business, you can read below an example to help you understand how
all marketing channels can work towards a common goal.
Example: Digital Marketing Strategy for a company selling digital products (online courses,
ebooks, etc.).
Step 1: Website – The first step is to create a website that is fast and mobile-friendly. The
website should have several landing pages (or sales pages) to present the company and its
products.
Step 2: SEO – The next step is to perform an SEO Audit and identify which areas need to
be optimized for SEO. Technical SEO should be tackled first, then On-Page SEO and last
Off-Page SEO.
Step 3: Content Marketing – Based on the results of thorough keyword research and
findings of the SEO Audit, you should create a content marketing plan that will include:
● What kind of content to create for the website (text and videos)
● When to publish it (publishing calendar)
● How to promote it (can include social media channels, email, and PPC
campaigns).
Step 4: Social Media Marketing – Utilize all social media marketing campaigns to promote
brand awareness and sales. Identify which social media channels are suitable for marketing
your business (based on customer profiling) and create a schedule for publishing content on
those networks.
At the same time, start creating lists of influencers and other people that are most likely to be
interested in your products or share your content on social media.
Step 5: Email Marketing – Start building an email list using several CTA areas on your
website and social media channels.
Your initial goal is to get people to sign up for your newsletter or register to download free
material or register for free trials.
Create several email marketing funnels to get ‘push’ your subscribers from the awareness
stage to the conversion stage.
Step 6: Pay-Per-Click Advertising – In parallel to the above activities set up a Google Ads
Campaign to target people searching for product-related keywords on Google and
remarketing campaigns on Facebook to go after users that visited your website but did not
convert.
Step 7: Video Marketing – Part of step 3 above is to identify which topics/keywords you can
create video content. Publish your videos on a dedicated YouTube channel, on Facebook,
Instagram and any other platforms you are targeting in your campaigns.
For each video create a blog post on your website and embed the video with text content.
Step 8: Mobile Marketing – Consider creating a mobile app that users can download from
the App Stores that will include your latest news and ways for people to access your courses
through your app.
Step 9: Measure and Analyze the results – Ensure that you have Google analytics
installed and configured correctly and that you can accurately measure the effectiveness of
the above campaigns.
Create an excel sheet and add for each campaign details about the cost, number of visits,
number of conversions, people reached, etc.
The above it’s just a summary of what your digital marketing strategy should include. If you
are a small business with limited resources then it’s normal that you won’t be able to execute
the whole plan from the very beginning.
What you should do is to follow a step-by-step approach starting with your website, SEO and
content marketing. Once you manage to have these in place for a number of months, you
will gradually experience an increase in traffic and revenue and then you can add the other
tools to the mix.
KEY LEARNINGS
Your digital marketing strategy is a series of actions that help you achieve your business
goals through carefully selected online marketing channels. These channels include paid,
earned, and owned media, and can all support a common campaign around a particular line
of business.
Running a full-blown digital marketing campaign will require a lot of effort, time and
resources. The best way is to follow a step by step approach. Start with the channels that
are most important to your business, run profitable campaigns and then move on to other
channels.
The Digital Marketing Checklist topic will give you a good idea of ALL the tasks you need to
execute and you can use that as your digital marketing template.