Businesses need to face
the facts that digital presence is now a huge part of a brand’s identity. If
you are struggling to build your digital marketing presence, here are 21 ways
that might help you.
1. Know Your Strengths
When it come to your
digital marketing presence, where is your business exceeding? Once you know
this, you know exactly what is working and you will know if you need to do more
of the same or if you need to change it up.
2. Know Your Weaknesses
Just like you need to know
your strengths, you also need to know your weaknesses. This is very important
as your weaknesses show where you need the most digital improvement. Make sure
you have researched this so you are not focusing on the wrong thing.
3. Customer Engagement
Customer engagement is a
huge part of social media and digital marketing. You need to make sure you have
a customer engagement strategy in place so you know exactly how you are going
to communicate with customers online.
4. Customer Experience
Similar to engagement, you
want your customers to have the best online experience with you so make sure
they do by asking your audience if they are happy with your products/comments.
This will help you improve your digital marketing standing.
5. Become a Thought Leader
An important part
of connecting online is becoming a thought leader in your industry. Make sure
everything you share online is relevant to your industry and you are building
your businesses profile online
6. Look at Your Followers/Fans
To see how well your
digital marketing presence is building, you should look at your followers/fans.
If you have thought leaders in your industry following your brand, you are
heading in the right direction.
7. Sharing Social
Conversations
By this I mean actually
engaging across all social platforms. If you get a great tweet from a customer
make sure you share this with your fans on Facebook so that they know people
are endorsing your products.
8. Social Influence
Are you influential on
social media? Have a look at your Klout score to see whether you are in the top
10% of Twitter users with a score of 60 or above.
9. Listen, Listen, Listen
If you don’t listen to
what your customers have to say, you will never improve your digital presence.
A huge part of marking and building a business is getting updates from your
customers and followers.
10. Post Company Updates
Company updates can
include anything from latest news on products or any updates within the
business. Make sure you always keep your customers up to date.
11. Share Industry News
Sharing industry news is a
great way for you to not only keep up to date with what is going on but also
your followers too.
12. Ask Questions
If you don’t ask your
community questions, you will never know what you need to improve around your
digital marketing. Make sure you ask at least one question a week but make it
specific.
13. Contests &
Giveaways
Contests and giveaways are
a great way to increase your online following and get your community engaged
with your business. Wish pond is a great tool to use for this.
14. Being Resourceful
There are a lot of great
websites for you to look at and extract information from to share with your
community.
15. Social Media Dashboard
Having a social media
dashboard like Hootsuite or Tweet Deck will allow you to monitor social
activity as well as schedule out information in real-time or in the future.
16. Email Marketing
Email marketing is an
important part of improving your digital marketing presence. Mail chimp is a
great tool to use for email marketing and is Free when you have less than 2,000
contacts.
17. Referrals
Getting referrals from
customers is a great way to build your online reputation. If your customers are
happy, this will encourage those who are not sure about buying your product.
18. Profile Biography
In regards to your social
media biography, you need to make sure that you are consistent across all
social platforms so that you are not giving the wrong impression.
19. Work on Your PR
Your PR is a huge part of
your online presence. When you have a new collection, make sure you write a
Press Release and distribute it to give your business that extra boost.
20. Integrate
Team Members
It can be hard when you
get new team members so make sure they feel happy in their work environment
otherwise there will not be a collaborative environment.
21. Don’t be discouraged
Digital marketing can be
daunting at first but remember that the more hard work you put in at the
beginning, the better chance you have of making your business an online
success.
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